__ New in 1.6 __
- Link support (for items, quests, spells and tradeskills)
To summon: /tinypad or /pad or set a key binding
To resize: drag the resize grip in the lower right corner of the window.
The mod should be self explanatory how to use. Mouseover buttons to see what they do.
__ Notes on link support __
To add links to pages: Bring up a TinyPad page and put the blinking cursor where you want to insert a link, then shift+click an item, spell or quest as you ordinarily would to chat.
To view links: Click them.
To send links: Shift+click to chat as you would normally.
Links can't be copy-pasted unfortunately (addons can't play with the clipboard), but you can link it to yourself and insert a link elsewhere in the text via chat.
Links may display only a handful of characters, but they have many hidden control characters (especially tradeskills). The EditBox is not intended to handle massive amounts of text, so keep that in mind if trying to cram the entire contents of AtlasLoot into one page.
__ Notes __
Searches are case insensitive.
You can bind a key to search.
Pages aren't "saved" until you leave the page, so expect Search to not find new stuff on your current page.
While locked, the window won't go away with ESC, but you can still toggle it with /pad or a key binding.
You can also run pages with /script TinyPad.Run(page)
There lots of hacks writing crappy, bloated addons out there -- this isn't one of them. Minimal, clean, well-documented code. Functions beautifully. Great addon.
Gello:
I've included this AddOn as one of the AceTab example "Quickies." Not sure that you care, but I just wanted you to be aware. Thanks for the great tool; I use it every day!
I reeeeally wanted to avoid adding another button to widen the minimum width of the window, but this badly needed an undo.
Let me know if the window width is an issue. I can collapse most of the buttons into one that will pop out a menu. But it'd be cool to keep this as small as humanly possible too.
Yeah font sizes would rock. I had meant to add a checkbox to toggle small/large when we finally got to SetFont editboxes. But with font objects coming in 1.10 I backed off which was unnecessary since the SetFont works the same.
I should note that in 1.10 there's a bug in all multi-line editboxes returning. Filling one line with no linebreak or whitespace won't wrap the line but instead end it in '...' and text afterwards won't appear. Unfortunately it will affect this mod as well as all other notepad-type mods. You can resize the window to be extra wide however so it's not a big problem.
Q u o t e:
On 1.10 it appears the wraparound bug in multiline edit boxes is back. Quick test: log in and go to macro edit window and type:
wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwetc
into the macro window. It ends in ... and lines after don't display.
(btw the dynamic frames are awesome)
This has to do with the editbox inheriting the properties of the font object. The fix is sufficiently complex that I'm putting it in 1.11 so I don't accidentally break anything else at this point.
An AWESOME feature to add to this already AWESOME mod would be a way to change the font size of the text. I play with a reduced UI scale, so the text for some mods get pretty small.
Those are good ideas but probably this one will stay bare bones. The first line could be the title and ctrl+c/ctrl+v can copy from the window the chat already. At the most I'd probably add a search and a browse that would show the first line of each page.
I have seen that mod before but decided against using it due to the text based/manual feedback system (for reporting what step/output number i'm on etc) and clunky interface. The one redeeming aspect is the "titled" notes concept. Thanks for the heads up though.
Originally posted by DunE Great Mod. Gello rox. Gotta love the resizer handle appearing again here
One request: ability to set a "title" for a saved page that woudl show up up top. Could then select a page by title instead of scrolling numbers. That's a bit of a design change i know though, so if not i'll just put titles at the top of my note body and live with it
Oh also would love to see a little button to dump the contents of the page to a channel of my choosing (party,raid,custom chan). I guess this would have to break up long notes into multiple "messages." Both of my above ideas are geared towards being able to easily explain fights (boss fights in Zul'Gurub for example) to new players quickly. Basically, have the explanation typed out on a page titled with the boss's name and then when we get there just paste all info to raid chat for others to read and then everone will "be on the same page."
Thanks a lot!
DunE
Great Mod. Gello rox. Gotta love the resizer handle appearing again here
One request: ability to set a "title" for a saved page that woudl show up up top. Could then select a page by title instead of scrolling numbers. That's a bit of a design change i know though, so if not i'll just put titles at the top of my note body and live with it
Oh also would love to see a little button to dump the contents of the page to a channel of my choosing (party,raid,custom chan). I guess this would have to break up long notes into multiple "messages." Both of my above ideas are geared towards being able to easily explain fights (boss fights in Zul'Gurub for example) to new players quickly. Basically, have the explanation typed out on a page titled with the boss's name and then when we get there just paste all info to raid chat for others to read and then everone will "be on the same page."
Thanks a lot!
DunE
