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AdvancedIconSelector  Popular! (More than 5000 hits)

Version: 1.0.7
by: Darthyl [More]

About AdvancedIconSelector:
AdvancedIconSelector is a complete replacement for the standard Blizzard macro / equipment set icon selector. It has a built-in search feature and an optional keywords library to make finding the right icon for your new macro or equipment set as easy as conjured mana pie!

This addon has several goals:
- To make the icon selector dialog resizeable, so you can see more icons at once.
- To allow searching by icon filename.
- To allow searching by addon-defined keywords (like "fire" or "cat").
- To make its icon selector available to other addons via its shared library

The keyword library that comes with AdvancedIconSelector specifies search terms for the 1200+ icons which can be used for macros and equipment sets. This library does not load until it's needed, so you don't have to worry about it adversely affecting your loading time.


Usage:
If enabled, AdvancedIconSelector will automatically replace the standard Blizzard icon dialogs. You can also type /icons or /ais to browse all the icons available.

If you hover your mouse over an icon, you'll see that icon's ID, filename, as well as which spells make use of it!

You can also filter the icons displayed by typing into the search box. You can use terms like AND, OR, and NOT to better specify what you're looking for - for example, you might search for "cat" to search for all cats, but then refine your search to "cat AND NOT cata" to get rid of all the bogus "Cat"aclysm items that appeared when you searched for "cat". (AND OR NOT can also be specified with , ; ! respectively (and whitespace means AND)... the previous search could also be accomplished with "cat !cata")


Tips:
- You can search by spell name! Try typing "arcane intellect"
- Most icons have color keywords. Try searching for "blue" to view all icons where blue is a prominent color!
- Many icons have element keywords. Try searching for "fire" !
- Be careful of substrings - searching for "holy" also yields the results for "unholy" as well!
- To do pattern matching, place an = in front of a search term: "=%d%d%d" will find all icons that have 3 consecutive digits in the filename or keywords (see http://www.wowpedia.org/Pattern_matching for more information)
- There's no way I can ever enter every single word you could ever think of for every single icon, so you're gonna have to be a little smart about your searches:
- Use simple keywords whenever possible: "explosion" is more likely to come up with results than "exploding" or "exploded". "flame" or "fire" is better than "flaming". "skull" is better than "skeletal".
- Use unambiguous terms: "fire" will provide much more helpful results than "magic"... and what I think of as magic may differ from what you think of as magic.
- Extremely subjective terms like "scary" are very rarely included.
- I tried to only include keywords like "mouth" if they're significant to the icon, as opposed to including it on every single icon that has a face. Therefore, searching for dull terms like "hair" may yield no useful results since there are no icons where the hair is really emphasized.


Other notes:
- NOT is processed before AND is processed before OR. Parenthesis are not currently supported.
- Patterns are matched against LOWERCASE filenames and keywords and cannot contain spaces.
- Keywords I've added are optimized out if they're part of the filename or another keyword. If a keyword you think should be there is not, check first that it's not part of the filename. (i.e., "dead" might not be a keyword if "undead" is part of the filename)
- Spell data is nearly, but not entirely complete. Most notably missing are hunter pets, mounts, companions, and profession specializations.
- If you also install AddonLoader (http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/addon-loader.aspx), this addon won't even load until you open the character or macro frame! I highly recommend it, as it may help in the delayed loading of other addons as well!

Also, if you're an addon developer, the internal library can be used to provide its searchable icon selection GUI to your own addon (regardless of whether or not this one is installed)! See AdvancedIconSelector\Libs\LibAdvancedIconSelector-1.0\Readme.txt for details on how to do this.

Check out my other addons:

  • ActionSwap 2 - http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info20855-ActionSwap2.html
Allows you to triple-spec effectively by swapping out sets of action bar items, glyphs, and even keybindings! (combine it with Talented, which swaps talents!)

v1.0.6 (September 24, 2012)
- Major keyword library update for Mists of Pandaria.

v1.0.5 (August 29, 2012)
- Added Mists of Pandaria compatibility.

v1.0.4 (March 29, 2012)
- Guild bank tab support added.
- First half of a massive keyword update, adding tons of new keywords for item icons.
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Unread 02-05-12, 08:30 PM  
Waky
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This looks really awesome, can't wait to try it out!

