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Created: | 11-06-08 06:49 PM |
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Greetings,
I tend to be a bit wordy at times so bear with me. The mod started as a personal mod of mine that I added things I found helpful and used them myself, until it got to a point where I thought others might be able to find it useful as well and decided to post it. Useful Extras is a small little mod to make a number of helpful options availible, it takes almost no memory or processor use. To summarize; There is a basic calculator, color picker that is mainly helpful to developers or anyone messing with WoW text colors in-game, and a couple auto options similar to what TwoBox used to do but with more options.
The readme gives more specific details, but below is a basic summary of whats there right now.
And the portal here, will have have more frequent news about this mod same as Looter, as well as the Bug Reports and Feature Requests section there is availible for Useful Extras as well.
Functioning:
* Toggles for: Autoaccept Invite, Summon, Ress, Autofollow, Automount, UE on or off, Allow friends or Guild lists to use commands, Auto-accept Quests, Auto-complete Quests, Sticky Follow (follow after exiting combat), Whisper Relaying, Low Health/Mana Warning, and Return/Delete icons for the Mailbox.
* New toggles for Auto-declining Duel requests, or Guild Invites/Charter requests, as well as Auto-releasing on death in a battleground and Auto-passing on loot rolls.
* The before said features the toggles are for (that always work for those manually added to the Leader list, and work for those on the friends or guild lists if the use friends or guild toggles are on).
* Basic GUI, can be accessed with /ue menu
* Minimap button to open the menu, or reload the UI
* LDB(Broker) Support, minimap button functionality but on Titan Panel Fubar, or other LDB compatible displayer.
* Exp Report with /ue exp, or whisper command with /whisper name exp
* In-Game Basic Calculator (/ue calc (9*9)/3)
* ID command, to get a moused over items itemLink, item id, and stack size
* Ability to use the In-Game Color picker to get RGB values of any color, or the 'real' value used by WoW for its chat colors, Useful for developers to get the wow color values for using in chat messages. Can use /ue test chat to see what the current selected color will look like in a chat message, or /ue setcolor to set a standard R,G,B value (/ue setcolor 255,124,56) for seeing what it'd look like in a chat message with /ue test chat. If using /ue getwowcolor, only the first two digits after the period are really necessary (0.04, 0.48), or simply get the RGB values and put (rgbvalue/255) in your code.
Using the recently added change to the mounting up function, you can make a global macro with /script UE_pickMount("smart") and it will automatically mount your best availible mount depending on what you have, your location & if you have cold weather flight for northrend. You can then put the global macro button on the actionbar of any character that has UE enabled and click it to smartly mount the best mount for the location regardless of what mounts each char may or may not have.
New Mounting Macros: Commands are /ue createmacros local, or /ue createmacros global Will create three mounting macros either in the global, or character-specific sections for the three mounting functions, such as one for best ground mount, one for best air, and one for "smart mounting" which can then easily be put on the actionbar. In the case of making them global, you could then have them availible to any character on the account to use the same macro and mount up regardless of what mounts they may or may not have.
Also the recently added preferred mount feature will be taken into account first when using any of the before said macros (or mounting whispers).
Todos:
In-Line Todos:
* Improve the Basic GUI (really this time)
Future Todo:
* TBD
Eternal Todos:
* Eliminate any bugs (if any)
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11-06-08, 11:16 PM | |
A Deviate Faerie Dragon
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What does it mean by 'automounting'?
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11-16-08, 10:43 AM | |
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Ground mount issue in Northrend
I am new to using Useful Extras and 0.05b was my first introduction to your great addon. In Northrend (at least in Dalaran, where I first used the automount feature), it appears your addon calls on flying mounts when you send a tell for the ground mount (I received the "you can't use that here" error). I downloaded an older version (skipped down to 0.02b) and ground mounting worked fine. So something must have changed along the way in your programming that doesn't agree with Northrend.
I also just want to say thanks for a great addon! I use it now in conjunction with Twoboxtoolkit. I would LOVE if you could incorporate some of the features offered there as it appears to no longer be supported and it doesn't have your fantastic automount/dismount/followme whisper features which are a HUGE timesaver once one sets up macros for them. I hope someday to see a version with a GUI of some sort (at this point, I find it easier to set defaults via the lua file than to mess with command line requests) and the ability to disable some options (calc/color picker stuff) - or better yet, a version with multi-boxing related features only. Thanks again for your hard work!
Last edited by kittykatmax : 11-16-08 at 10:44 AM.
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11-16-08, 01:42 PM | ||
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Re: Ground mount issue in Northrend
Glad you find the addon useful, Twobox is what inspired a few of the features in Useful Extras, the "Leader list" was based off the master list there, as well as autoaccept group invite. What other features from Twobox that aren't already in Useful Extras would you say would be helpful? I fully intend to have a GUI for the mod at a later date, I started with the slash commands (as you'd notice looking over the changelog of Looter my other released mod) and added the GUI later on after the basic functionality I wanted was working fine. I have a question about the disabling of the calculator/color picker, yes I realize they aren't useful to all, but if they take basically no memory/processor hit (especially if they aren't even used). Adding an option to 'disable' calculator and colorpicker would basically involve moving the code for them into a seperate 'module' and making that on-demand (such as how there are multiple modules you have to enable or disable for AtlasLoot, Lightheaded, Auctioneer etc..) which I think is kind of a waste for what takes almost no processor or memory to begin with.
