"Okay folks due to the changes in the Addon policy and lack of interest. I'm officially abandoning this project. Yes I've worked on it and yes I was halfway done. I just don't have time to invest in this as I thought I did. I was excited to bring you folks a new release but seriously I don't like how blizzard treats addon authors. It's a shame it was really turning out well.
In any case I will be working on smaller less sophisticated mods. I just don't have the time to work on huge projects like ItemSync. I'm sorry all Thanks to all the fans."
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What is ItemSync?
ItemSync is an item collection and manipulation mod. ItemSync will gather items from many different sources. Many features are available to you such as a search feature for items that were gathered and even a favorites window to keep track of items you really would like to have. ItemSync also comes bundled with several other useful tools that will be described below.
ItemSync will always maintain an updated list of items and names. It’s all automatic and you don’t have to do a thing. Just let ItemSync work its magic.
What features do I get with ItemSync?
There are tons of features are your disposal! ItemSync comes complete with the following abilities: -Filtering -Search -QuickBag (a portable inventory bag with easy to read item prices) -Favorites (a window to keep track of all those favorite items you’ve wanted) -ItemID (a window to allow you to manually input item id’s for items you haven’t seen) -Optimizer (a feature that allows you to always keep a clean and efficient database.) -Validater (a feature that allows you to validate those invalid items in your database) -And so much more!!!!
ItemSync will gather items from almost every possible location. This includes locations such as the Auction House, Bank, Inventory, Inspect Window, Chat Window, and more.
ItemSync also stores the prices of items when you visit a Vendor. Not to mention it even grabs the items that the Vendor has to sell!!!
Favorites Window:
A neat ability that is available to you when you use ItemSync. It allows you to store those items you come across and have always wanted. The Favorites window makes it easy for you to remember items. No more writing down items and then forgetting what they were called or what stats they had.
QuickBags:
QuickBags is a portable inventory bag, which displays prices of items in a simple to read format. No more having to hover items in your bags to view what each item is worth. Selling items to a vendor has never been easier!
Search Window:
ItemSync comes with a very power search capability. You can search by items by location, rarity, level, and even resistance.
ItemID:
ItemID is a very nifty tool which allows you to manually input items by their item id to your database. This is a great way to add items you haven’t come across yet.
Filtering:
ItemSync can store items based upon your filtering settings. Want ItemSync to only collect blue items and above? It’s easy with the Filter window. You can even purge the database by a specific rarity.
Fetch Links:
Fetch Links is a very handy feature in ItemSync that allows you to quickly and easily add items to chat by using partial names. For example typing [*ore*] in the chat window would replace it with the actual link for [Copper Ore]. Fetch Links is a very powerful tool and has many applications.
Can I see prices of items in the tooltips?
YES! ItemSync has the ability to display both the Vendor Price and the Sell Price for an item within the tooltip. You can select which features you wish to view within the Options window.
Do I ever get disconnected linking an item?
You shouldn’t ever disconnect while linking an item from ItemSync. ItemSync has been programmed to prevent any such actions from occurring. If however in the event you do disconnect then you should take caution when linking that item in the future. The creator of ItemSync takes no responsibility for any disconnections that may occur while using ItemSync.
Can I see the items across servers?
Yes, this option is available to you. It isn’t recommended as item id’s are different across servers. This means you will always have a constant list of invalid items if you merge them across servers. By default ItemSync separates item collection by server.
Can I convert my data from LootLink/KC_Items/ItemsMatrix?
NO! I repeat NO! This ability has been removed from any future version of ItemSync. This is just to time consuming. If other folks wish to make converters then they are allowed to. I will post links to them as they become available.
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If you guys and gals could be so gracious as to spread your views and acknowledgement and acceptance of ItemSync to your friends and family. I would be truely in all your debts.
Also your votes would be truely kind and will repay me for all the work i've put into this mod.
Sincerely Yours,
Derkyle
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Please remember you can always get the latest version of ItemSync at (http://files.wowace.com/)
Revision: 32104
Author: derkyle
- Updated SVN Keywords. It wasn't working properly. The version number for ItemSync should be correct now when you open the main window in game.
