When you shop for items at a vendor or the Auction House and you hover over an item, you get a comparison tooltip showing the "currently equipped" item too. This AddOn adds such a feature everywhere in the game where you can hover over items, such as in your bags, in the loot window or on the reward page of a quest. You also receive comparison tooltips when clicking an item link in the chat box.
For detailed description of features, see the included Description.txt file. Simple install/uninstall/usage instructions are given below. Post a comment if you like, or discuss the AddOn in this thread: http://www.wowinterface.com/forums/s...ead.php?t=2597
The AddOn is compatible with and the texts are localized for US English, EU English, German, French, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese clients.
Troubleshooting
Check the Known Issues list first! If EC only appears to be working at the AH and vendors, but nowhere else, then you donīt actually have EC correctly installed and working! The default Blizzard UI has EC-like features in those two places already, thatīs what you are seeing. In this case, make sure that EC is enabled correctly on the character selection screen.
Advanced tip: For some really advanced uses, turn on the Alt-key mode and install CharactersViewer. Choose an alternate character in CV, go to the Auction House then hover over an item. First you get comparison with your equipped item, but then hold Alt to get comparison with your alternate character. Shop with ease both for yourself and your other characters with this great feature!
Install
Unzip the downloaded zip file into your "World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns" folder. This is a standalone, pure AddOn.
Uninstall
Delete the "World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns\EquipCompare" folder.
Usage
The AddOn is enabled by default. Type "/equipcompare help" for further usage information, or see the documentation in the included Description.txt file.
Developer API
See the included Description.txt for a short summary. See the comments in front of each of the functions in EquipCompare's code for full documentation.
Known Issues
Main/Off Hand item both gets displayed in situations when a lot of players feel they shouldn't be (This works as intended at the moment).
If you view an Off Hand item when you have a 2H item equipped, you don't get comparison with the equipped 2H item. (This works as intended at the moment).
If both comparison tooltips are getting displayed and they are very wide (e.g. German client), it is possible that they don't both fit on the screen. In this case, part of one might get cut off.
Special thank you goes to
Flisher for the very fruitful collaboration on making CharactersViewer and EquipCompare work together.
Thanks goes to
WoWInterface and Curse Gaming for hosting the AddOn.
The entire Cosmos team for their help and support (including, but not limited to AlexYoshi, Thott, Sarf, AnduinLothar, StarDust, Sasmira).
Norganna for making Auctioneer work together with EquipCompare
Woofiest for the bug reports and great AddOn pack.
All the original localizers (beWRage, Maischter, zerra, eerieN, Firebroo, arith)
Legalese (a.k.a. the Small Print)
The author holds all copyright to this AddOn. You are free to download, copy, distribute and re-host this AddOn in its original, unmodified form, for non-profit purposes. You are free to include this AddOn in any compilation, package, distribution etc. in its original form so long as credit is given to the author. If you distribute or re-host this AddOn, either in a compilation or by itself, you must include a link to the AddOn's official page as the author is responsible for maintaining only the official page of the AddOn. You are allowed, for your own personal use only, to make modifications to this AddOn and to privately distribute such modified form to people known to you (such as friends and guild members). However, you must not publically host or distribute a modified version of this AddOn, without express permission of the author. The author reserves the right to deny any of the above to any person or sites for any reasons.
Khaos: If Khaos is installed, EquipCompare options can be set via the Khaos configuration options. In this case, the settings are rememebered on a per-configuration basis.
Satellite: If Satellite is installed, slash commands are registered via Satellite.
Lootlink: If LootLink is installed, you will receive the comparison tooltips when hovering over items in the LootLink database.
CharactersViewer: If CharactersViewer (version 55 or higher) is installed, EquipCompare shows comparison tooltips with the items of the character you have selected in CV, instead of with the currently equipped items, provided this feature is enabled in EquipCompare. Use this great feature to easily compare your equipment or inventory with your alts. Alternatively, do things like receive relevant shopping tooltips at the Auction House, when you are shopping for your alt.
Cosmos (deprecated but supported): If Cosmos is installed, EquipCompare options can be toggled on and off via the Cosmos configuration menu. In this case, the settings are remembered on a per-character basis.
Sky (deprecated but supported): If Sky is installed, slash commands are registered via Sky.
Change Log - EquipCompare
Changes in 2.12:
* Patch 2.4
Changes in 2.11a:
* Minor tweak to legal disclaimer. No functionality changes.
Changes in 2.11:
* Patch 2.3
Changes in 2.10:
* Compatibility changes for 2.1. This is not a complete rewrite, just making sure EquipCompare works identically as before 2.1.
* When EquipCompare is enabled, it disables the Blizzard UI's in-built comparison functionality (introduced in 2.1).
* Some CV compatibility improvements. When CV integration is enabled, you should no longer have problems when comparing items on yourself (as opposed to an alt).
* Gem bug fix: comparison tooltips now show gems in the item.
