Moncai Quest Tracker

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Moncai Quest Tracker

I have been developing my modified quest tracker over the past few years. Each time Blizzard updated it's tracker, I updated mine with it. Coded from the ground up again for patch 3.3 and adapted to 4.0.1, I'm releasing it here so others may benefit.

New release

Beta 4.0.1 is live and fixes issues with some quests and adds the option to show quest ID's
Beta 4.0.0 is live and should fix (hopefully all) Cataclysm incompatibilities.
Beta 3.3.3.2 (r36) is live. This fixes Questguru compatibility, collapsed tracker width and re-introduces the buddy system (at a basic level).

Current features

New: Tracker is optionally movable and you may choose to display Item buttons on the left side, see config (/mqt) under "Placement"
Tracker shows levels and colors but still stays true to the original by Blizzard
Includes all the questing goodies Blizzard has put into the 3.3.3 update
If you quest with someone else who has this tracker, you can track their progress
Works with QuestHelper 1.3.x, reflecting the order in which to do the quests (version 1.3.10 tested)
Works with Tourguide style addons by using built-in proximity sorting
Shift-click a header in the Questlog to toggle the watches for all quests under that header
Access the configuration screen by typing /mqt in the chat window or via "Game Menu"-"Interface"-"Addons"
A few features I have missed

QuestHelper integration

For a successfull integration with QuestHelper, please mind the following things:

Please use version 1.3.7 or higher of QuestHelper
Make sure it's enabled in the configuration screen (type /mqt to access it)
Disable the built-in tracker of QuestHelper, either via it's configuration menu or via the slash command "/qh track" (without the quotes).

Since QuestHelper is no longer actively developed, you may also want to disable the integration and then Right-Click the WatchFrame header ("Objectives") and in the pop-up menu select "Proximity" under "Sort Quests". Tip: this also works well with Tourguide based addons

Upcoming features

For now I consider the tracker fairly feature-complete except for the buddy leveling-system which I hope to extend in the future. If you have ideas, feel free to create a ticket on wowace describing your wanted feature.

Beta, what does that mean?

Oh yes, there will be bugs! Since I am only one person it's impossible for me to test every setup or addon-combination. If you like, please give it a try, and help me make the addon better. Your feedback is kindly appreciated!

Feedback

Your feedback is important! Please submit bugreports, localizations in your language and suggestions. Have a problem? Please create a ticket on wowace. Like my addon? Tell others :D

Where to post what

Bug reports, suggestions for new features and improvements: Create a ticket on wowace
Comments, questions, praise: Feel free to post right here :D
Please submit your translation updates via WowAce localization. Your help is much appreciated! When sufficient lines have been translated, the language will be integrated into the addon.

Comments on curse.com and wowace.com

Extremely long postings of error messages are unwanted in the comments section and will be deleted. Please create a ticket with your problem on wowace. Feel free to post a comment about having created such a ticket of course!

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Posted Jul 27, 2009
[2009/07/27 19:36:12-1974-x1]: Interface\FrameXML\WatchFrame.lua:88: attempt to index local 'watchButton' (a nil value):

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I get the following error quite often when I right click any quest giver OR when I complete e quest... can I fix it by a little change or do I have to wait for your release?

line 88 is as follows:
88 WATCHFRAMELINES_LINEHEIGHT = fontHeight + 2;
89 Printf("We have %d, %d", WATCHFRAMELINES_FONTHEIGHT, WATCHFRAMELINES_LINEHEIGHT)

(added 89 too since notepad++ is starting at 1 and I'm not 100% sure if lua starts counting at 0 or not. just in case. :)

thanks.
regards, xeb

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Posted Aug 2, 2009
Thanks for reporting! Unfortunately, it's the wrong line 88. This references to the original code by Blizzard. Because I rewrite some of Blizzard's code, the original code should not be called at all. I suspect some other addon _is_ using the original code and may be hooking it before MQT can. Can you identify which other addon causes this in combination with mine?

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Posted Jul 17, 2009
Due to a lot of changes to the Quest interface and the holiday time I'm not going to make the deadline for the next patch. Please be patient and expect a new release within 14 days. Thank you for understanding!

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Posted Jun 20, 2009
745: attempt to call global 'stringlformat' (a nil value)
when auto-adding a quest based on objective completion.

