Updating an addon?

[Phrequency-]

Not sure if this is the right forum to post this but, how hard is it to go about updating an addon for the current patch/build?

There's this announce addon (http://wow.curseforge.com/addons/announce/) I used in WoTLK and it was the best announcing addon I've used.

EDIT:

I'm looking for someone who is willing to help me update it in order to get it fully functional so we can upload it once again.

Thank you!

[Dridzt]

It's not too hard... maybe confusing for someone that's never looked at code before but you basically only need to modify this

function Announce:COMBAT_LOG_EVENT_UNFILTERED(_,timestamp,event,playerGUID,playerName,_,targetGUID,targetName,targetFlags,spellID,_,_,otherspellID)

at line 829 of Announce.lua
to match the proper number of arguments for WoW 4.x according to this page: COMBAT_LOG_EVENT_UNFILTERED

Insert throwaway variables _ where the new arguments have been added.

Edit:Try replacing the line I mentioned above (829 of Announce.lua) with this one

function Announce:COMBAT_LOG_EVENT_UNFILTERED(_,timestamp,event,_,playerGUID,playerName,_,_,targetGUID,targetName,targetFlags,_,spellID,_,_,otherspellID)

That should make it working but you might need to update some of the spells it's tracking if something was removed or added in the game.

[Phrequency-]

Yeah I got it. Thank a lot!

I'll work on updating the spells.

[Phrequency-]

Bump. Edited the first post. Looking for someone to update it with me.

[Xrystal]

there looks like a similar addon already working for 4.3 on this site already ... perhaps someone else had already done the reworking, who knows :

http://www.wowinterface.com/download...Announcer.html

Might be worth seeing how that works for you. Perhaps the programmer for that one will consider adding functionality into their version of the addon.

[Seerah]

According to that Curseforge page, the addon is:

License All Rights Reserved

This means that you do not have permission (unless explicitly stated by the original author) to update/upload the addon.

[Phrequency-]

Oh well I'm dumb. I won't mess with it then.

[Phanx]

Well, Curse (rightly) defaults to "All Rights Reserved" if the addon's author didn't specify a license, so that doesn't necessarily mean that the author is opposed to anyone fixing his addon. Have you tried sending him a PM and/or email through Curse asking for permission to update the addon? If he isn't working on it or playing WoW anymore, he probably won't mind, if you can get in touch with him.

Also, if you want to fix your locally installed copy that's fine, and that's how most of us got started writing addons. You just can't upload (distribute) it publicly without the original author's permission.