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QuestRouterLite

Version: 0.9.4

by: Lyncks [More]

QuestRouterLite was inspired by addons like TourGuide, QuestHelper, and Carbonite. With the release of 3.3 and specifically Points of Interest for quests, it is now possible to shed libraries like LightHeaded, if all you want is simple quest routing.

QuestRouterLite only uses Blizzard-provided information, so the locations are accurate, and there's virtually no additional memory use.

If you want to simply and cleanly go from one quest to another, QuestRouterLite is your addon.

Update Modes
When I started this addon I tried to make something comparable to QuestHelper or Carbonite, only using the quest events - turns out this isn't really possible.

So now QuestRouterLite has two major modes. You can either run without the timed updates and use only the quest events, or use periodic updates much like the other major questing addons. Timed updates are on by default, as I believe this is closer to my goal and gives a smoother and more accurate experience. If you want to turn them off, you can. The updating itself is so minimal that even with this on, it barely chews any cycles.

Current Version
I have managed to get blobs tracking with the minimap - however, due to the way Blizzard handles the blob, it is a rather hacked method. Because of this, swapping between the world and minimap is currently glitchy, and without a masking feature in the WoW API, the blobs run off the minimap. It may be impossible to fix this, but I will keep trying. Use of the minimap blobs is at your discretion - and is off by default.

Please report any bugs, issues, or feature requests.

TomTom Required
While there is a feature that will automatically select the closest quest on your map, the addon relies on TomTom to provide easy navigation to the next quest.

You can get TomTom here: http://www.wowinterface.com/download...32-TomTom.html

Current Features

Shows you the closest quest
Automatic adding of quest to tracker
Automatic updates on tracking changes
Selects the quest in your map and watch frame
POIs on the minimap (can right-click to track)
Blobs on the minimap
Objective information on minimap tooltips
Cross-zone closest quest
Option to toggle including completed and in progress quests
Option to only search currently tracked quests
Option to skip closest quest
Option to use quest tracker sorting
Optional timed updating (mostly for multi-blob quests)
Minimally invasive (doesn't remove all TomTom or Astrolabe points)

Upcoming Features

Optional optimized quest pathing
Suggestions?

Known Issues

Minimap blobs are only correct at most zoomed minimap distance
Can get stuck on quests whose POI remains at the questgiver even if it isn't completed - you can temporarily skip the quest to avoid this

Usage
Install and go.

The TomTom arrow will update to show the direction to the closest quest after major quest events (getting a new quest, completing an objective, etc.)
The closest quest will also be selected in the quest frame on the World Map, and added to the quest tracker.

/qrl - Brings up the options screen.
/qrl force - Forces an update.
/qrl skip - Skips the current closest quest.
/qrl clear - Clears the skipped quest.

0.9.4
Fixed the map zooming errors
Now disabled in instanced areas

0.9.3
Not using current zone only should be fixed now
Should include minimap icons, waypoints and all
Fixed error when clicking on minimap POI

0.9.2
Added option to toggle adding closest quest to tracker
Fixed an occasional error when zoning instances

0.9.1
Fixed the minimap blob flickering
Added button highlighting to the watch frame

0.9
Option to use the top quest in the tracker as "closest" to use tracker sorting
Fixed a potential bug with the 3.3.3 stuff

0.8.4
3.3.3 working, new features coming soon
Fixed an error caused by a WorldMapFrame change in 3.3.3

0.8.3
Fixed scaling error when in instances

0.8.2
Fixed minimap blob scaling in zone, positioning should be correct for all zones now

0.8.1
Fixed bug when using WorldMapFrame_UpdateQuests() that causes the quest frame to blank

0.8
Minimap blobs
Turned off updating when dead so doesn't interfere with TomTom corpse pointer
Fixed weirdness with the minimap icons

0.7.1
Fixed displaying all quest blobs, it's also now correct

0.7
Reduced the wait time after quest progress to 1 second to improve responsive feel
This worked fine in my testing, but if it causes problems for anyone, let me know
Fixed blobs still showing after a quest was completed
Added skip feature
* Use /skip to skip current closest quest
* Use /clear to clear the skipped quest
* If you want to skip more than one quest, use the tracker
Added optional timed updating (mostly for moving around multi-blob quests) - disabled by default
Adjustable udpate time - default is 8 seconds
This really shouldn't be a whole lot heavier if you want to just leave it on, addon is light as it is

0.6.3
Ability to display all blobs on the world map at once (still in testing)
Fixed TomTom points being put on the minimap as well as POIs
Fixed the minimap POIs not working correctly when you don't have current zone only selected
This should have also fixed the sticking minimap POIs

0.6.2
Another shot at fixing the iffy progress events

0.6.1
Should have fixed not catching some progress/complete events

0.6
Changed update event (should catch more events)
Added checking player position is valid
Auto-updates on quest tracking change
Tooltips now work even when map is closed

