Description
View all your artifact's progress, and solve them in one compact frame. Also you can view all your artifact's history neatly sorted by race, and a list of digsites. You can left-click the keystone button to attach keystones (or right-click to remove), or if you prefer there are options to automatically use keystones! You can monitor the artifacts progress, or how close you are to the 200 fragment cap.
Important (09.16.12) Development will continue over at Curse.
Commands /minarch
shows available commands
Useful Macros
Use this in combination with the auto-hide feature
/cast Survey
/minarch show
Updates
(08.11.11) - Updated the ToC to 40200, unfortunatly I have not had any time for WoW or this addon and probably won't for a while, if you or someone you know is interested in helping me with the addon send me an email/pm.
(04.27.11) - Artifact progress bars should be more reliable, Added zone information to the Active Digsite Indicator, Fixed crash when MinArch and Blizz Arch were open at the same time, and some more smaller stuff.
(04.15.11) - Cleaned up over 90% of the code so it's possible that I broke something, added a couple new features, including monitoring the 200 fragment cap. Fixed the progress bars, although sometimes the texture isn't applied, ('/console reloadui' usually fixes it). Added artifacts sale price to the tooltip.
(02.09.11) - Fixed bug where Minimal Archaeology would not get the proper information about available keystones. There is still a problem with the artifact bars not being completely accurate...
(01.10.11) - Fixed a couple of bugs relating to history and added Discovered Date and Number Discovered (if relevant) to the main Minimal Archaeology frame.
(01.09.11) - Added a missing artifact to the dwarf history page.
(01.08.11) - Hopefully fixed a couple of small bugs. Added a history frame (who needs the default ui anyway), if I've missed an artifact or made any mistakes with this please let me know.
(12.24.10) - I forgot to update the toc, so this version still reports 12.23.10-2, sorry about that. Small bugfixes, added tooltip to keystone button to indicate available keystones (might need a little bit of work still). Also added keybindings to show/hide minimal archaeology, and to survey.
(12.23.10-2) - Fixed a bug that had and an archaeology icon floating next to the tooltip.
(12.23.10) - The skill bar should now hide when at max level. Added a button to open the default interface. Added a small distinction between fragment progress and progress gained with keystones. Also text for rare items should be colored blue. Added the artifacts icon to the lore tooltip. Small bugfixes.
(12.22.10) - Added the option to scale the Minimal Archaeology frame. Also added an option to wait to solve artifacts before auto-hiding after completing a dig site.
(12.21.10) - I did some major code cleanup, I'll do this every once-in-a-while since I get better as I go, and it makes the code a lot easier to work with. Also implemented an experimental fix for users that were experiencing initializing nil values. Last but not least, I added two new options, one to always start hidden, the other to auto-hide after completing a dig site (I need to expand on this and will). Also right-clicking the minimap will bring up the options panel.
(12.20.10) - Use keystones by left-clicking the keystone button, remove them with a right-click. Options to automatically use keystones.
(12.19.10) - Fixed the issue with the sound repeating. Adjusted the lore tooltip. The frame now remembers what state it was in at logout (so if it was closed when you logged out, it will be closed when you log in). Added an options panel which allows you to hide specific artifact bars, the minimap button and disable the notification sound.
Known Issues
History window sometimes doesn't populate, open BlizzArch History and close it, MinArch should refresh the history (if not, then it will refresh after solving an artifact)
Bars sometimes don't have a fill texture '/console reloadui' sometimes fixes this.
Sometimes bars do not immediately update after completing an artifact, (open/close BlizzArch should refresh it, or wait until you collect a new fragment)
Feedback
Any Bugs/Comments/Suggestions/etc... are appreciated.
Please contact me (post a message, pm me, make a ticket, etc...) if you are experience bugs, please include as much detail as possible.
08.11.11
- Updated the ToC
04.27.11
- Removed progress bars custom textures
- Fixed conflict between MinArch and BlizzArch
- Added zone details to ADI
- Added tootips to map icons
04.15.11
- Fixed progress bars
- Fixed a variety of other bugs
- Added an Active Digsite Indicator
- Added race icons to world maps (based on ADI)
- Added artifact sale price to tooltip
- Added Patch 4.1.0 Archaeology Items to History (should only come into effect when the patch is out)
- Cleaned up a lot of code, may have broken things, but I haven't found them yet.