Edit: Pretty sweet, except when you have files that Blizzard changes the names on i.e. "Worgan" vs "Worgen." They felt like it was appropriate to change the spelling halfway through lol!
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You have solved a problem that has peeved me the entire time I have played World of Warcraft! I don't know if I'm a perfectionist or what but when I make a macro that wouldn't employ #showtooltip I waste a lot of time hunting through the multitude to find just the right one.

Your addon makes the process much quicker and produces much better results. Yeah, it solves a very small problem but it solves it perfectly.

Thanks for sharing this with the community.

I was so excited about the addon I made a video about it.

http://youtu.be/-4LHtirdUpc
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Originally Posted by wowunderachiever
You have solved a problem that has peeved me the entire time I have played World of Warcraft! I don't know if I'm a perfectionist or what but when I make a macro that wouldn't employ #showtooltip I waste a lot of time hunting through the multitude to find just the right one.

Your addon makes the process much quicker and produces much better results. Yeah, it solves a very small problem but it solves it perfectly.

Thanks for sharing this with the community.

I was so excited about the addon I made a video about it.

http://youtu.be/-4LHtirdUpc
I hope you saw the PM I sent you about the article, and just how much of an difference you've made. Contrary to the sketchy graph I sent you, however, it appears that downloads are actually still increasing by quite a bit! =)

Thanks again for all you've done to help my addon get noticed! =D
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Unread 03-25-12, 06:02 PM  
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Hey, I really love this addon! My only request would be to make it also available to the icon selection frame when working with guild vault tabs icons. I have a few guild vault bank alts which I am always relabeling, it would be very helpful!
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Originally Posted by lag
Hey, I really love this addon! My only request would be to make it also available to the icon selection frame when working with guild vault tabs icons. I have a few guild vault bank alts which I am always relabeling, it would be very helpful!
Thanks for your feedback! I was going to wait until I had finished the keywords for the non-equipment item icons (previously, I had only done the spell icons), but since you're not the first person waiting for this feature, I'll go ahead and make the release either today or tomorrow with what keywords I have so far, then slowly finish them up over the next month.

After all, even partial search results is still way better than what's there now anyway =)

Yay for guild bank support! =D
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There ya go! Guild bank support and tons of new icons for even better search results! =D
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thank you, expecting for this feature sooooo long.
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Unread 03-30-12, 07:58 AM  
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Originally Posted by Darthyl
There ya go! Guild bank support and tons of new icons for even better search results! =D
Thank you so much! This is fantastic!
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Just a note...

... to say thank you for updating this for 5.0.4 / MoP! I'm sure it's a huge amount of work, and it's really appreciated.

Thank you!

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Unread 09-08-12, 02:30 PM  
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Re: Just a note...

Originally Posted by Barleduq
... to say thank you for updating this for 5.0.4 / MoP! I'm sure it's a huge amount of work, and it's really appreciated.

Thank you!

Thanks! =D
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Unread 09-14-12, 03:15 PM  
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Fingers crossed.

I use Bindpad for my macros.
http://www.wowinterface.com/download...itemmacro.html

I love this mod of yours--has saved me a lot of "crabby time" looking for tab icons.
Sad thing is Bindpad does not recognize it so I'm stuck with the tiny Blizz selector in that mod.
I would love the ability to use these 2 mods together.

I don't know if there is anything you can do about it.
Would you be willing to see if you can make this "visible" to bindpad?
I'm hoping there is a hook available that would allow bindpad use this like the Blizz frames do.
If this needs some code in the other addon to make this work let me know and I will contact him.
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Unread 09-17-12, 10:21 PM  
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Re: Fingers crossed.

Unfortunately, I cannot enable support for specific addons - the author of Bindpad would need to choose to make use of LibAdvancedIconSelector-1.0 (http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/liba...onselector-1-0) to create a searchable icon frame. Instructions for doing so are at the top of LibAdvancedIconSelector-1.0\Readme.txt, or he can use ActionSwap 2 as an example addon that makes use of the library.

