Do you have a banker-toon? Do you sell stuff on AH? If so, this addon is for you. In short, you will be able to see how long you have had an item even if you put it up for auction and get it back unsold. ItemAge tracks how long you have had an item or a stack of items.
New in v0.04:
[fix] Work-around for Blizzard premature VARIABLES_LOADED event
[fix] bugfix in api
The addon
I made this addon because my bankers are always loaded with items and I loose track of how long I have had the different things in my bags. Basically, this addon adds a new number to every item-icon in your bags and/or bank (selectable) denoting how long you have had the item. That's basically all there is to it.
The beauty of it is that the data persists even if you put the item up for auction. When you get the unsold item back, the age will still be correct. This even works on equal items. Say you have two stacks of some leather - this addon may put different ages on those. So if you have 20 equal items in your bags/bank, they may all still have different ages, and this addon will track it.
This feature also works if you send an item to an alt and then send it back. The age will still be correct. (If you leave the item at your alt for weeks, the data may be erased)
Options
There are not many options available, since it basically works directly out of the box. The age-displays can be switched on or off in your bags or bank by typing "/age bags" or "/age bank". This will only toggle the display itself. If all is switched off, it will still register when new items are added to your inventory.
ItemAge can also be assigned a key so you can press a key to show/hide the display whenever you want to check the ages. This is very handy for non-banker toons, and can be assigned from WoW's standard key-binding interface.
Guild bank
Guild bank is a problem in WoW. ItemAge works by using an internal facility in WoW, and guild-banks does not support this facility very well. For some items (VERY few), the guild-bank will retain this information. For all other items, it will not show an age in the guild bank. This is unfortunate, and can not be helped with the current version of WoW. However, the guild-bank does not discard the information, and by moving the item to your bags, the information will reappear.
Supported items
Most items in WoW is trackable. However, items you have bought from a vendor will basically never be trackable. This is due to how WoW generates the items. A vendor-bought item will be generic and undistinguishable from another vendor-bought item.
Stacks of items
Many items are stackable, like leather and cloth. If you already have a stack that is not full and you receive one more item, WoW will merge the new item into your old stack. The "new" stack will be registered with the age of the old stack.
This is particularly important to notice when retrieving unsold items from ther AH and you already have a half-full stack in your bags of the same item.
Commands
Type "/age" for a brief list. The commands are:
/age bags -> Bag-display on/off
/age bank -> Bank-display on/off
/age gbank -> Guild-bank on/off (note that guild-bank does usually not show anyway because of WoW's handling of these items)
ItemAge v0.04
[fix] Work-around for Blizzard premature VARIABLES_LOADED event
[fix] Bugfix in api
ItemAge v0.03
[added] Function for retrieving age for use by other addons
ItemAge v0.02
[added] API for other AddOns
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)...
