AssistMe is a very small, fast, lightweight AddOn to auto promote specific persons to assistant when you are the Raid Leader of your raid. AssistMe now also promotes persons on Calendar events aswell. Since this is the first AddOn I've made, I stuck to pure console commands, but it is very easy to use. The way it works is very simple: The addon looks through a list of names (that you provide it with) when ever you create or are given raid leader of a raid and promotes all the names on this list to assistant! It will then continue to check names as people join, leave, etc. In addition to working in raids, AssistMe will also look through the list of names and promote them whenever you create or are given moderating rights on a Calendar Event.
Adding new names or removing couldn't be easier :)
List of current /commands
/assistme - Will display the addons instructions - providing commands for adding, removing and showing players on your assist list.
/assistmeadd or /amadd - followed by a name will add that name to your list. (/amadd Someone) Make sure to use correct case for each letter.
/assistmeremove or /amremove - followed by a name will remove that name from yoru list. (/amadd Someone)
/assistmelist or /amlist - will print out a list of names on your assist list.
/assistmecalendar or /amcalendar - will turn the Calendar Promoting System on or off. This is Enabled by Default.
/assistmeswitch or /amswitch - will switch the current inuse AssistList between two seperate list. AccountList and a Player List. The Default list is the AccountList.
/assistmewhisper or /amwhisper - will turn the option for Whispering the Promotee on or off ("AssistMe: You've been promoted to Assistant by <You>!"). This is Disabled by Default.
Reason for creation
Myself and friends play lot of WoW and we're also officers in our guild and we find it pain to manually promote others every time we create a raid. Although there is a few larger addons that come with this feature i couldn't really find a nice small and simple version that was easy to use so i decided to create one.
Reporting
With the new calendar system impemented there may be a few new bugs if any. Let me know if you find any! As always post comments or a ticket for errors and things are weird with the addon. Make sure to type names correctly as well :)
Suggestions
Please also be free to leave behind suggestions and ideas that you think should be incorporated into this addon and I shall consider any that seem appropriate.
Last Minute Notes
Currently, upgrading from 1.0 -> 1.1 -> 1.2 ; will result in your assistList being reset, so please don't forget to retype them in, In future if i change the list variables i will copy your old list ! sorry for the noobness!
Thanks for taking an interest in this addon and I hope you find this addon useful d(^_^)b
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V: 1.4 (03/11/2009)
Added option to send whisper the promotee due to request xD. New command to turn it on and off, off being the default state.
new command, '/assistmewhisper' or '/amwhisper'
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V: 1.3 (31/10/2009)
Added new Calendar promoting system. I couldn't get it to work exactly how I wanted it to work, but it works all the same.
With the new Calendar system, I thought some people might not like it so I've also added a command to turn it on and off.
new command, '/assistmecalendar' or '/amcalendar'
Updated menu to give details of: 1. If the Calendar system is enable/dsiable; 2. Which AssistList is in current use.
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V: 1.2 (17/10/2009)
Changed a few things, moved things about, tried and failed to neaten up code for myself :)
Changed Variables once again.
You are now able to switch between two lists. One global list that is saved for your account to use, the other is just for your character. Each character can obviously have their own list :) will help for accounts with characters on multiple realms or other reasons i can't think of!
new command, '/assistmeswitch' or '/amswitch'
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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)...
