Feed-O-Matic 11000.4
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- Fixed some issues with the tooltip code shared across Fizzwidget addons; Feed-O-Matic’s addition to item tooltips should now be able to show up in just about every place you can get an item tooltip.
April 20th, 2006 at 4:49 pm
Is Feed-O-Matic illegal now? getting a message from the game saying feeding is disabled because of patch 1.10 when using /fom on…. Is FoM just toolips now?
April 20th, 2006 at 4:55 pm
Nevermind my first post to you, got it fixed by reading more thanks..
April 21st, 2006 at 10:20 am
Best food? Bah! I want to feed the pet CHEAPEST food! He can scarf down a stack of free bread and be happy about it!
April 25th, 2006 at 7:59 pm
i need the autofeed function 😛
May 3rd, 2006 at 2:56 pm
Poor food selection protocols:
If I have a stack with 20 banana bread and a stack with 4 moon harvest pumpkins (both level 35 foods), this addon will invariably feed my piggy bread until there are only 4 bread left. It will then start alternating between the two foods.
This is when I have zero empty bag slots and the addon has been asked to keep at least 8 open slots in my bags.
May 9th, 2006 at 4:38 am
Is it possible that autofeed will be back any time soon?
May 12th, 2006 at 4:29 am
I know autofeeding doesnt happen anymore. But there may be a way to autofeed. Autobuff now uses target changes to check if it needs to buff you, maybe feed-o-matic can autofeed your pet the same way? Just a suggestion.
May 12th, 2006 at 4:15 pm
Automatic feeding is well and truly gone. Blizzard has made clear they don’t intend for picking up an item from your bags and dropping it on your pet to be able to happen without user intervention.
While it may be possible to hook other UI events/functions to bring back this feature, I don’t intend to, for two reasons: 1. Target changes, opening the loot window, and other possibly viable events to hook can happen too sporadically to keep your pet reliably fed. 2. If addons are using these other events/functions to “automatically� perform actions that Blizzard doesn’t want “automatically� performed (AutoBuff et al), Blizzard will just block whatever loopholes we find in subsequent patches.
I’m afraid the only recourse here is to, as they’d say on the official WoW boards, “learn2mindyourpet�. The latest release(s) of Feed-O-Matic provide several options to help you notice when your pet needs feeding, and still improve on the base UI by making feeding (with automatic food selection) a one-button / one-click operation.
Yes, I’m aware of some inconsistencies in the food selection/sorting code — I’m looking into fixing those for the next release.
May 13th, 2006 at 6:57 pm
I notice some foods are not being detected properly. Namely Roasted Quail and Spinefin Halibut. Both of them say they are already on the meat and fish diets respectively, but neither is ever selected to feed pet. Nor can you remove them from their diets lists.
May 15th, 2006 at 8:49 am
Well, PetFeeder claims to still work with auto-feeding… http://ui.worldofwar.net/ui.php?id=798
But I see what you’re saying. They’ll just close the holes anyway
May 17th, 2006 at 2:17 pm
Without bothering to actually go and look at how it’s done, PetFeeder probably uses a target selection action to do the autofeeding. i.e., you select a target somehow (click, type it out, [tab]) and it hooks into that hardware event to feed with. That’s what the newer iterations of Autobuff are doing now.
May 22nd, 2006 at 2:11 pm
I’m trying to figure out what all of those options on the options screen are for. Because they obviously aren’t doing what they’re supposed to be doing.
I had a quest to collect Crocolisk Meat. I had some in my bag, and my pet was hungry, and I had some other food (some cooked fish around my pet’s level). I had more fish than croc meat, but the bag space option was not enabled so that didn’t matter. I click the button, and it fed the croc meat to my pet. Even though I specifically told it not to.
After I finished that quest, it taught me how to cook said croc meat. I learned it and opened up my cooking window and cooked some, and later found some more. Option to avoid ALL foods used in cooking was checked, and it still fed the croc meat to my pet when I clicked the button.
This is one of the reasons I liked PetFeeder. It had a window of the foods it would feed to my pet, so if I didn’t want to feed a certain thing, I could open up that window and remove it. I could check and see exactly what foods my pet is going to eat when I click that feed button, and know what was going to happen. If I’m carrying around a couple of stacks of fish as pet food (because it’s worth almost nothing to vendor) I could just have those on the list, and save the others for myself or for vendoring. This mod seems to randomly choose between all of the different meats/fish in my bag, with no apparent logic behind it. I never know what my pet is going to eat when I click the button, it even eats things I tell it not to eat via the options.
May 23rd, 2006 at 1:07 pm
Also, why doesn’t it eat the smallest stack of food, all being equal? I have four stacks of 20 fish in my inventory, and when I look later, there’s four stacks of 18. Like it takes food from the largest stack first. Kinda backwards if you ask me. If I have two different types of cooked meat of the same level, wouldn’t I always want to feed the one from the smallest stack? I don’t see why I would ever want to do the opposite.