Originally Posted by DohNotAgain
I use Bindpad for my macros.
http://www.wowinterface.com/download...itemmacro.html

I love this mod of yours--has saved me a lot of "crabby time" looking for tab icons.
Sad thing is Bindpad does not recognize it so I'm stuck with the tiny Blizz selector in that mod.
I would love the ability to use these 2 mods together.

I don't know if there is anything you can do about it.
Would you be willing to see if you can make this "visible" to bindpad?
I'm hoping there is a hook available that would allow bindpad use this like the Blizz frames do.
If this needs some code in the other addon to make this work let me know and I will contact him.
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Unread 09-22-12, 09:03 PM  
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It has pained me over the years that Blizzard had us look at a 4x4 grid window to scroll through thousands of icons. Absolutely idiotic.

While revamping my guild bank tabs today it was making me so frustrated to look for appropriate icons for what I was trying to organize.

I wrote a complaint in the Blizzard's forum about how ridiculous it is that after 13 years of this product they don't have a resizable window for viewing thousands of icons. People were defending Blizzard that it would be a waste of resources on such a small matter blah blah.

I'm curious how long it took to make the window resizable, your lua code doesn't look too heavy for the actual window part.

I found your addon and installed it and OMG thank you so much. It does so much more than I expected. I wanted a Mists of Pandaria cloth icon on a bank tab and typed "wind" in the search box and instantly found Windcloth.

Dude I have to buy you a beer, how can I donate say I dunno 30 bucks through paypal or something?
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Glad to hear you're a fan of the addon! I don't think difficulty was much of an issue - pretty much all of Blizzard's UI is statically sized and positioned - not just the icon frame. It seems to be part of some sort of convention they keep to (maybe for localization issues?). I suspect, though, that one of the primary reasons they decided against a resizable icon frame is that it'd increase the video memory and hard disk requirements (try making the addon's window huge and then scroll - icons are loaded quite a bit slower). These things are a bit easier for an informal addon developer to get away with than a large corporation. =)

You also have to consider that there were quite a few fewer icons back when the original icon picker UI was first designed. It was only last November that they increased the number of icons displayed in the frame from 1,200 to almost 8,000 (which is not necessarily a bad thing, as it added many new usable icons to the addon as well). While it gives many new choices, it makes finding an icon a bit more overwhelming if you don't have either a search feature or a larger window.

That said, I still don't think I can truly excuse such a rediculously cumbersome interface in the current version of WoW... but at least there's some semblance of reason behind why it is the way it is. =)

If you'd still like to donate, the link is on this page: http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/advancediconselector . For some reason, wowinterface wants me to set up a business account at PayPal in order to post a donation link. XD I have a part-time contracting job, so I don't desperately need the money, but the fact that you're willing to pay for something that you could otherwise get for free says something about how much people are enjoying my work. =)


Originally Posted by Seapaddler
It has pained me over the years that Blizzard had us look at a 4x4 grid window to scroll through thousands of icons. Absolutely idiotic.

While revamping my guild bank tabs today it was making me so frustrated to look for appropriate icons for what I was trying to organize.

I wrote a complaint in the Blizzard's forum about how ridiculous it is that after 13 years of this product they don't have a resizable window for viewing thousands of icons. People were defending Blizzard that it would be a waste of resources on such a small matter blah blah.

I'm curious how long it took to make the window resizable, your lua code doesn't look too heavy for the actual window part.

I found your addon and installed it and OMG thank you so much. It does so much more than I expected. I wanted a Mists of Pandaria cloth icon on a bank tab and typed "wind" in the search box and instantly found Windcloth.

Dude I have to buy you a beer, how can I donate say I dunno 30 bucks through paypal or something?
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Oh my god.

I don't usually post on addons on here, but I have to say - THANK YOU. I have been looking for an add-on like this for years.

I'm very OCD, and as such, I have to map out my action bars as soon as I make a level 1. That way when I hit max level, the icons are in the same position, and it doesn't screw with my head. I would literally spend hours searching for an icon that's hidden somewhere that it really shouldn't be, etc.

So, thank you soooo much.

Though, the one thing I will say, being able to search by class would be amazing. XD (Like type Rogue and all Rogue skills/talent icons pop up)
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