HandyNotes_Trainers
Overview
HandyNotes_Trainers allows you to track Trainer locations in HandyNotes. This is sister project to HandyNotes_Vendors which can help you track Vendors and HandyNotes_CityGuide which can help you track bankers, auctioneers and other important NPCs.
HandyNotes is base addon allowing other addons add icons to your worldmap. HandyNotes_Trainers is addon adding one icon for each Trainer you visit. Each Trainer has different icon so you can easily find out where is the trainer you are looking for standing.
HandyNotes_Trainers helps you track:
- All Class Trainers even with Portal and Pet Trainers (new in 1.2.0!)
- All Profession Trainers (Mining, Tailoring, ....)
- All Secondary Profession Trainers (Cooking, Fishing, and First Aid Trainers)
- All Skill Trainers (Weapon Masters, Riding, and Cold Weather Flying Trainers)
HandyNotes_Vendors helps you track:
- All Vendors
- All Vendors with Repair ability (Armorers)
- All Innkeepers
HandyNotes_CityGuide helps you track:
- Auctioneers
- Bankers
- Stable Masters
- Battle Masters
HandyNotes_Mailboxes from kagaro helps you track:
- Mailboxes
HandyNotes_FlightMasters from Xinhuan helps you with:
- Flight Masters (it has preconfigured database ;) )
HandyNotes_Charon (BETA) helps you track your deaths:
- Location and Time of Death
- Cause of Death (Combat Event, which caused your death)
- Spirit Healer you got released to
How you can help
- Localization
- Use the wowace's Localization tool and provide any localization phrases.
- I'm interested in: Simplified Chinese, French, Korean, Russian, Spanish, and Latin American Spanish.
- Alternatively send your translations in UTF-8 encoding to my email: zarevak [a] gmail [point] com
- Feedback
- All feedback is greatly appreciated! Leave a comment ;-)
- Bug reports and patches
- Create a ticket on Wowace project page: Post a ticket for HandyNotes_Trainers
Frequently asked questions
- Why it doesn't work?
- Please check if you have HandyNotes installed. Also note HandyNotes_Trainers doesn't come with preconfigured database. You can help me create one by sending me your SavedVariables file to my email: zarevak [a] gmail [point] com
- Will it work with my Map addon (Mapster, Cartographer, ...)
- Yes, it will. HandyNotes are written independently on any Map addon and if your addon doesn't screw up, it will work.
- Will it work with Cartographer?
- Cartographer notes use Cartographer_Notes addon as base for its note system. HandyNotes are using their own system independently on Cartographer. HandyNotes icons will be shown on your Cartographer, but they won't be available to addons working with Cartographer notes.
Planned features
- Filters to display only trainers you are interested in
- Better support for Weapon Masters to remember which skills each one is teaching
There is one thing I'm having an issue with. There are a lot of places where the vendors/trainers are all bunched together and the icons stack on top of each other to the point where I can't see where any of them are. Honestly I don't know how this can be fixed. For now I'm mostly deleting the odd vendors and only leaving the ones that matter. Is there any possible way to have settings to do things like only getting innkeepers and armor repairers?
I've tested the First Aid trainers and they are working as expected. Is there some trainer in particular which is not working for you? What is your First Aid level?
As for the bunched icons - I'm working on filtering system for both HandyNotes_Trainers and HandyNotes_Vendors. In HandyNotes_Vendors you will also have the ability to mark some vendors as "Meaningless" and they will not show their icon anymore.
Just thanks a bunch for keeping up with this and the vendors mod.
If you visit her again, can you please run these two commands (when the training dialog is open)?
/print GetTrainerServiceSkillLine(2)
/print GetTrainerServiceSkillLine(3)
It should report the name of profession related to second and third line in the training list.
Can you please send me your SavedVariables for HandyNotes_Trainer (and for HandyNotes_Vendors)? As I don't have WoTLK yet I'm interested in your Dalaran notes and other WoTLK places.
You can send your SavedVariables to my email: zarevak at gmail dot com
Thank you
I've started working on some new features: First one is adding filters to show only trainers relevant to your character.
It seems to be working great. If I find any other issues, I'll be sure to post another detailed ticket.
Hi fixitman, thank you for your testing and help! I've applied your patch, created all missing icons and released a beta version of the addon. Please, let me know if everything works as expected.
I'll take a look at this tonight and try to get something back to you by Sunday. Thanks for the reply.
EDIT:
I just posted a ticket with my findings regarding the trainers. Let me know if you need any further information.
Hi fixitman,
you are right, currently Profession trainers don't use their respective icons. I don't have active WoW subscription, but with your help, we can manage to get the icons working.
Each trainer icon should have tooltip with trainer's name, guild and trainer type (should be same color as the name) - can you please send me list of the trainer types, which are displayed in your tooltips?
Bit of background: The trainer types are from GetTrainerServiceSkillLine(2) function call and I don't know, what are the results of this function in WoW 3.0.x and I don't know, if the results are language dependent.
You can add icons in your installation by patching the iconDB table on line 40 of addon.lua. The key should be trainer type displayed in the tooltip and the value is the image used.
Thank you for your interest and your help
I'm presently seeing correct icons for class trainers, but all profession trainers display the book icon (misc.tga). Is this normal for this stage in development?
the addon is currently in its Alpha state and Curse and as such doesn't have a working download on Curse yet (the Curse page was created automatically based on Wowace project).
You can download current Alpha version from the wowace project at:
http://www.wowace.com/projects/handy-notes_trainers/