02.09.11
- Fixed bug where Minimal Archaeology would not get the proper information about available keystones.
01.10.11
- Fixed bug with conflict between Minimal Archaeology and the default History frame.
- Fixed a few other bugs relating to history.
- Added details about completed artifacts to the main tooltip.
01.09.11
- Added missing dwarf artifact 64367
01.08.11
- Various bug fixes
- Added History Frame
12.24.10
- Small bug fixes
12.23.10-2
- Cleaned up tooltip icon at startup
12.23.10
- If Archaeology is at 525 the skill bar will hide
- Added button to open the default archaeology ui
- Added barley visible distinction between fragment and keystone progress
- Lowered the frame strata
- Now the text should be colored based on rarity
- Added the artifact icon to the lore tooltip
- Fixed initializing with UNKOWNs
12.22.10
- Added scaling
- Added an option to wait to solve artifacts before auto hiding
- Added slash commands /minarch hide and /minarch options
12.21.10
- Major code cleanup
- Experimental fix to stop initializing nil values
- Added option to always start hidden
- Added option to auto-hide after completing a dig site (This needs to be expanded on)
12.20.10
- Added keystone support
- Added options to automatically use keystones
- Adjusted options panel
12.19.10
- Fixed notification sound, should now only play once
- The frame will now stay closed when logging in (if it was closed when logged out)
- Added options panel - Can now hide specific artifacts, hide the minimap button, and disable the notification sound
- Improved the lore tooltip
12.18.10
- Added minimap icon
- Added sound for when an artifact can be solved
- Added lore tooltip for each race bar
12.17.10-2
- Hides undiscovered races
- Experimental fix for a bug some users are getting at startup
- Fixed bug when character does not have the archaeology skill
12.17.10
- Code Cleaned
- Temporary Fix for Keystones
I've solved the sound issue, now it should only play once (and probably once when you first log in / load the frame if there are artifacts that can be solved)
There is now an option to hide the minimap button, artifact bars and disable the notification sound
-- I am still looking into LDB, but I am working on getting keystones supported first
LDB would be amazing. If you want to see some example code from someone who really has the complicated tooltips thing down pat, check out Ara's brokers. Especially reputation has a whole lot of stuff going on in there with progress bars and text columns and alignment.
Also, you might consider setting the frame strata to be a lot lower than it is now. My bags are opening up underneath your frame .
1x MinimalArchaeology-4.0.3a (12.20.10)\MinimalArchaeology.lua:351: attempt to concatenate local 'RuneName' (a nil value)
<string>:"*:OnEnter":1: in function <[string "*:OnEnter"]:1>
Originally posted by Nathanyel Feature request: a second /minarch (or use of a macro with that command) closes the window again.
No thank you! This would make this macro:
/cast Survey
/minarch
-totally worthless and "broken". And one of the huge reason I love this addon is this macro, because I only want to see the minarch UI when I survey and I do not want two buttons on my hotbar (one for showing the UI of minarch and one for surveying). So please. Let the command "/minarch" stay the way it is.
This has made keeping track of my Archeology projects so much easier, thank you. As to the person asking for a command to close the window, you can set it to automatically close when you're finished with your current digsite, or you can just click the red "X" that closes the window as well :P
Originally posted by Nysil This has made keeping track of my Archeology projects so much easier, thank you. As to the person asking for a command to close the window, you can set it to automatically close when you're finished with your current digsite, or you can just click the red "X" that closes the window as well :P
Also I made a macro command /minarch hide too :P
and thanks everyone for all the comments/bugs etc I do appreciate them.
This is an excellent addon! Has made my archaeology life considerably easier. Just a minor request: Is it at all possible to update the artifact we get after we solve a previous one? For example, after I solve a night elf artifact, miniarch will continue to display the previous one for an undetermined amount of time before updating to the next one. Not exactly sure what triggers it, but would be nice if you could check for the next one after an artifact is solved.
Originally posted by Amnerys This is an excellent addon! Has made my archaeology life considerably easier. Just a minor request: Is it at all possible to update the artifact we get after we solve a previous one? For example, after I solve a night elf artifact, miniarch will continue to display the previous one for an undetermined amount of time before updating to the next one. Not exactly sure what triggers it, but would be nice if you could check for the next one after an artifact is solved.
This is a bug that I am aware of, although I haven't been able to replicate this behavior, I am looking into it though