Addon Updates – Grunt, ChannelLock and Titleist

Been continuing work on some of my addons and figured an update post was due.

Grunt

I first wrote about Grunt a week ago. Since then I’ve got it almost done and have published a beta to Curse.

The feature list has slightly expanded:

• Auto-repop to graveyard if in a battleground and don’t have a SS
• Auto accept resurrect request
• Decline all duels (not sure this is working right now)
• Auto-accept invites from guildies or friends
• Hide that annoying “Are you sure you want to Quit?” dialog
• Skip gossip at vendors unless the ALT key is down
• Show/Hide enemy nameplates when entering/leaving combat

The only part that doesn’t seem to be working 100% as of yesterday is the accept invites from friends and guildies. That was working before so it shouldn’t take much to fix.

Developer checkins:
http://wow.curseforge.com/projects/grunt/

Beta and Official Releases:
http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/grunt.aspx

ChannelLock

I started ChannelLock back in December and while it continued to get a bit of attention here and there, some annoying timing bugs prevented me from releasing a beta.

I seem to have worked all of that out now, so the first beta is available on Curse.

Here’s the official description:

Have you ever found that the channels you're joined to changes without any rhyme or reason? Or that you log over to another toon and don't have the channels you had on your main? Or maybe they change channel numbers and what used to be in /4 is now in /5?

ChannelLock was created to solve these problems. You simply provide the channel names and associated chat frames and it does the rest.

Developer checkins:
http://wow.curseforge.com/projects/channel-lock/

Beta and Official Releases:
http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/channel-lock.aspx

Titleist

My newest zero-configuration addon is a simple solution to a simple problem. Everyone is now collecting achievements and the titles that go with them. But which title should you display?

Don’t fret, just let Titleist take care of it for you.

Every 5 minutes, Titleist will change your title randomly. Just install and go. No configuration required.

Developer checkins:
http://wow.curseforge.com/projects/titleist/

Beta and Official Releases:
http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/titleist.aspx

The Big Bear Butt is still alive

If, like me, you are a reader of The Big Bear butt and if you read that blog with a feed reader, you may not have seen any posts in a while. It sounds like he’s having an RSS issue:

I posted before that Feedburner no likey my upgraded Wordpress 2.7 install, and the widget they have provided just doesn’t work anymore.

So, I had to change to the current self-provided RSS feed for feedreaders…

But this means that anyone that only ever got my posts via a Feedburner provided feed thinks that I’ve gone silent for over a month.

I still get folks, nearly every day, email me to let me know that they haven’t had any posts in their feedreader from me in a long time, and asking if I’m still blogging.

I figure that the number of folks that haven’t checked the site to see why I went silent probably outnumber the ones that mail in.

So, I humbly, most pathetically ask that, if possible, my fellow blogger friends please make a teeny, tiny mini-post just mentioning that Bear is a dumbass and has a broken Feed, and if they are still interested in getting my posts, folks need to please, pretty-please visit the site and subscribe to the new feed.

I honestly can’t think of any other way of getting the word out at this point… since the Feed is broken.

Word to the wise… never trust to third party free service providers to continue to provide free services. Not if you like to NOT mess up your fun.

Seriously, thank you very much in advance.

So check your links, and if in doubt, go back to the website (in a browser) and re-subscribe to his RSS feed.

Enjoy!

New Addon Projects – Grunt & QTrackerPosition

I’ve been hacking on a few new addon projects. These are those kinds of addons that either do exactly what you want, or you probably don’t want them. Grunt started out as a bunch of hacks I had in a script file that someone asked me to share. QTrackerPosition came about as a result of me getting annoyed at the default positioning of the Quest and Achevement tracking frames.

Grunt

A warcraft addon that does those dumb menial tasks you hate doing yourself. Simply install and go. No configuration required.

Functions

Performs the following functions for you

• Auto-repop to graveyard if in a battleground and don’t have a SS
• Auto accept resurrect request
• Decline all duels (not sure this is working right now)
• Auto-accept invites from guildies or friends
• Hide that annoying “Are you sure you want to Quit?” dialog
• Skip gossip at vendors unless the ALT key is down

Disabling functions

If you dont’ want one of these functions, comment out the appropriate RegisterEvent call in the PLAYER_LOGIN event handler. It should be pretty easy to figure out. :)

Information and Download (alpha quality):

http://github.com/PProvost/grunt/

QTrackerPosition

QTrackerPosition is simply repositions my quest watcher and achievement watcher frames to where I wanted them.

• Achievement tracker is left of center, near the top
• Quest tracker is right of center, near the top.

I might make the position configurable some day, but for now they are hard coded.

Information and Download (alpha quality):

http://github.com/PProvost/qtrackerposition/