0.5.2
Auto-tracking closest quest fixed (when not using tracked only)
Can now right-click on the minimap icons to track quest
Fixed an instance of not checking if TomTom was avaialable

0.5.1
Fixed a nasty bug when completing a quest

0.5
Returned the map to it's original page when searching continent
Which fixes not selecting quest on map as above
Fixed a bug in the config that wasn't toggling/displaying current zone only correctly
Added icons to minimap (doesn't work 100% in continent mode)
Added icons to world map for different zones (only TomTom right now)
Added option to only search through currently tracked quests
Added an option to display a warning when there are no more quests in range
Fixed some weirdness with which quests were actually completed

0.4
Can now look for closest quest on continent

New Options
* Can toggle including completed and in progress quests
* Can toggle zone or continent for closest quest

0.3
Fixed an issue with waypoints sometimes not updating correctly

0.2
Automatically adds closest quest to tracker
No longer clears all waypoints from TomTom
No longer updates map, tracker or TomTom if location hasn't changed
Added workaround for the fact there's no event that fires when quest actually completes

0.1
First version

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03-27-10, 07:43 PM

thefaeriesgirl

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Originally posted by Lyncks
Unfortunately, iterating through all the zones on the continent isn't fast, and doing that every two seconds could be slow. I'd suggest raising the update time if you're using the whole continent.

I've been playing around, and it seems like there's actually something wrong with the whole "current zone only" off. I've been mostly testing with that on, which seems to work perfectly. Having said that, I shouldn't be offering a feature if it doesn't work right I'm going to run with it off for a bit, mess with the code and see if I can figure out what's up. I'll see if I can get a fixed version up tonight.

Using a route would alleviate some of that, yeah - it also may double or triple the size of the current code. Something I'm looking at doing, but I want to get the core of it working first. I understand that TourGuide is for-pay and QuestHelper is dead, so as an alternative to Carbonite I'd like to offer something comparable.

Heh, I am trying to get something that works for everyone

Also, it was probably the reloading that fixed it - a tracker addon shouldn't interfere with this mod.

Edit: Thanks to you and everyone posting issues! I have no idea how long this has been rather broken and now I feel bad I've been posting it like this :P

You're doing a great job, honest!

Added a few more edits to my post while testing. As for the routing: I'll take it even if it doubles the code and makes the mod take up slightly more memory. Perhaps for those that don't want it you could make it an option (like everything else you are adding). I'll raise the update time but I imagine I am still going to get that lag stutter regardless, just less often. I'll keep testing and let you know what else I find.

03-27-10, 07:43 PM
Lyncks A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 21 Uploads: 1	Alright, so joy of joys, my logic on doing the continents was a little flawed. From what I can gather, the problem is with POIs that are shared by multiple zones. They're getting treated as whatever the last zone to update treats them as. So you're getting stuff that is actually in your zone being treated as out of zone, and it's causing glitches in the rest of the code. I'll get to work fixing it.

03-27-10, 11:11 PM
Tomacco_Boy A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 114 Uploads: 0	Tidyminimap support Any chance of adding support for tidyminimap? __________________ YOU DONT TELL ME TO BUR

03-28-10, 03:19 AM
Sojik A Wyrmkin Dreamwalker Forum posts: 53 File comments: 166 Uploads: 10	If I have timed update on and open the map in a battleground it will zoom out every time it updates making it very hard to use. It also scrolls to the top of a quest text (on the map quest frame) every time it updates too which is annoying. Any way to fix that?

03-28-10, 01:16 PM

Toran

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Lyncks,

Looks like TomTom received an update today and it has a new feature (among others):

* Added an 'automatic objectives waypoint' setting that will automatically set waypoints to your closest quest objective. I'm not sure how useful this will be, it's disabled by default.

I assume users of QRL should *not* enable this feature, correct?

03-28-10, 02:28 PM

thefaeriesgirl

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Originally posted by Lyncks
Alright, so joy of joys, my logic on doing the continents was a little flawed.

From what I can gather, the problem is with POIs that are shared by multiple zones. They're getting treated as whatever the last zone to update treats them as. So you're getting stuff that is actually in your zone being treated as out of zone, and it's causing glitches in the rest of the code.

I'll get to work fixing it.

Okay, so temporary solution for now not using the out of zone functionality. Messing around with the slider on timed updates and I'm still getting that lovely stutter-hang effect every time it cycles even with the out of zone stuff off. When I turn updates off it stops so I know that is causing it. It *may* only be happening in congested zones (saw it a lot in Dalaran) I will test that out more and let you know. Could be that a simple relog was required to properly update the out of zone settings.

Side note: can't seem to get /qrl skip to work. This is not so horrible an issue as I can just remove the quest from being tracked and it goes away. Does this not work with timed updates maybe?

