Post Your Small Addon API Suggestions Here

[ZorbaTHut]

Any chance you can key us in on what all information will be provided other than stats, like who and where it drops, or which quest it is from?

The client doesn't have drop data - you get to discover that on your own. (That's part of the fun!)

Quest info isn't in yet but it really should be. That said, there's no API yet for discovering which quests you have, so the ID number of the quest that the item is for may not be particularly useful.

Also a bit further up the suggestion to be able to inspect the players stats was made, is that also slotted for 1.6?

Not yet, sorry. Although you can do a good job of estimating by inspecting their equipment.

[Torinogut]

Allow addons to create/modify "real" unit frames. And by this I mean that they can be clicked and right-clicked. Also that cast bars and buffs could be modified or hidden by the addon.

[Pushad]

ReloadUI
For development is /reloadui fine, but I'd like to also use it also as "apply settings" button for user - it is much easier and robust to apply settings on startup than applying settings on startup AND on changes.

Executing file name
It would be also nice if there was another parameter in the addon info table - current file name. For example in file 'foo.lua'

local info = select(1, ...);
print(info.fileName);

would print "foo.lua"

[MP5]

addon: quake sounds for BG kills streaks

is it doable

[Hyperi]

It would be great to be able to scan through the chat messages you get through different sources (guild, say, yell, tell, raid, party, etc...) and even make it possible to have 'clickable' links...

It's annoying to find alternative sources to paste your links to some fun videos/sites/lolcats(?! )

Or make it by default clickable URLs (o:

So basically wanted clickable URLs, or a way that one can track public chat messages from other players.
If this is already possible and I just managed to miss it, I'm deeply sorry and grateful for pushing me towards
the right direction

(And for off-topic, Onebag would be awesome too. I know it's not small - hence the offtopic :P *hides*)

- Oliver 'Hyperi' Sakki

[the_real_seebs]

I would LOVE clickable links, and I sincerely hope they are never added.

Consider what happens when you give gold spammers the ability to embed clickable links. You can say "well, that only affects stupid and careless people", but even if that were true in direct effects, think about the impact on the support staff and their availability to help with problems that did not involve clocking on trojans.

[NerfedWar]

Inspect.Time.System to return the unix/posix time.

[Hyperi]

I would LOVE clickable links, and I sincerely hope they are never added.
Consider what happens when you give gold spammers the ability to embed clickable links. You can say "well, that only affects stupid and careless people", but even if that were true in direct effects, think about the impact on the support staff and their availability to help with problems that did not involve clocking on trojans.

I dislike this kind of approach, I always think disallowing features to discourage abuse is the wrong angle to go. Why not remove the whole chat system because gold sellers use it?

Why not make normal users gameplay more enjoyable, and make filters that detect gold seller spams?
Trials couldn't spam in any other way than say, and IP ban (if abused even more, C-class etc. to ban)

My basic point is, not having clickable URLs doesn't stop gold sellers spam - but having one, would be gladly welcomed by the community !

- Oliver 'Hyperi' Sakki

[Levva]

think about the impact on the support staff and their availability to help with problems that did not involve clocking on trojans.

Are you suggesting that the support staff are trojans need some timekeeping to clock on and clock off?

Perhaps that's why NerfedWar suggested in the very next post ...

Inspect.Time.System to return the unix/posix time.

[the_real_seebs]

My concern is that clickable links make it a lot easier for the gullible people to get hacked, without adding all that much benefit.

[Levva]

My concern is that clickable links make it a lot easier for the gullible people to get hacked, without adding all that much benefit.

Agreed, I don't see much benefit in allowing clickable links in game. The only use is to take you to a browser and thus outside the game, thus one could argue breaking the "immersion" in the game.

There are way too many potential downsides. Hyperi suggests they could be filtered etc but clearly he has never run a webfilter in a company where you constantly encounter issues with workarounds or genuine stuff being blocked. Hint it really isn't a simple process to add a filter, it needs constant tweaking and I'd far rather that Trion staff spend time working on new features than monitoring and updating a filter to keep users safe.

PS. real seebs my reply was meant to be humerous based on your mistype of "clocking" on trojans as opposed to clicking on trojans.

[Pushad]

Priority loading

It would be nice to have possibility to increase loading priority of an addon, so it loads earlier than most other addons (except dependencies and other addons with priority loading enabled). This would be useful for addons that handle lua errors.

[the_real_seebs]

Inspect.Time.CPU() -- returns the absolute total CPU time accumulated by the addon system so far

Rationale: Inspect.AddOn.CPU() gives me exponential falloff of time accumulated by various things. But sometimes what I really want is information accumulated over time, without falloff. I can approximate this pretty closely with Inspect.Time.Real(), but in some cases (say, cases where there's calls out the GPU and so on to implement some of the calls made), that may not be as accurate. Or may be substantially more accurate, depending on the question I'm asking.

[Starlon]

player.mouseover.mousever
target.mouseover.mouseover
pet.mouseover... I mean...
group01.mouseover

I want to see who in hell that healer's pointing at, cause it sure ain't on the tank. *look* Self heal at 75%...

[the_real_seebs]

Small suggestion: Make the tables returned by Inspect.Unit.Detail writeable.

Inspect.Unit.Detail("player").maxHealth = 99999

... oh, wait. Was this the thread for ideas that AREN'T awful? Whoops, wrong thread.

Although there is a sort of humor value to:

local me = Inspect.Unit.Detail("player")
Inspect.Unit.Detail("group01.target") = me