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LightHeaded

Version: v100002-1.0.0-2022-12-15

by: Cladhaire [More]

Classic not updated at the moment, only retail.

LightHeaded is a very simple addon that displays quest information and comments from http://www.wowhead.com in game, eliminating the need to Alt-Tab when you get stuck on quest. This addon was inspired by qcomments and wowhead_quests, which both serve a similar purpose. Data is only loaded when you first request it, so you can be sure you're not using more memory than you need to.

I HIGHLY suggest using this addon with TomTom, another one of my addons (http://www.wowinterface.com/download...32-TomTom.html ). This allows you to simply click any coordinate in LightHeaded to add it to your map as a waypoint.

The following slash commands are valid:

/lh attach - Attaches the frame to the quest log
/lh detach - Detaches the frame, allows you to resize and move it
/lh sound - Toggles the open/close sound
/lh page - Toggles showing all comments on one page, or with multiple pages
/lh bgalpha <0.0-1.0> - Changes the alpha of the LH window background textures, so you can see the world.
/lh debug - Enables or disabled debug messages when loading quest databases
/lh config - Opens the LightHeaded configuration window
/lh autodetails - Toggle automatic opening of the Lightheaded window when clicking a quest in the objective tracker

LightHeaded now includes the English descriptions and introductory text for most of the quests in the game. This is disabled by default, but can be enabled for those players that are not playing in their native locale.

LightHeaded supports sending coordinates to TomTom, MapNotes, Cartographer2 and Cartographer3.

IMPORTANT: Addon authors that wish to use this API and data should
include the wowhead logo in the frame that displays this information.
They are kind enough to let me continue parsing their database, and we
owe them at least that much. Thank you.

Thanks for using my addons!

Updated 2022-12-15 for retail.

Beta Files (7)

File Name	Version	Hits	Size	Author	Date
beta_LightHeaded-v30401-1.1.0-2022-12-15.zip	v30401-1.1.0-2022-12-15	0	32MB	Cladhaire	02-04-23 03:41 AM
beta_LightHeaded-v11302-1.0.0-2020-05-01.zip	v11302-1.0.0-2020-05-01	591	10MB	Cladhaire	05-05-20 11:47 AM
beta_LightHeaded-v11302-1.1.0.zip	v11302-1.1.0	1,322	10MB	Cladhaire	10-04-19 11:26 AM
beta_LightHeaded-v11302-1.0.0.zip	v11302-1.0.0	1,464	10MB	Cladhaire	09-05-19 12:16 AM
beta_LightHeaded-v70100-1.1.0-2016-12-29.zip	v70100-1.1.0-2016-12-29	299	30MB	Cladhaire	01-12-17 02:27 PM
beta_LightHeaded-v70000-1.0.0-beta.zip	v70000-1.0.0-beta	307	27MB	Cladhaire	09-05-16 07:11 AM
beta_LightHeaded-v60000-0.1.0.zip	v60000-0.1.0	1,012	22MB	Cladhaire	10-20-14 02:50 PM

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11-18-07, 06:34 PM

Cladhaire

Salad!

Forum posts: 1935

File comments: 4940

Uploads: 19

Re: I just downloaded this today and..

Originally posted by Realcacheese
The addon could not find information for quests from Thunder Bluff.
ss: http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l1...807_132245.jpg
and here's a ss of other quests, to show that the addon is working properly
http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l1...807_132253.jpg

The two quests are:
The Sacred Flame &
Steelsnap

It's a great addon nonetheless.

Looking into it, looks like they got missed in the last parse. Thanks for the report.

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11-18-07, 06:21 PM

Cladhaire

Salad!

Forum posts: 1935

File comments: 4940

Uploads: 19

Originally posted by Coldfury
Is there some documentation for the API? i try looking in the LH folders but didnt find it.

Look in LightHeaded.lua

There's a number of interesting functions. Also you can look at BEQL or some other addon that grabs information. It really depends on what you're trying to do, use the frame, or get at the information.

