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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_ForgeUser1071077
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Posted Oct 24, 2010
While I can see you'd rather tickets get posted on WoWace, I don't use it, and have no real interest in signing up for yet another site.

The tracker position continues to change position. I'm not sure if it's the addon itself or an incompatibility with sexy map, but it seems to be glitching trying to decide whether to dock on the map or float. When I set it to float it will go where I set it, then on seemingly random instances it reverts back and forth between my set position and being anchored to the minimap.

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Posted Oct 26, 2010
Upon seeing more of this, it appears it's switching between default positions and set position. It doesn't seem random but I'm not sure of the trigger.

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Posted Nov 8, 2010
You can log into curseforge.com and/or wowace.com with your curse.com username and password since it is all operated by the same group of people. You can even create tickets right from the Curse CLient! Isn't that neat?

As to your problem: Sexymap may try to control the tracker. Did you disable this option in Sexymap?

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Posted Oct 23, 2010
I am also a former QH user. Is there anyway you can make your tracker look and act like the one QH had?
Thanks!

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Posted Oct 17, 2010
As a former QH user, I'm looking for an alternative. I've been trying this addon but there's something I don't understand. Most of the time, the tracker doesn't show anything. Sometimes it shows one or two quests, if I've just picked them up, but soon after, they disappear.

As I type this, I have several daily quests in IC that I've picked up and not one of them is showing. Is there a setting somewhere that I missed?

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Posted Oct 16, 2010
Cool! I needed a new quest tracker, as the one i've been using for years...nQuestLog got destroyed by the 4.0.1 patch.

I give this a try let ya know!

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Posted Oct 16, 2010
A new beta is up! The addon should now be Cataclysm compatible. Please report any bugs you find as tickets on wowace: http://www.wowace.com/addons/moncaiqt/tickets/

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Posted Oct 13, 2010
Is there going to be an update for 4.0.1? I get errors when I try to track achievements. I've posted a ticket at wowace.

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Posted Oct 16, 2010
I'm working on an update, hope to have a working version up for test soon.

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Posted Sep 13, 2010
Athariel, thanks for your contribution! I'll see what I can do!

On a side note, the í in Moncaí is not fancy, its Gaelic (and encoded in UTF8 which all strings should be).

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Posted Aug 29, 2010
as far as i can tell there is definately something messing up between chincilla and this addon. i recently switched from sexymap (no problems with this addon and that one) to chinchilla and i cant for the life of me figure out where its gone wrong. i managed to sort the positioning of it from reading the comments below. oh btw

To clarify: either:
1. use MQT's built-in floater to position it and open Chinchilla's preferences, click the "Position" module and remove the checkmark from "Enable" at the top.

i cant use it this way as if i remove the checkmark then my all my minmap postions get moved, but this is just an fyi.

the thing ive found, and i cant figure out whether its either chinchill/moncai or another one altogether, is that it just isnt showing new quests (yes i have marked the box in the interface for automatic quest tracking :p) it will show objectives (1) but not the actualy quest title. it used to do this properly when i was using sexy map so i can only assume its something to do with chinchilla but i dont see how? i use questhelper too and thought it must might be a random thing but when turned QH track back on and that showed the quest title like always. is there something im missing in a checkbox somewhere with chinchilla?

I have the position box checked as thats the only way i can move the tracker but i have the quest tracker turned off atm, but tested this with it on and it still doesnt show the quests. again yes i have the auto track quests option on in the interface, the only thing i have changed is switching from sexymap to chinchilla, anyone else noticed this?

many thanks and hope i/we can figure it out!

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Posted Sep 13, 2010
The problem with Chinchilla's Position module is that it agressively takes over window placement when enabled. So if you enable a part of it, it hooks into all kinds of windows. This includes the quest tracker, even if you choose not to do anything with it. At the moment, there's not much I can do about that.

The thing with the quests not showing and disappearing is under investigation!

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Posted Jul 11, 2010
And one more thing, actually. It's not like someone really cares about our language, but current way of text composing addon uses is very unfriendly to russian translation, for instance the word 'you' used in "You have X mobs to kill left" and "You have finished (quest name)" must be translated differently, or else one of these sentences does not make any sence.

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Posted Jul 11, 2010
I recently began using Mondai Quest Tracker after Inquest failed to be updated. It does almost everything I had come to rely on through Inquest (and has many additional features). I am extremely happy with this find. Thank you for continuing the development of this add-on.

I wonder if you might consider adding a couple of features:

1) Check box support to auto-hide the tracker in various situations (always, when empty, in a 5-man instance, in a raid instance, in PvP) as was available in Inquest.

2) Ability to adjust the font and size of tracker text

3) Ability to change tracker line spacing

Number 1 above is the most important to me because this will allow for more screen real estate under specific circumstances or when not needed and reduces clutter.

I especially like the level coloring of quest titles and the fact the tracker window moves to accomodate the right action bars or lack thereof (i.e. in a vehicle). This feature is not available in some other tracker mods.

Thanks again for a great add-on.

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Posted Jul 11, 2010
Oh, forgot one. The ability to remember expanded vs. collapsed state between sessions would be nice too.

Thanks.

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Posted Jul 11, 2010
Oh, and also - is it ok to change the fancy 'i' letter in your name to regular 'i'? Russian client does not support it and shows cyrillic garbage instead.

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Posted Jul 11, 2010
I've done the russian translation recently, could you please repack the add-on with it so i can test if it actually follows the context.

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Posted Jul 1, 2010
Currently contains a bug with shift clicking quests. See the ticket
http://www.wowace.com/addons/moncaiqt/tickets/12-chat-frame-edit-box-is-nil/

For details and bugfix

Nice work ;)

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Posted Jul 8, 2010
I already fixed this in internal testing, will push to beta as soon as possible.

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Posted Jul 10, 2010
This is fixed in v3.3.5 which is available now :)

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Project ID

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Created

May 11, 2009
Last Released File

May 25, 2013
Total Downloads

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