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Fizzwidget Hunter's Helper  Popular! (More than 5000 hits)

Version: 2.4.3
by: Gazmik [More]

Really, I'm not one to gallivant about the wilderness trying to make friends with beasts... at my size, it's a good way to get eaten! Besides, keeping a full stock of bits & bibbles for your critter can be terrible for your cash flow. But a Hunter friend of mine managed to convince me there'd be good money in outfitting such outdoorsy types, and before I knew it my workbench was cluttered with all sorts of animal-seeking, food-measuring, and pet-minding contraptions.

This gadget couldn't be any simpler to use: point it at a beast you see in the wild, and its zootropic neurowave scanner will analyze the critter's noggin and tell you what, if any, new tricks it can teach you.* Know what you're looking for, but not sure where to look? It'll help with that, too -- I've pre-programmed it with an extensive database on creature behavior (straight from Petopia, the best zoological resource on Azeroth), easily indexed by skill.

* Not recommended for use by elderly gnolls.

Features

  • When you mouse over a beast in the world, the tooltip will show which abilities a Hunter could learn after taming it. (Or no additional info if the beast doesn't have any known abilities.)
  • If you're currently playing a hunter, the abilities will be colored according to whether you've already learned them: green for abilities you have yet to learn, and gray for those you already know.
  • Need to know where to find new abilities for your pet?
    • Type `/huntershelper` (or `/hh`) to show the Hunter's Helper UI and browse its database by ability or by zone. Various filters and a search feature are available, so it's quick to find a pet that has what you're looking for.
    • Visit the Hunter's Helper pane in the Interface Options window (or type `/hh button`) to enable the HH minimap button, which shows when you're in a zone that contains beasts you can tame to learn new abilities. (Mouse over it for details on them.)
    • Type `/hh find <ability> <rank>` for a quick search with results in the chat window.
  • The Hunter's Helper UI also serves as an improved replacement for the Beast Training window; its compact layout and flexible filters make finding an ability and rank much quicker... and it shows accurate training point costs for upgrading an ability to a higher rank. (Tip: this means you can also show the HH UI by "casting" Beast Training from your spellbook, action bar, or macro.)
  • Hunter's Helper also notifies you in chat if you tame (or cast Beast Lore on) a beast whose skillset isn't what was expected. HH's database of pet abilities comes from Petopia -- visit there to submit a correction.

v. 2.4.3 - 2008/06/20
- Availability (color) of abilities in the top part of the HH window should now follow more sensibly from that of individual ranks.
- Uses a new, locale-independent way to keep track of spell names and icons -- should result in proper behavior and fewer errors on WoW locales other than English. (Localizers need no longer provide translated spell names. Pet family names are still required for providing fully correct functionality, though.)
- Thanks in part to the above, fixed an issue where Avoidance wouldn't show the proper icon.
- The menu of pet families is now alphabetically sorted for all languages.
- Includes minimal localization (enough for proper functionality, no translated UI) for European and Latin American Spanish.
- Includes new French localization by oXid FoX.
- Fixed layering of the minimap button relative to other frames.
- Compatible with Awbee's BeastTraining addon; if it's installed, it replaces the Beast Training window, and HH can be used for finding abilities but not for training them to your pet.
- Rebuilt pet skills database from http://petopia.brashendeavors.net as of 2008/06/20.

v. 2.4.2 - 2008/05/05
- Fixed an issue where the Filter (availability) menu wouldn't always work as expected.
- Fixed an issue where the pet family menu would sometimes fail to actually show the selected family.
- Fixed an issue where the HH UI could conflict with the Enchanting window, preventing it from being shown.
- Fixed an issue where a beast with multiple learnable abilities would be listed multiple times in the minimap button tooltip.
- Fixed some issues with positioning the minimap button.
- Fixed some issues related to HH's cache of known abilities becoming outdated.
- Fixed an error that would occur when using the `/hh reset` command. All saved data is cleared and options reset to default when the command is used.
- Dash now correctly shows as learnable by Raptors.
- Updated German localization by Ghanur of EU-Alexstrasza.
- Rebuilt pet skills database from http://petopia.brashendeavors.net as of 2008/05/05.
- KNOWN ISSUE: Classification of abilities by availability doesn't work as expected in some cases where availability of individual ranks is mixed (e.g. Growl 1 is tameable, Growl 2 is known by the hunter but not the pet, and Growl 3-8 are all well above the hunter's level).