11-18-07, 03:54 PM
Realcacheese A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 1 Uploads: 0	I just downloaded this today and.. The addon could not find information for quests from Thunder Bluff. ss: http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l1...807_132245.jpg and here's a ss of other quests, to show that the addon is working properly http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l1...807_132253.jpg The two quests are: The Sacred Flame & Steelsnap It's a great addon nonetheless.

11-18-07, 02:52 PM

chippewa

A Fallenroot Satyr

Forum posts: 21

File comments: 12

Uploads: 0

Re: Re: Quest Levels?

Originally posted by Cladhaire
You download an addon that adds quest levels to the quest log, such as Levelator.

Thank you. I did some reading and found out my CTCore was the mod I was using to do this. I apologize I thought it was built into this mod.

11-18-07, 02:48 PM
Coldfury A Deviate Faerie Dragon Forum posts: 18 File comments: 78 Uploads: 3	Is there some documentation for the API? i try looking in the LH folders but didnt find it.

11-18-07, 08:01 AM

Cladhaire

Salad!

Forum posts: 1935

File comments: 4940

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Re: Please provide either a title/level pair

Originally posted by txxnnok
Sorry,
Dreadsteed of Xoroth (dungeon) , lvl 60
Hearts of the Pure , lvl 20

Hearts of the Pure started showing up as an available quest after the Blizzard patch. For some reason there wasn't any information in lighthead for it eithter.

(dungeon) is not part of the quest name, and if some addon is including it then that's the cause of your issues. You can verify this with the following:

/script ChatFrame1:AddMessage(LightHeaded:GetQuestInfo("Dreadsteed of Xoroth", 60))

This returns the number 7361, as it should. The same works for Hearts of the Pure. In short, you have something else that's causing this issue.

11-18-07, 07:41 AM

Cladhaire

Salad!

Forum posts: 1935

File comments: 4940

Uploads: 19

Re: Quest Levels?

Originally posted by chippewa
I just installed the mod and it works but how do I get the quest levels to show up in the brackets by the quest names like in your screenshot?

ex. [10] The Party Never Sleeps

My quest log doesnt have the quest levels just the names of the quests like this:

The Party Never Sleeps

How do I get the [10] to show in the log?

You download an addon that adds quest levels to the quest log, such as Levelator.

11-18-07, 06:57 AM
txxnnok Order of the Horde Forum posts: 13 File comments: 28 Uploads: 0	Please provide either a title/level pair Sorry, Dreadsteed of Xoroth (dungeon) , lvl 60 Hearts of the Pure , lvl 20 Hearts of the Pure started showing up as an available quest after the Blizzard patch. For some reason there wasn't any information in lighthead for it eithter.

11-18-07, 06:38 AM
chippewa A Fallenroot Satyr Forum posts: 21 File comments: 12 Uploads: 0	Quest Levels? I just installed the mod and it works but how do I get the quest levels to show up in the brackets by the quest names like in your screenshot? ex. [10] The Party Never Sleeps My quest log doesnt have the quest levels just the names of the quests like this: The Party Never Sleeps How do I get the [10] to show in the log?

11-18-07, 03:08 AM

Cladhaire

Salad!

Forum posts: 1935

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Uploads: 19

Re: Because those quests aren't in the database yet. They'll be added in the next upd

Originally posted by txxnnok
The warlock quests are not showing up. The epic steed and some other lower level one (blizzard glitch)for incubus i think. But as for the epic dread steed.
It was showing up prior to lightehead update. Now that I'm on last part it is black. I can temporarily use an older version till the update, but I wan't sure if this was a glitch.

Superb Add on Thanks

Please provide either a title/level pair, or a quest id from wowhead, and I'll look into it.

