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GetLink

Version: 1.0.1

by: Kremonte [More]

GetLink - better than ever!

Hello fellas.

I'd like to present the finally-cared-about less-memory-whoring brand-new shiny version of GetLink. It's brand new and shiny because it's been rewritten from scratch, with much memory concerns in mind, and using the wonderful Ace backend.

GetLink's purpose has always been to be a link manager that isn't a memory whore. Without a database, nothing was saved, meaning less overhead. However, GetLink did the exact opposite. Saving the technical jargon, it ended up, after getting half a dozen links, using as much - if not more memory than an addon that saved links.

The newest version of GetLink hopes to solve all that. After a good bit of thinking, I've made a system of temporarily caching links and accessing them so neither is much of a memory hog. In other words, it's faster and lags you less :-)

The only difference upfront is that to get a link, it's now /getlink get <search>. /getlink (and /gl) has more options now, including managing the faster, built-in bot.

Enjoy.

1.0.1 : savedvariable is now... saved.

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11-25-05, 08:14 AM
Duglum A Murloc Raider Forum posts: 6 File comments: 5 Uploads: 1	hmmm.. this is interesting. But how does it work? It does not seem to save data in its own lua file.. and i was not able to get any items from the search that i did not see before (tested using a fresh client with a lvl 1 char). Does it use the itemcache.wdb? Is every item i ever saw while playing stored in this file?

11-25-05, 08:52 AM

Kremonte

A Murloc Raider

Forum posts: 6

File comments: 13

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Originally posted by Duglum
hmmm..

this is interesting. But how does it work? It does not seem to save data in its own lua file.. and i was not able to get any items from the search that i did not see before (tested using a fresh client with a lvl 1 char).

Does it use the itemcache.wdb? Is every item i ever saw while playing stored in this file?

It does use the item cache, and as far as item stored in that file... seems to be some sort of unknown definition of "recently." I know it's not items you've only seen the tooltip of though, or link of, because on my alliance toon I had the full Earthfury and Ten Storms sets.

It's sort of a collective lootlink that's more lightweight but doesn't hold a specific amount of links (ie a database)

11-25-05, 09:01 AM
Duglum A Murloc Raider Forum posts: 6 File comments: 5 Uploads: 1	you're right as it seems... just copied in the ~3mb itemcache.wdb from the main client and now i have a ton of links. The Game stores every item it "sees", means has to render, in that file i guess... Because the only one on our Server with Thunderfury is an Alliance Paladin, but i was able to retrieve the link..

12-14-05, 04:38 PM
NiGHTsC A Murloc Raider Forum posts: 7 File comments: 10 Uploads: 0	Any way to share our Item cache to others ? Just simplify copy the Item cache file to them ?

03-31-06, 04:13 PM
CMDKMiller A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 1 Uploads: 0	I love this Mod !!! Thx man... hehe. Is there a possible schedule for update release? Last edited by CMDKMiller : 03-31-06 at 04:14 PM.

04-05-06, 05:19 PM
Kremonte A Murloc Raider Forum posts: 6 File comments: 13 Uploads: 6	Updated Apologies for the lack of updates or replies - the mod is pretty simple by nature Anyways, I've been doing a lot of work on it in my guild - mostly a feature to request links without the mod via !getlink and !gl. The code got messy, so I remade it, added a few more searching features. Going to have 2 seperate mods now - GetLink and GetLink Lite, the latter the one you see here, the former one with a small GUI, and capabilities for !gl/!getlink.

09-03-06, 03:58 AM
Fin An Aku'mai Servant Forum posts: 34 File comments: 74 Uploads: 3	Er... Isn't this just a renamed version of Tuller's Ludwig - http://www.wowinterface.com/download...74-Ludwig.html ?

09-03-06, 08:55 AM

Kremonte

A Murloc Raider

Forum posts: 6

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Re: Er...

Originally posted by Fin
Isn't this just a renamed version of Tuller's Ludwig

- http://www.wowinterface.com/download...74-Ludwig.html

?

Ludwig is an item link database mod based on GetLink. Ludwig is not dependent on saved variables, and doesn't require the user to do anything special in order to collect data.

Nope.

09-03-06, 08:49 PM
xbloodkillerx A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 1 Uploads: 0	I can't download version 3.11. When I click the download button it just downloads version 2.1.0. Last edited by xbloodkillerx : 09-03-06 at 08:51 PM.

09-04-06, 05:25 AM

Shirk

A Defias Bandit

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Originally posted by xbloodkillerx
I can't download version 3.11. When I click the download button it just downloads version 2.1.0.

Same here, I wanted to be my guild's linkbot

09-04-06, 09:12 AM
Kremonte A Murloc Raider Forum posts: 6 File comments: 13 Uploads: 6	:O I was wondering why it updated it instantly, must have been a bug or something. Anyway, I need to upload a fix for a formatting error, so hopefully this works =p

09-04-06, 05:38 PM
Theondry A Deviate Faerie Dragon Forum posts: 11 File comments: 110 Uploads: 1	Any chance of spitting this information out into a window? __________________ Theondry of Perenolde

09-04-06, 10:06 PM
Kremonte A Murloc Raider Forum posts: 6 File comments: 13 Uploads: 6	no GUI I'm not very well for GUIs, they're generally the biggest part of mods and one would definitely be much bigger than the base of GetLink altogether. However, to retain the lightweight searching capabilities along with a GUI for personal searching, try using the aforementioned "Ludwig." http://www.wowinterface.com/download...74-Ludwig.html Personally, I see no reason for it to spit the information to a window, considering the only information for it to spit is a set of links :P

09-05-06, 04:58 AM

Fin

An Aku'mai Servant

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Re: Re: Er...

Originally posted by Kremonte
Nope.

Ah! That'll teach me to read descriptions properly. Actually it probably won't, but I do apologise for my incorrect assumptions!

Cheers,

- Fin

09-05-06, 10:46 AM

Kremonte

A Murloc Raider

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: okay enough Re:

Originally posted by Fin
Ah! That'll teach me to read descriptions properly. Actually it probably won't, but I do apologise for my incorrect assumptions!

Cheers,

- Fin

No worries :P Also, to anyone who used 3.11 while it was still up, 3.12 has a whole different SavedVariables thingermajig, so you'd need to delete them manually (cba to write a mod to upgrade a version that was up for a whole hour)

The next version (3.13) should be up tomorrow or the day after, finishing up the rest of the options in GetLink(), adding a /glhelp slash command for help on the searching options, and correcting some performance issues, as well as more features for chat channels with the bot. Yay updates!

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