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Recipe Book

 
Project Updated:
Files Updated: Sun, Mar 14 2010
Supports Game Version: 3.3.0
Category: Professions
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Project Manager: Ayradyss
Additional Authors: No additional authors
Current Version: 3.3.2 beta 2
License: Creative Commons
Development Site: CurseForge.com
Avg Daily DL (last 30 days): 18
Downloads Total: 248,912
Favorites: 1,484
Comments: 908
  • About Recipe Book
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  • RecipeBook: Ayradyss's Addon
  • Last Update: 11 March 2010
  • Contact: recipebook (at) mistwalker.org
  • Install: Unzip into the World of Warcraft/Interface/AddOns directory.

RecipeBook Version 3.3.2 beta 2

Note: interim builds are available at http://home.comcast.net/~recipebook - but be aware, these builds may be buggy and may or may not be compatible with formal release versions.

A RL Note: I work full-time plus and have a toddler. Real Life always comes first. Please do keep me up to date on bugs and requests, but there may be blocks of 4-6 weeks where I don't do anything but work and sleep, no time for code.

Brief description:

Adds information to recipes on which alts know or can learn them. Color codes recipes in the auction house. Allows sharing of recipe data between accounts.

For example:

I have character BetsyRoss, who is a tailor by nature. She knows Pattern: American Flag, but for some reason, I can never remember this when UncleScrooge goes to the auction house to buy patterns.

  • Previously, would have to keep a written or mental list of BetsyRoss's known patterns so that UncleScrooge didn't buy her a second copy of Pattern: American Flag on accident.
  • Now, with RecipeBook, UncleScrooge can mouse over Pattern: American Flag and see "Already known by: BetsyRoss" right there on the tooltip - or, if he chooses, in a special chat tab just for RecipeBook information.

It's fun! It's helpful! It's easy to use! It's also still in development, so there are a few known issues and some miscellaneous housework to be done.

Usage

/rbk or /recipebook will all work for slash commands. PLEASE NOTE: /rbk no longer works for RecipeBook. RecipeBook has a minimap icon that allows you to access most RecipeBook commands as well.

General:

- /rbk help : Displays a help message

Sharing:

- /rbk send <alt> to <player> : Sends your RecipeBook data for a given alt to another player. Use 'all' as your alt to send all alts you know. Use 'me' to send just your character. Use 'guild' to send to your guild.
- Right-click on the minimap icon and select "Shared Data" for sharing options. If a character is targeted, RecipeBook will use that character. Otherwise, you will be prompted for a name.

Banking:

- /rbk bank : Displays your banked items and options for banked items.

Skill Display

- /rbk skill : Use /rbk skill to open a window which allows you to browse recipes known by alt and tradeskill. So, just in case UncleScrooge were curious, he could type "/rbk skill", select BetsyRoss via the dopdown menu accessed by clicking on the "[click to change]" next to his name, and view all her Tailoring recipes.

Searching

- /rbk search : Opens the RecipeBook Search Window. (You can also bind this to a key)
- /rbk search <item> : Searches for items containing the given string.
- /rbk searchmats <item> : Searches for items using materials which match the given string.

Configuration:

All configuration options can be accessed through the RecipeBook GUI: use /rbk config to open this, use the minimap icon to open the configuration, or bind a key to it using the "keybindings" button in your main menu.

Color Configuration:

Use the minimap icon to change colors for items or open the RecipeBook UI window with /rbk config and select the "Colors" tab.

Known issues:

  • RecipeBook only updates its recipe list when your tradeskill window is open. So, if BetsyRoss just learned Pattern: Giant American Flag, she'll have to open her Tailoring window before RecipeBook (or UncleScrooge) knows about it.

Compatibilities:

For mod authors:

  • The easiest way to add RecipeBook compatibility to *your* mod is to call the following in your tooltip output:
RecipeBook_DoHookedFunction(tooltip, [link]);
- Where tooltip is the tooltip (or tooltip name) you're using and (now optional) link is the item link itself. That will add RecipeBook's data lines.

Special thanks:

Curse Gaming's Pentarion and Ghandi, for some hard work helping me debug the German client version. Particularly to Pentarion for ongoing translation work.

  • Downloads (7)
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File Name Release Type Game Version Downloads Date
Addon Curse.com Beta 2.3.3 0 9/29/2008
  File Name Release Type Game Version Downloads Date  
  Recipe Book 3.3.2 beta 2 Release 3.3.0 5,269 3/14/2010
  Recipe Book 3.3.2 beta 1 Release 3.3.0 1,282 3/5/2010
  Recipe Book RecipeBook 3.2.0 (interim 1) Release 3.2.0 12,314 11/7/2009
  Recipe Book RecipeBook 3.1.0 (interim) Release 3.1.0 22,203 5/29/2009
  Recipe Book 3.0.8b3 Beta 3.0.8 13,116 2/8/2009
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  • 1. Also vendors in dalaran for enchanting recipes show i can learn them still ... when i have them all learned. I do recall someone else here mentioning this as well a while back. Not like i need those recipes anymore. however for leveling enchanters would be a lovely fix =)

    2. My Recipe Book when turned off (always uses character select, doesnt bother with anything else). Will not save its profession books across toons. All my other add-ons work when disabled and enabled to remembering. Just not this one. Knows you said you'd try and patch that =). Also would like to note in doing so it sometimes puts ! near most items in the forgotten book that i just told it to relearn. then I have to go and update every ! so it remembers. instead of clicking them one by one. could you please add a function that notes to update all !.

