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Hi, my name is Thaoky, and I'm an Altoholic

Altoholic is an Ace 3 addon written for people who dedicate most of their time to leveling alts, and who want to have as much information as possible in one addon. The main feature of the addon is the search functionality which allows users to search their alts' bags or loot tables in an Auction-House-like frame (see screenshots). All this with multiple-realms/accounts support.

Paypal donations accepted at : thaoky.altoholic@yahoo.com



About the addon & the author

I've been playing WoW since the European release, and I used to rely on addons like character viewer to check my alts' inventory, but since it was more or less abandoned and not always stable for me, I decided to write an addon myself and to improve the search feature as much as I could. I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I do

The addon has been in development since December 2007 and was officially released in late March 2008. It's still not final, and although it has considerably evolved since the initial release, there are still a lot of things I haven't had time to implement yet.
Please note that this is my first addon, and that English is not my native language.

Features:

- Languages supported: enUS, frFR, deDE, esES, ruRU, zhCN & zhTW.

- Account-wide data summary:
  • Characters' talents: Full talent trees & glyphs are supported for both specializations.
  • Money, /played, rest xp for each character, subtotals by realm, and grandtotals for the account.
  • Bag usage: see at a glance which characters should get bigger bags (bag size, free slots and types included)
  • Characters' skills: skill summary on one screen, namely the 2 main professions + the 3 secondary skills as well as riding. I may add more if there's demand. Profession cooldowns included.
  • Reputations: a list of all the reputations of the current realm's characters. You can see at a glance if all your alts are at least honored with Honor Hold if you want to get the new 2.4 blue PVP set. Suggestions on how to gring reputations will be available soon.

- View containers (bags, bank, keyring) of all alts, on all realms.

- Guild banks : You have 10 alts in 10 different guilds on the same server, all of them with access to a guild bank ? Not a problem, you can see them all here.

- E-mail: allows you to see which alts have mail without having to reconnect them. The addon will tell you when mail is about to expire on a character. Threshold configurable (up to 15 days). Multiple realm support as well. Mails sent to a known alt (one you've logged on at least once) will be visible in the addon without having to reconnect it.

- Equipment: See the equipment of the current realm's alts in one screen. Very useful when purchasing stuff for your alts at the AH. Multiple realms supported. Right-clicking any equipment piece will allow you to find an upgrade, this feature is similar to the official wow armory feature, and is quite performant, even though it doesn't match the accuracy of the official one.

- Search: the most important feature of the addon, it uses an AH-like frame to display search results. You can either search bags on the current realm, on all realms, or a loot table.
The loot table is a table based on AtlasLoot, but which contains only item id's, and therefore keeps memory usage minimal.

The Search menu allows you to find items based on their name (even partial), level, type or rarity, almost like at the AH. It is also possible to search known recipes.

- Quest Log: See the quest logs of all your alts, as well as an indication of which alts are on a specific quest. Clicking on a quest link in the chat log will tell you which alts are on that quest.

- Suggestions: Currently, only profession leveling suggestions are available when mousing over your current level in a specific profession. Suggestions are based on the leveling guides posted on the official US forums (credit goes to their respective authors). The addon also suggests you where to quest/grind xp depending on your character level.

Suggestions were also added for the most recent factions. More to come later.

- Auction house: You can see which auctions/bids you've placed with an alt without being logged in or being at the AH.

- Professions: You can browse all known recipes in a thotbot like frame (see screenshot).

- Mounts & Pets of all your alts.

- Achievements are tracked for all you alts (see screenshot).

- Guild Members: a list of your connected guildmates, along with their alts (if they're using Altoholic too), and their average item level. Clicking their AiL will also allow you to "remotely" inspect their equipment.

- Guild Skills: a list of altoholic users in your guild, along with their alts and direct profession links. All professions are available in one click.

- Guild Bank tabs: a list of altoholic users and the time at which they last visited the guild bank. If you haven't visited the guild bank for a few days, you can remotely update your local data without going to a capital city.

