03-10-2007, 01:03 AM
Being an avid coder and having written a number of addons myself, I tend to have a continually changing mess of addons as I try out different ones to see what kind of neat ideas people have come up with.
I'm an information junkie... but I also like my visbility, so my UI is always a struggle between those two aspects, to try to balance the two.
Some highlights of my current list of addons (not the full list, since there's probably some 80 of them or so!):
BugSack - keeps error messages out of sight until I want to read them. Something like this is extremely nice when you're working on addons and don't want that big error box popping up continually while you debug things.
BuyEmAll - Lets you buy more than the 20-stack-at-a-time Blizzard limit of items, as well as multiples of prestacked items; great for refilling on reagants.
Clique - For decursive reasons
Conversation Manager - Addon I wrote to help me keep multiple conversations separate and managed when I happen to be chatting in raid and guild at the same time while fending off multiple whispers.
Double Wide - Has a full-length list of quests on the left, and then the quest description/text to the right of that, rather than trying to scrunch it all into the regular sized Blizzard quest window.
Druid Bar - Estimate of my mana while I'm shapeshifted
Durability Status - Estimated repair cost of broken items, and mass-repair of equipped and inventory items when visiting a vendor that will repair.
EzDismount - Dismounts you if you try to use any action/spell while mounted. To prevent those instances where you get attacked while mounted and end up stuck since you couldn't get your dismount off quick enough
Grid - My current choice of raid frames. Nice and compact, while still providing a decent amount of information
Ping Direction - Points a big red arrow towards the ping if someone pings the minimap. I wrote this addon after the idea came up during an Ossirian fight. When BC came out and questing all over the world started happening again, I added the feature of being able to point an arrow towards arbitrary map coordinates until you reach those coordinates.
oRA2 - CTRaidAssist communication, but without the raid frames (since I use Grid for that). Has MT targets, item checks, and all the other features as well.
And, for my current project... I got annoyed at getting items with the exact same icon confused (3 sets of gloves with the exact same icon, 2 helmets, 2 legs, etc.), so I decided to write an addon that would add labels to all inventory items. Unfortunately, that is just way too cluttered for my liking... so I'm now thinking of making it a hold-to-activate-labels feature, or maybe labelling only same-icon items. Any suggestions or insight would be welcome though:)
I'm an information junkie... but I also like my visbility, so my UI is always a struggle between those two aspects, to try to balance the two.
Some highlights of my current list of addons (not the full list, since there's probably some 80 of them or so!):
BugSack - keeps error messages out of sight until I want to read them. Something like this is extremely nice when you're working on addons and don't want that big error box popping up continually while you debug things.
BuyEmAll - Lets you buy more than the 20-stack-at-a-time Blizzard limit of items, as well as multiples of prestacked items; great for refilling on reagants.
Clique - For decursive reasons
Conversation Manager - Addon I wrote to help me keep multiple conversations separate and managed when I happen to be chatting in raid and guild at the same time while fending off multiple whispers.
Double Wide - Has a full-length list of quests on the left, and then the quest description/text to the right of that, rather than trying to scrunch it all into the regular sized Blizzard quest window.
Druid Bar - Estimate of my mana while I'm shapeshifted
Durability Status - Estimated repair cost of broken items, and mass-repair of equipped and inventory items when visiting a vendor that will repair.
EzDismount - Dismounts you if you try to use any action/spell while mounted. To prevent those instances where you get attacked while mounted and end up stuck since you couldn't get your dismount off quick enough
Grid - My current choice of raid frames. Nice and compact, while still providing a decent amount of information
Ping Direction - Points a big red arrow towards the ping if someone pings the minimap. I wrote this addon after the idea came up during an Ossirian fight. When BC came out and questing all over the world started happening again, I added the feature of being able to point an arrow towards arbitrary map coordinates until you reach those coordinates.
oRA2 - CTRaidAssist communication, but without the raid frames (since I use Grid for that). Has MT targets, item checks, and all the other features as well.
And, for my current project... I got annoyed at getting items with the exact same icon confused (3 sets of gloves with the exact same icon, 2 helmets, 2 legs, etc.), so I decided to write an addon that would add labels to all inventory items. Unfortunately, that is just way too cluttered for my liking... so I'm now thinking of making it a hold-to-activate-labels feature, or maybe labelling only same-icon items. Any suggestions or insight would be welcome though:)
Onyxia:
Kichebo - 85 NE Druid
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Kichebo - 85 NE Druid
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.