To do this I had to subscribe to UI events in my frame: OnMouseDown and OnMouseUp, OnDragStart and OnDragStop, and OnUpdate. I had spent the rest of my entire Saturday, from lunch to midnight, trying to make a resizeable + draggable window. Fortunately, Classic is using the modern wow engine, so I at least had access to some modern ish handling of frames (And its new "scroll", but I can't confirm if this wasn't available in 2004 ).
Reactive UI also didn't exist so that's not how wow's UI work. World of Warcraft is an old game, from 2004, from an era where responsive design didn't exist, and things couldn't be scaled and resized. That means that I had to be able to drag it and resize it as I want. I really love this feature, so I wanted my window to be inobtrusive, small and have the same functionality as the PiP window I'm used to. I am always watching a video while playing using Picture in Picture and I am always changing the PiP window position, dragging it around to where I see fit in the moment.
#WORLD OF WARCRAFT ADDONS FULL#
I had a window displaying already and was full of determination. I re-opened all my tabs and began to work. I couldn't stand playing the game having to forget everything again, and I couldn't stand not being able to make a simple to-do list addon, and after 10 minutes I'd given up on doing the addon, thinking that no one had done this functionality before, I accepted my fate once again and accepted the challenge.
Searching using terms: checklist or to do didn't help me either. Since I had given up on doing my own to-do list addon and I still had that issue to bother me, I went and searched the Curse's AddOn database for some addon that did what I wanted.Īs you can see, the results are not promising at all.
When I encountered the same problem: I had forgotten the steps I was going to take and had to read my quests, again. I thought that this is probably the reason I don't develop games.Īfter accepting my fate, I sadly came back to wow and started questing again. And I couldn't accept that I didn't manage to even display a window in a screen. I can get things pretty quickly in a way that I manage to start doing what I want in one day, sometimes even hours. I learn new things pretty fast, and I had the opportunity to work in places where sometimes I had the challenge to learn something new. I couldn't do what I wanted, I didn't have the patience to, and I gave up. I spent half of my Saturday to make a single window appear, scouting through the internet reading old pages, trying to understand lots of unfinished documentations. I managed to display something! But I still had a lot of work ahead and got really confused while trying to make this window. lua code, and that's it! The game recognizes it, and you have your Hello World.
#WORLD OF WARCRAFT ADDONS HOW TO#
This led me to a Wiki, with a "Getting started" tutorial of how to make your own addon, it was simple enough, you create a folder, a definition file, a. The BeginningĬovered by the excitement of curiosity of how those so-called AddOns worked and how they were programmed, I did what all beginners do when they want to know how to do something: Searched on google "How to create a wow classic addon". It was settled then! I would make a to-do addon so I could list my steps and I would never forget them! That seemed like a fun challenge. I knew that wow allowed the community to create programs inside the game, and I also knew that to-do lists are simple enough that they're used as examples to teach people frontend development, as a frontend developer myself. And didn't have to read through my quests again. You see, my memory is not great, and I always have to write things so I don't forget them.Īnd so I thought: If I could write down my steps and have them always on my screen, I could quickly glance at them and remember what I'm doing and what is the next step. I had just forgotten which steps I had just thought of, so I had to read through all my quests again. I had thought of every step that I was going to take, every city I had to walk (or fly) to, to complete that day's tasks and maybe level up, but one thing had got me. So there I was, reading my quest log and deciding in my head where I had to go next, and what to do next, and then after that, and after that.
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