v. 2.4 - 2008/03/25
- Hunter's Helper now has a GUI, bringing many new features:
- You can now easily browse pet abilities and find out where to learn them. Choose an ability (and rank, if applicable) in the list and you'll see which beasts you can tame to learn it, sorted according to where they can be found (with the zones closest to your current location listed first).
- You can also browse/search by zone to see all the beasts with learnable abilities in a given area. (Zones are sorted based on proximity to your current location; i.e. how many other zones you must pass through to reach them.) Choose a beast and you'll see which abilities can be learned by taming it.
- In both modes, beasts and abilities show additional useful info when available: level, normal/rare/elite status, and diet for the former; required level, description, and training point cost for the latter.
- Both modes also offer several ways to search or filter their data: by typing part of a zone, beast, or ability name; by beast family (e.g. Cat, Boar, Sporebat, etc.); or based on which abilities you already know (or can't yet learn).
- Show the new Hunter's Helper panel by typing `/huntershelper` or `/hh`.
- The new Hunter's Helper UI also serves as an improved replacement for the Beast Training window:
- Open it while you have a pet summoned and it'll automatically filter to show only those abilities learnable by that pet type.
- The list can be futher filtered based on which abilities your pet already has, which it can be trained with, and which it's can't learn yet.
- Choose an ability and the highest rank trainable to your pet will be automatically selected (and unlike the standard Beast Training window, choosing a different rank or ability doesn't require scrolling an extra-long list).
- Displayed training point costs take into account the points refunded when training a higher rank of an ability your pet already knows, so it's easier to see which abilities/ranks you can afford.
- Since the new UI replaces the Beast Training window, you can also show it by "casting" Beast Training from your spellbook or action bar.
- The new UI is separate from the main Hunter's Helper addon and is only loaded when it needs to be shown. (Don't like the new UI? Disable or delete the Hunter's Helper UI addon and HH will keep working as it did before.)
- There's also a new minimap button (off by default; type `/hh button` to show/hide it):
- Click it to show the full pet/ability browsing UI.
- If you're in a zone with beasts you can tame to learn new abilities, the button shows how many such beasts there are; mouse over it to see details in the tooltip.
- Configuration controls are moved into a pane in the new Interface Options panel provided by the default UI.
- Fixed an issue where taming or casting Beast Lore on a creature with learnable abilities would report that Hunter's Helper didn't know about them even if it did.
- Updated German localization by "Zara".
- Slash command feedback text is now localizable. (Translators should look at the top of localization.lua for new keys.)
- Rebuilt pet skills database from http://petopia.brashendeavors.net as of 2008/03/24.
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Unread 05-06-08, 01:16 AM  
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Ah, Gazmik - thank you for posting. Firstly my apologies for the way I may have mis-handled this issue but all I can claim is inexperience at posting addon fixes and a keen desire to carry on using HuntersHelper. I am sorry.

I had tried to contact you by email and PM but yes, as you said, you were busy working on something else.

I would be most pleased to send you the list of changes I have made for your review and I will mark my Fan Fix branch as closed immediately as I was advised in advance of creating it by WowInterface as being the correct procedure.

I trust this satisfies everybody?
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Originally posted by Gazmik
there's a new flood of people telling me "ZOMG someone's stealing your addon!" (I'd say they're overreacting,
I disagree. The reason I emailed was to ensure you were aware of it ASAP and could take steps to avoid the same confusion issues that you just posted about. Yea, I assumed you'd be getting email, but I've seen cases of fans uploading "patches" and authors later saying they had no idea. You write great stuff, and have a huge fanbase and we (your fans) don't want to see some impatient "fan" decide to post their own fixes and features, and throw confusion into who uses what.
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Re: Re: Tsk Tsk...

Originally posted by Purity
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Gamzik's post gives perfect example of exactly why people shouldn't fix/change someone's addon and upload it as a "patch" or as their own version that they say they will maintain. It causes nothing but a huge headache for both the author and his/her users.