11-18-07, 01:11 AM
Coldfury A Deviate Faerie Dragon Forum posts: 18 File comments: 78 Uploads: 3	yeah sorry. Im fairly new to coding and from what i knew, and from the way i tough of doing it, it didnt look that hard. I didn't know we could do that with the API, i will look it up and try to right a plugin for that. Im sorry if my post were taken in a bad way, it wasnt at all. I think LightHeaded is a great addons, and TomTom too . I just wanted to help you add a feature that some ppl like me wanted, but i totally understand ur point and i like i said ill look into the API .

11-18-07, 01:08 AM
txxnnok Order of the Horde Forum posts: 13 File comments: 28 Uploads: 0	Because those quests aren't in the database yet. They'll be added in the next update. The warlock quests are not showing up. The epic steed and some other lower level one (blizzard glitch)for incubus i think. But as for the epic dread steed. It was showing up prior to lightehead update. Now that I'm on last part it is black. I can temporarily use an older version till the update, but I wan't sure if this was a glitch. Superb Add on Thanks

11-17-07, 07:57 PM

Cladhaire

Salad!

Forum posts: 1935

File comments: 4940

Uploads: 19

Originally posted by Coldfury
Could you add UberQuest support plz?

the right side of the panels is UberQuest_Details. Changing "QuestLogFrame" by "UberQuest_Details" works.

i think it would be something like
if UberQuest and UberQuest_Details then
anchor = "UberQuest_Details"
else
anchor = "QuestLogFrame"
end

No, at the moment I have no plans to do this sort of thing. Feel free to write a LightHeaded_UberQuest addon that you can host right here on wowinterface.com, so its accessible to all of the users.

Originally posted by Grizzly UK
Think you'll be told that you should ask the author of UberQuest to add support for LightHeaded! Seriously though, why do some people keep asking Cladhaire to add support for the various quest log addons that are available?

Correct. My time is better spent making sure that the relationship with wowhead stays intact, that I can keep up with parsing, and work on my other addons. I barely have the time I do right now to manage the simple codebase I already have. As soon as I start "supporting" other things in my addon, there's more I have to do to maintain that support.

Originally posted by Spyr
Your addon looks great and I would love to use it , but it seems that you don't support it being used with Party Quests and the Cosmos author is on hiatus.
Following is my question to Cosmos and their reply regarding Lightheaded.

My question to Cosmos regarding Lightheaded Support 10-17-07
-----
Morac suggest using Lightheaded for information on quests, but I have not been able to get this to work with Party Quests. Does Party Quests support Lightheaded being used?
Author of Lightheaded says there is little she can do to support Party Quests.
The notes in Lightheaded say that it will work with any quest log that uses QuestLogFrame. I am not sure if Party Quests uses that.

If Party Quests is not able to use Lightheaded I would love to see it be able to as I group with a great many people that use Party Quest. It would be a problem to have to get everyone to change to a quest log that supported Lightheaded.
----------------------
Response from Morac 10-17-07
Lightheaded doesn't currently work with PartyQuests. I was going to add support for it (and Mobmap), but I've kind of taken a hiatus from WoW at the moment so even if I did add it, I'd have no way of testing it.
__________________
I am on hiatus.

Then I suggest you find someone who is willing to take up adding the support, or write a simple addon yourself which adds it. I will gladly accept addons to LightHeaded, such as LightHeaded_PartyQuests which does the following:

Detaches Lightheaded using API
Places it near PartyQuests so its usable
Makes it so changing the quest in PQ changes the LH data.

I just ask that:
1.) It's hosted here, as an addon to LightHeaded, so everything is in one place
2.) That its not done in LightHeaded itself, because its not necessary.

Originally posted by Coldfury
I don't think it should be like that. Its not UberQuest getting anchored to the LightHeaded frame. UberQuest author can't do anything about that unless he rewrote the entire addon and used the default questlogframe instead of a custom one.

It simple to add other questlogs support with a code similar to what i posted.
You just need the frame their using.

You think its easy. You're wrong. You also think that using teh LH data is hard, you're wrong there as well.

