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LightHeaded  Popular! (More than 5000 hits)

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.
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Unread 11-21-08, 03:43 PM  
forty2j
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Originally posted by bdon
i just recently got a weird bug.
whenever i open up lightheaded, my FPS goes from the 40s down to about 15.
also whenever i try and scroll through the pages to see what people have written about the quest, it just takes me back to the very first page. anyone know why its doing this?
Update to the latest version, and it will attempt to give you a warning about what addon you're conflicting with. You're definitely conflicting with something.
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Unread 11-21-08, 03:11 PM  
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i just recently got a weird bug.
whenever i open up lightheaded, my FPS goes from the 40s down to about 15.
also whenever i try and scroll through the pages to see what people have written about the quest, it just takes me back to the very first page. anyone know why its doing this?
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Unread 11-21-08, 12:25 PM  
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Re: Re: Re: Quest Givers

Originally posted by badkarma9000
Right. But I have to already have spoken to them once to get the quest... A guy had posted that in addition to that, this tool can be used to find new quest givers that you haven't yet visited-- kind of like what Cartographer_Quests used to do.

edit: if Lightheaded can't do this, by chance do you know of a quest-giver-locater addon that can?
Oh.. no, LH won't help you find new questgivers (outside of using an /lh command to manually enter a quest ID from Wowhead). I tend to let the breadcrumb quests in-game do their work, not to mention the giant !'s on the minimap these days, and don't know of / use an addon for that.
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Unread 11-21-08, 11:35 AM  
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Re: Re: Quest Givers

Originally posted by forty2j
You can click the quest and see the start & end NPCs, and click those to get their coords, and click those to get the pointy arrows. Assuming of course Wowhead has the coords.
Right. But I have to already have spoken to them once to get the quest... A guy had posted that in addition to that, this tool can be used to find new quest givers that you haven't yet visited-- kind of like what Cartographer_Quests used to do.

edit: if Lightheaded can't do this, by chance do you know of a quest-giver-locater addon that can?
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Unread 11-21-08, 11:32 AM  
forty2j
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Re: Quest Givers

Originally posted by badkarma9000
This is a great add-on, I'm having a blast with it.

Someone told me though that I could use this to point me in the direction of quest givers I haven't found yet.

Am I missing something? How do I find those?
You can click the quest and see the start & end NPCs, and click those to get their coords, and click those to get the pointy arrows. Assuming of course Wowhead has the coords.
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Unread 11-21-08, 11:25 AM  
badkarma9000
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Quest Givers

This is a great add-on, I'm having a blast with it.

Someone told me though that I could use this to point me in the direction of quest givers I haven't found yet.

Am I missing something? How do I find those?
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Unread 11-21-08, 06:27 AM  
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Re: update

Originally posted by SuperNova28
[b]any news on when the next update will be?? i am finding that when questing, that when i click on co-ords to make a way point that they are usually off by quite a bit..
Coordinates being off will not be fixed by an update. The If the comments don't change.. the data in LightHeaded will not change. If you're talking NPC coordinates that are provided by LightHeaded.. those come directly from TomTom. If they are wrong you are welcome to participate in their data gathering.

If you are doing quests where there are no comments, you should check that quest in wowhead. If there are comments there and they don't appear in LightHeaded you should report the EXACT quest id so I can review it.
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Unread 11-21-08, 06:15 AM  
SuperNova28
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Arrow update

any news on when the next update will be?? i am finding that when questing, that when i click on co-ords to make a way point that they are usually off by quite a bit.. somewhere around 30 yards or more (obviously TomTom)... also wanted to know if there will be an update soon to Lightheaded... i am finding that a lot of quests i am doing there are no comments... i am currently only doing lvl 73-ish quests....

any info would be greatly appreciated...
ty in advanced
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Unread 11-21-08, 12:03 AM  
Allara
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Originally posted by Cladhaire
Without a reproducable test case that doesn't include known addons that conflict with LightHEaded (QuestFu in this case) there's not a ton I can do here. The situation you're addressing should not occur. I suspect that QuestFu or QuestGuru are calling into the LightHeaded API and not performing the proper checks, but I can't be sure without a reproducable case.
No worries, it hasn't happened again and I doubt it will, and it didn't disrupt anything.
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Unread 11-20-08, 11:09 PM  
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Originally posted by Allara
I just now received the nil comment error myself, after selecting quest ID 12032. The error without stack trace is:

LightHeaded-264\LightHeaded.lua:498: attempt to index local 'comment' (a nil value)

I got it twice, once with QuestGuru further up the call stack, and another time with QuestsFu in it. Both occurred simultaneously when clicking on that particular quest. The error was one-time and I can't reproduce it even with the same quest.

