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.
Optional Files - AuldLangSyne
Sorry, there are currently no optional files available.
I currently use an addon called HoloFriends and I was hoping that you could look at it and maybe incorporate some of the features of it into your addon. Holo Friends is the only addon right now that allows you to have more than 49 friends in your friends list, it does this by storing the names of all of your friends in a saved variable. The down side is that it can only monitor 49 of your friends at a time. you can click on the link below and check out the last version of it that exists online to understand what i am talking about. the version I have is newer but no longer hosted online as such I have placed a link to it on my website so you can download it and check it out.
there was another addon that worked with holofriends called halowar and it was basicly a Kill on Sight addon you can use it to make notes about a person or an entire guild you want to kill on sight or maybe someone that you had a bad experience with you could say put a note that he ninja'd an item or doesnt heal the tank well ect...
this version 0.12d was posted by someone else but is no longer updated and does not exist on the net anymore. both holofriends and holowar are in this zip and should be used at your own risk so far they work for me but the patch coming up might break them which is why i am hoping that the author of this addon can check them out and either make them work with the next patch or add the features of halofriends and holowar into his addon.
Great addon, but I seem to be getting an error that claims its caused by AuldLangSyne, but has other addons listed in it. Any ideas as to the issues? Could it be a conflict? Heres the error BugSack gave me:
[2006/11/04 13:18:28-2]: AceLibrary\AceLibrary.lua:160: Bad argument #1 to `error' (table expected, got string)
<in C code>: in function `error'
AceLibrary\AceLibrary.lua:48: in function <...ce\AddOns\AuldLangSyne\lib\AceLibrary\AceLibrary.lua:46>
AceLibrary\AceLibrary.lua:160: in function `argCheck'
AceLocale\AceLocale-2.2.lua:167: in function `RegisterTranslations'
AuctionLink\AuctionLink-enUS.lua:2: in main chunk
<in C code>: in function `LoadAddOn'
FrameXML\UIParent.lua:639: in function `UIParentLoadAddOn'
FrameXML\UIParent.lua:155: in function `AuctionFrame_LoadUI'
GFW_FeedOMatic\GFWTooltip.lua:231: in function <Interface\AddOns\GFW_FeedOMatic\GFWTooltip.lua:230>
<in C code>: in function `pcall'
Stubby\Stubby.lua:260: in function <Interface\AddOns\Stubby\Stubby.lua:242>
<unknown>:
FrameXML\UIParent.lua:577: in function `UIParent_OnEvent'
<string>:"UIParent:OnEvent":2: in main chunk
Edit: Well, I did some disabling and found the culprit. It was AuctionLink. With it disabled the errors no longer occur, so I rolled back to the old aceless version and all is back to normal with no errors. Sorry for the false alarm.
Last edited by KALIROB2k5 : 11-07-2006 at 01:05 AM.
I like this addon a lot, the only thing it is missing to make it complete for me is the ability to organise my friends ie. list all the alts of a player under one main character. Still, I like this addon a lot and recommend it.
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