will remember information about friends and display it in your friends list while they are offline.
allows you to write short notes about these friends.
allows you to back up and restore your friends list.
allows you to synchronize your friends list between characters. (This is disabled by default, mind you.)
provides a FuBar plugin with all this information, all sortable, with configurable colors. (You can also use the plugin's menu to configure the rest of AuldLangSyne.)
AuldLangSyne is modular. Any and all parts of it can be disabled if you don't want them around.
Things this does better than CT_PlayerNotes:
Notes can be set to display when a player logs on, and in tooltips for that player.
You can have different notes for characters with the same name on different servers.
Things this does better than FriendsFacts:
Has a "compact" mode, showing all the info on one line, and the note on the next.
Colors class names in the friends list.
Has options to adjust which bits of friend info get displayed.
Has been updated for recent patches. Oh yes, I went there.
I wrote this because CT_PlayerNotes was the last CTMod I was using, and I wanted to get some practice writing a non-FuBar Ace2 addon. So this resulted. Yes, I know, it's derivative. But I think I do a better job than either of the inspirations.
If you already use CT_PlayerNotes, load the game with both addons enabled, and type "/auld data ctimport" to load its notes. (Due to the way CT_PlayerNotes stores its data, you will have to do this once for each character whose friends you have made notes on.)
Documentation for the friends list tag syntax can be found here: http://wowace.com/wiki/AuldLangSyne
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Auld Lang Syne is the name of a song, mostly sung around New Years Eve, whose opening line goes "should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind." (Literally, "auld lang syne' translates from Scots as "old long since", but may be better rendered as "times gone by".)
Fix for the frame renaming in 2.4.3, which was causing some errors.
Split the tainting stuff out from Info into a new (disabled by default) module called Panel, which someday I will get around to rewriting so it's non-tainting.
Probably other things. I mean, it's been almost a year of it being intermittently updated on wowace and not here.
1.1.49802
TOC update for 2.2
Split out friend list coloring into its own module
Add guild list coloring
Minor bugfixes
1.1.45259
Switch to a tag-based system to customize the friend list display. It can now look however you want it to.
Offline friends are now shown just as faded versions of online friends (see the screenshot). Level of fading is configurable.
Modules can now all run without the core. So if all you want is friend list syncing, you can have just that.
Use libraries for friends and guild list.
Fix info gathering for unguilded /who results.
1.1.43668
Adjusted sorting in the plugin to: name>level>class>(zone|rank|online)
Alt-clicking on the fubar plugin will open the guild frame.
Stop notes flowing down in the fubar plugin if the character in question has no note.
Don't try to add the current character to the friends list while syncing.
1.1.42583
Modularize.
Add FuBar plugin.
Major changes were made. This might be subtly broken in some way. Other addons that think they know things about ALS' interior no longer will.
1.1.36304
Update for 2.1.
Bugfix when syncing friends.
1.1.29385
Add friend list syncing. (If you have a total of more than 50 friends between all your characters, this will complain and not work ideally.)
Add new slash-commands:
/fnote. Usage: "/fnote <player name> <note text>". Adds a note to an arbitrary player name. This note will appear in that player's tooltip and whenever they're /who'd. (If called with just "/fnote <player name>", all the notes for that player will print out.)
/fnotedel, for removing a generic note from a player. Usage: "/fnotedel <playername>".
Fix CT_PlayerNotes import (now part of CT_Core), patch provided by Sekuyo.
1.1.25615 - Add a Spanish translation by Shiftos. Update for new TOC version number.
1.1.19032 - Final WoW2.0 compatibility updates.
1.1.18659 - Various WoW2.0/TBC updates. zhCN localization. Fix PvP rank number display in compact mode. Get rid of delay on opening the friends list.
1.1.15514 - Scan /who results for updated friend information. Streamlined the scanning of frequently fired events. Reorganized the options slightly (moved several items under /auld data). Should be ready for Burning Crusade, for all you beta players.
1.1.12320 - Fixed a typo when importing ignore/guild notes from CT_PlayerNotes.
1.1.11323 - Added option to backup and restore friends lists. Options are under '/auld backup'.
1.1.10285 - Added friend note display when friends sign on. Added notes in player tooltips. Added options for both these under "/auld show".
1.1.10156 - Initial release on WoWI.
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Originally posted by Faerina Does this work with LibData Brokers?
I would like to know this as well since I no longer use FuBar. I know it would probably work with the Fubar to Broker mod but I wonder if it works stand alone?
I really like this addon. But it would be great, if the note-module takes the blizzard notes and same in other way for your friends (so my notes are still available, if i am on a computer online without this addon).
My addons options list this as "out of date" and I can't figure out how to make it show up on my flist. Any help? I really need something like this! xD
New version posted that should fix the packaging related issues since the addon wasn't ever really converted from the wowace changeover.
Using new version numbers now they'll be in this format:
game_version.minor
So this first version is 3.0.8.0
I'll get back to this eventually and look at some of the ticket issues. If you have any problems please open tickets. By going to the ticket link above.
Originally posted by VSUReaper I have been getting this mod updated via wowmatrix. When 3.0.8 hit, I started to get error messages when ever I click on a unit frame to inspect or whisper someone. This even happens if I right click myself or a non-com pet.
This is the error message that I'm getting:
Interface\addons\AuldLangSyne\note\note.lua:209: attempt to index local 'dropdownMenu' (a nil value)
Any idea what I can do to fix this?
You need to change two lines in that file. They are both close together. It should be lines 209 and 215. Make sure you back it up first in case you have any problems.
Change this:
local dropdownMenu = _G[UIDROPDOWNMENU_INIT_MENU]
to this:
local dropdownMenu = UIDROPDOWNMENU_INIT_MENU
The _G[] is no longer needed based on change in 3.0.8.
I'm not familiar with the version off of wowmatrix but other than that change it's working ok for me on 3.0.8.
If you do not want to make the coding change, then it might be possible to fix it by going into the menu and under Notes, uncheck "Add notes to player menus". I haven't tested that but it supposedly is what adds the Edit note to the drop down which is causing the problem.
I have been getting this mod updated via wowmatrix. When 3.0.8 hit, I started to get error messages when ever I click on a unit frame to inspect or whisper someone. This even happens if I right click myself or a non-com pet.
This is the error message that I'm getting:
Interface\addons\AuldLangSyne\note\note.lua:209: attempt to index local 'dropdownMenu' (a nil value)
Re: Libdata