Revision: 32049
Author: derkyle
- Fixed: A nil error that was being displayed when trying to add items to your favorites list.
- Update: Fetch Links has been improved by Dracula from WOWInterface.com. It will now properly return items you input and not just the first one it finds. Use [ ] for exact item matches only, and keep [* *] for a pattern match, ie. partial item search. Special thanks to Dracula all credit goes to him for the update.
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Major Update: Kirson has repaired the issue with items have zero stats. Full credit goes towards him for patching up ItemSync.
A special thank you to you Kirson on my behalf.
Revision: 30597
Author: derkyle
- _removeNegative was edited to return kirson's function rather then the old one. This was done to allow modders to update their mod that use this function. It will be removed in the future.
- Update: Minor update to German Localization for the word Thrown, changed to Wurfwaffe. (Maischter82)
- Update: Fixed an issue where the Bag Check and Inven Check wasn't resetting properly.
- Update: Added a check to see if the item that was updated was an ammo item. If this returns true then the bags and or equipment isn't scanned. This was implemented to help decrease lag.
- Added: German Notes to TOC [Rene Hunkel (Bashman)]
- Updated: German Localization [Rene Hunkel (Bashman)]
- Added: Revision checks to all files to keep record of modifications.
- Fixed: A small issue where a nil value would arise on the OnShow function. (Thanks Recbyrn)
- Fixed: A small bug where the ItemCount frame kept changing it's value each time a search was preformed. This has been repaired.
- Update: Small fix for tooltip issues in Fubar Plugin of ItemSync.
- Fixed: An issue where the 'None' value was being repeated for the rarity filtering in the Search Window. It should now display the rarity and 'none' field properly.
- Update: Small update to the german localization (Bashman)
- Update: Removed old minimap functions and replaced with FubBar Minimap Library.
Author: kirson
--Corrected error in externals (AceHook-2.0 is no longer in Ace2)
--Removed references to AceHook-2.0 from toc
ItemSync: Touching toc to attempt to start auto-zip script for /files
ItemSync: Update .toc for new version including sfactor code
ItemSync: add sfactor attribute and routines for items with negative subids (expansion random suffixes)
ItemSync: add in sfactor attribute and routines for items with negative subids (expansion random suffixes)
"Okay folks due to the changes in the Addon policy and lack of interest. I'm officially abandoning this project. Yes I've worked on it and yes I was halfway done. I just don't have time to invest in this as I thought I did. I was excited to bring you folks a new release but seriously I don't like how blizzard treats addon authors. It's a shame it was really turning out well.
In any case I will be working on smaller less sophisticated mods. I just don't have the time to work on huge projects like ItemSync. I'm sorry all Thanks to all the fans."
Originally posted by tinyu imho Derkyle, ItemSync as it was was FREAKING awesome my favorite feature was the itemID search i hope that stays
i think most users would be happy with the old version just updated for WotLK but hey if your gonna go the whole hog dont let me stop you :P
Well the problem is that although I'm done with the core. I'm currently working on the UI and incorporating some of the old elements that people love. One of the most frustrating if not annoying things was to filter out all the new links that people are able to do ingame. It used to be only item links for a long period of time. Now we have all sorts of linkable stuff. I've made ItemSync filter out these things and if you like you can actually (optionally) save them for future reference. So ItemSync has evolved from not just gathering item information but also linked spells, achievements, quests, etc...
Again its quite time consuming and it's actually coming out really well. I'm also trying to change the way the search engine works for ItemSync. I want to make it smoother, quicker, and more precise. To that end I've had to make slight modifications to how things are stored. Nothing major but it will not be backwards compatible with older versions (including data mods for ItemSync).
One of the features I look forward to completing is the Favorites feature. I really do miss this part of the mod as I used it a lot.
