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QuickTradeskill

Version: 3.0

by: Kjado [More]

Looking for 4.0/Cataclysm version? The new incarnation of QuickTradeskill is now known as Apparatus (link).

QuickTradeskill is a World of Warcraft addon to expedite the process of crafting tradeskill items. Similar to the programs Launchy (for Windows) and QuickSilver (for Mac), QuickTradeskill consists of a simple text box interface. When text is entered and the Enter key is pressed, QuickTradeskill will search the player's tradeskills for matches to the input text and display the results in clickable frames which can be used to create the item or copy a craft recipe link into chat. In addition to searching recipes the user knows, QuickTradeskill will also search through all of the in-game recipes provided by LibPeriodicTable for reference.

Usage:
A keybind to open/close the QuickTradeskill window can be set from the default keybindings menu. Alternatively, the QuickTradeskill window can be opened and closed via the /qts show and /qts hide commands.

/qts will open the configuration options.

The main QuickTradeskill frame can be moved by dragging the edges, and the width can be changed by ctrl+dragging on the right edge.

When results are found from the tradeskill search, the new frames have the following properties:

Left click: create a single copy
Ctrl + left click: batch-craft multiple copies of the item
Shift + left click: paste the recipe link for the item into chat

There are three search modes:

Title Only
Title and Tooltip (Known Recipes)
Title and Tooltip (Everything)

To search by recipe title only, simply enter text into the edit box and hit the Enter key. To search through the titles of all recipes, plus the tooltips of recipes your character knows, prefix your search text with a '+' (ie. +netherweave will search for anything with the word 'netherweave' somewhere in the recipe's tooltip). To instead search all titles and all tooltips (even recipes you do not know), prefix your search with '++' (ie. ++netherweave).

There are numerous advantages to searching through tooltips, and the information returned can be quite exhaustive. For instance, with '+minor glyph' you can search for all of the minor glyphs you can create. There are also other possibilities, such as searching for recipes by materials, and so on.

Important:
The major drawback with doing tooltip searches is the time required. The exhaustive search is extremely CPU intensive, and will likely freeze WoW for a handful of seconds while it performs the search. However, it is unlikely that you will need to do these in a quick manner, so hopefully this is acceptable behavior.

Localization support:
QuickTradeskill should work for all locales. If anyone experiences problems with this, please let me know!

--- 2008/05/19:
Localization support for Chinese (simplified) "zhCN" added.
Fixed a bug that would cause batch crafting to fail mid-cast if the QuickTradeskill
frame was re-opened during crafting.

--- 2008/09/16:
Support for the Inscription profession.
Added keybinding option to open/close the QuickTradeskill frame.
Temporarily disabled support for "zhCN" localization.
Informative tooltips added for ALL result frames.
Alphabetized result frames.

--- 2008/10/14:
Support for patch 3.0/WotLK expansion.

--- 2008/10/27:
Ability to search only recipes user knows, or all recipes in game (via LibPeriodicTable).
Addition of button to close the QTS window.

--- 2008/11/10:
Result frame throttling ability added. Default is max of 5 result frames, changeable
by using /qts [number] (failsafe set to 1 if [number] does not evaluate to a number).
"Scrolling" feature implemented to navigate through throttled list.
Former result lists combined (user and LibPeriodicTable).
Search action changed. Now responds to OnEnterPressed for the edit box, instead of
searching in response to OnTextChanged.
Close button changed to simple templated Close button.

--- 2008/11/10 - 2:
Bottom scroll button now positions properly when throttle limit is changed.

--- 2008/11/12:
Exhaustive tooltip searching added.

--- 2008/11/27:
Localization support for all locales.
Updated LibPeriodicTable to r75 (still no Inscription support, though).

--- 2009/01/05:
Quick fix to show enchanting patterns from LibPeriodicTable again.

--- 2009/01/30:
Scroll-wheel support for browsing results list.
Search result acknowledgement.
Support for batch-crafting any number of copies of an item.
Blizzard Interface Options support.
Cleaned up the source a bit.
Updated LibPeriodicTable to r141 (including Glyphs!).

--- 2009/05/06:
Updated LibPeriodicTable to r179 (3.1 recipe/etc. additions).