Even simpler, you make it a local. like "local anchor = "QuestLogFrame"", and like that, users could easiliy manually edit one line in the lua and make lightheaded work with their fav questlog mod.

or another solution would be that, when the LH frame in "unattached", it pops when you select a quest, instead of poping when the questlogframe opens.
Like that ppl with other Questlog mod could still use LH.

maybe because we want to use LightHeaded and don't want to change our questlog to default or DoubleWide...

You don't need to use the default or DoubleWide.. There are at least two other addons that have support for LightHeaded WITHOUT using my frame. They simply use the well defined API to pull the data which is displayed themselves.

Regardless of what you think is or isn't the right way, this is how it is simply because I can't be assed to put any more time in supporting things that I don't use, and would suck up more of my extremely limited time.

Limits.. I have them.

Originally posted by Coldfury
I tested the code i posted couple post ago and it works fine.

Code:

-- added at the top of the file local anchor = "QuestLogFrame" -- around line 716, i added/replaced function LightHeaded:CreateGUI() if LightHeadedFrame then return end -- custom questlog support if UberQuest and UberQuest_Details then anchor = "UberQuest_Details" else anchor = "QuestLogFrame" end local lhframe = CreateFrame("Frame", "LightHeadedFrame", getglobal(anchor)) -- and change all others "QuestLogFrame" to "anchor"(without quote) in the file.

this will anchor LH to UberQuest if the mod is loaded, otherwise to default questlog.
just need to add the other quest logs.

Note: The LH frame wont be exactly same height as ur questlog. And you need to open/close the LH frame to update its content for the quest ur watching, but still, i can use LH with UberQuest so im pretty happy

Great, write a plugin. For all the reasons you state here, this is EXACTLY why I wont' start supporting off-shot quest logs in LightHeaded. Its an absolute nightmare.

11-17-07, 05:27 PM
Coldfury A Deviate Faerie Dragon Forum posts: 18 File comments: 78 Uploads: 3	I tested the code i posted couple post ago and it works fine. Code: -- added at the top of the file local anchor = "QuestLogFrame" -- around line 716, i added/replaced function LightHeaded:CreateGUI() if LightHeadedFrame then return end -- custom questlog support if UberQuest and UberQuest_Details then anchor = "UberQuest_Details" else anchor = "QuestLogFrame" end local lhframe = CreateFrame("Frame", "LightHeadedFrame", getglobal(anchor)) -- and change all others "QuestLogFrame" to "anchor"(without quote) in the file. this will anchor LH to UberQuest if the mod is loaded, otherwise to default questlog. just need to add the other quest logs. Note: The LH frame wont be exactly same height as ur questlog. And you need to open/close the LH frame to update its content for the quest ur watching, but still, i can use LH with UberQuest so im pretty happy

11-17-07, 04:56 PM

Coldfury

A Deviate Faerie Dragon

Forum posts: 18

File comments: 78

Uploads: 3

Originally posted by Grizzly UK
Think you'll be told that you should ask the author of UberQuest to add support for LightHeaded!

I don't think it should be like that. Its not UberQuest getting anchored to the LightHeaded frame. UberQuest author can't do anything about that unless he rewrote the entire addon and used the default questlogframe instead of a custom one.

It simple to add other questlogs support with a code similar to what i posted.
You just need the frame their using.

Even simpler, you make it a local. like "local anchor = "QuestLogFrame"", and like that, users could easiliy manually edit one line in the lua and make lightheaded work with their fav questlog mod.

or another solution would be that, when the LH frame in "unattached", it pops when you select a quest, instead of poping when the questlogframe opens.
Like that ppl with other Questlog mod could still use LH.

Originally posted by Grizzly UK
Seriously though, why do some people keep asking Cladhaire to add support for the various quest log addons that are available?

maybe because we want to use LightHeaded and don't want to change our questlog to default or DoubleWide...

Last edited by Coldfury : 11-17-07 at 04:59 PM.

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