Its different if its abandoned or grossly outdated and the original author is not responding to any attempts at contact, but for someone to just decide that they want to fix and change/revert some features... /frown. Its rude to the author and their fans, not to mention violates the author's copyrights.
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DanielCoffey/Steadfast:

I appreciate your enthusiasm in trying to help track down, fix, and help other users with some of the issues in the HH 2.4.0 release. (Especially since life outside the workshop has been so crazy busy in the past month that I've had little time to do so myself.)

However, I can't say I approve of the way you've chosen to handle it -- a "patch" that replaces the entire addon and is advertised with a version number that implies official succession. Until now, I'd been buried in a higher volume of bug-report mail than I could promptly respond to, many of which reported bugs that were difficult to reproduce based on the information given. Now I also have to sort out who's not even using code I've written (since users may not report or even know whether they are)... and on top of that, there's a new flood of people telling me "ZOMG someone's stealing your addon!" (I'd say they're overreacting, but still, the more time I have to spend digging through mail to find useful bug reports, the less time I have to focus on getting things fixed and released, much less otherwise improved.)

If you've come up with a fix for a bug and would like to see it in the general release, please send it to me via email or PM -- I can't check this forum every day. If your fix is good, I'll probably publish it in a new official release... but I can't promise to do so instantly, or to always respond to email within 24 hours, so it might be wise to wait a little more than that before declaring my product abandoned and publishing your fix as a new version of the addon. If you can't wait a couple days, at least post and advertise your patch as an actual patch rather than a complete replacement and successor.

I've taken time away from other tasks to fast-track the release of HH 2.4.2 (gotta skip version numbers now so nobody's confused) to clean up this mess. It includes fixes for the same bugs handled by your patch, as well as several others, but hasn't been thoroughly tested (due to said rush), so there may be other issues I'm not aware of.
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Originally posted by DanielCoffey
The behaviour of the Filter drop-down is on my to-do list, along with the fact that the colours of some of the rows in the skills list are incorrect.

You have certainly installed it correctly - in fact you have been particularly thorough. As it stands at the moment, the 2.4.01 patch does not add or remove any files and the reset function clears the contents of the known skills list in the username/server/character/saved variables/huntershelper.lua file.

Over the next couple of days I will put some more time into getting the main parts of HuntersHelperUI working as I believe Gazmik intended but as I mentioned, this is my first foray into .lua so I apologise that my speed will be slow.

I am glad you are enjoying using Gazmik's mod - he did put a lot of effort into it - and I will do my best to help keep it working. Thanks also to the kind folks who have offered thanks and kind words via PMs.
Thanks man! I'd like to thank you a LOT for your kind and fast reply I'm sure you'll be able to fix those minor annoyances soon, and we'll be able to enjoy 100% of the addon.
To those that complain about fixes: Do NOT DOWNLOAD the fixes, keep the buggy/broken addons.
I'm sure the original author doesn't bother if mistakes are corrected, in fact, I'd appreciate the bugfixes if I was a mod author myself.

Just keep up the GREAT work and thanks once again to both, you and the author, for working hard on this addon.

All the best!
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Re: Tsk Tsk...

Originally posted by biggoofyus
You should only make bug fixes, you should not take over another persons addon and change it's functionality... You should wait for the author to do that or at least discuss it with him... I will not download your addon because I have a great respect for Gazmik!
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Tsk Tsk...

To Steadfast (Daniel Coffey):

You should only make bug fixes, you should not take over another persons addon and change it's functionality... You should wait for the author to do that or at least discuss it with him... I have a great respect for Gazmik! I will not download your patch!
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The behaviour of the Filter drop-down is on my to-do list, along with the fact that the colours of some of the rows in the skills list are incorrect.

You have certainly installed it correctly - in fact you have been particularly thorough. As it stands at the moment, the 2.4.01 patch does not add or remove any files and the reset function clears the contents of the known skills list in the username/server/character/saved variables/huntershelper.lua file.

Over the next couple of days I will put some more time into getting the main parts of HuntersHelperUI working as I believe Gazmik intended but as I mentioned, this is my first foray into .lua so I apologise that my speed will be slow.