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10-28-08, 01:56 PM
Veyska A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 1 File comments: 56 Uploads: 0	2.1 Been poking at this add-on for a short bit and a few observations/whatnots... The option to pop up a pre-searched window off of the command line would be awesome ("/qts <insert search string here>"). Having a straight "/qts" or keybinding call load the window up with a cleared search box would also be nice (or even just highlight the last search's text so you could overwrite it or hit enter again to re-search). One slightly bigger idea would be to tweak how the "All" list displays. "My" pops up a list of left-justified names with appropriate icons. "All" pops up a center-justified icon-less list. Two things that occurred to me that might make "All" more useful from an overview (ie not mousing over every result separately)... First idea would be to use the generic profession icons next to results to distinguish them (would probably result in left-justification too). Second idea would be to have some indication of what recipes the player knows (drag a bit of the "My" list over). Not sure the best way to go about this, my first thought was just left-justify the list and stick appropriate icons by the known spells like in the "My" list. Then the profession-specific icon idea occurred to me and I'm not sure how cluttered a list full of eleventy-bajillion icons would end up being. Could potentially recolor the text or background (text probably less obtrusive) instead but I've not tried to skim the code to see how troublesome that would be compared to icons. Wonderful add-on, loving it so far. :-)

10-25-08, 11:51 PM

Zidomo

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Originally posted by Kjado
Edit: I wasn't able to find what I was looking for by skimming through the code for that addon. An exhaustive list of all the tradeskill recipes is immense, just as it is in the TradeskillInfo addon... though I need a way to automatically pull that tradeskill information from somewhere, even if it's just once on my own to generate the data to port into QuickTradeskill itself.

Ah yes. There are a few mods that have built-in data miner scripts. Probably the most applicable one related to tradeskills, etc. is the one contained in the currently maintained LibPeriodicTable-3.1 (a standalone library; no, its not out of date).

It has a "dataminer.lua" file you run with a command line LUA.exe compiler. Two of the files it helps create: LibPeriodicTable-3.1-Tradeskill.lua & LibPeriodicTable-3.1-TradeskillResultMats.lua.

But to make things (a lot) easier, you could instead just hook into that library to get all the recipes/mats/drop info you need.

As one example of a mod that uses that library: Mendeleev. Its a loot drop tooltip display mod that uses that library to provide its info. When LibPeriodicTable is updated with new recipes/drops/etc, Mendeleev is automatically "kept up to date". The Mendeleev author(s) don't have to do anything extra as the databases are being handled by the library, not the mod.

10-25-08, 12:11 PM
Kjado A Deviate Faerie Dragon Forum posts: 10 File comments: 32 Uploads: 4	Awesome, I will be sure to take a look at that and see what I can do when I have some free time. Thanks! Edit: I wasn't able to find what I was looking for by skimming through the code for that addon. An exhaustive list of all the tradeskill recipes is immense, just as it is in the TradeskillInfo addon... though I need a way to automatically pull that tradeskill information from somewhere, even if it's just once on my own to generate the data to port into QuickTradeskill itself. Last edited by Kjado : 10-25-08 at 01:24 PM.

10-25-08, 07:29 AM

Zidomo

A Cliff Giant

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Originally posted by Kjado
Short answer: most likely.
Longer answer: I'm not really sure how I would handle that off the top of my head, as right now I just scan through the player's spellbook for things they can do themselves. If there is an easy way to get that same kind of information from a master tradeskill list in-game, then please let me know

The code of TradeskillInfo (orignal, outdated page here) is what to look at for tips on how to handle an in-game database.

An absolutely fabulous mod. But its dead in WoW 3.0.2. In addition to the WoW UI changes killing being able to open its frame, its trade skill list has not been updated in several months (since 2.4.0). The original author (wmrojer) left WoW a long time ago; the latest updater (Evenue) is also gone.

When it worked (WoW 2.4.3 & earlier), it was great. Saved every tradeskill recipe in the game in a memory efficient, searchable format. You opened up its frame via "/tsi" and entered your search term and/or manually opened the tradekill dropdown menus. Clicking a recipe (or finding a specific one via a search) showed you all the info for it (see below).

