WowAce

@hughescr

yeah, that would be a problem. that solution might work kind of, but what really needs to occur is some kind of delay to the initialization until the UnitGUID("player") data is reliably available. i *thought* i had waited long enough with gw, but perhaps not. if "currentGUID" i nil, then the scanning code could fire unnecessarily any time this occurs which is not optimal.

@lilsparky

I had a problem where UnitGUID('player') was apparently returning nil during login. This change seemed to make things work for me:

diff --git c/GnomeWorks.lua w/GnomeWorks.lua
index 3363a72..6b7c553 100644
--- c/GnomeWorks.lua
+++ w/GnomeWorks.lua
@@ -1109,7 +1109,7 @@ do
 
 			if GnomeWorksDB.serverData and GnomeWorksDB.serverData[factionServer] and GnomeWorksDB.serverData[factionServer].guidList then
 				local playerName, otherGUID = next(GnomeWorksDB.serverData[factionServer].guidList)
-				local currentGUID = string.gsub(UnitGUID("player"),"0x0+", "")
+				local currentGUID = UnitGUID("player") and string.gsub(UnitGUID("player"),"0x0+", "") or nil
 
 				if otherGUID == currentGUID then
 					playerName, otherGUID = next(GnomeWorksDB.serverData[factionServer].guidList, playerName)

Re: the other changed I'd been thinking about; got busy with work and wow stuff got paged out. I'm not ignoring your PMs, just trying to gather my thoughts to properly answer.

if you get an error, try doing a "/reload" from the chat window.  i suspect it may be an issue with client data not being ready on a fresh load vs a reload of the ui.

edit: okay, this goes a bit deeper.  this will need a patch i think.

in the meantime, if you removed your saved variables file, gw should work.  the problem is an unitialized table that trips things up when the rest of the data is available.

just added the live scanning code.  because of the way the scanner works, you must scan on a valid guid from somebody on your server in your faction.  the only reliable results will come from somebody not currently logged in (or somebody who has no trade skills).  so what i've done is record guids of players per server-faction.  to get skill data updated, you must log in with one toon, then log in with another on the same faction/server.  once it's updated, it'll be fine for all players.

fingers crossed that this will work going forward...

i was fortunate enough to have a user donate me a copy of mop, so i'll be attacking cooking next.

there is a donate button on the top right of the page.

they really did some weird stuff with cooking. gw is based on the tradeskill linking mechanism. the new cooking specialties don't abide by that system, so gw won't be able to support cooking fully. i'm going to see if i can get it working for the current toon, but recording different toon's way's probably won't work.

do you need to have MoP to see MoP recipes? cuz i don't have the expansion and even "all recipes" links fail to show any of the "way" recipes... i'm kind of at a loss there.

yeah, the simple cheat of making a full bitmap by literally toggling everything on blindly no longer works in 5.0.  this has complicated the level scraping code and also had the side effect of making a few trade skills react poorly when attempting to view all recipes (it will continuously look for more data).

i've fixed the all recipes code to use discovered spellid bitmap locations so it will function better.  i will attempt to put the level scraping code into gw directly since it uses the same concept.

yeah, one reason i dumped libpt is that libpt still uses the inane negative spellid/itemid method to index tradeskills.  also, wowhead data isn't always accurate.  i actually was the person who put the tradskill level data into libpt originally, but then it sort of migrated away from my original formatting.

it seems like the "all recipes" links don't function now in 5.0.  at least the simplistic method of sending complete bitmaps.  i suspect it might be related to unreleased recipes never returning proper data.  i'll have to modify how that works and use a more precise lists of recipes.

is anybody finding groups to be inaccurate?  this might just be for the jc/tailor/engineer profession's "all recipes" list...

the skillup data in gw is actually NOT from wowhead, it's scanned in game using a separate mod.  i'm cleaning up that mod and will either incorporate it directly into gw or upload it as a utility mod.  kinda depends on how clean i can make it.  it's a bit finicky so i've kinda not considered it releasable and certainly not as a built-in for gw.

but perhaps with the caveats of its abilities known, it'll be worth including.

i'm finding jewelcrafting, tailoring, and engineering are not behaving.  do the "all recipes" links in gw work for these tradeskills for everybody?