I am not the original author of this addon. I have attempted to contact Bleric through all the channels available, to no avail. If Bleric returns to the WoW community and continues his/her work and requests it, then I will remove this upload. Until then, here it is for you.
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Thanks to: Bleric for the original addon and code, and Moongaze for the ability to say them in different channels.
Be gentle, this is my first addon, and something I took over from someone else. I am learning lua and the WoW API little by little, so any feature requests will be slow in the making. If you have problems, comments, suggestions, feature requests, or anything else, please leave a comment here or PM me.
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Have you ever wanted to have a list of random sayings to say in WoW, but don't want 10 different macros to say them? Need to congratulate your guildies, but don't want to always say the same old boring "Grats!"? Need a way to announce that you're soulstoning someone, but don't want to say the same thing everytime and don't want a bloated addon that does more than what you need? SayRandomQuote could be for you! Simply create a list of random quotations or sayings and call them in-game with a simple slash command.
To say a random quote, type:
/srq setname [CHANNEL]
Where setname is the name of a quotation set you've created and CHANNEL is the CAPITALIZED name of a default channel (GUILD, YELL, SAY, PARTY, RAID, etc). CHANNEL is optional; if you do not provide a CHANNEL, SAY will be used. There is no custom channel support (yet?).
A quoteset with some quotes has been included in the addon, but creating your own is super easy. Simply open SayRandomQuote.lua in a plain text editor such as Notepad and create a new set as below:
srq_quotes["setname"] = {
"Your quotation goes here.",
"Another quotation.",
"Make sure your lines end with commas after the end quotation mark.",
}
To use these in a macro, simply include the slash command before or after the spells/items in your macro. The speech will fire at the same time as the item/spell:
/srq random PARTY
/cast Prayer of Fortitude
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POSSIBLE FEATURES WHEN I LEARN MORE:
In game adding of quotataions (WIP)
Custom channel support
LDB support (haahahaaahaha far future)
v8.5 - Added the ability to set a channel to say your random quote in. Currently supports only default channels, not custom channels.
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)...