Please, report any bug/problem as curse comment or curseforge ticket.
this will help. thanks.
What is this?
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This is nothing more than the name tells.
Another panel, that opens near the blizz calendar event panel, that gives you more information about the players.
Before forming raid, u can know:
-who is online and who is not (instant for guildies and friends, periodically performs whois on offguild players)
-who is on an alt (checks guild note and friendlist, supports auldlangsyne addon)
-which role (tank ranged melee heal) is each invited player (players are marked manually, this marking is saved thru sessions, supports multiple specs)
-how many u have for each role for the selected raid size (10/25)
-who is already in your raid
-history of signups (sorted, most recent last)
-who is signed, but has a low rank, so doesnt have spot granted
-who signed in the last X minutes (configurable)
It does support both invite-events and guild-wide-events (guild events tested just a bit)
If you are not event owner, the apply buttons has no effect, but you can still invite ppl.
How can i use it?
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U can just install this and use it pasively, just doing the thing the way u are used. You will just have some extra info on the side.
Else, as raid leader, there are 2 ways of using it:
-the first is to check the players you choosen and then press APPLY. This will mark other players as STANDBY, and will let you do a invite from blizz calendar
-the second is to perform invite within the CalendarInvite itself. the only difference (apart from addon beign bugged in converting to raid) is that this time addon will whisper alts announcing invite
There are known bugs?
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Many. More than bugs, they are things i didnt fixed, coz the software was ment to remain private.
Most are relative to frame behaviour, some to raid inviter, prob the offguild whois checks can also be better.
Hope making it public will improve this.
Does this addon require a widescreen?
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No, but its designed for a widescreen display-ratio.
I developed it for myself and my guildleader. Both have 24", so i did it like this.
The frame is clamped to screen (which means it wont move out of the view area), but probably you will get some frames overlapping.
Solutions could be movable frame, scale blizz calendar, move frame over the calendar or.... buy a new monitor ;)
Why it was so badly configurable?
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Coz at start i developed it for my guild only.
Now it comes with full ingame gui for the options, so it a bit more user-frienldy
some stuff is still hardcoded so it suits my needs (like the brackets in auldlangsyne comments)
- guild alts: ALL alts must be tagged in guild description with the alt pattern (default prefix "Alt: ")
addon will strip pattern, then pick the first word as mainchar name
- friends with auldlangsyne addon: must set a note for each friend with main closed with round brackets, like "(Nameofmain)"
- friends with blizzard notes: must set a note for each friend with main name with no brackets or whatever
v0.982
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fixed guild check for notes with null prefix
v0.981 (beta)
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fixed reserve tab
fixed bug with guild ranks
v0.98 (unreleased beta)
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added option to use officer notes instead of player notes (this setup prevents non-officer from using addon properly)
added multiple alt-ranks
v0.971
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added option to show/hide label "offguild" near players
fixed useless whois-es on players already in raid (thanks to T-Base)
v0.97
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hopefully fixed all config troubles
fixed potential whisper bug
"CalendarInviter_Config.lua"; is history
v0.96
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fixed font size in main window
ranks and prefixes are now configurable
cleaned up a lot of code, some minor changes to config page
alt prefix can be now empty string (leaving just the name in the player comment)
v0.951
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hotfix for bug in options file, preventing from changes to take effect (will soon move everything in cfg panel)
v0.95
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total rewrite of the role data/routines/appearals
removed mousewheel on roles
redesigned rank appearals
added new tab cfg
added config for raid presets
added configurable last-minute delay
added configurable rank-threshold
redesigned tabs for filters
moved init routines to variables_loaded
moved config options to PerCharacter, while player roles are still global (for all toons)
alt prefix ("Alt: ") is no more case sensitive
you are no more able to see mouseover event of items behind window
v0.94
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melee/casters separation, first draft
v0.93
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added "!" mark that shows you ppl signed the last hour before raid with tooltip
(this delay can be changed with the CalendarInviter_Options.LastMinutesThreshold var)
v0.92
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added raid history in log window
fixed several bug introduced by 0.91 improvements
v0.91
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added dropdowncombobox for raid size
added popup window for easier role change
started coding the last-minute alert for raiders that sign at last moment
fixed new players not having any role (despite log was sayin they were assigned to dps)
v0.90
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fixed sort, now all online dps are on top, previously the offspec was taken in account while sorting
added guild-check button in log page. you can call it manually with "/script CalendarInviter_GuildCheck()"
v0.89
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typo in officer vars
v0.88
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fixed texture bug for in-raid members
bugfix
fixed apply bug
moved config code in separate lua for customization
v0.87
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fixed texture bug for in-raid members
virtualized most of rank code
v0.86
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toc update
v0.85
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added reserve tab
virtualized dps heal tank labels
v0.84
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dont whois for yourself when not guilded
dont whois for online friends
changed loop routine to stop when no whois needed
inviter spam lowered
v0.83
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total rewrite of inviter
v0.82
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bugfix in inviter again
v0.81
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fixed inviter now skips ppl already in raid
v0.8
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added online check for off-guildies
added log window (and supressed much of the spam)
added hybrid classes (shift mousewheel)
redid all summary from scratch
added invite button
fixed frame beign overlapped by decursive microunits
added raid frame size
added mass invite
fixed wrong month shown
v0.7
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added suport for friends, see notes
v0.6
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added support for guildwide invite
undeclared variables cleanup
bugfix
removed some spam
v0.5
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bugfix
v0.4
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added raid check , ppl in raid will be highlighted, changed colors of totals
v0.3
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changed total check
v0.2
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no sort of role change
added event live check (if someone subscribes/unsubscribes during the invite phase)
v0.1
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initial release
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)...