Sorry for all the questions/any hassle I'm causing. If I could write code myself I'd be helping you with this as I'm really looking forward to this mod having functionality similar to quest helper without taking up a ton of memory. So in the meantime I'll keep testing it out; which is the only way I can help. Fantastic job so far! I hope you stick with this project.

03-28-10, 05:35 PM

Lyncks

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Re: Tidyminimap support

Originally posted by Tomacco_Boy
Any chance of adding support for tidyminimap?

Probably not at this stage. For the most part you don't spend much time changing options, and so the slash command works. I'd probably do a LDB plugin over a FuBar one anyone.

Originally posted by Sojik
If I have timed update on and open the map in a battleground it will zoom out every time it updates making it very hard to use. It also scrolls to the top of a quest text (on the map quest frame) every time it updates too which is annoying.

Any way to fix that?

That's something that's been in my list of stuff to fix - it does something similar in dungeons. I think I'll just flat out disable it in dungeons and BGs. I'll fix this for the next version.

Originally posted by Toran
Lyncks,

Looks like TomTom received an update today and it has a new feature (among others):

I assume users of QRL should *not* enable this feature, correct?

Nope. I guess if all you want is closest quest without the other features you can do that with TomTom now!

Edit: By nope, I mean don't enable both

Originally posted by thefaeriesgirl
Okay, so temporary solution for now not using the out of zone functionality. Messing around with the slider on timed updates and I'm still getting that lovely stutter-hang effect every time it cycles even with the out of zone stuff off. When I turn updates off it stops so I know that is causing it. It *may* only be happening in congested zones (saw it a lot in Dalaran) I will test that out more and let you know. Could be that a simple relog was required to properly update the out of zone settings.

Side note: can't seem to get /qrl skip to work. This is not so horrible an issue as I can just remove the quest from being tracked and it goes away. Does this not work with timed updates maybe?

Sorry for all the questions/any hassle I'm causing. If I could write code myself I'd be helping you with this as I'm really looking forward to this mod having functionality similar to quest helper without taking up a ton of memory. So in the meantime I'll keep testing it out; which is the only way I can help. Fantastic job so far! I hope you stick with this project.

Did you try the version I uploaded last night? 0.9.3? I sorted some of the continent stuff out, which *should* have fixed it. Updating was actually quicker when I tested it too. If it hasn't, let me know and I'll keep trying to figure it out.

I'll check up on the skip quest. I haven't changed that, but I did do the timed updating after I did the skip quest, so it might have messed with it.

Heh, you're not causing any hassle, you're helping! The damn thing should work as advertised, and it helps having someone testing the stuff I haven't tested as much. I'll keep trying to respond to your questions quickly

Last edited by Lyncks : 03-28-10 at 05:36 PM.

03-28-10, 05:43 PM

Toran

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Re: Re: Tidyminimap support

Originally posted by Lyncks
That's something that's been in my list of stuff to fix - it does something similar in dungeons. I think I'll just flat out disable it in dungeons and BGs. I'll fix this for the next version.

Yeah it does it also in the DK starting area and other areas with multiple "levels" it seems. I'm not 100% sure it's QRL doing this, but will be interesting to see if your changes help the matter.

Last edited by Toran : 03-28-10 at 05:43 PM.

03-28-10, 06:12 PM

Lyncks

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Originally posted by Toran
Yeah it does it also in the DK starting area and other areas with multiple "levels" it seems. I'm not 100% sure it's QRL doing this, but will be interesting to see if your changes help the matter.

Riiight, that'd be why. I just started a DK to see if I could figure it out. The DK starting area is instanced. QuestRouterLite and TomTom both use Astrolabe to do positioning of things on the map (minimap icons, waypoints). Astrolabe uses a preset list of zones, with predefined information about their heights and widths (for figuring out distance and things).

So, the reason that the map keeps zooming out is that Astrolabe is returning the cosmic map as where the player is (as they aren't in a "valid" zone) and so QRL is zooming to where Astrolabe told it where the player is.

The reason that the waypoints don't work in the DK starting area is because Astrolabe doesn't have those zones as valid, and has no information on them.

The map zooming, I can fix. Unfortunately any instanced area (dungeons, BGs, and the DK starting area) is going to be invalid for placing waypoints through TomTom. So I'm sorry, but the DK area is a no go

I'll get the map fix up soon.

03-28-10, 06:36 PM

thefaeriesgirl

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Re: Re: Tidyminimap support

Originally posted by Lyncks

Did you try the version I uploaded last night? 0.9.3? I sorted some of the continent stuff out, which *should* have fixed it. Updating was actually quicker when I tested it too. If it hasn't, let me know and I'll keep trying to figure it out.

I'll check up on the skip quest. I haven't changed that, but I did do the timed updating after I did the skip quest, so it might have messed with it.