FAQ

The FAQ has been moved here : http://www.wowinterface.com/portal.php?id=372&a=faq


Credits

- I'd like to thank my guild, Odysseüs on EU-Marécages de Zangar, for assisting me since the earliest phases, thanks guys for everything you've done
- Thanks to the wowace community, you've been very helpful and this addon would not be there without the technical answers you gave me (especially Xinhuan, author of BankItems)
- Thanks to all the guys who are behind AtlasLoot, keeping the loot table up-to-date is a tremendous work, and the search functionality of Altoholic would not be what it is without your hard work.
- Thanks to Ayindi (wowace) & sLiz3r (curse) for the German translation.
- Thanks to NightOwl (wowace) for the zhTW translation.
- Thanks to Wang (wowace) for the zhCN translation.
- Thanks to Hellbot for the ruRU translation.
- Thanks to Laumac for the frFR translation.
- Thanks to IrregularByte for the esES translation.
- Brykrys for the LinkWrangler support.
  Change Log - Altoholic
3.2.003 (16/11/2009)

- Fixed a compatibility issue with MrTrader (DataStore_Crafts)
- Added the character skill level in the recipe tooltip (in "Could be learned by ..")
- Fixed a Lua error in when trying to get the item count of a missing character.
- Fixed invalid reporting of the number of free bank slots.
- Added a counter in the achievements tooltip to show the amount of completed criterias, this is particulary useful for achievements like "Northrend Gourmet"
- Some achievement categories are now sorted in a custom fashion, rather than alphabetically, in order to show progressive achievements side by side.
- Achievements can now be linked into chat frames. (You will need to relog your alts at least once for this to work).
- Moved the option that manages the mail expiry threshold to DataStore_Mails. It is thus reset to 5 days for everyone, make sure to change it back to whatever you like in the options pane.
- Guild communication has been entirely rewritten.
The bad news is that backwards compatibility is not maintained (way too much work), meaning that you will not see your guild mates' data in the guild panes unless they upgrade to this version.
The good news is that the amount of data put on the guild channel has been decreased by around 30-35%, and as guild comm is now mostly managed by datastore, this will open doors for new features.
- Improved the "Guild Bank Tabs" pane:
- if you're playing in a guild where players use different localizations of Altoholic, you will now see all timestamps in the same format.
- Players who have more recent data than yours are now shown in yellow (the colour may change if I find something more suitable).
- Improved return mail support. If a guildmate returns a mail to one of your alts, you will be noticed immediately.
- Mail expiries are now checked 5 seconds after login, to slightly decrease the processing load at startup.
- Your alts' professions are now sent 5 seconds after login at a pace of 1 per 0.5 seconds, this also decreases the amount of info put on the network at startup. Same thing when you reply to someone else's login.
- Guild member professions will now automatically be cleaned after a patch, to make sure your database only contains usable links.
- Most money amounts are now displayed using money icons, some of them will remain as they were due to graphic inconsistencies.
- DataStore_Talents now scans talent tree reference only once per game patch, this saves some cpu cycles at loading.
- Fixed a lot of small bugs in a lot of places.

3.2.002b (28/09/2009)

- Removed the "Method missing" error message in DataStore, it now fails silently (it's mostly a debug feature).
- Added an option to display detailed guild bank counters (per tab). Disabled by default.
- Fixed a Lua error in the Auctions/bids panes.
- Updated the list of Feats of Strength.
- Added 3.2 pets.
- Changed the mysterious egg/disgusting jar timers from 7 days to 6 days 20 hours.
- Fixed a bug where the message "No player named xx is currently playing." could be spammed if a guildmate logged in & out too quickly.


3.2.002 (14/09/2009)

- Added early support for returned mails.
- Fixed a Lua error when trying to delete a guild bank.
- Changed the calendar warning options, you can now set different warning thresholds per event type.
- Added an option to disable name auto-complete when writing a mail (to prevent conflicts with other addons offering the same feature).
- The reputations pane has been redone. I'm still playing a bit with the icon colors, feel free to make suggestions/tests by changing the values in Frames\Reputations.lua
- Added a new pane for the currencies. They are still visible per character in the activity pane.


3.2.001d (24/08/2009)

More bugfixes.
- Removed an unnecessary blank line that sometimes appeared in the tooltip.
- Fixed mining ore/herbs counters being displayed twice when Informant is present (finally ).
- Fixed the detection of goblin AH (DataStore_Auctions).
- Fixed a Lua error when receiving a mail from a guildmate (DataStore_Mails).
- Fixed a Lua error when searching guild members professions. This was caused by LibTradeLinks expiry after a patch.
- Updated LibTradeLinks to the most recent version.
- Slightly modified the way calendar events are managed, in order to prevent a wall of text when multiple alchemy transmutes expire simultaneously.
- Several bugfixes in the calendar too.
- koKR partial localization (thanks Seashop !)
- Fixed realm deletion in the account summary.
- Declined invitations are now filtered out.

