SavedInstances
This is an Ace3 addon that keeps track of the instance IDs saved against your characters. SavedInstances has the following features:
- primary tooltip shows current lockouts for all your characters
- secondary tooltip (per-lockout) shows lockout details including ID and time remaining
- can be configured to always show your favourite instances so you can use it like a shopping list
- left-click to open Blizzard's Raid Information window
- right-click to configure SavedInstances
SavedInstances does not come with any knowledge of what raids and dungeons are in the game, it learns them as you go. This means that the addon size and memory footprint can be kept to a minimum, and I don't have to research and provide the names of all the instances in every single language. However, it does also mean that you can't change per-instance settings until you've actually run them yourself. The tracking and configuration of encounters is limited in a similar fashion.
Please discuss it on the forums, help with localization and report or vote on issues and requests.
Known Issues
SavedInstances is pretty good, but it's still not quite perfect. There are currently a few issues:
- might not be compatible with DockingStation's tooltip scaling feature
- lockout time remaining and other features may be off by an hour when your region changes to and from Daylight Savings Time
- if the addon's information is incorrect, you can force it to refresh by opening Blizzard's Raid Information window
- when first installed, SavedInstances has no idea what your other characters are saved to: you'll need to log into them too for their information to be recorded
- installing SavedInstances for the first time while you are currently in a dungeon or raid you are saved to is not recommended and may cause some non-essential parts of the addon to malfunction
LibDataBroker versus FuBar
SavedInstances will create a new button on the minimap, and you can use it to interact with SavedInstances just fine. This addon can also be displayed using a LibDataBroker-compatible display addon. I personally use Bazooka because it reminds me of FuBar and it works quite well.
Official FuBar support was terminated a while ago for a variety of reasons. If you still use FuBar, you may get SavedInstances to work with it using Broker2Fubar.
Latest Changes
You can see a more complete list of how this addon has evolved here.
v3 makes use of the data from the new Dungeon Finder system to help populate instance data. This makes instances sortable by recommended level. Categories and Instances are no longer sorted manually one-by-one, but are controlled with simple checkboxes.
Roadmap
- Define encounters per instance and check them off as you go.
- Remember who else was saved to the same lockout ID.
- Display window: allow all information to be displayed in a separate window.
- Configurable character column headings: truncate the names and/or use icons.
- Instance reporting: some method for players to quickly share what they're saved to.
- Class-coloured columns: optional.
2010-01-15 jokeyrhyme <jokeyrhyme>
[b0fba1b248dd] [v3.0.1]
* SavedInstances.lua
- really fixed the bug with tracking randoms, really! forgot to convert hours to seconds, haha
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)...
