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ZoneInfo 2 is an addon for WoW Retail that displays various information on the World Map about the currently selected zone.

The following information can be displayed (as text):

- zone name, color-coded (friendly, neutral, hostile)

- zone level, color-coded, shows effective scaled zone level, zone level range and current player level

- skill info for Fishing, Herbalism, Mining and Skinning (required skill, current and max level, color coded)

- road connections, color coded (friendly, contested, hostile)

- transport connections like boats, zeppelins and portals, color-coded (friendly, neutral, hostile)

- instances including group size and level range, color coded to indicate difficulty

- flight nodes, color-coded (friendly, neutral, hostile)

- travel advice: if possible, a travel advice will be composed, using road connections and transports, to travel from the zone the character is in to the zone displayed on the map

Other functionalities:

- minimize button

- configurable through the WoW Interface menu

- optional background with adjustable transparency

- adjustable panel scale

- information categories can be turned on or off

- panel can be detached from the World Map (setting) and moved around freely, even outside the map

- panel can be locked in place when not attached to the World Map, with a lock button on the panel

- position can be reset in case you loose track of the panel when it's not attached to the map

- when the panel is attached or locked, you can click through it

- all settings (including position and minized state) are saved per character

- all settings can be saved to a global template that can be applied to other characters

The information ZoneInfo 2 displays on the World Map is localized.

KNOWN ISSUE

Profession skills are NOT AVAILABLE until any one of the profession journals have been opened by the player.

The C_TradeSkillUI.OpenTradeSkill method to open profession journal dialogs from code has been restricted and now requires a hardware event like a mouse click. Because of this, the underlying LibTourist library can no longer automatically open and close one of those dialogs during initialization to make profession skill data available.
Any ideas on how to work around this are much appreciated :-)

WoW Cataclysm Classic

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ZoneInfo Classic (Cataclysm) on CurseForge

ZoneInfo Classic (Cataclysm) project page

WoW Classic Era

See:

ZoneInfo Classic Era on CurseForge

ZoneInfo Classic Era project page

ZoneInfo 2 is powered by Libtourist-3.0

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Posted May 27, 2020
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A new alpha5 is available for testing :-)

- Whether the panel is minimized or not is now stored as a setting.
- Slightly increased the size of the minimize button, changed the caption.
- All settings are now stored per character.
- Added a new setting: "Attach panel to World Map", default true. When checked, the panel is not movable and sticks to the upper left corner of the World Map, regardless of its position or size.
- If the "Attach panel to World Map" setting is unchecked, the ZoneInfo panel can be moved around freely, outside the World map as well. It's position is stored as a setting. The panel does not change position when the World Map is moved or resized.
- If the "Attach panel to World Map" setting is unchecked, the new [Reset position] button next to it will be enabled. Clicking this resets the panel position to the upper left corner of the screen. It also displays the panel if it has been minimized.
- If the panel is attached to the World Map, it is now possible to click through it.

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Posted May 27, 2020
In reply to Odica_Jaedenar:

I have been using and testing Alpha 5.

So far I've seen no problems.

There is one thing I noticed, but it may be working as intended.

Toggling the "Attach panel to World Map" back on puts the panel at the "factory" default position.

Hitting the "Reset Position" puts it at the absolute top left corner.

This is not an issue unless that's not what you were intending to happen.

Can you add an option to lock the panel in place after its moved?

This would help keep it from being moved accidentally....like I did.... twice....

Or you could just change the "Attach panel to World Map" to "Lock/Unlock."

The "Reset Position" button could be used to set it to the default position so that function would not be lost.

Thanks for taking time to work on this.

EDIT:

I've been testing it with Leatrix_maps.

I realized I still needed to test it with Mapster.

So I did.

The situation I mentioned with reset putting it at absolute upper left corner doesn't happen with Mapster.

Weird. I wonder what those addons do differently that causes that....