This doesn't seem to be a common issue and is probably the result of some indeterminate combination of things. I'm reporting it because pompachomp below also saw it, so I'm corroborating it in case you want to add a nil check in there.
Without a reproducable test case that doesn't include known addons that conflict with LightHEaded (QuestFu in this case) there's not a ton I can do here. The situation you're addressing should not occur. I suspect that QuestFu or QuestGuru are calling into the LightHeaded API and not performing the proper checks, but I can't be sure without a reproducable case.
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Originally posted by pompachomp
[b]And I got this error randomly by clicking on a quest in the quest log...
I just now received the nil comment error myself, after selecting quest ID 12032. The error without stack trace is:

LightHeaded-264\LightHeaded.lua:498: attempt to index local 'comment' (a nil value)

I got it twice, once with QuestGuru further up the call stack, and another time with QuestsFu in it. Both occurred simultaneously when clicking on that particular quest. The error was one-time and I can't reproduce it even with the same quest.

This doesn't seem to be a common issue and is probably the result of some indeterminate combination of things. I'm reporting it because pompachomp below also saw it, so I'm corroborating it in case you want to add a nil check in there.
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Unread 11-20-08, 08:49 PM  
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Ok, I got this error below when clicking to go Back on the NPC location page on a quest I had just finished and was no longer an active quest.

Interface\AddOns\Lightheaded\\Lightheaded\.lua:85: bad argument #2 to 'format' (string expected, got nil)
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I don't believe any of these are problems with LightHeaded.. especially considering the number of addons you are CLEARLY running that alter the quest log, and LightHeaded. If you have a SPECIFIC quest that it happens on EVERY SINGLE TIME and only with LightHeaded installed.. then please report that quest id, and page number.
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I noticed the syntax is showing in comments sometimes:



link to the quest in the above pictures: http://www.wowhead.com/?quest=12218


And I got this error randomly by clicking on a quest in the quest log...

Code:
[2008/11/20 07:46:32-1108-x5]: LightHeaded-264\LightHeaded.lua:498: attempt to index local 'comment' (a nil value)
LightHeaded-264\LightHeaded.lua:543: in function `GetCommentText'
LightHeaded-264\LightHeaded.lua:757: in function `GetPageText'
LightHeaded-264\LightHeaded.lua:812: in function `UpdateFrame'
LightHeaded-264\LightHeaded.lua:223: in function <Interface\AddOns\LightHeaded\LightHeaded.lua:168>
<in C code>: in function `SelectQuestLogEntry'
LightHeaded-264\LightHeaded.lua:41: in function <Interface\AddOns\LightHeaded\LightHeaded.lua:40>
<in C code>: in function `SelectQuestLogEntry'
Interface\FrameXML\QuestLogFrame.lua:311: in function <Interface\FrameXML\QuestLogFrame.lua:301>:
<in C code>: in function `QuestLog_SetSelection'
beql-1.0.3:3.0.3\questlog.lua:389: in function <Interface\AddOns\beql\questlog.lua:276>
(tail call): ?:
<string>:"*:OnClick":1: in function <[string "*:OnClick"]:1>

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and another one..

Code:
[2008/11/20 07:47:52-1108-x9]: LightHeaded-264\LightHeaded.lua:498: attempt to index local 'comment' (a nil value)
LightHeaded-264\LightHeaded.lua:543: in function `GetCommentText'
LightHeaded-264\LightHeaded.lua:757: in function `GetPageText'
LightHeaded-264\LightHeaded.lua:812: in function `UpdateFrame'
LightHeaded-264\LightHeaded.lua:1325: in function <Interface\AddOns\LightHeaded\LightHeaded.lua:1323>

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Unread 11-19-08, 05:34 PM  
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Re: Re: Re: Conflicts

Originally posted by Cladhaire
Armory is the one addon that has a REAL conflict that the author is working to resolve. It can severly impact your performance. You can fix this temporarily by disabling the quest scanning module in Armory.
That cleared it up. I'm glad I can keep them both up to date now. Thanks for the help, as well as the quick response time.
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