This addon allows you to customise the signon/signoff messages for friends and guildies as they see fit.
You can choose to have the user's name, level, class, alts/main, zone, guild rank or guild note anywhere in the message (or not, if you like). You can use tags to choose where you want certain information to be shown. Acceptable tags are: &name, &level, &class, &alts, &zone, &rank and ¬e. The addon will assume anything else will be part of the message text.
&alts will return a the name of an alt's main character, a list of alts if it is the main character, or nothing if no data was found.
You can also add colour and brackets to your text using flags, e.g. &name:green:square.
Acceptable colour flags are :random, :custom, :class, :green, :red, :blue, :pink, :cyan, :yellow, :white, and :orange.
Acceptable bracket flags are :bracket, :square and :angle.
The :random flag follows the same rules of Prat-3.0's "random" name colouring, and does not require it to be installed.
The :custom flag allows you to choose any colour you like using the new swatch in the options frame. Any text with :custom attached to it becomes that colour (default is grey).
So instead of putting up with
"Ethan has come online."
You could change it to:
"Guild Master Ethan, a level 80 Mage, has logged into the game", or
"Oh god, here comes Guild Master Ethan...", or
"Ethan is here! I wonder if he wants to do Heroic Deadmines..." or whatever you fancy.
Options are found in Interface Options -> AddOns -> SignOn, or by typing /signon into your chatbox.
Compatible with Prat, Chatter and Phanx Chat.
This addon should not interfere with addons which use the default signon/signoff strings for whatever purpose (such as GuildGreet), it does not modify anything other than the text shown to the user.
This addon is only localised in English, Russian and Simplified Chinese. If you fancy a spot of translating, Click Here to see what needs translating.
Please direct all feedback to the Ticket Centre.
Version 2.3.10
- Updated for WoW 3.2.0.
Version 2.3.9
- Added French (frFR), German (deDE) and Traditional Chinese (zhTW) translations. Thanks!
- Updated Russian (ruRU) and Simplified Chinese (zhCN) translations. Thanks!
Version 2.3.8
- Empty flags, whether user placed or generated by flags, are now removed from the message.
Version 2.3.7
- Message creation has been improved and will now colour and bracket all words in a sentence (f.i. ¬es).
Version 2.3.6
- Fixed Prat-3.0 compatibility. The "now redundant" layer I removed in Version 2.3.3 wasn't so redundant after all...
Version 2.3.5
- Fixed a silly bug I introduced in the last version.
Version 2.3.4
- Added !ClassColors support.
- Fix the colouring of "Death Knight". Previously, only "Knight" was coloured.
Version 2.3.3
- Really updated for WoW 3.1.0 (I couldn't get on the PTR... /excuses).
- Removed now redundant Prat-3.0 compatibility layer.
Version 2.3.2
- Updated for WoW 3.1.0.
Version 2.3.1
- Added custom colour support! Choose a colour from the swatch in the options frame, and use the new :custom flag to paint text in that colour!
- Added a :white flag.
- Fixed player links (oops).
- Brackets will now be coloured properly, now matter how bizarre the tag/flag combo is.
- Use the LibStub and CallbackHandler-1.0 files included with LibAlts-1.0, rather than packaging two copies of the same file.
- Update tutorial message (fix a typo, add new flags, change example).
Version 2.3
- Added LibAlts-1.0 support in the form of a new tag, &alts. This will return the name of an alt's main, a list of alts if it is the main, or nothing if no data was found.
- Added bracket flags (:bracket, :square, :angle).
- Updated default messages to use new tags and flags.
- Any flags which aren't properly attached to text will now be hidden.
- Fixed a bug where Prat-3.0 could sneak some extra data past our security check.
Version 2.2.6
- Added Simplified Chinese localisation. Thanks fryy!
Version 2.2.5
- Added Russian localisation. Thanks zuz666!
Version 2.2.4
- The :class flag no longer paints Rogues with Warlock colours.
- Added preliminary multilingual support... translators needed!
Version 2.2.3
- Fixed party/bg/raid/who issues for Prat-3.0 users.
- Added compatibility for special letters.
- Player links are now only created in log-on messages.
Version 2.2.2
- You can now use colour flags to colour text of your choice, e.g. &name:green.
- Updated default messages to use new colour flags.
- Improve the options layout.
- Add slash commands '/signon' and '/so'.
- The options added in Version 2.2.1 have been removed as a result. Please update to the new colour flags (or not, it's your choice)!
Version 2.2.1
- Added an option to colour the keywords "online" and "logged on" green, and "offline" and "logged off" red.
Version 2.2
- Re-written as a standalone addon.
Version 2.1.1
- Add option to colour player names. This will colour names using the same settings you chose in the PlayerNames module (random, class, none etc). This option is off by default.
Version 2.1
- Fixed bug where the wrong data was being pulled from the guild roster due to similar player names.
Version 2.0
- Update to WoW-3.0 and Prat-3.0.
Version 1.0
- Initial release by CipherSoft.
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)...
