Checklist2

Minor note: Error in my last post - it's FuBarPlugin-2.0 and not FuBarPlugin-1.0. The latter is absolutely ancient. Fixed now.

It's very doable. I'm working on it right now

lol


By the way, as this mod is still considered to be in beta, issues may arise in certain places. I sometimes find out what these guys might have felt...

Yeah, 2.0 already Here's all you may have missed, starting from release:
(maybe I should move it to a page on my author portal...)

1.0 was written in nine days, coding only on weekends due to RL constraints, bringing it down to five coding days. That was probably the fastest I had programmed yet. At present, parts of the current Checklist have been ported, with minimal modifications, from the code created during those five days.

1.1 replaced some coding "shortcuts" that were used, increasing efficiency; and removed the shortcut button (bad design) in favor of FuBar. It was the first version released here on WoWInterface.

1.2.53 enhanced the FuBar plugin, remembers the list you last used through sessions, changed the font used in the list title to what it is today, made the window movable, made the Checklist window look like the World Map window, added an "Add current text to editbox" in the setup window, made the list item text colors changeable, and added a task counter. Internally, the way Checklist2 handles list items was overhauled.

1.2.74.0322 fixes the problem with the add/remove list items functions.

The unreleased 1.3 broke my Checklist saved data . Also, I discovered so much obstacles in allowing arbitrary amounts of lists and list items that it would be easier to start from scratch.

The first public beta of Checklist2 was released on February 2, 2008. The first pieces of code were written around Christmas day, bringing total development time to about 9 weeks, almost from scratch, with very active coding, compared with 9 days from absolute scratch on the original. Internally, the code is peppered with sanity checks to prevent accidental "damage" to saved data, large amounts of notes so I don't get lost in my own code, and list names are now used to identify them as opposed to a numeric ID.

Well, that wasn't exactly a summary, was it? ^_^

With an addon like Checklist, that sounds pretty good! By the way, a message gets printed to chat when Checklist receives data from a newer copy of Checklist (introduced recently, still haven't released as some code is untested...)

Even before I've learned to make something as simple as a Hello, World! WoW addon, I've already been using Ace mods for a long time. Now I've learned that it isn't exactly "magical code sauce", but it sure makes the lives of both developers and mod users easier




The tooltip is generated by FuBar, (FuBarPlugin-2.0 if you wanna get technical...) which means that I can't control its contents that much. Hyperlinks (like item links, the Swatter chat error message) aren't a valid choice, seeing as hyperlinks in text which is a child frame of a mouse-enabled window don't work. Try it out, the chat log (excluding its borders) doesn't "catch" your mouse clicks.

You have no idea how long I've wondered what you, the creator of that thread which has stayed on my Firefox's bookmarks for almost seven months as of this post, would think of what I made. Thank you!

Firefox crashed while I was writing this. Had to rewrite that long post

For the basics of programming, see this tutorial. It tells you everything you need to know about the basics of programming, including conditionals, branching, flow control and iterators. Take your time going through it, as it's the best programming tutorial I've ever read.

After you've written an interactive baby dragon program (pretty simple, really), try the 2nd and 3rd links in here. The 2nd link has a lot of more advanced facts (how to create slash commands, tabbed windows, scrollable lists...), the third of which is pretty obvious in Checklist

Next, look at Farang's Frames Tutorial, also linked in the link above. It's a bit harder to learn XML, but it allows you to literally see your work, which is worth the effort.

Of course, you need to learn to make a TOC file. This is pretty simple, and you probably won't spend much time editing this file anyway.

Lastly, here are the programs I used in Checklist2. All are free.

• SciTE-WOWInterface (you should have gotten the "regular" SciTE from installing Ruby)
• WoW UI Designer (I used it to generate the simple parts of the UI window for Checklist2) Although this automates common XML tasks, I strongly suggest that you still learn to write XML - If you open Checklist2 with WoW UI Designer, you'll see that only a portion of the UI is in the autogenerated CoreFrame.xml, and the important parts are written "by hand" inside Applet.xml.
• XML Marker - makes XML code easier to understand
• The "User Interface Customization tool", which allows you to extract FrameXML code. Not exactly a "customization tool", imo. Also, EditingUI (same link) is a mod created by Blizz to make the positioning of frames onscreen much easier.

You're not gonna learn to program overnight, not even one week! Take your time, and remember: the code is only a small part of a mod - the important part is how it is designed.

Good luck!

Thanks for sending the screenshots and translations! One thing though:

This:
Should be this:
The text on the left ("Toggle Checklist2 window") is what Checklist2 uses to access the translation, so this needs to stay in English. The translations go after the =, or where all the true's are in the English locale file. Other than that, it's awesome, thank you again. I'll fix it up and have it in Checklist by tomorrow I'll send you an email once I put in all the text left to be translated after I add new things in

For the import feature, mods are not allowed to access anything outside WoW. That means you still have to copy-paste stuff in. What I can do is to make that easier - The import module will be built into the upcoming notepad. Every line can be turned into a list item when you click on a button. That's the best that I can do within WoW's restrictions.

As for the .m3u playlists, WoW can't handle those, but you can create a mod to play sound files (.mp3, .ogg, and maybe others) within the game. The sound files have to be inside the mod's folder before WoW starts though. Yet another restriction

If you're planning to learn to program, I encourage you to do it. It's fun!

Reading this made me so happy. Ckknight (the author of Cartographer) was one of the authors I wanted to be like.

That's incredible! I'm always trying my best to see how the users of this mod interact with it.

Not directly as WoW doesn't allow mods to write to files, but because I'm adding a notepad into Checklist pretty soon (I've done the actual "pad" already, all that remains is integrating it into the mod). Copy-paste would work.

As for the export module, It'll be simple to format a list (and absolutely easy for the upcoming Notepad) to replicate its Lua code. The import module would then interpret that code, turning it back into a list, or a Checklist Notepad "file".

Thank you for that, I appreciate it very much <3

Using the function you found below, I've enabled text wrapping on the tooltip Screenshots:
(see item #91)
Then tame a mistbat... (wrap after 75 characters)

Wrap test (wrap after 50 characters)

Side note: If you have FuBar and a mouse with mousewheel, mousing over the FuBar plugin and rolling the mousewheel will move the slider.

I'll put in an option to adjust how far it goes before the text wraps.

From what I've got from the #wowace IRC channel, it's not possible to do the alpha trick on the FuBar plugin tooltip, as that is generated by the Tablet-2.0 library.

What I can do is fix it from my end - I've thought of ways of fixing this problem:

• Use the wrap function you posted below to wrap the text before being displayed, or...
• ...only display the list items that are visible on the main window, or...
• ...both!

There'll be an option to pick which one you like in the upcoming Options tab, seen in a screenshot below. Look out for releases on WoWAce, either on files.wowace.com or through the WowAceUpdater (if you have it) as I commit updates to their SVN almost daily. Major updates will be uploaded here and at Curse, as always.