3.2.001c (14/08/2009)

- Moved mail expiry check back in OnEnable()
- Fixed 2 Lua errors when doing a search.
- Fixed a minor bug when viewing guild bank tabs on an unguilded alt.
- Fixed invalid counters when taking an attachment (DataStore_Mails).
- [frFR] Fixed an error when viewing certain talent trees (DataStore_Talents).
- Fixed a lua error when visiting the AH (DataStore_Auctions).
- [deDE] Fixed a lua error when scanning skills (DataStore_Skills).
- Fixed sorting alts by rest XP rate.

3.2.001b (11/08/2009)

- Fixed a Lua error in the quest log (DataStore_Quests).
- Fixed the option that scans the body of a mail or not (DataStore_Mails)
- Removed debug code when mousing over a talent.
- Gathered Ace & LPT libraries used by DataStore_* modules under DataStore (thanks AnrDaemon).
- Removed Ace libraries already provided by DataStore
- Fixed localization issues.

3.2.001 (10/08/2009)

YOU MUST DELETE your altoholic.lua in SavedVariables before using this version!

As of this version, Altoholic will be using the DataStore series of addons.
These small addons are responsible for scanning, storing and providing data to client addons.
Although I wrote them, they must be seen as independent projects which will offer numerous benefits, such as:

- Other client addons can use them, in order to save memory and processing time.
- Data is scanned and stored only once.
- Each module has its own saved variables file (DataStore_Containers, DataStore_Crafts, etc..), so a change in one DB will not impact the other.
- Scanning has been fine tuned in many places, ex: you can say goodbye to messages like "Recipes could not be read, please rescan"
- This will strongly ease the implementation of account sharing related features.

Other changes:

- Added the possibility to search guild members recipe (enabled by default). Ex: simply type "glacial bag" to see which guild members can craft it.
- Fixed the calendar to use server time instead of local time. Note that in order to determine the difference between these, the addon waits until time rolls over to the next minute, so in the first minute, values shown in the calendar will not take this offset into account. Warnings are now also triggered after this happened, rather than right after login.
- Added a small test to prevent a wall of text being displayed when a profession cooldown is available again.
- A lot of lua errors have been fixed.

3.1.003b (14/06/2009)

- Fixed FuBar icon issues introduced in the previous release.
- Fixed a lua error in the calendar pane when mousing over a day.
- Fixed a bug when scanning the talents of a low level alt (under lv 10). 10 mottled boars were rageously slain to fix this bug.

3.1.003 (12/06/2009)

- Finalized a massive code update started several versions ago, the goal is to facilitate the implementation of new features, so the effort was definitely worth it, even if it caused a small delay in my schedule.
- Brought a few changes that should address the issue of empty Account Summary/Bag Usage/Skills/Activity. Please let me know if this is still happening !
- Fixed a rare refresh bug that could trigger a Lua error in the recipes pane.
- Added an option to change the UI transparency.
- Added an option to change the UI scale.
- Fixed a bug when sorting alts on rest xp in the account summary (Thanks Dreamsmith !).
- Fixed invalid tooltip counters when mousing over an item in the mailbox.
- Updated zhCN localization (thanks ALADDINN).
- Updated zhTW localization (thanks NightOwl).
- Updated ruRU localization (thanks StingerSoft).
- Added ruRU suggestions (thanks StingerSoft).
- Added a calendar pane to track the following events: standard calendar events, profession cooldowns, raid timers, mysterious egg/disgusting jar.
- Localization update in order to comply with the CurseForge localization tool. A few large strings may need review in ruRU, zhCN & zhTW (those that are used as option tooltips).
- Fixed a bug with the option "Include guild bank count in the total count".

3.1.002b (05/05/2009)

- Better tracking of raid id's, they should hopefully no longer be reset at login.
- Added a workaround to the database conversion failing due to a partial DB corruption.
- Added a missing mount.
- Updated loot tables (mostly Ulduar).
- The tradeskill scanning code has been rewritten, it should no longer miss cooldowns or get wrong colors for recipes. Filters are no longer lost during the scan either. If it doesn't work perfectly now, I think I'll start crying like a baby
- Fixed a bug where some equipped items might not appear in the search results.