It showed who you could get a recipe from (NPC, trainer, drop), the materials & skill level required and allowed you to link them. Also colored known recipes in the AH like RecipeBook does, let you know in tooltips who knew what recipes & so on. And finally, showed in your tradeskill windows under each recipe what specific skill levels a recipe turned yellow/green/grey/etc.. If it did not know from its database, it "learned" the skill levels after you levelled it up.

The last version is at this link. Recipes themselves are stored in the "TradeskillData.lua" files (a seperate one for each localization). The recipe data doesn't really need constant updating, just when new ones are added (various WoW patches).

If you could integrate just a full tradeskill database alone into QuickTradeskill via the way TradeskillInfo did it (or some other way)--or make a seperate mod to do that--a lot of people would be very happy

Last edited by Zidomo : 10-25-08 at 07:36 AM.

10-24-08, 05:56 PM

Kjado

A Deviate Faerie Dragon

Forum posts: 10

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Originally posted by cawfee
This is amazingly handy. Is there any way to expand it to include a full database of tradeskills?

Short answer: most likely.
Longer answer: I'm not really sure how I would handle that off the top of my head, as right now I just scan through the player's spellbook for things they can do themselves. If there is an easy way to get that same kind of information from a master tradeskill list in-game, then please let me know

Update:
This doesn't seem to respond to any jewels for JC, but does list things such as Copper Wire. Any idea as to why? D:

Try logging out and back in and trying to do the same search again. I was having an issue every so often with odd search results on new characters the first time I would log in with the addon enabled. If it continues to give you problems, send me a PM and I will look into it further.

10-24-08, 10:03 AM
cawfee An Aku'mai Servant Forum posts: 30 File comments: 94 Uploads: 1	This is amazingly handy. Is there any way to expand it to include a full database of tradeskills? A feature like that would make it invaluable for quickly looking up enchants even if you're not pursuing the profession yourself (it's probably asking for a lot, but I'd like to know if it's at least possible / feasible). You could have your own tradeskills labeled with a () to know which ones you're capable of. Thanks! Update:* This doesn't seem to respond to any jewels for JC, but does list things such as Copper Wire. Any idea as to why? D: Also, could we get a little X / close button to quickly get rid of it when we're done doing the searches? C: Last edited by cawfee : 10-24-08 at 03:00 PM.

10-19-08, 08:59 PM
Jzar A Chromatic Dragonspawn Forum posts: 158 File comments: 281 Uploads: 5	Maybe it's just a compatability issue, but this doesn't appear to play nice with ATSW. Everytime I bring up my QTS frame, ATSW feels obligated to scan all my recipes again. Doh! Well, searching through QTS appears to be title only, so I can't search for mage glyphs or anything; hence, I'll have to stick with ATSW for now. Looks nice, though!

10-11-08, 12:42 AM
Kjado A Deviate Faerie Dragon Forum posts: 10 File comments: 32 Uploads: 4	1) Download the .zip file from the addon page. 2) Unzip the downloaded file, using a program such as WinZip or WinRar (for Windows), or StuffitExpander (for Mac; I think that is correct). 3) There should now be a folder named QuickTradeskill. Copy this folder, and paste it into your addons directory for World of Warcraft. If you have WoW installed to the default location on a Windows machine, then the path is C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\Interface\Addons\. 4) Load into WoW. Press Esc and go to the keybindings menu, and towards the bottom there should be an option to set the keybind you would like to use for QuickTradeskill. After this is set, you can use that hotkey to show/hide the QuickTradeskill window.

10-10-08, 09:12 PM
nickd20080 A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 1 Uploads: 0	help with addons i need help installing this addon from step one and ect. please help idk what to do.

05-21-08, 03:11 PM

Kjado

A Deviate Faerie Dragon

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Re: Good job!

Originally posted by Samasnier
Very cool addon. I would like to suggest the addition of a keybinding so one could just hit their keybinding of choice, rather than typing /qts.

I like this idea, and it would admittedly make it more like the applications it was influenced by. Consider it added to my TODO list for the next release =)

05-20-08, 07:29 PM
Samasnier A Deviate Faerie Dragon Forum posts: 13 File comments: 47 Uploads: 0	Good job! Very cool addon. I would like to suggest the addition of a keybinding so one could just hit their keybinding of choice, rather than typing /qts.

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