Little addon which saves me quite some time with all my twinks.
What it does
Rembers which of your chars are saved to which instance.
Naxx/Ulduar/OS/TEoE/VoA/OL/ToC, 10/25, nhc/hc, Daily Heroic and 5man heroics. (Option to show 5mans in the tooltip is OFF by default)
Updates on login and every time you get the 'You are now saved to this instance'-message
So you don't have to log onto your chars to see if you can join that raid with one of your alts
Currently only a LDB icon:
- Right click: Brings up the configuration (change tooltip colors, profiles)
- Left click: Bring up the RaidFrame, Shift-click for manual playerupdate
- Hovering: Shows a tooltip of all instances. Green = free, Red = locked out (default colors, you can change them)
Config options:
- Standard Ace3 profile things
- Change colors of the tooltip
- Change abbreviations used for instancenames (Ailo tries to get a 'first char of every word'-type, but that is kinda hard if you have a locale which relies heavy on utf-8 chars)
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r95 | starfox | 2010-01-11 19:38:29 +0000 (Mon, 11 Jan 2010) | 1 line
Changed paths:
A /tags/1.0.26 (from /trunk:94)
Tagging as 1.0.26
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r94 | Starfox | 2010-01-11 14:47:06 +0000 (Mon, 11 Jan 2010) | 2 lines
Changed paths:
M /trunk/Ailo.lua
Listen to LFG_COMPLETION_REWARD and RequestLFDPlayerLockInfo() to get LFG_UPDATE_RANDOM_INFO to fire.
Now daily heroic tracking should update on dungeon completion.
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r93 | Starfox | 2010-01-11 14:22:16 +0000 (Mon, 11 Jan 2010) | 2 lines
Changed paths:
M /trunk/Ailo.lua
Swtich from LFG_COMPLETION_REWARD to LFG_UPDATE_RANDOM_INFO, as GetLFGDungeonRewards(262) does not update when you complete a random heroic, but rather when you open the dungeon finder again
Show characters in the tooltip if they are saved to an instance or showDailyHeroic is set
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r92 | Starfox | 2010-01-11 12:04:25 +0000 (Mon, 11 Jan 2010) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/Ailo.lua
Add a quadrillion nil-checks
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r90 | Starfox | 2010-01-11 04:48:41 +0000 (Mon, 11 Jan 2010) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/Ailo.lua
Remove unnecessary function call
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r89 | Starfox | 2010-01-11 04:45:23 +0000 (Mon, 11 Jan 2010) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/Ailo.lua
Fix a bug which was introduced by the new db structure and a manual player update
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r87 | Starfox | 2010-01-11 03:09:30 +0000 (Mon, 11 Jan 2010) | 2 lines
Changed paths:
M /trunk/Ailo.lua
Clear entries which already expired from the database before checking if the database is non-empty in the tooltip creation
Final touch on the daily heroic tracking
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r86 | Starfox | 2010-01-11 02:49:21 +0000 (Mon, 11 Jan 2010) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/Ailo.lua
Add option for daily heroic tracking
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r85 | Starfox | 2010-01-11 02:37:39 +0000 (Mon, 11 Jan 2010) | 2 lines
Changed paths:
M /trunk/Ailo.lua
Add tracking of the daily heroic dungeon (GetLFGDungeonRewards() hooray!)
Shows a little emblem of frost in front of the name in the tooltip if the char has done it in this "Daily Quest"-day
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r83 | Turkleton | 2009-12-15 10:25:31 +0000 (Tue, 15 Dec 2009) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/Ailo.lua
Fix bug introduced in r80
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r82 | Starfox | 2009-12-14 22:53:54 +0000 (Mon, 14 Dec 2009) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/Ailo.lua
Open raid frame on leftclick, manual update with shift-click
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r80 | Starfox | 2009-12-14 14:51:32 +0000 (Mon, 14 Dec 2009) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/Ailo.lua
Show 5-man instances as heroics in the tooltip
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Installation Guide
- Exit "World of Warcraft" completely
- Download the mod you want to install
- Make a folder on your desktop called "My Mods"
- Save the .zip/.rar files to this folder.
- If, when you try to download the file, it automatically "opens" it... you need to RIGHT click on the link and "save as..." or "Save Target As".
- Extract the file - commonly known as 'unzipping'
Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!
- Windows
- Windows XP has a built in ZIP extractor. Double click on the file to open it, inside should be the file or folders needed. Copy these outside to the "My Mods" folder.
- WinRAR: Right click the file, select "Extract Here"
- WinZip: You MUST make sure the option to "Use Folder Names" is CHECKED or it will just extract the files and not make the proper folders how the Authors designed
- Mac Users
- StuffitExpander: Double click the archive to extract it to a folder in the current directory.
- Verify your WoW Installation Path
That is where you are running WoW from and THAT is where you need to install your mods.
- Move to the Addon folder
- Open your World of Warcraft folder. (default is C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\)
- Go into the "Interface" folder.
- Go into the "AddOns" folder.
- In a new window, open the "My Mods" folder.
- The "My Mods" folder should have the "Addonname" folder in it.
- Move the "Addonname" folder into the "AddOns" folder
- Start World of Warcraft
- Make sure AddOns are installed
- Log in
- At the Character Select screen, look in lower left corner for the "addons" button.
- If button is there: make sure all the mods you installed are listed and make sure "load out of date addons" is checked.
- If the button is NOT there: means you did not install the addons properly. Look at the above screenshots. Try repeating the steps or getting someone who knows more about computers than you do to help.
Translations
When you download a mod, please be sure that the mod is compatible with your translation of wow. Some mods only work on the US versions, while some only work on some of the various European versions. These variations are called "Localizations".
TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)
When Blizzard patches WoW, they change the Interface number. This means that all mods will be "out of date" unless or until the author releases a new version for that interface. Some people go into the .toc files and update the numbers themselves, but this is STRONGLY advised against as it will cause problems locating possible incompatibilities addons. When you log into WoW after a patch, you DO NOT have to delete your interface directory. All you have to do is simply tell WoW to ignore the interface numbers and load all the mods anyway. All you have to do is, while at the "character select" screen, look in the lower left corner and click on the "addons" button. A window will pop up listing all your installed mods.
If you look in the upper left corner of that window there should be a box that says "Load Out of Date AddOns". You want to CHECK this box. Now simply go into WoW normally and all your mods should load. As of the 1.9 patch, you will have to do this after EVERY patch/update that Blizzard posts! If you encounter any problems with a mod after a patch, please be sure to let the author of the mod know so they can fix it.
See also: About "Out Of Date AddOns"
Mac Support
WoW addons are not platformed based. As such, they can be used on either Mac or PC. You can extract both .zip and .rar files on a Mac using StuffitExpander.
Directory Structure
World of Warcraft
|_ Interface
|_AddOns
|_*AddonName*
|_ *AddonName*.toc
|_ *AddonName*.xml
|_ *AddonName*.lua
|_ (possibly others as well)...