Older patch notes can be found in changelog.txt
  Archived Versions - Altoholic
File Name
Version
Size
Author
Date
3.2.002b
1MB
Thaoky
09-28-2009 11:07 AM
3.2.002
1MB
Thaoky
09-14-2009 12:52 PM
3.2.001d
1MB
Thaoky
08-24-2009 09:16 AM
3.2.001c
1020kB
Thaoky
08-14-2009 06:35 AM
3.2.001b
1020kB
Thaoky
08-11-2009 06:10 AM
3.2.001
1MB
Thaoky
08-10-2009 11:13 AM
3.1.003b
694kB
Thaoky
06-14-2009 03:42 AM
3.1.003
692kB
Thaoky
06-12-2009 01:04 PM
3.1.002b
642kB
Thaoky
05-05-2009 06:09 AM
3.1.002
640kB
Thaoky
04-29-2009 03:37 AM
3.1.001b
636kB
Thaoky
04-17-2009 07:07 AM
3.1.001
637kB
Thaoky
04-16-2009 05:13 AM
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Old 01-28-2009, 01:24 AM  
chepeme
A Kobold Labourer

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Is there any possibility to add in altoholic the profession of the guildmembers when they link their proffession on guildchat? Even if they don't use Altoholic
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Old 01-28-2009, 01:02 AM  
Night0wl
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Thaoky, I was having big troubles with Altoholic after uninstalling auctioneer. Now have to fall back to previous version. Is there any connection between Alto & Auc ? or shared libs.

Last edited by Night0wl : 01-28-2009 at 01:02 AM.
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Old 01-27-2009, 05:55 PM  
Thaoky
A Fallenroot Satyr
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Quote:
Originally posted by AnrDaemon
Let me raise this wish again

"Containers All-in-one" View, I'd like to see it altered as follows:
1. Separate bank from inventory.
2. In each category, sort all stacks of the same item together, or better display only one icon per item with total quantity of the item in this category.
There are a few things I'd like to implement with regards to containers, so this has not been forgotten
I'll keep myself busy with fixing bugs in 3.0.006 in the coming days, then I'll start working on enriching existing panes (like containers, among others).
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Old 01-27-2009, 05:16 PM  
AnrDaemon
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Let me raise this wish again

"Containers All-in-one" View, I'd like to see it altered as follows:
1. Separate bank from inventory.
2. In each category, sort all stacks of the same item together, or better display only one icon per item with total quantity of the item in this category.
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Old 01-27-2009, 03:18 AM  
Thaoky
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@Horlin: glad you like it

@mizrolist: glyphs are indeed visible in the character tooltip of the account summary. They'll be moved in the near future.
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Old 01-26-2009, 05:21 PM  
NavyFC
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Originally posted by mizrolist
Suggestion: can you implement an option to see my alts' glyphs? It'll be good to know with my scribe which glyphs can be mailed to other characters
You can already see them. One of the mouseovers shows this. I think it's in the main character pane.
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Old 01-26-2009, 04:28 PM  
mizrolist
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Suggestion: can you implement an option to see my alts' glyphs? It'll be good to know with my scribe which glyphs can be mailed to other characters
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Old 01-26-2009, 03:55 PM  
Horlin
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At this moment i MUST say: Thank you for this Addon.

Not more to say. One of the greatest Addon for me ever.

WUHUUU!
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Old 01-25-2009, 06:32 PM  
Thaoky
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Originally posted by AnrDaemon
Alarm!
Just found out it the hard way: when you use search and/or [x] Have mats option in profession interface, your saved book copy getting completely nerfed in Altoholic. Saving only what was last time visible in the window.
Already fixed (hopefully), and I'm about to release the next version
It's only a matter of days.
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Old 01-25-2009, 01:44 PM  
AnrDaemon
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Alarm!
Just found out it the hard way: when you use search and/or [x] Have mats option in profession interface, your saved book copy getting completely nerfed in Altoholic. Saving only what was last time visible in the window.

Last edited by AnrDaemon : 01-25-2009 at 01:45 PM.
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Old 01-24-2009, 03:17 AM  
Thaoky
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lol ^^
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Old 01-23-2009, 07:49 PM  
AnrDaemon
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Originally posted by Thaoky
It's already implemented in my version.. there's even more than that, but that's a feature you'll discover when I release
I hope it'll allow to add some adverticement code around the profession link ^_^
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Old 01-22-2009, 03:16 AM  
Thaoky
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It's already implemented in my version.. there's even more than that, but that's a feature you'll discover when I release
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Old 01-22-2009, 02:27 AM  
AnrDaemon
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Just a suggestion, if it is possible, grab the profession link and allow to repost it from Altoholic interface.
I often need to post my JC/BS/IC chars books while i'm on main, and it turning to the headache >.<
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Old 01-17-2009, 03:16 AM  
Thaoky
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There's a typo in the options, the second "show fubar icon" is actually "show fubar text", only the label is incorrect. I actually did not test b2f, so there may be issues like this one. I'd suggest going fully LDB, it's open and works like a charm.

Glad you fixed it anyway
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