mahmoudimus / _devpad.gui

A World of Warcraft addon: A notepad for Lua scripts and mini-addons. (GUI component)

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_DevPad.GUI

An addon for World of Warcraft. The GUI component for _DevPad, a notepad for Lua scripts and mini-addons.

NOTE: This addon requires _DevPad

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Notes

• This is A fork of saiket's _DevPad.GUI.
  • DevPad was inspired by the AddOn Hack, by Mud.
• I am a documentation guy, not a programmer. It is unlikely I can make any large changes.
  • If you are a developer, I am happy to:
    • Accept GitHub pull requests.
    • Add you as a contributor on GitHub.
    • Hand this project over!
• This uses a modified version of For All Indents And Purposes.

Installation

Since it's a regular addon, it's manually installed the same as every other addon would be.

1. Download _DevPad and Download _DevPad.GUI

2. Extract them to your Interface\AddOns folder.

Perhaps your game is installed to one of:

C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft
C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft (x86)

.. and so you would extract the contents of your downloaded archive to something like:

C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\_retail_\Interface\AddOns

.. and so you would end up with two separate folders, like:

C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\_retail_\Interface\AddOns\_DevPad
C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\_retail_\Interface\AddOns\_DevPad.GUI

.. and inside them would be the files. For example, you would have these two files:

C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\_retail_\Interface\AddOns\_DevPad\DevPad.toc
C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\_retail_\Interface\AddOns\_DevPad.GUI\DevPad.toc

• Curse blog entry on manually installing AddOns
• Curse FAQ on manually installing AddOns

Configuration / Usage

Basic Usage

• /devpad will open the GUI.
• At the top-right of the window are icons.
• Click the new script icon.
• Type the name of your script. To change a script name, double-click on the selected item on the left.
• Type your script on the right-window.
• Within the right-window is an icon at its top-left, for running a script.

Intermediate Usage

See the included usage.intermediate.markdown for notes.

Advanced Usage

Notes will be forthcoming.

I have created some fairly advanced scripts I'd like to add as examples.

Updating the built-in examples

An outstanding feature is to have a separate location for example scripts, to have updateable documentation.

For now, edit your _DevPad.DefaultScripts.lua. Perhaps it is:

C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns\_DevPad\_DevPad.DefaultScripts.lua

Each example script will be found therein. The _DevPad changelog will be kept up-to-date with changes to the example scripts.

Problems and suggestions

(issues list)

Problems

• If you seen an error, disable all addons but this one and re-test before creating an issue.
  • If you have multiple addons installed, errors you think are for one addon may actually be for another. No really, disable everything else.
• Search through the issues list before creating an issue.
• Always quote errors.
  • There are several helpful addons to catch errors. Try something like TekErr (github · wowinterface · curse · curseforge)
• Do your best to give the exact steps you took to reproduce your problem.
  • If this is only an occasional or unpredictable problem, then you'll need to do your best to give your opinion.

Suggestions

• I am a documentation guy, not a programmer. It is unlikely I can make any large changes.
• Describe your suggestion really well.
• Explain why you want your suggestion.
  • Do you really really want it?
  • Do you need it?
  • Are you currently doing something unusual or annoying which the feature would help simplify or make easier?
• Explain why other users would agree with your suggestion.