MapNotesIconLib
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v1.03.20400
Provides a much larger set of Icons to use for MapNotes (Fan's Update).
MapNotesIconLib comes with 76 new core icons, mainly sourced from the Game itself.
Packaged with the library are 3 other Plugin libraries :
Fancy - some fancy icons modified from source graphics at from http://www.freebuttons.com
Numbered - a variety of numbered icons (again, some modified versions of http://www.freebuttons.com)
Neptunia - the Icons originally donated by Neptunia
With MapNotesIconLib installed, Icon choices are applied immediately when selected without having to save the Note.
Getting Started
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Open up a Note Edit Frame via MapNotes menus, or <Ctrl><Alt>-Right clicking on a MapNote.
There is a new empty blue highlighted button to the right of the normal MapNote Icons.
Click on this square to open up the Icon Library Browser frame and choose a new Icon for this MapNote :)
<Alt>-Click on this square to delete the custom Icon choice, and MapNotes will revert to using the default Icon it was using originally.
The change will take effect immediately without having to save the note.
Advanced Use
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1.) You can change the original 10 default icons used by MapNotes
Open up a Note Edit Frame via MapNotes menus, or <Ctrl><Alt>-Right clicking on a MapNote.
<Ctrl>-Click on any of the default MapNote Icons to open up the Icon Library Browser frame and choose a new default icon :)
<Alt>-Click on any of the default MapNote Icons to reset it to the original MapNotes version.
The changes will take effect immediately, and will propagate thoughout the database and change all MapNotes that were using that default Icon.
2.) The Icon Library Options frame
Use the "/mnil" slash command to open the Icon Library Options frame
From the Options frame you can :
a.) Change the default Party / tloc Icons by clicking on them and choosing new ones from the Icon Library Browser frame
b.) Simply open the Icon Library Broswer frame just to look through the Icons available
c.) Reset ALL MapNotes to use the original MapNotes defaults, and remove ALL customised Icons
d.) This Option will "clean" the MapNotes database, by removing any references to icons that you no longer explicitly load.
[See Special Note for more details]
e.) Cancel and close the Options frame
NOTE that to "Reset" or "Clean" the Icons requires clicking Okay in a Confirmation dialogue box.
So if you don't see the confirmation box, then close the World Map and move frames around until it is visible ;)
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Changes in v1.03.30000 from v1.02.30000
- small fix to allow selection of original default icons after having selected a custom icon
Changes in v1.02.30000 from v1.01.20400
- update for toc 3 and WotLK
- fix to prevent single error message for new installation
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)...
