Handy Notes for your maps. This addon is intended to be a small and simple replacement for Cartographer_Notes and functions in a similar manner.
Use /handynotes to access options.
You can add notes to the maps in 3 ways:
- Alt-RightClick on the world map to add a note.
- Use "/hnnew" without the quotes to add a note at your current location.
- Use "/hnnew x,y" without the quotes to add a note at location x,y on your current zone's map.
HandyNotes supports plugins that other authors can write to display their own set of notes on the map. See this link for a list of such addons:
http://www.wowace.com/search/?search=handynotes
Changes from v1.1.4 to v1.1.5
- Use latest version of Astrolabe library which has Hrothgar's Landing data.
- Play nice with Carbonite which is trying to fake as being Cartographer.
- Add HandyNotes to the Blizzard Interface Addon Options too.
- When quest objectives are enabled, the HandyNotes icons on the world map will now show their tooltips again on mouseover.
- When creating or editing a note on a map with dungeon levels, you may now choose which dungeon level the note appears in or choose to have it appear on ALL dungeon levels.
- HandyNotes will now pass as 3rd parameter the dungeon map level when it calls pluginHandler:GetNodes(mapFile, minimap, dungeonLevel).
Existing user notes in HandyNotes will still display on all dungeon map levels, but new notes will be level specific.
- Remove compatibility code with all WoW versions earlier than patch 3.1.
- Convert to use wowace localization system at http://www.wowace.com/addons/handynotes/localization/
- Notes without a title will now show "(No Title)" as the tooltip title rather than have no tooltip on mouseover.
- Add the ability to create/change/copy/delete profiles in HandyNotes. HandyNotes was already using Ace3 profiles, just that this wasn't exposed.
- Add ability to enable and disable plugins from showing on the map in the HandyNotes options.
- Add a wider range of icons to select from.
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r216 | xinhuan | 2010-01-17 10:19:31 +0000 (Sun, 17 Jan 2010) | 1 line
Changed paths:
A /tags/v1.1.5 (from /trunk:215)
Tag release v1.1.5.
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r215 | xinhuan | 2010-01-17 10:08:58 +0000 (Sun, 17 Jan 2010) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/HandyNotes_HandyNotes.lua
Play nice with Carbonite which is trying to fake as being Cartographer.
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r214 | xinhuan | 2010-01-17 10:06:41 +0000 (Sun, 17 Jan 2010) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/HandyNotes.lua
Add HandyNotes to the Blizzard Interface Addon Options too.
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r213 | xinhuan | 2010-01-06 13:07:27 +0000 (Wed, 06 Jan 2010) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/HandyNotes.lua
When quest objectives are enabled, the HandyNotes icons on the world map will now show their tooltips again on mouseover.
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r212 | xinhuan | 2010-01-05 02:02:02 +0000 (Tue, 05 Jan 2010) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/HandyNotes_EditFrame.lua
M /trunk/HandyNotes_HandyNotes.lua
When creating or editing a note on a map with dungeon levels, you may now choose which dungeon level the note appears in or choose to have it appear on ALL dungeon levels.
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r211 | xinhuan | 2010-01-05 00:52:37 +0000 (Tue, 05 Jan 2010) | 3 lines
Changed paths:
M /trunk/HandyNotes.lua
M /trunk/HandyNotes_EditFrame.lua
M /trunk/HandyNotes_HandyNotes.lua
HandyNotes will now pass as 3rd parameter the dungeon map level when it calls pluginHandler:GetNodes(mapFile, minimap, dungeonLevel).
Existing user notes in HandyNotes will still display on all dungeon map levels, but new notes will be level specific.
Remove compatibility code with all WoW versions earlier than patch 3.1.
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r210 | xinhuan | 2010-01-04 23:02:33 +0000 (Mon, 04 Jan 2010) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/Locales/Locale-deDE.lua
M /trunk/Locales/Locale-esES.lua
M /trunk/Locales/Locale-frFR.lua
M /trunk/Locales/Locale-koKR.lua
M /trunk/Locales/Locale-ruRU.lua
M /trunk/Locales/Locale-zhCN.lua
M /trunk/Locales/Locale-zhTW.lua
Convert to use wowace localization system.
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r209 | xinhuan | 2010-01-04 04:27:07 +0000 (Mon, 04 Jan 2010) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/HandyNotes_HandyNotes.lua
M /trunk/Locales/Locale-enUS.lua
Notes without a title will now show "(No Title)" as the tooltip title rather than have no tooltip on mouseover.
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r208 | xinhuan | 2010-01-04 03:40:37 +0000 (Mon, 04 Jan 2010) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/.pkgmeta
M /trunk/HandyNotes.lua
M /trunk/HandyNotes.toc
Add the ability to create/change/copy/delete profiles in HandyNotes. HandyNotes was already using Ace3 profiles, just that this wasn't exposed.
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r207 | xinhuan | 2010-01-04 01:26:55 +0000 (Mon, 04 Jan 2010) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/HandyNotes.lua
M /trunk/Locales/Locale-enUS.lua
Add ability to enable and disable plugins from showing on the map in the HandyNotes options.
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r206 | xinhuan | 2010-01-04 00:32:05 +0000 (Mon, 04 Jan 2010) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/HandyNotes_EditFrame.lua
M /trunk/HandyNotes_HandyNotes.lua
M /trunk/Locales/Locale-enUS.lua
Add a wider range of icons to select from.
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r205 | xinhuan | 2010-01-01 03:26:46 +0000 (Fri, 01 Jan 2010) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/HandyNotes.toc
Just a TOC update until I get around to doing more. Also to pull in the latest Astrolabe and Ace3 libraries.
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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)...
