What would you like to see?

[Digital_Utopia]

My model viewer project(s) are kinda on hold, until I manage to figure out the changes to the item display information in the client database files (dbc/db2), so right now I'm looking for ideas.

What WoW-related application or plugin would you like to see? While this mainly goes for desktop apps (Windows/Mac), it could also extend to web or mobile; but I have a feeling the latter two types are pretty saturated these days. But /shrug - you never know.

So let me know below, and I'll take my pick based on a combination of popularity, feasibility, and personal choice.

[Phanx]

A nicer version of WoW Global Finder with:

- The ability to select a folder and scan through it and all its subfolders, excluding "Libs" and "Lib" folders. Despite WGF having a button labeled "check file/folder" you can't actually select a folder; you can only select all the files in a folder manually.

- The ability to (ideally) see the offending line of code, and (or at least) to open the file to the specified line. The interface in grepWin works pretty well for this.

- The ability to show me what is wrong instead of just reporting "unknown error" for certain files that do not actually contain any errors as far as Lua and WoW are concerned... or, you know, just not failing on these files at all.

[Digital_Utopia]

Interesting.

So, it basically compiles the selected lua files, and then uses grep to get any globals and errors from the compile process? Did I get that right?

That does sound like it could be pretty fun to play around with; but I'm gonna let this thread sit a day or two, to see if anybody else has any requests, first. I mean, fair is fair.

[10leej]

I personally would like offline access to the game so I can test some changes I made to my addons yesterday when I currently have high speed access on the weekends.

#SatelliteInternetSucks

Anyways in reality I want the UI source code if someone can share a download link for me sure it'll take a night of downloading but it gives me something to play with other than my python programs and desktop environment fork and so on.

[Phanx]

Originally Posted by 10leej Anyways in reality I want the UI source code if someone can share a download link for me

http://www.townlong-yak.com/framexml

Or you can just extract it from your game client:

http://wowpedia.org/Viewing_Blizzard's_interface_code

[10leej]

Originally Posted by Phanx http://www.townlong-yak.com/framexml Or you can just extract it from your game client: http://wowpedia.org/Viewing_Blizzard's_interface_code

Don't have a game client on the daily driver and the ISP literally killed the bittorrent protocol so can't download it via bit torrent and ping is too high for the battle.net client to download even itself.

So... therein lies my problem, but thank you Phanx for giving me a link to work with.

[Digital_Utopia]

Originally Posted by 10leej I personally would like offline access to the game so I can test some changes I made to my addons yesterday when I currently have high speed access on the weekends. #SatelliteInternetSucks Anyways in reality I want the UI source code if someone can share a download link for me sure it'll take a night of downloading but it gives me something to play with other than my python programs and desktop environment fork and so on.

Source code? You mean the Blizzard lua/xml stuff in the game data? The guy who made MPQ Editor, also has an application named CascView that allows you to extract the files from the new gamedata format. There is one small catch. Since the WoW Casc storage doesn't yet contain a listfile, you'll need the one linked on the page. Unfortunately, that listfile is missing about 6k files. But the vast majority are there.

I'd have no problem sharing - but downloading that app would take a lot less time to download.

[Phanx]

If you just want to look at the source code for the Blizzard UI, you do not need any special tools, and you do not need to manually extract anything out of the game data files. Just use the links in my last post to either look at the code online in your web browser, or extract a local copy of the code from your locally installed copy of WoW using commands built into the game client itself.