What is it ?
HelpMeKeybind is an addon designed to help you get used to using keybinds. Weather you click and want to make the trasition to keybinds or simply wish to improve your reaction time with your keybinds, this addon is built to help.
How does it work ?
HelpMeKeybind acts as a sandbox in which you can practice using your keybinds. Your keybinds will scroll across the screen and as they do you press the key(s)/button(s) that correspond to them.
If you key the correct keybind, a 'Correct' will flash on the screen. If you key an incorrect keybind, an 'Incorrect' will appear on screen. If you wait too long, the spell / ability will scroll off-screen and counted as incorrect (the speed of the scroll frame can be adjusted in the options menu). Spells / abilites will continue to go until you press the finish button.
Once your game session is over, you're given a detailed 'Skill Analysis' report (See picture).
Getting Started
Type '/hmk show' to bring up the main frame.
Click the keybinds button. At this point, you have a menu called keybinds (see picture). This is an emulation of the default blizzard binding UI. However, instead of being given actions to keybind, you type in your own. Populate this menu with your spells/abilities and corresponding keybinds. Once you have all of them entered, you're ready to play.
Simply press the start button and your spells / abilities will begin to scroll across the screen (in a random order, by default).
Notes
- The keybind menu in HelpMeKeybind is purely for the HelpMeKeybind game. It has no effect in the actual WoW.
- There is a current maximum of 30 keybinds. This can easily be increased, but I wish to start off with this number to see how the addon handles.
- To begin the game, you need at least one complete keybinding. A complete keybinding requires a unique name AND at least one corresponding keybind.
- Variables are saved on a per char basis
Feel free to leave a comment and / or post a ticket and I will respond as soon as I can.
Addon created by Warcrazy of Nathrezim (Alliance)
- Compatible with 3.0.2 API
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)...
