NOTE: The "/ad" slash command that used to be used to invoke the options screen has been removed due to conflicts with other mods. Please use "/autodecline" or "/autod" to bring up the options screen.
Tired of trying to solo in peace at your favorite spawn, only to have random unannounced party invites thrown in your face? Angry at having a duel box suddenly appear every time you are in a town, or by griefers who are trying to force you away from a spawn? Annoyed at people who will randomly throw guild charters up or even guild invites at anyone who is unguilded?
This mod will allow a player to automatically decline (block) all guild, party, duel invites, as well as guild charters. Each type of decline can be toggled on or off either through a command line setting, or through the options window. An alert will display each time a type of invite is declined in the chat window (this can also be toggled on or off).
Are there some players you do not wish to block for party invites? This mod will allow you to always accept party invites and duel requests from players on your friends list, from players in your guild, or in a seperate list maintained by AutoDecline. It will also allow you to always accept invites from the last 5 players to send you a whisper, or that you send a whisper to.
You can also define a series of slash commands to automatically perform when a decline is triggered. So, for example, if you want to put people who send random duel invites on ignore, simply add /ignore $player to the list of duel actions and it is done for you! Actions are only limited to valid slash commands you can perform.
Download and unzip the archive into the AddOns directory (typically this is the World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns directory) and log into the game.
By default, everything is blocked, friends are allowed to send party invites, and alerts are on. When an option is toggled, the settings are saved so no having to redo settings each time you log on. Settings are also per character.
Type /autodecline or /autod at the command line to bring up the options window.
See AutoDecline.txt in the archive file for a complete description of all command line options.
v1.5.30000 ** 12-18-2008
-Fixed issue with Blizzard renaming the EnableButton function
-Re-organized the options screen as the text suddenly didn't fit any more
-Added new functionality to do a /who on the player sending the invite or request
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)...
