This addon works as-is on the PTR v0.2.0.
Description
Track hourly, daily, and monthly played time. Also shows you your played time for the last 24 hours and the last 7 days.
Having Issues or have a Suggestion?
- Please don't use the comments to post trouble tickets or suggestions. Instead post a ticket on CurseForge. Thanks.
- From this point on, I will not be fixing, adding, or replying to problems or suggestions posted in the comments.
Notes
- Right-click the hot-spot to show hourly, monthly, and daily played statistics.
- Double-click the hot-spot to collapse or expand the small frame.
- Drag the hot-spot to move the small frame.
- Right click the big frame to choose a new character to check. The default is the current character. New in v200812100253.
Known Issue
General
- Saved variables file will get very large over time and may take a long time to load. Hence why I added a "Clear Saved Data" button.
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If playing longer than an hour in a given session (extremely common), the hour at which you entered the world keeps being tracked until a UI reload or relog. I'm working on a fix. Fixed in v200812040510. The fix for this means making the SavedVariables file grow even faster... ugh...
- The SavedVariables table gets at least 1 new element per hour of play. This is unavoidable. Please do not submit tickets involving the SavedVariables file unless you have a practical way to make it more compact or more efficient.
Per Character Stats
New in v200812100253.
- No real-time stats when "All" is selected.
- The timer on the small frame stops when any character other than the current one or "All" is selected. When it resumes after selecting the current character or closing the big frame, it jumps to where it would have been if it had kept going. This may or may not cause problems down the road, only time will tell.
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r17 | egingell | 2008-12-11 13:19:41 +0000 (Thu, 11 Dec 2008) | 1 line
Changed paths:
A /tags/v200812110619 (from /trunk:16)
Tagging as v200812110619
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r16 | egingell | 2008-12-11 13:18:57 +0000 (Thu, 11 Dec 2008) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/PlayedTimer.lua
-- Fixed a problem with the right-click menu on the big frame.
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r14 | egingell | 2008-12-10 09:52:53 +0000 (Wed, 10 Dec 2008) | 3 lines
Changed paths:
A /trunk/MenuClass.lua
M /trunk/PlayedTimer.lua
M /trunk/PlayedTimer.xml
-- Moved a table construct out of an OnUpdate script...... oops...
-- Added per character stats.
-- Added a new file. Restart required or update with WoW *not* running.
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r12 | egingell | 2008-12-05 20:50:53 +0000 (Fri, 05 Dec 2008) | 2 lines
Changed paths:
M /trunk/PlayedTimer.lua
M /trunk/PlayedTimer.xml
-- Added color coding to the big frame.
-- Unregistering P_E_W event after it fires since it resets the session timer every time the loading screen comes on.
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r10 | egingell | 2008-12-04 12:09:59 +0000 (Thu, 04 Dec 2008) | 2 lines
Changed paths:
M /trunk/PlayedTimer.lua
-- Fixed the spill over bug.
-- Moved the hours column to the middle of the big frame.
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r8 | egingell | 2008-12-04 07:23:41 +0000 (Thu, 04 Dec 2008) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/PlayedTimer.lua
-- Fixed a bug involving hours 1 through 9.
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r6 | egingell | 2008-12-04 06:56:29 +0000 (Thu, 04 Dec 2008) | 6 lines
Changed paths:
M /trunk/PlayedTimer.lua
M /trunk/PlayedTimer.toc
M /trunk/PlayedTimer.xml
-- You can now collapse or expand the small frame.
-- Added a hot-spot to move and collapse the small frame and open the stats frame; instead of the whole frame.
-- -- Double-click the hot-spot to collapse or expand.
-- -- -- Collapsed state is saved between sessions.
-- -- Right-click to open the big stats frame.
-- -- Drag to move the small frame.
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r4 | egingell | 2008-12-01 00:49:30 +0000 (Mon, 01 Dec 2008) | 2 lines
Changed paths:
M /trunk/PlayedTimer.lua
M /trunk/PlayedTimer.xml
-- Bug fix.
-- Added a "Clear Saved Data" button to stats frame.
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r2 | egingell | 2008-11-29 22:28:35 +0000 (Sat, 29 Nov 2008) | 1 line
Changed paths:
A /trunk/PlayedTimer.lua
A /trunk/PlayedTimer.toc
A /trunk/PlayedTimer.xml
-- Initial release.
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r1 | root | 2008-11-29 22:19:44 +0000 (Sat, 29 Nov 2008) | 1 line
Changed paths:
A /branches
A /tags
A /trunk
"playedtimer/mainline: Initial Import"
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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)...
