Description
Cash Stash is a simple addon that tracks the amount of money on all your toons on your account. Some other addons have this included, but Cash Stash is designed to be clean and small.
Once you install Cash Stash, make sure that it is enabled for all your characters. You must log into each character once before Cash Stash will track their money. After that, you're all set. Open your character panel to see the amount of money you have stashed away next to your portrait.
Whenever you gain or lose money on any character, Cash Stash will track it and display the information on all your characters. Note that this will not track any money sitting in your mailbox. You have to open the mail and take the money before it registers.
If you click on the money displayed in your Character frame, a menu will appear that lists how much money is located on each toon. Great if you need to dip into someone's pockets to buy a new mount, but forgot where your money is saved up!
Note about deleting a character
If you delete a character that has money (I don't know why you wouldn't mail the money to another toon first, but...), Cash Stash will still think the character exists and won't display the correct amount of money. You will notice that their name is still on the list of characters in the menu that appears when you click on the stash.
To fix this, type in game:
/run CashStashBank["Playername(Realmname)"] = nil
For example, /run CashStashBank["Recompense(Uldum)"] = nil
You should see the information be removed from the chart.
Version 1.2.1:
- Updated for patch 3.0.2
Version 1.2:
- Version 1.2 of CashStash now separates money intelligently based on faction and realm. Thanks to Vytae of WoWInterface for noticing the error, which I didn't catch. (This change will require you to log in on each character again to properly sort their money into the appropriate pool if you had an earlier version.)
Version 1.1.1:
- Minor cosmetic change to the appearance of the character frame.
Version 1.1:
- "That's great," my roommate said, "but how will you remember who's got all the money?" Added a menu that shows who has what money when you click on the stash in your portrait.
Version 1.0:
- 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)...