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Which kinda sucks, because it hints more towards either weird interaction with Blizz's tradeskill addon, or a bug in the client. After 3.3, I've been seeing it occur less, and it usually fails after 6 rather than 2 now, and I know I didn't change any code.

Best guess I have now is that something is closing the tradeskill window in the middle of crafting, but I don't know what.

I've seen it myself, and I've seen others report it. I can't track down the cause though and I've not been getting feedback from others to maybe track down a common source. MrTrader uses the same thing to craft multiple items as the official UI, and the only thing I can think of that would interrupt it is something on the server end, or something closing the tradeskill window.

Can you add a list of all the enabled addons you are using to Ticket #22?

The draggable window isn't exactly a new request, you can track it using Ticket #18 if you like.

Thanks for the kind words, marblex. It reminds me I haven't posted anything about the work I've been doing for the next larger release.

I've been hammering away at v0.6 for awhile now, but UI is always a tricky thing, and I don't like releasing something until I feel it is intuitive enough to be able to be used without being told how to use it. Queues are turning out to be a horrible beast in this area. Questions that I have to consider when deciding how to embed it into the UI:

• How often will it be used?
• Is it worth having it embedded in the main window, or as an accessory window?
• How will this affect how much the user has to take in when opening a tradeskill?

Mix that in with hand-editing the XML that drives the layout for every change, and it has been slow going, to say the least.

I've also been looking at how reagents currently display. It has struck me that the default UI's method of a list above, and details below is somewhat wasteful. I've been poking around and looking at various other parts of the default UI for inspiration on how this might be done better. Two big complaints here seem to be:

• I can't see the details of a recipe at a glance, I have to click on it to see the reagents (and so I have the tooltip added to make hovering through the list easier).
• I have to scroll to an item, select it, and then scroll the bottom list to see the reagents (which has led to requests for a more condensed way to show the reagents).

Mix this in with other asks for more information in the actual list (armor's required level, etc), as well.

It seems to me that these are actually related problems, and hints at a larger underlying UI issue with this concept of list & details. I'm tinkering with other ideas right now, including the idea of displaying the reagents similar to a vendor price (people are already used to the idea of items being included in a price), but that will rely on the icons being somewhat understandable at that size, which I'm not entirely sure will work as well as I think.