siena's Gem Viewer is simple (not for creator ;P) addon for World of Warcraft.
SGV filled little glitch in AH which Blizzard 'patched' in 2.1.0. Frankly saying, I was not going to update or develop this mod any further, since I don't play WoW, but people @ wowinterface.com demanded a new, working version, so I created 3.1.3- a compatibility release.
Since I quit wow long time ago I rarely check wowinterface and I don't track this mod anymore. Version 3.2.2.0 is created by Coren (wowinterface.com)
Bonus filter allow you to search gems not only by socket color or its rarity, but also by bonuses they grant. Simple, do you want rare, blue socket that adds Strength? Triple click in SGV (rarity: rare, socket color: blue, bonus: Strength) you are ready to go!
To begin with SGV, simply open Auction House window, and click the new tab that has been added.
Using it, you can order SGV to list all gems meeting your requirements, for instance rare & matching yellow socket. After you have clicked SEARCH button, the SGV, SGV will perform AH scan and list all gems matching your search criteria. Info includes gem name, rarity color, gem icon, it will show you CURRENT minimal bid for gem type and CURRENT minimal Buyout Value. You can change filter settings during scan. After scan has ended all all gathered data is available for offline browsing- which means, that you can play with filter settings without having to scan AH again (you can, of course, if you want to). When you left click on gem of your choice the SGV will send search request for item that you've selected and switch to browse page of AH Addon, where you will be able to buy it.
Dataset is rather small, so it will not hurt your addon cache, SGV will purge all data on AH Window close or WoW's exit. My intention was to write addon to have as low cpu and memory usage as possible, but you need to know, that this is my first addon for WoW and lua is not my primary programming language.
SGV lets you:
- easily find gems on AH
- create search filters (rarity, socket color, bonus filters)
- know actual minimal bid and buyout values for gems
- run search for specific gem
- see number of specific gems (count(gem) group by Gem's name)
SGV cannot:
- buy item directly from its frame
Things to know:
- if you create filter f.e. gems that fit blue socket, SGV will show you also multisocket gems (blue and yellow, blue and red, etc)
- when you click on item while scanning there is short pause between your action and SGV reaction- SGV puts your action on stack and waits for AH query permission; this pause is intentional
- Currently bonus filters are available for US, GB. Other Clients won't show Bonuses dropdown menu, because of lacking bonuses' translations. Send me SGV_TRANS_ATT table and next verison will have bonuses for other language.
Trans tables start:
deDE, line 130
frFR, line 188
Locales:
I'm aware that lots of people play WoW using different than enUS or enGB clients. I play using enGB, so I tried to localization addon as much as I can but I was not able to test it properly.
- localized parts of SGV:
- core algorithms [it includes mainly search patterns]
- some UI elements
- deDE by Daddelkopp & tayeaden
- frFR by Tazmanyak
- zhTW by Evenrain
- koKR by Sayclub
- esES by me hahaha
Upcomming features:
- full localization - with your help
-...
..more to come? send me your suggestions
All critiques, bugtraqs, errors, patches, localisations, suggestions are welcome.
Thanks goes to:
- my girlfriend Ania for being so sweet and marvelous person
- Coren for v3.2.2.0
- ShaggY aka ShaggY for testing and suggestions ;*
- Tazmanyak for frFR locale
- tayeaden for help with German locale and pointing me out misstype in one german socket name and problem with ALL string
- evenrain for zhTW translation
- Sayclub for Korean translation
- Daddelkopp for bonus filters for german client
- Blizzard for their Interface AddOn Kit
- Igor- creator of Igor's Mass Auction (check this addon out it's awsome:)) for clue how to hook my tab on Blizz's AH Frame.
- The BugGrabber Team for buggraber
- Scheid for myDebug
Have fun
siena
Versions
3.2.2.2 - October 18, 2009
- FIX: tab bug introduced by me:)
3.2.2.1 - October 17, 2009 (author Coren)
- FIX: scroll bug introduced in 3.2.2.0
3.2.2.0 - October 13, 2009 (author Coren from wowinterface.com)
- FIX: the tooltip scanning issue
- NEW: allow translations to be partial
- NEW: add a partial french translation
- NEW: filters colored by socket color of the stat (meta as white, prismatic as greenish, untranslated as grey)
- NEW: allow multi-select for filter (by holding shift) to filter by 2 values (e.g. int + spi)
- NEW: pickup prismatic gems in scanning (if ANY_COLOR is properly set for the language)
- NEW show filtered # / total # of gems found
- remove a number of variables from global scope, clear up some trailing tabs, correct some indentation, etc.
3.1.3.7 - June 15, 2009
- FIX: scan through all pages, not just 1st one. Because of this, not all gems were scanned.
3.1.3.6 - June 13, 2009
- FIX: fix for dropdownlist
3.1.3.5 - June 13, 2009
- FIX: possible fix for weird dropdown behaviour reported by few users
3.1.3.4 - June 10, 2009
3.1.3.3 - June 9, 2009
- FIX: dropdown with quality works again
- FIX: dropdown with bonuses looks better :)
3.1.3.2 - June 6, 2009
- UPDATED: bonus filters match bonuses from the game, based on www.wow-gem.com
- Known Bugs: Dropdown looks awfull, French and German locale need a facelift
3.1.3 - June 6, 2009
- Works with World of Warcraft 3.1.3
- Known Bugs: Quality ALL not working- result is empty
2.1.1 - February 18, 2008
- NEW: working French locale, thanks go to Tazmanyak!
2.1.0 -
- Works with World of Warcraft 2.3.0
- NEW: Fast scan button - once every 15 minutes you can do fast scan of gems, shorter waiting time!!
- UPDATE: slight XML objects modifications
- FIX: page scanning info
2.0.2 - Septmeber 27, 2007
- UPDATE: toc for version 2.2.0
2.0.1 - September 18, 2007
- FIX problem with ALL string, thank you tayedaen
2.0 - May 30, 2007
- Working with World of Warcraft 2.1.0
- NEW: bonus filters
- NEW: bonus filters for german client by Daddelkopp
- NEW Korean translation by Sayclub
- UPDATE Updated XML Objects
- UPDATE toc for version 2.1.0
1.2 - April 18, 2007
- NEW added zhTW locale, thank you Evenrain!
- UPDATE slight XML objects modifications
1.1 - March 09, 2009
- NEW counting gems by type
- UPDATE changed logic in event processing. It results in less CPU usage during INITIAL scan (first scan after loging into game).
- UPDATE slight XML objects modifications
- Bugfixes:
- implemented bugfix in german locale (thank you tayeaden)
1.0 - February 24, 2007
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)...