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Posted Jun 27, 2009
Hello Jazzshade,

I fixed this in r13 but haven't had the time yet to make it into a proper release. Expect an update soon!

(instead of stringlformat it should have been string:format)

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Posted May 31, 2009
*sigh* I really want to try this out, but I can't make MQTC show up. I have QuestHelper installed; I've disabled its tracker; I've enabled Advanced Tracking in the game interface; I've typed /run MQTC.questhelper=true. Nothing shows up on my screen. Any further suggestions?

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Posted May 31, 2009
...however, when I reenable QH Tracker, it *looks* like your picture, so I'm not really sure what's going on.

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Posted May 23, 2009
This addon rocks. Thank you Moncai, this is just what I am looking for!

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Posted May 23, 2009
Nice addon - however, I was really really hoping that I was able to change the font size of the quest tracker. Is there anyway I can just change the code to a smaller font until perhaps this feature is added in a configuration menu?

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Posted May 24, 2009
Hello Photekk,

I have investigated your request and have come up with some code. However, I need some more time to implement it properly (scaling the line spacing for example). Hope to implement this soon, stay tuned!

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Posted May 24, 2009
Awesome! I've been searching for days now and I'm almost positive there is nothing out there that will do this without a really bulky add-on. I'm certain many others would get great use out of being able to change the font size

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Posted May 22, 2009
I seem to have lost it since the latest update, I had it minimised when I logged off and the little white box (the min max box) has disappeared on relog. Any command to reset its location?

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Posted May 23, 2009
I suggest you go to Options -> Interface, Tabpage "Game", "Objectives". There you can disable and re-enable "Advanced Objectives Tracking" which should reset everything back to normal.

However, if you use QuestHelper with my addon, make sure the tracker from QuestHelper is hidden (by typing /qh track) and enable QuestHelper functions by typing "/run MQTC.questhelper=true" without the quotes.

I hope this will fix your problem!

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Posted May 21, 2009
how do i move it?

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Posted May 22, 2009
You move it just like you would the built-in tracker - by going into Blizzard's options panel and enable the advanced tracker.

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Posted May 21, 2009
Latest version is up, which is compatible with 3.1.2. Stay tuned for the configuration options!

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Posted May 21, 2009
After 3.1.2 patch when I click the watchframe title to see questlog or shift-click to remove from the watchframe following error occurs :

Interface\FrameXML\QuestLogFrame.lua:618: attempt to concatenate local 'index' (a nil value)
Count: 1

Call Stack:
[C]: ?
Interface\FrameXML\QuestLogFrame.lua:618: in function `QuestLog_OpenToQuestIndex'
Interface\FrameXML\WatchFrame.lua:119: in function `WatchFrameLinkButtonTemplate_OnLeftClick'
Interface\FrameXML\WatchFrame.lua:98: in function `WatchFrameLinkButtonTemplate_OnClick'
[string "*:OnClick"]:1: in function <[string "*:OnClick"]:1>

Please look into this problem.. Thank you

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Posted May 21, 2009
Thanks for your report, I know of this bug since yesterday (blizzard changed some code in FrameXML with the latest patch). I hope to release 0.0.6 today which fixes the problem and slightly alters the appearance to keep on par with the original tracker.

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Posted May 17, 2009
I have tested for a few days now.. everything seems to work perfect!! Great addon!!! hohohoho
However I have one suggestion to make.. When you collapse certain region on the questlog, the collapsed quests disappears on the watchlist.. this is great!!! However when you shift click to delete a quest from tracker, it opens the questlog whole things uncollapsed that the watchframe shows all the collapsed quests again.. Same manner for when you click the watch frame to toggle quest log for a certain quest.
I hope you could change when you click the quest tracker title, the quest log opens while collapsed state stays the same as the user has set before.. this would make this addon just perfect for me lol...
Again Thanx for sharing great addon with us

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Posted May 15, 2009
I have one question.. Well it is great addon without any doubt, however, it contains some functions that I don't think that I'll ever use... What I like the most about this addon is that it gets rid of unnecessary line spacing on watch frame for the quest that has special quest item.. Can you tell me where in your code you implement this function so that I can use just that part of the code? Again thanx for making such useful addons...

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Project ID

19167
Created

May 11, 2009
Last Released File

May 25, 2013
Total Downloads

56,136

v5.3.0
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v5.4.0-beta
Sep 4, 2012
r60
May 25, 2013

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