Oh I'm adding certain graphical enhancements to the configuration panel. Like the ability to remove backgrounds, set backgrounds, set background colors, alpha/transparency levels, etc.. This should give users more flexibility to how they want ItemSync to show on their screens. The UI elements are still a work in progress though
Sorry for keeping you in the dark folks. I have been working on ItemSync Ace3 conversion. Since it's quite a huge addon it's been taking some time. I'm doing it on my spare time and since I'm a full time student it's going to be awhile. I didn't think anyone needed it that badly lol. I have the core framework done and I'm working on the new module cores that will handle the stuff you guys remember from ItemSync (such as Favorites, QuickBags, etc..). I'm truly sorry it's taking me so long but I'm really not in a hurry. I understand you guys/gals want it sooner and I appreciate the enthusiasm Don't worry about donations as I love to contribute to the community and I don't ever expect anything in return. I should have something in the beta stages in a week or so. Once I get the GUI working I'll put up a screenshot for everyone. Till then I've been releasing a few addons here and there I was working on, on the side. So yes ItemSync is still being worked on It's not dead.
On a side note: Please thank Kaiganeru for getting a hold of me. It completely didn't occur to me to check the ItemSync page since I was working on it, for that I'm sorry. I will try to look on this page and reply with comments more.
On a side note: A general question to everyone. If there was a new feature you wanted added to ItemSync, what would it be and why? Let me know if you guys/gals have something you would like to see in ItemSync. Please be descriptive.
Any chance of a feature that lets people whisper me to search for item links? That's pretty much the one feature that keeps me using Saeris' LootLink these days.
ItemSync is kept updated on the SVN for Ace2. All Ace2 addons can be found on the updater. To remedy the problem your having, first download the WOWAceUpdater found here. http://www.wowace.com/wiki/WinAceUpdater. Once you have it installed run it and click on ItemSync. Then press F12 or "Update with Externals" whichever you prefer.
Ace2 has to be updated in order to repair this issue. It's not directly linked to ItemSync.
Ever since updating to a newer version of itemsync i've been getting this error whenever i try to expand one of the dropdown menus.
Just thought i'd let you know of it, in case it isnt just a conflict with another mod, and if it is, can you tell which one it is? its very annoying, that im unable to sort the list after quality like i've always had it sorted.
Thanks for all your time and effort Derkyle, i love your mod, and i've used it since the very first Item Matrix versions.
(sorry about the long post, but what's a guy gonna do eh?)
I gave Kirson's revised edition a try. As I noted in the comments there, this revision changes nothing at all regarding previously seen BC green-item saved links. Doing the suggested "To strip the invalid items (ed: referring to invalid links) just open the ItemSync mainframe" just doesn't work. They will still exist in an older database no matter what you do and will still show up as "+0 (stat)".
It will, however, record newly seen BC items properly. So what you end up with is a line (colored green) with the original, invalid data link and a line below that (colored yellow) with the valid data. All the rest of the variations of the item that have not been seen yet "(i.e. Shadow Council Boots of...") only have invalid data links with the bad stats.
So, I gave it a couple weeks rest & went back to the fully working, no link issues Saeris's LootLink. Then today, removed my ItemSync.lua file from Saved Variables. Then I updated ItemSync off the SVN (revision 32104 as of this date). Downloaded and installed your ItemSyncDB. And gave it another try.
Nope. Followed the instructions for the downloadable database to the letter. Everything went smoothly. Logged out after confirming 52K+ items now in ItemSync (with about 10K red-color invalids). Logged back in. Did a search for "Shadow Council". Every link that showed up was not red in color ("invalid"), it was green. Yet every single one, except one that had a second yellow line showing proper info (due to a Shadow Council item seen in the character backpack), gave the old incorrect "+0..." stats.
You will want to update your downloadable database, man. As well as inform people that using databases (their own or yours) with data saved prior to revision 30597 will result in many useless links for BC items, as mentioned above. Which means anyone using your downloadable database.
EDIT: A version of ItemSync that works properly would actually remove the bad-data items from a database (as implied would happen in Kirson's revised edition , but really doesn't).
Thanks to all the fans."
I think I would love to see an update to WotLK, too.
