QuestHistory_Felstone

• • • This is a fan update for the original QuestHistory [Emerald] (no longer visible on forums)

QuestHistory -- An in-game history log of quests that have been accepted, completed, failed, or abandoned.

FEATURES

-- Logs all quests that a player accepts/completes/abandons, and records them in a sortable in-game list.

-- The user can customize what data the addon logs, including: Quest title, objectives, rewards, and items; NPC's; Location coordinates; Level of player when quest was accepted/completed; Amount of time player had played when quest was accepted/completed; Times quest has been abandoned/failed; XP awarded; Money awarded.

-- Edit to add notes to quests and see in tooltips.

-- Quests can be edited or manually added. Quests can be deleted to clean up bad entries, if enabled in options.

-- Does not modify any of the game's original files. QuestHistory simply stores a database of information about quests as they are accepted, completed, abandoned, or failed (or logged in with in the player's log).

OF NOTE

Because the Blizzard server does NOT send a complete list of prior quests to the client during login, or any other time, ONLY quests that are in your log, or accepted/completed/abandoned/failed AFTER you have successfully installed QuestHistory, can be recorded. Quest information is not available to your computer in ANY other way, at ANY other time.

INSTALLATION

Extract the QuestHistory folder inside the ZIP file, to your World of WarcraftInterfaceAddOns directory, so that it ends up as, ...\World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns\QuestHistory

If the Interface or AddOns folders don't exist, you will need to make them first, then extract the QuestHistory folder inside the AddOns folder.

INSTRUCTIONS

To bring up the graphical UI window, type: /qh OR /questhistory or see the keybind options to set a key and open.

MAIN WINDOW: Once you bring up the main window in game, you should see a list of your quests. You can sort this list by clicking on one of the column buttons or by selecting a sort method from the drop-down box. You can click on the Search button and enter some text to filter the quests. Only the quests that have data (title, objectives, reward item, etc.) that contain the entered text will be displayed properly.

OPTIONS: There is also an Options button which will bring up a screen allowing you to customize what types of quests (abandoned, completed or current) are shown in the list and what data is logged for each quest. If you are worried about the size of your SavedVariables.lua file, you can deselect some of the data that QuestHistory logs. There are other options available including the ability to choose the character whose quest data is displayed and select the colors for abandoned and completed quests.

VIEW: To see information on a quest, left click on it in the list and a window will open. This window will contain all of the quest data that is normally shown in the Quest Log as well as extra data that was recorded. Notes can be added to the quest from this screen as well.

EDIT: Right click on a quest to edit information on a quest. A detailed window will open. See options to enable editing quests.

DELETE: Shift right click on a quest to delete a quest. See options to enable deleting quests. Warning -- There is no confirmation prompt. There is no undo. If a mistake is made and you really want it back, leave the game running and at least backup the savedvariables file, questhistory.lua. Now you can logout and check the files manually, but is too technical to describe here.

CHAT: Shift left click on a quest to paste the quest name into chat in order to communicate the information to other players.

SWITCHING TOONS: See options to switch to another character you have and see quests saved for that character. This is temporary and not saved so that the main character is shown again by default after logging out and in.

Credit:

• Original QuestHistory written by Jasters in 2004. Adopted by Dsanai as QuestHistoryEmerald, after Jasters left World of Warcraft, in late 2005. Adopted by Jtbalogh as QuestHistoryFelstone in April 07, and waiting for Dsanai to return when he is ready.

The original author is not available to fix the addon. No support for new features in this addon is to be expected. Some support to fix bugs in this addon is available to keep addon working. The way data is stored has not changed so there is minimal impact on existing data. However, it is always a good idea to backup the file, \WorldofWarcraft\WTF\Account\yourname\SavedVariables\questhistory.lua

Accessing QuestHistory from other addons:

Some capability to search for quest from other addons is enabled. To quickly find quest from other addons, contact that author or make the change yourself by adding the following function,

QuestHistoryFrameSearchEditBox_OnEnterPressed_External(YourVariableWithQuestName)

For example, in MonkeyQuest addon, find and edit the following. Then all you have to do now is press alt and left button when selecting a quest in monkeyquest. Questhistory will open to the same quest conveniently, so you can see any coordinate info or notes you made for that quest for example.

• Open the MonkeyQuest.lua file
• Search for the function MonkeyQuestButton_OnClick
• You will see the sections with,

 if (IsShiftKeyDown() and ChatFrameEditBox:IsVisible()) then
 end
 if (IsControlKeyDown()) then
 end

• Add the code we want before or after those as another condition to check for,

 if (IsAltKeyDown() and QuestHistoryFrame) then
   if (button == "LeftButton") then -- alt and left click a quest in MonkeyQuest
     QuestHistoryFrameSearchEditBox_OnEnterPressed_External(strQuestLogTitleText) -- open QuestHistory
     return;
   end
 end

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Bugs:

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ChangeLog:

Revision v3.2.0b (Sep 25, 2009)

http://wow.curse-gaming.com/downloads/details/1676/questhistory-emerald/

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  Author

  jtbalogh

  (Project Manager)

  Downloads

  • QuestHistory_Felstone
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  • AutoHideBarsUI
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  • QTargetX
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