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  • oushies said

    Request for future enhancement:

    I was wondering, would it be possible to make the addon show recipes banked in your toons guilds and/or mail as banked also? This way the recipes i have in any of my guild banks or mailboxes would be shown at the AH as banked. That would help me and people who like to store rare recipes in guild banks for their future toons or the ones that are still leveling their professions.

    Color coding recipes in your own inventory/bank/guild bank/mail would also be a superb feature.

    Also, I would like to donate, please enable donating on your profile.

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  • Ayradyss said

    Ok, totally had an update ready to go and then 3.3.5 came out and kerbam.

    I'm working on it; going to be a bit. I apologize.

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  • Xyntress said

    thank you for all your hardwork. *waits patiently for the update*

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  • Niselma30 said

    Getting this error when scanning my profs:
    Date: 2010-06-29 15:30:40
    ID: 2
    Error occured in: Global
    Count: 1
    Message: ..\AddOns\RecipeBook\RecipeBook.lua line 416:
    attempt to call method 'GetName' (a nil value)
    Debug:
    [C]: GetName()
    RecipeBook\RecipeBook.lua:416:
    RecipeBook\RecipeBook.lua:405
    (tail call): ?
    (tail call): ?
    [C]: Outfitter_OrigSetBagItem()
    Outfitter\Outfitter.lua:7498: SetBagItem()
    nUI\Plugins\nUI_PetFeeder.lua:320:
    nUI\Plugins\nUI_PetFeeder.lua:318

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  • Niselma30 said

    I wanted to ask if you was aware of how much mem it takes for your mod to run. I'm using sh:performance from wowinterface and it's telling me that your mod is using 858-860 kb to run. that's alot.

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  • Ayradyss said

    It's holding a lot of data in active memory; I've reduced that as much as possible but most of the "tracking" addons seem to run heavy on the memory, since Blizzard doesn't give me quick access to some of the information I need.

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  • Bifidus said

    Request for feature :

    After a AH scan, I would like to have a window, integrated with AH or not, that would include all recipes my alts can learn, so i can easily purchase them.

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  • Ayradyss said

    Hm, interesting thought.
    Let me get the addon functioning again before I go for new features.

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  • Ayradyss said

    Ok, now that I have my desktop back (power supply died :( ) let me take a peek at current issues.

    @Taine: Any other addons - specifically AH ones?
    @darkreign11: How are you disabling the addon? I'll see if I can patch it.

    Bags do not currently color; I can look into making that happen.

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  • Yes at character select. And if done this way the add-on forgets its saved data next time its enabled. If this is just selective. Then maybe a function to ensure the data is saved regardless would be needed.

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  • Taiine said

    This is not showing any info at all when looking at the AH. If I happen to come across something that may be useful for an alt while on another toon, I end up having to switch to that to learn if they do in fact know it or not. I saw this and thought it was grand, I can check for stuff on one toon and know if another can learn it/knows it already.

    While it has worked amazingly for dropped recipes or ones I run across on a vender, it does not show any info at all from the AH.

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  • Simple suggestion : enabling the saving of profession books across enabling/disabling the add-on. During raids I turn off all non-raid essential add-ons. They all persist to remembering their saved data. Except one. And this would sadly be that one. I have to go through each character and redo their books. And would love if the author fixed it to enabling persistent saves.

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  • Ayradyss said

    How are you disabling the addon? At the character selection screen or in-game? Curious.

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  • Yes at character select. And if done this way the add-on forgets its saved data next time its enabled. If this is just selective. Then maybe a function to ensure the data is saved regardless would be needed.

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  • debbie2 said

    it colours them for me, so maybe it is arkinventory. Theres various colours for known by all alts, known by current char but learnable now for other alts, learnable later for alts, learnable by current char now etc. Theres about 6 different colours it uses. I have had no issues with them in the auction etc, just for the enchanting ones I posted about below.

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  • Hanfox said

    Does this addon not colour the recipes in your bank and inventory? Or is it because I'm using ArkInventory there's an issue? RecipeKnown managed to colour the items in my bags/bank just fine though, but it's out-of-date and no longer works (properly).

    It's all well and good being able to see the colours in the AH, but I like to see in my bag/bank, too :)

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  • Hanfox said

    Well even with absolutely no other addons enabled, a clean WTF folder, and a clean cache I still can't colour my inventory with this mod nor RecipeKnown although both colour in the AH... bit confused.

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  • Ayradyss said

    Offline for a few days (we are moving houses!) - I was going to throw up 3.3.3 and then it threw a bunch of errors on auto guild sharing so I am testing those fixes now.

    Y'all can blame @robwood's excellent error reporting.

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  • debbie2 said

    Hi,

    First off great addon, I love it to bits!

    But I do have a minor problem that I have noticed, So far I have only got this on my enchanter and only with the recipes that you buy in Dalaran with the Dream Shards. Recipe Book seems to get completely confused as to whether I know an enchant or not, when I go to the vendor some of the recipes are red but I don't know them yet, others that are blue I already know, some are green that I already know, even the already known by *** and can be learned by *** is off. Meaning I have to actually open my enchanting tab each time I was to buy a new one and check if I actually know it or not. I have tried deleting all info for that character and rescanning etc, but nothing seems to work.

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