I am glad you are enjoying using Gazmik's mod - he did put a lot of effort into it - and I will do my best to help keep it working. Thanks also to the kind folks who have offered thanks and kind words via PMs.
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Ok, I just downloaded and instaled the mod, applied the patch and did the reset, but I keep getting a very annoying behaviour on the Filter dropdown. If I choose the "Unavailable", nothing happens, the same with the "available" and "can learn..." Sometimes they work, after lots of clicks, but most of the time they won't work, is there a manual workaround I mihgt add? I'm running the original mazzleUI, and decided to download the new version of the addon. I completely erased the older folders and copied the new ones, besides I erased the wtf\ ...gfwhunterhelper.lua... so everything would be just as good as new, but still getting this error. I'd like some info and help on what might be the cause, because it's such a nice addon.
Thanks a lot!
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PATCH AVAILABLE

There is now a PATCH available in the Optional Files tab. Please go and look, read the install notes and enjoy!
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I have been speaking to the admins at WoWInterface and there is a method for fans of an addon to release fixes in an easy-to-install fashion.

I am currently looking at the problem with Cobra Reflexes not being trainable even though you have the skill. If I can make any headway with that problem, I will release a Patch File for GFW_HuntersHelper. All you should have to do then is install the original version to make sure everything is clean then install the Patch File over the top. I can't promise being able to fix it - the code is pretty convoluted at that point, but I'll try.

In the mean time, here's a workaround...

In the list of Addons for the game, disable JUST HuntersHelperUI (and NOT HuntersHelper itself). This way you still have all the tooltip goodness and the old command-line version of /hh but will revert to the Blizzard Pet Training window.

EDIT : I have managed to fix the problem with trying to train Cobra Reflexes to your pet when you already know the skill but have just reset the pet abilities. I have further testing to do then I can release a Patch File to WoWInterface for review.
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error

No that's the unedited version that throws that error, but my pet already knows the skill, but when i select it same error every time.
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Thorlin - is that on the un-edited version of HuntersHelper or after my changes?

There is definitely a problem with the passive skills list - I am told I cannot train Cobra Reflexes until I learn it, but I already have and trained it to the pet when Hunters Helper was disabled to get round the problem. In addition I am told things like the Resistances are Unavailable even though I have learned but not yet trained the second rank of them.

Don't forget that you can disable Hunters Helper in the addon list, /reloadui then train anything you need to using the default Blizzard UI then re-enable Hunters Helper.

I will have another look at this over the next few days. Fingers crossed Gazmik has a look at this forum soon.
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Error when selecting cobra reflexes

When I select cobra refleces in the UI this is the error I get:

...rface\AddOns\GFW_HuntersHelperUI\HuntersHelperUI.lua:635: attempt to compare number with nil
Count: 1

Call Stack:
[C]: ?
...rface\AddOns\GFW_HuntersHelperUI\HuntersHelperUI.lua:635: in function `FHH_UIShowSpellDetail'
...rface\AddOns\GFW_HuntersHelperUI\HuntersHelperUI.lua:512: in function `FHH_UISetSelection'
...rface\AddOns\GFW_HuntersHelperUI\HuntersHelperUI.lua:976: in function `FHH_UIListButton_OnClick'
[string "*:OnClick"]:1: in function <[string "*:OnClick"]:1>
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Thanks! and more info

Daniel... I just wanted to say thanks for your edits. I love these hunter helper addons. I usually am not one to complain, tending to wait things out, but I think next time I will simple use the data that Swatter provides and post here when I run into a roadbump with addons.

I should also note that during my own amatureish bug testing, that I attempted to click on Active and Passive abilities, and when doing so, I lost the ability to click on individual abilities like Natural Armor and Bite. The fix I found to reinstated those abilities back on all my hunters (I have 3) was to delete the settings that are found in the account file.

C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\WTF\Account\ACCOUNTNAMEHERE\SavedVariables

After doing that, I was able to view all abilities again. I recommend deleting the following files associated with Hunters Helper listed in the above folder after completing the edits listed here by Daniel.

[GFW_HuntersHelper.lua] , [GFW_HuntersHelper.lua.bak], [GFW_HuntersHelperUI.lua], and [GFW_HuntersHelperUI.lua.bak]


Hope this also helps.
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