Archive for October, 2005

Hunter’s Helper 1800.2

Tuesday, October 11th, 2005
  • Fixed some error messages that came up when taming pets or using /hh find. That’s what I get for making last-minute tweaks during Patch Day maintenance…

Guildentipper 1800.2

Tuesday, October 11th, 2005
  • Fixed an error message in loading. That’s what I get for making last-minute tweaks during Patch Day maintenance…

Gemologist 1800.1

Tuesday, October 11th, 2005

Initial release. (Locale-independent and localizable, too! Translators are welcome to edit localization.lua and send me their canges fur inclusion in future releases.) See Gemologist main page for details.

AdSpace 1800.1

Tuesday, October 11th, 2005
  • Updated for WoW patch 1.8.
  • Includes partial Korean localization (covering vendor names and locations) by “zeroc00l”. (Other translators are welcome to edit localization.lua and AdSpace_Vendors.lua and email them to gazmik@fizzwidget.com for inclusion in future releases.)
  • Fixed a bug that appeared when looking at items sold by Rin’wosho the Trader.
  • More locale independence: should correctly look up items from Horde/Alliance vendors if the terms “Horde” and “Alliance” are translated in your version of WoW.
  • General improvements to utility code shared with other Fizzwidget addons (GFWUtils, GFWTable, and GFWTooltip).

ReagentCost 1800.1

Tuesday, October 11th, 2005
  • Updated for WoW patch 1.8.
  • Typing /rc <item link> will now output a brief report on the reagents used to craft the item, their estimated costs, the estimated resale value of the crafted item, and the estimated profit/loss if you were to buy all the reagents, make the item, and then auction it.
  • General improvements to utility code shared with other Fizzwidget addons (GFWUtils and GFWTable).

NOTE: While Reagent Cost has been updated for WoW patch 1.8, the addons it depends on for price data haven’t (as of this writing), and they most likely need changes in order to function without errors. See their home pages (Auctioneer, KC-Items, or AuctionMatrix) for updates.

AutoCraft 1800.1

Tuesday, October 11th, 2005
  • Updated for WoW patch 1.8.
  • New Feature: You can pause and resume the queue (and control whether it starts automatically when you add to it), and switch among multiple trade skill windows without losing track of what’s queued up. Unfortunately, there’s no way for us to auotmatically switch to the apporpriate skill when it’s needed in the queue; so, for example, if you’re a miner/smith and queue a bunch of smelting followed by some smithing, we’ll automatically pause the queue when we get done with the smelting and ask you to switch to your Blacksmithing window.
  • New Feature: We now account for queued items when calculating what trade skill actions are available. For example, if you’re a miner, you can queue your copper and tin for smelting and then queue Smelt Bronze without waiting for the copper and tin to finish. Also, this means you can’t queue more items than you can make; for example, a leatherworker who queues up enough Heavy Armor Kits to use up all his Heavy Leather won’t be able to queue any Heavy Leather Balls. (At least, not until he gets more leather or unqueues some of the armor kits.)
  • New Feature: There’s now a “Buy” button which allows you to purchase vendor-supplied reagents automatically.
  • There’s a little background behind all the extra TradeSkillFrame widgets so they don’t look so ugly hanging off the bottom.
  • General improvements to utility code shared with other Fizzwidget addons (GFWUtils and GFWTable).

Disenchant Predictor 1800.1

Tuesday, October 11th, 2005
  • Updated for WoW patch 1.8.
  • Now locale-independent! That is, it should be functional in all WoW languages, though the interface text isn’t translated for all of them.
  • Includes German localization by “the r@zor-blade”. (Other translators are welcome to edit localization.lua and email it to gazmik@fizzwidget.com for inclusion in future releases.)
  • Typing /dp <item link> now returns information for where to get enchanting reagents (the way the tooltip can) in addition to listing what reagents can come from disenchantable items.
  • General improvements to utility code shared with other Fizzwidget addons (GFWUtils, GFWTable, and GFWTooltip).

Enchant Seller 1800.1

Tuesday, October 11th, 2005
  • Updated for WoW patch 1.8.
  • General improvements to utility code shared with other Fizzwidget addons (GFWUtils and GFWTable).

Feed-O-Matic 1800.1

Tuesday, October 11th, 2005
  • Updated for WoW patch 1.8.
  • We now attempt to detect when the pet is failing to gain happiness after being auto-fed, delaying the next auto-feeding by five minutes in such circumstances. This should help with the problem where auto-feeding while in water (a situation we can’t detect directly) would repeatedly feed the pet every couple seconds, consuming much food but not doing anything for the pet. Unfortunately, this may also interfere with normal auto-feeding — our attempts to detect other conditions that prevent feeding sometimes fail, so this may cause auto-feeding to be delayed by five minutes if (for example) we end up trying to auto-feed during combat. I’m looking into solutions for the next relese.
  • Fixed a nil error that could appear when sorting food.
  • General improvements to utility code shared with other Fizzwidget addons (GFWUtils, GFWTable, and GFWTooltip).

Guildentipper 1800.1

Tuesday, October 11th, 2005
  • Updated for WoW patch 1.8.
  • General improvements to utility code shared with other Fizzwidget addons (GFWUtils).

Hunter’s Helper 1800.1

Tuesday, October 11th, 2005
  • Updated for WoW patch 1.8 and its new beast ability, Lightning Breath. (I’ve tamed every wind serpent in the game on the test server, save for two that are quest spawns and the three in the Sunken Temple. Almost all have the new ability, but you can now use Hunter’s Helper to find out which ones you need to tame to get which ranks.)
  • All the information we track is now fully dynamic — if you tame a beast which turns out to have abilities we didn’t already know about, we save this information and reuse it both in the tooltip and for /hh find. (Previously we’d save much of this information, but not reuse it as thoroughly.)
  • Because of this (and the new SavedVariables mechanism introduced in 1.7), it’s now much easier for me to add newly discovered info to the built-in database. If Hunter’s Helper points out that you’ve found something new (or incorrect) and asks you to mail gazmik@fizzwidget.com, it’d help to attach your World of Warcraft/WTF/Account//SavedVariables/GFW_HuntersHelper.lua file.
  • These kind of notifications should only come up once upon taming a beast. (Previously, they’d appear twice in some cases.)
  • Fixed some errors in our built-in database: there’s no “Undead Wolf” in Feralas, “Young Stranglethorn Panther” is acutally “Young Panther”, “Ferocious Grizzled Bear” in Silverpine Forest has Claw 2, and the known level ranges for many beasts have been changed to more conservative estimates.
  • Our zone connections database now includes Zul’Gurub and Ahn’Qiraj; /hh find should now work properly from those locations.
  • General improvements to utility code shared with other Fizzwidget addons (GFWUtils and GFWTable).

ShoppingList 1800.1

Tuesday, October 11th, 2005
  • Updated for WoW patch 1.8.
  • If the auto-reporting feature is turned on, we play a sound when your AH scan finishes (for those of us who tend to take a coffee break while Auctioneer works its way through all hundred-odd pages of the AH).
  • General improvements to utility code shared with other Fizzwidget addons (GFWUtils and GFWTable).