* Known issue: when CV integration is enabled, if you are comparing with an alt, the comparison tooltips don't say "Currently Equipped".
Changes in 2.9.10:
* Korean localization fix for Thrown weapons (thanks eerien)
Changes in 2.9.9:
* Very minor German localization update (thanks Stardust)
Changes in 2.9.8b:
* Lua 5.1 and patch 2.0 compatibility fixes, otherwise identical functionality
Changes in 2.9.8:
* Minor bug-fix for CharactersViewer compatibility
Changes in 2.9.7:
* Support for CharactersViewer v2.0
* Support for Satellite
* Traditional Chinese localization added (thanks arith!)
Changes in 2.9.6:
* Added Relic slot handling
Changes in 2.9.5:
* Simplified Chinese localization added (thanks Firebroo!)
* Zip folder structure changed to EquipCompare\<files> from Interface\AddOns\EquipCompare\<files>
Changes in 2.9.4k2:
* Very very minor korean localization fix.
Changes in 2.9.4k:
* Korean localization added.
* Minor bug fix: rare string.find nil bug, which occurs only when EquipCompare is used with some other AddOns that display a tooltip over chat links.
Changes in 2.9.4:
* Quick fix for the current known issues caused by patch 1.7: slow refresh or not displaying comparisons, getting "stuck" and displaying comparison with wrong items, not showing up in some windows (e.g. Loot roll).
Changes in 2.9.3:
* Some patch 1.7 compatible updates
* Changed the way Blizzard's Shopping tooltips are disabled
* Fixed a very minor bug involving the interacion of slash commands and Khaos options
* Separate OnDemand loading version is available starting with this version
Changes in 2.9.2:
* Load message only appears if you are not running Cosmos or Khaos
Changes in 2.9.1:
* Added WeaponButton slots to exclusion list.
* ShoppingTooltip overtake is less aggressive, only happens over Merchant/Auction frames now.
Changes in 2.9:
* Additions to the Developers API, enabling the exclusion of objects from showing comparison tooltips.
* Comparison tooltips are not shown anymore if you hover over the Blizzard Action Bar, Multi Bar and Item Buff icons.
* Added support for Khaos.
* Added support for registering slash-commands with Sky.
* CharactersViewer minimum version requirement increased to 55.
* Minor bug-fixes and code optimizations.
For older change notes see the included Change Notes.txt file.
Originally posted by Syngian Since 2.4 I'm seeing tooltips fly off the side of my screen when I hover over links in atlasloot :/
Its not just in Atlasloot. When I hover anything that has to compare 2 items (Like if i have a shield and sword equipped, and I hover over a 2 handed weapon, it pushs everything to the right side (comparing the 2H to the sword and shield), pushing some information off the screen) it does this also.
I'm aware that the comparison tooltips are sometimes placed awkwardly, it's on my todo list.
Compatibility with other AddOns such as Armory is generally not my responsibility I'm afraid. If I remember right, the author of the Armory AddOn made a special version of EquipCompare that works with his AddOn, so you may have had that at some point. I don't know what's needed to make them work together as I haven't checked. Maybe you can point the author in the direction of the API that EquipCompare provides, and see if that's sufficient for his purposes.
I dont use CharactersViewer anymore. Instead Armory is what I use.
I have an issue that when I pick another char in Armory then I dont get the "selected char's compare window" when I hoover my mouse over items in AH or Inspect. Instead it shows the items of the char that is loaded ( my banker).
I used to load Armory and Equipcompare and they always worked nicely. But now suddenly I lost the compare feature.
Any thoughts what causes this?
I know this is probably not quite within EquipCompare's scope, but I'm going to ask it anyway: is there any chance that you could add an option to display tooltips on mouseover?
I have a couple of addons that add stuff into the tooltips, and this means that sometimes if I try to compare, say, a ring or a trinket to my current ones, the tooltips run off the edge of the screen, making it impossible to actually read them. Is there a way to get it the same as the Blizzard AH-only version, where the compare tooltips simply flip over to the other side of the 'proper' tooltip?
Couldn't see any info about what's changed in v2.11, so I checked the Changelog.txt file:
Quote:
Changes in 2.11:
* Patch 2.3
That's it, so it seems v2.11 is just a toc update, no other changes listed. Also note that the zip file I downloaded contained all the EquipCompare files but without any folder or path info, so there's no EquipCompare folder when you extract the files!
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Last edited by Grizzly UK : 11-14-2007 at 06:20 AM.
CharacterInfo is also a very nice character information addon for which I think it would be great to have support. Specifically, this addon attempts to allieviate the problem of so many addons wanting to store a copy of everything one owns.
Rather than provide all of the added functionality, CharacterInfoStorage only keeps track of inventory, character stats, bag space, and bank space. CharacterInfo uses that to provide a CharacterViewer-ish interface to that data.
TradeSkillInfo hooks into this to add to item tooltips where you have something besides ones current inventory. (Just to point out that there are other addons that use it, too.)
