News
- BookOfCrafts developped is back on track. I'm officially playing again
- Suggestions and bug reports are welcome
- Happy new year to all of you
Purpose
BookOfCrafts (BoC) is a simple add-on which provide you with information
regarding your other characters crafts. With it activated, whenever you display
a recipe tooltips, it will list which character know this recipe already, which
character may learn it now and which character will be able to learn it later.
In case no character is concerned by this recipe, a simple message is displayed.
Some special notes :
- By default, currently played character is not displayed in lists, because top
of recipe text should inform you about "known" state. However an option is
available to force current character listing
- When a recipe requires a craft specialisation, character should know this
specialisation to be listed. Knwing the base craft is not enough. For
instance, if your character knows "Dragon scale leather crafting", it won't
be listed for a "tribal leather working" recipe even though it is a leather
craft.
- Works with regular chat message hyperlinks, merchant, bank, bags tooltips.
However, if you work with add-ons which do not handle tooltips correctly,
through hook functions, BoC may be unable to display any information. So be
sure to check which add-on you have in use before blaming BoC ^_^
Options
You may access to options through 3 ways:
- with '/boc' command (or '/BookOfCrafts')
- A myAddOn button (my favorite way... if myAddon is installed)
- A binding key, through normal binding menu
Available options are :
- Same Faction: Search of characters is limited to same faction as currently
played one
- Show Skill Rank: If option is active, listed characters will show their
current craft skill level (for instance 'Lini (78)'. Otherwise, only the
name will be displayed)
- Show Chat Msg: More feedback is displayed in chat frame
- Tooltip colors: choose your own color for BoC tooltip text and background
- Display miscellaneous informative chat messages (used for debug generally)
- Show also current character in lists.
- Use Side Tooltip: BoC Information is displayed in a detached tooltip
Known problems
- Reputation requirements interfere with results.
- When you click in the chat window, on someone's link to its craft listing, BoC considers that this is your character craft and register them. On the long term, your character is considered then to know all crafts.
Dependencies
There is no mandatory dependency. This is a standalone add-on
Notes
This add-on has been thoroughly tested in French only. It is provided with
Deutsch and English localization which I cannot test, so the quality of BoC
behavior in those 2 languages highly depends heavily on users feedback.
Also, if someone wants to provide Korean or German translation, he/she's
welcome :)
Credits
My big thanks to Ayradyss, maker of "RecipeBook" addon. I've been a first user
of this add-on, but found myself in need of something different and I have
developped "BookOfCrafts" (also at this time, RecipeBook development was
stopped). This is thanks to "RecipeBook" that I started to get involved in
Add-on development.
However, there is no competition with "Recipe book" and Ayradyss. Perhaps you
should check also this add-on as it is a great add-on that you might prefer for
its different features.
- Special thanks to Lombra who has fixed the "Bind on pickup" problem while I stopped playing Wow for 8 months
- Special thanks to Bburt for his overall help
- Special thanks to Ghandi and Ayradyss for German translation
- Special thanks to Lisurc a.k.a Lisenrak Sargeras (European server), for maintaining and tweaking BoC while I was away
- Special thanks to ArtureLeCoiffeur and Tezaro for their bug fixing skills
- ... and my thanks for all of you for your feedback
v 3.0.3
- Add: Support for factions standings requirements
- Add: Spanish and Russian support, though any help would be welcome for some translations
- Fix: Reagents listing was incorrect as table was not reseted
- Upd: Updated exceptions list, new method of generation employed
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)...
