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Updated:	12-31-10 10:17 AM
Created:	12-18-10 04:15 PM
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Archaeology Helper

Version: 0.91

by: biasha [More]

Draws HUD with GatherMate2 pins, you can use minimap zoom on it if needed
After Survey you press green, yellow or red button to add new sector to the HUD (cleared automaticaly on gathering)
Shows Dig Sites on Minimap and Battlefield Minimap
Keybindings and various settings

How to use

Go to dig site, Right Click last button (spade) to show HUD and Left Click to cast Survay. Then ROTATE YOUR CHAR, BUT DON'T MOVE in the needed direction and press colored button according to Survey result. Move to other location, do same again.
It is strongly recommended to use GatherMate2 then you'll see all previous or imported dig-points on the HUD. When using GatherMate2 jump onto fragment before gathering!

Controls

Left Click main window to move it
Right Click main window: opens settings page

Left Click on colored buttons: adds new sector to the HUD
Right Click on colored buttons: temporarry hides/shows that color

Arrow button: undo 1 sector

Left Click spade: cast Survey
Right Click spade: shows/hides HUD in the center of the screen
Middle Click spade: open Archaeolodgy window

Use "/arh" or "/arhcfg" for command line help

HUD

On the HUD you can also see player arrow in the center and very small red circle that represents success range. And ofc all colored transperent overlaping areas that were set by you with colored buttons.
Green compass circle can be removed in settings. it's totaly useless actually.

TODO

Next will be:

Independent zoom by mouse wheel on main window
Automatic color buttons, if possible

After Next:

Pointer to closest digsite
Will think about own polygon drawing
Auto-open inside digsite, if possible
Think about localization maybe

Version: 0.91
fixed: Archaeology is not empty now
fixed: /arh macro commands updated

Version: 0.9
added: cast Survey by LClick on spade button
changed: toggle HUD is RClick now
added: open Archaeology by MClick on spade button
added: toggle color by RClick on color button
added: undo button
changed: buttons spacing increased

Version: 0.83
fixed: BattlefieldMinimap menu shows now

Version: 0.82
fixed: missed dependencies included

Version: 0.81
fixed: Digsites settings are correctly saved now

Version: 0.8
added: keybindings (see addon options or standard wow keybindings list)
added: various options via wow user interface settings or /arhcfg command
added: main window tooltips
fixed: main window hiding while dragging
fixed: minimap digsites moving unplugged from main window visibility

Version: 0.7
fixed: no digsites with rotating minimap and will hide with main window hide
added: command line support, use /arh to see commands

Version: 0.6
fixed: error on HUD hiding without GatherMate2
fixed: success circle size was too small, green region was too big
changed: red line is meanless, almost removed
changed: red cone is little wider now
added: readme file

Version: 0.5
Initial public release

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12-18-10, 08:10 PM
Swal A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 34 Uploads: 0	Hi! I found this addon somewhat usefull, however some thing I would surelike like to see as improvement: Need changeable alpha, for me the alpha is too low. If you cannot rotate the digsites, just dont include them An option to show only the cones that mix with eachtother, so at the end I basicly end up with the small area only where the fragment could be instead 5 different colored huge cone. Make it possible to bind the red-green-yellow button to a keybind.

12-18-10, 09:15 PM

biasha

A Kobold Labourer

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Originally posted by Swal
Hi!
I found this addon somewhat usefull, however some thing I would surelike like to see as improvement:
Need changeable alpha, for me the alpha is too low.

If you cannot rotate the digsites, just dont include them

An option to show only the cones that mix with eachtother, so at the end I basicly end up with the small area only where the fragment could be instead 5 different colored huge cone.

Make it possible to bind the red-green-yellow button to a keybind.

Yes, i'll make everything configurable soon. Its next task. Same with keybindings. Probably next release...

I will not include DigSites on HUD untill blizzard allow to rotate them. i only include them on minimap and battlefielf minimap. On battlefiel minimap its works fine. On minimap it works normal with minor bugs (except for players who use rotating minimap). But i think its better to see it on minimaps than don't include at all.

Its technically very hard to show intersection area only. I'll think about it, but blizzard does not give any drawing functions and think i don't have time to implement polygon drawing by myself.

12-18-10, 09:38 PM

Kaplow

A Kobold Labourer

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Clicking on the Shovel on the UI I get the following error:

Code:

Message: Interface\AddOns\Arh\Arh.lua:495: attempt to index global 'GatherMate2' (a nil value)
Time: 12/18/10 21:35:35
Count: 3
Stack: Interface\AddOns\Arh\Arh.lua:495: in function <Interface\AddOns\Arh\Arh.lua:494>
[C]: in function `Hide'
Interface\AddOns\Arh\Arh.lua:269: in function `Arh_MainFrame_ButtonDig_OnClick'
[string "*:OnClick"]:1: in function <[string "*:OnClick"]:1>

Locals: self = Arh_HudFrame {
 0 = <userdata>
 MeleeCircle = <unnamed> {
 }
 SetZoom = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\Arh\Arh.lua:421
 GetZoom = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\Arh\Arh.lua:420
}
(*temporary) = nil
(*temporary) = nil
(*temporary) = nil
(*temporary) = nil
(*temporary) = nil
(*temporary) = "attempt to index global 'GatherMate2' (a nil value)"
OriginalRotation = "0"

Last edited by Kaplow : 12-18-10 at 09:38 PM.

12-18-10, 09:51 PM
Kaplow A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 1 File comments: 4 Uploads: 0	Also a way to zoom in and out would be nice. The "little" red circle and arrow are quite small. Would be nice for the user to be able to scale them please. Works great though besides the bug below.