Last edited by EVmaker : 11-16-08 at 01:51 PM.
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11-16-08, 05:44 PM | |
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Ground mount Issue and UE 0.07b
Well, I haven't found the problem myself, but I have thought up a way to get around it that will give foolproof mounting versus the 'guesswork' that UE essentially does now (smart guesswork but still guesswork). So in the next version UE should be able to choose the first available epic/regular or epic/regular ground mount available without a problem.
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11-17-08, 11:09 AM | |
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Re: Ground mount Issue and UE 0.07b
Mounts are:
[10:58:08] <Useful Extras> Item 2 is: Amani War Bear [10:58:08] <Useful Extras> Item 3 is: Armored Brown Bear [10:58:08] <Useful Extras> Item 4 is: Big Blizzard Bear [10:58:08] <Useful Extras> Item 5 is: Blue Qiraji Battle Tank** [10:58:08] <Useful Extras> Item 6 is: Cenarion War Hippogryph [10:58:08] <Useful Extras> Item 7 is: Red Riding Nether Ray [10:58:08] <Useful Extras> Item 8 is: Swift Brewfest Ram [10:58:08] <Useful Extras> Item 9 is: Swift Pink Hawkstrider [10:58:08] <Useful Extras> Item 10 is: Swift Purple Wind Rider [10:58:08] <Useful Extras> Item 11 is: Swift Zhevra [10:58:08] <Useful Extras> Item 12 is: Thalassian Charger [10:58:08] <Useful Extras> Item 13 is: Thalassian Warhorse [10:58:08] <Useful Extras> Item 14 is: White War Talbuk **Item 5 is obviously a problem since you can only use it in AQ, so if there's a way to put it on an exclusion list, that would solve one potential issue. The features I have turned on in Toolbox are: - Sticky following - Whisper Relay - Auto Accept Quest (Don't remember if your addon also offers) - Auto Accept Group Invite (Don't remember if your addon also offers) - Buff timeout warning - Low health warning - Low mana warning The only reason using your addon WITH Toolbox is a pain is because I wind up with a ton of whisper spam since I see the whisper I send to follow, then I get told my alt received a whisper (the one I sent), plus both addons tell me the toon is now on follow. lol With a GUI, there wouldn't be the spam of commands one can use (doing a /ue is rather overwhelming in terms of the amount of choices to sort thru); the lack of a GUI is the only reason a "multi-box only" version was on my wishlist. WITHOUT the GUI, as I said, there's a lot of info to sort thru. lol Thanks again for the swift response and the great addon! I'm going to give the newest version a try today. |
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11-17-08, 12:38 PM | ||||||
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Re: Re: Ground mount Issue and UE 0.07b
But since I hope to have a sticky follow'ish' toggle in the next version which I'll probably have out late today or tommorrow (the fiance 'asks' that I do alot of BG's with her, since she has two mounts to get her albino drake and plans to get two bg ones, and I was coding the improved mounting code for UE most of yesterday) you shouldn't have to wait long for a replacement for that.
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11-18-08, 01:55 PM | |
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Re: Re: Re: Ground mount Issue and UE 0.07b
Thanks again for being so amazingly responsive. I had no set expectations for when anything I commented on might be addressed; I realize these addons are a gift to the rest of us and I appreciate both your great work and your willingness to share it with the rest of us!
That last version worked perfectly. I will check out your portal to see what's coming down the pipeline. As an aside, my husband and I WoW together. It's always nice to see other couples that enjoy the game. It's a lot more interactive and bonding than blindly watching TV together IMHO. |
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11-19-08, 05:21 PM | ||
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UE 0.08b
And we agree completely, she isn't really into computer games besides WoW, but in that we have a good time playing together, when I read her your comment there she just nodded and said definitely.
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11-20-08, 09:40 AM | |
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Re: UE 0.08b
I am so excited to see this! Twobox has been acting a little funky lately so it's great to know I can finally leave it behind. Thanks so much for doing this...I can't believe you even got to it so quickly; I feel like I have my own private Addon maker. rofl
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01-13-09, 08:53 AM | ||
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Great Addon EVmaker, ecspecially the mounting part when following someone.
When are you gonna release the update with the "todo's" working ? I Would really like to see that happend @ kittykatmax i wish more people would think like you.
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01-13-09, 08:02 PM | ||
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02-18-09, 04:34 PM | |
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Great mod! Just wondering, I have the auto-decline guild invites checked, but that doesn't seem to stop Guild Charter Signature requests. I guess the question is, is that function supposed too?
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02-20-09, 11:07 PM | ||
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Edit: After a little digging, yes it is possible, and I'll be adding the guild charter declining to auto-decline guild invites (which I'll probably rename to guild requests). On a side note, the same event which makes that possible also allows declining of arena charter requests, would anyone that uses UE think that'd be good to add, or not an issue? (I'll post the same question on the portal in a bit)
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03-02-09, 07:46 PM | |
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EVmaker, I wasted to ask, are you planning on making this more utilizable.
Not that it isn't great already. but using it made me think, your basically turning text to code and the mod is a decoder of sorts. or so it seems. Well I have a few idea's and assist would be nice, so i could msg my alt "assistme" and they would assist me. typing "healme" would make my alt heal me, I think you've hit something with this addon. I know nothing about code, but i have some pretty crazy idea's. In my eyes, the idea behind this would totally replace keyclone. Or maybe you could let me know how i might go about making those changes myself. Great work, hope to hear from you |
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