Heh, you're not causing any hassle, you're helping! The damn thing should work as advertised, and it helps having someone testing the stuff I haven't tested as much. I'll keep trying to respond to your questions quickly

I have not tried your new version out because I do not have time tonight; I have a raid (I hope). However, I do need to do dailies tomorrow so I'll put this in and screw around with the settings and let you know what I come up with. I should be able to get back to you in a day, two at most. You are very speedy on your responses (so speedy I check back several times a day to see what you're working on next). I will try to do the same.

03-28-10, 07:07 PM

Toran

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Originally posted by Lyncks
Riiight, that'd be why. I just started a DK to see if I could figure it out. The DK starting area is instanced. QuestRouterLite and TomTom both use Astrolabe to do positioning of things on the map (minimap icons, waypoints). Astrolabe uses a preset list of zones, with predefined information about their heights and widths (for figuring out distance and things).

So, the reason that the map keeps zooming out is that Astrolabe is returning the cosmic map as where the player is (as they aren't in a "valid" zone) and so QRL is zooming to where Astrolabe told it where the player is.

The reason that the waypoints don't work in the DK starting area is because Astrolabe doesn't have those zones as valid, and has no information on them.

The map zooming, I can fix. Unfortunately any instanced area (dungeons, BGs, and the DK starting area) is going to be invalid for placing waypoints through TomTom. So I'm sorry, but the DK area is a no go

I'll get the map fix up soon.

Got it! Makes perfect sense - forgot it is instanced (duh). Thanks for the zoom fix and np on the waypoints.

03-29-10, 10:31 PM
thefaeriesgirl A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 1 File comments: 11 Uploads: 0	Testing Okay, tested further with Blizzard's quest tracker only. Functionality seems much the same as Blizzard's track quest by proximity and is working just fine. The stutter effect is nearly gone so much to the point that sometimes I don't even see it . Out of zone functionality is not always working but this seems to be a Blizzard issue not an addon issue. Sometimes Blizzard simply does not add the damn quest blobs to the zone maps (tried messing around with map settings and on rare occasion I can force them to show up but most of the time it's a no go...maybe they will fix this sometime this freakin century but I doubt it). Needless to say, if these aren't there then this mod can't track them. (Quick let's go flame Blizzard! ) The skip command is also working just fine as far as I can tell. Tested it by skipping half a dozen quests then clearing them. Would love to see some further route coding as the closest thing is not always the most optimal thing to do and at times has me running back and forth like an idiot (stupid OCD with following the damn arrow grumbles). I have no idea how to do this without saving information and making the quest mod huge which is exactly what you are trying not to do; but when you figure it out I'd be more than happy to test it for you.

03-30-10, 01:50 PM
merneith A Defias Bandit Forum posts: 3 File comments: 43 Uploads: 0	I'm getting an error and I'm not sure if it's the Who Framed Watcher Wabbit mod or QuestRouterLite causing it, so I'm going to mention it to both of you. There's no error message or bug report, unfortunately, it's just a visual thing. I have QRL set up to show only the next quest in the tracker log. I'm in Booty Bay and just turned in a quest to Sea Wolf Mackinley and then immediately accepted the quest "Cracking Maury's Foot". The watch frame updated to show the new quest - but there's a blue patch in the watch frame now. I know what it is - it's the colored area that Bliz's new map displays to show the location of a quest target. But I'm not sure why it's showing up in the watch frame. I did a couple of quests prior to this one, and the location map didn't show up like this. So like I said, I'm not sure where this coming from. Here's a screenshot showing the tracker and what I'm on about: http://i709.photobucket.com/albums/w...QuestError.jpg

03-30-10, 02:50 PM

Toran

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Originally posted by merneith
I'm getting an error and I'm not sure if it's the Who Framed Watcher Wabbit mod or QuestRouterLite causing it, so I'm going to mention it to both of you. There's no error message or bug report, unfortunately, it's just a visual thing.

I have QRL set up to show only the next quest in the tracker log. I'm in Booty Bay and just turned in a quest to Sea Wolf Mackinley and then immediately accepted the quest "Cracking Maury's Foot". The watch frame updated to show the new quest - but there's a blue patch in the watch frame now. I know what it is - it's the colored area that Bliz's new map displays to show the location of a quest target. But I'm not sure why it's showing up in the watch frame. I did a couple of quests prior to this one, and the location map didn't show up like this. So like I said, I'm not sure where this coming from.

Here's a screenshot showing the tracker and what I'm on about:
http://i709.photobucket.com/albums/w...QuestError.jpg

In QRL, try turning off the blobs from showing on the minimap. This is assuming you even have that checked, but I suspect that is causing it.

03-30-10, 04:32 PM
merneith A Defias Bandit Forum posts: 3 File comments: 43 Uploads: 0	thanks - that solved it!

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