12-18-10, 10:14 PM
Kaplow A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 1 File comments: 4 Uploads: 0	Error goes away once Gathermate2 is installed.

12-18-10, 10:59 PM

Kaplow

A Kobold Labourer

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File comments: 4

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Originally posted by Swal
[*]Need changeable alpha, for me the alpha is too low.

If you hit the correct color button multiple times it will make it brighter.

12-19-10, 01:30 AM

biasha

A Kobold Labourer

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File comments: 11

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Originally posted by Kaplow
Also a way to zoom in and out would be nice. The "little" red circle and arrow are quite small. Would be nice for the user to be able to scale them please.

Works great though besides the bug below.

Red circle is area covered by Survey. So red circle's size is certain. However it is not correct atm and will be increased in next release (i think blizzard has changed it, or maybe i have done mistake during my tests first time).

Sorry, missed that OnHide without GatherMate2. Will be corrected next release.

You can already zoom! Use minimap's zoom buttons to zoom.

Scaling of player arrow will be added with every other option. Next week maybe...

12-19-10, 03:37 AM

Snoweh

A Cyclonian

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Originally posted by biasha
Red circle is area covered by Survey. So red circle's size is certain. However it is not correct atm and will be increased in next release (i think blizzard has changed it, or maybe i have done mistake during my tests first time).

Sorry, missed that OnHide without GatherMate2. Will be corrected next release.

You can already zoom! Use minimap's zoom buttons to zoom.

Scaling of player arrow will be added with every other option. Next week maybe...

Not into lua much myself, would it be possible to just get the code for the display of digsites on the minimap? as it's the only fucntion i require

12-19-10, 04:01 AM

biasha

A Kobold Labourer

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File comments: 11

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Originally posted by Snoweh
Not into lua much myself, would it be possible to just get the code for the display of digsites on the minimap? as it's the only fucntion i require

if you only need digsites on minimap than hide main window by "/arh" and forget about it. (well, think it will be reopened on reload, but configuration options i'll implement next) Or move outside visible screen area.

12-19-10, 04:51 AM
NitraMo A Fallenroot Satyr Forum posts: 24 File comments: 14 Uploads: 3	Very nice addon. Something I had imagined myself, but lack the skill to make. A few suggestions/ideas: The Archaeology blobs on the Minimap is nice, but for me they leak out on my entire display. Not to bothersome when the blob is bigger/longer than the Minimap and it kind of leaks out of the edges. But when there are multiple blobs in the same zone I ended up with the blob I wasn't at over on the other side of the display. Autoenabling of the HUD if I enter an Archaeology blob. Keybindings would be nice, much easier to press a key than the buttons in the bar.

12-19-10, 09:19 AM
Snoweh A Cyclonian Forum posts: 43 File comments: 79 Uploads: 1	decided to use the full extent of the addon now , is there plans to add a watcher frame. That lists the known races, and how many fragments you hold with each?

12-19-10, 09:21 AM
joypunk A Scalebane Royal Guard Forum posts: 449 File comments: 151 Uploads: 0	All of your references to "MinimapCluster" should be renamed to "Minimap". That way if someone has repositioned their minimap the DigSites will still display properly at the correct location. There is also an LUA error being thrown on the ClearAllPoints call when entering combat.

12-19-10, 10:27 PM

biasha

A Kobold Labourer

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File comments: 11

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Originally posted by NitraMo
[...]
Keybindings would be nice, much easier to press a key than the buttons in the bar.

Options will be in next major release, for now you can use macro like this:
/run Arh_MainFrame_ButtonGreen_OnClick()
I think some addons allow to bind key on script too.

Originally posted by joypunk
All of your references to "MinimapCluster" should be renamed to "Minimap". That way if someone has repositioned their minimap the DigSites will still display properly at the correct location.

There is also an LUA error being thrown on the ClearAllPoints call when entering combat.

Tnx, will fix that with minimapcluster.
Can't reproduce error with combat. Everything works fine (except for repositioning digsites on minimap). Can't see any error in my configuration.

Originally posted by Snoweh
decided to use the full extent of the addon now , is there plans to add a watcher frame. That lists the known races, and how many fragments you hold with each?

There are addons already to watch/solve, so i am not going to redo same work once again. I use one of existing addons for such tasks by myself and fully satisfied.

Last edited by biasha : 12-19-10 at 10:37 PM.

12-19-10, 10:40 PM
Requiescat A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 46 Uploads: 0	This mod is the best of its kind, and I am REALLY loving it =) What a great idea! Unfortunately, even while using the Blizzard minimap with the square size (outside of the UI graphic boundary), I could see the dig site approaching the minimap all the way from the target and chat frames! It looks a little silly sticking out from both sides of the minimap, as well, when the dig site appears out of boundaries. That's my only real complaint. Otherwise, this mod is perfect! Thank you very much for creating and updating it! Last edited by Requiescat : 12-19-10 at 11:02 PM.

12-20-10, 12:00 AM

biasha

A Kobold Labourer

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File comments: 11

Uploads: 1

Originally posted by Requiescat
This mod is the best of its kind, and I am REALLY loving it =) What a great idea!

Unfortunately, even while using the Blizzard minimap with the square size (outside of the UI graphic boundary), I could see the dig site approaching the minimap all the way from the target and chat frames! It looks a little silly sticking out from both sides of the minimap, as well, when the dig site appears out of boundaries.

That's my only real complaint. Otherwise, this mod is perfect! Thank you very much for creating and updating it!

use "/arh mm" to hide minimap's digsites when it disturbs.
can't fix this untill blizzard make it proper.

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