QuickTradeskill is a World of Warcraft addon to expedite the process of crafting tradeskill items. Similar to the programs Launchy (for Windows) and QuickSilver (for Mac), QuickTradeskill consists of a simple text box interface. When text is entered and the Enter key is pressed, QuickTradeskill will search the player's tradeskills for matches to the input text and display the results in clickable frames which can be used to create the item or copy a craft recipe link into chat. In addition to searching recipes the user knows, QuickTradeskill will also search through all of the in-game recipes provided by LibPeriodicTable for reference.
Usage:
A keybind to open/close the QuickTradeskill window can be set from the default keybindings menu. Alternatively, the QuickTradeskill window can be opened and closed via the /qts show and /qts hide commands.
/qts will open the configuration options.
The main QuickTradeskill frame can be moved by dragging the edges, and the width can be changed by ctrl+dragging on the right edge.
When results are found from the tradeskill search, the new frames have the following properties:
Left click: create a single copy
Ctrl + left click: batch-craft multiple copies of the item
Shift + left click: paste the recipe link for the item into chat
There are three search modes:
* Title Only
* Title and Tooltip (Known Recipes)
* Title and Tooltip (Everything)
To search by recipe title only, simply enter text into the edit box and hit the Enter key. To search through the titles of all recipes, plus the tooltips of recipes your character knows, prefix your search text with a '+' (ie. +netherweave will search for anything with the word 'netherweave' somewhere in the recipe's tooltip). To instead search all titles and all tooltips (even recipes you do not know), prefix your search with '++' (ie. ++netherweave).
There are numerous advantages to searching through tooltips, and the information returned can be quite exhaustive. For instance, with '+minor glyph' you can search for all of the minor glyphs you can create. There are also other possibilities, such as searching for recipes by materials, and so on.
Important:
The major drawback with doing tooltip searches is the time required. The exhaustive search is extremely CPU intensive, and will likely freeze WoW for a handful of seconds while it performs the search. However, it is unlikely that you will need to do these in a quick manner, so hopefully this is acceptable behavior.
Localization support:
QuickTradeskill should work for all locales. If anyone experiences problems with this, please let me know!
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)...