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Posted May 28, 2020
In reply to Jogs_with_Scissors:

The button is for getting the panel back in case you managed to loose track of it somehow. That's why it is also un-minimized when the position is reset. As its position is related to the screen when movable, regardless of the size and position of the map, it made sense to me to reset it in this situation to a position related to the screen rather than to the map.

In short: yes, that's as intended ;-) And it's unexpected (but as far as I'm conderned not a problem) that it works differently with Mapster.

Thank you very much for testing!

A separate option to lock it when it is not attached to the map has crossed my mind, I'll see if it can be added. I have to distinguish between attaching it to the map or to the screen so it will be a separate option, only available when not attached to the map.

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Posted May 28, 2020
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Jogs, can you double check an issue i have been getting since Alpha5

on the pet bar (Hunter/Warlock/Deathknight with Ghoul) if the "autocast" swirly effect around some of the pet spells like for example Growl/Dash .... are paused and don't move with ZI-2 on ?

as well as with the chat frame if you use your mouse scroll to look up older messages (up) you get the scroll and reset button next to the frame, normally when all is reset they fade back out after a phew seconds but again with ZI-2 they remain indefinitely till your relog/reload ui ?

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Posted May 28, 2020
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I figured the button was working as intended, but wanted to point it out just in case it was not.

The difference in how Mapster and Letrix_Maps handle the reset is not a big deal. Its more of a curiosity.

A lock button would be awesome if you are able to do it.

I have to lock everything down as much as I can.

Some days my arm has random twitches.

Sadly the mouse button gets presses at the same time.

Shoooop... There goes an unlocked window. LOL. Funny and annoying.

Years ago I had meningitis and still have some life long side affect issues. Sadly

It could have been much worse, though, so no complaints.

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Posted May 28, 2020
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I have been able to reproduce it and I've found the cause of both problems. It's the detection mechanism used to see if the map is opened when the panel is not attached to the map.

The problem should be fixed in the next alpha :-)

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Posted May 28, 2020
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I reproduced the pet thing also.

I had not tested ZI2 with a pet class so missed that issue.

Plus those are set and forget for me so I probably would not have noticed anyway.

I guess I need to pay more attention to those.

As far as the scroll thing.

I don't have those on my chat window even with no addons installed.

Strange. I wonder if I have ever used an addon that changed the cvar for that.

Testing this lead me to find an issue with my Warlock.

Seems, even with no addons installed, my void walker pet doesn't remember the state of

Suffering and Threatening Presence as having been set to auto-cast.

The states of the others are remembered.

If I log out and back in the state is set to off.

If I mount up and fly the VW de-spawns as it is supposed to...

When I dismount it forgets that those 2 are supposed to be set to auto-cast.

This is annoying and explains things I've seen with him taunting adds.

I should not have to turn those back on every time the VW is summoned.

Does your VW do this also?

I do have another lock, but its only level 41 so may not have those yet.

I will check it for same issue.

Odica.

Thanks for finding this problem so fast!

You are awesome.

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Posted May 29, 2020
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the voidwalker always resetting Threathening Presence to off after it's summoned/re-spawned after flying is unfortunately a "normal" occurrence since awhile now lol :p

it has to fight before it even starts the Autocast ....

also nice to hear i was not imagining those other issue's :p, and that they will be fixed shortly ^^

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Posted May 29, 2020
A new alpha6 is available for testing :-)

- Added checkbox to the panel to lock/unlock its position when it is not attached to the World Map. When locked, you can click through the panel. It's setting is stored.
- Bugfix: some button and chat window animations are no longer broken when ZoneInfo is loaded

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Posted May 30, 2020
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sorry to be a bother but can the "locked" checkbox be relocated to the options panel ?,near to the Reset button just seems better, it just feels out of place on the world map lol :p

and can also confirm that the previous issue's seem to be fixed :)

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Posted May 30, 2020
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Why? It's easy to access this way...

Unlock - move - lock. Easy :-)

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Posted May 30, 2020
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i can't deny that ofc :) ,

just somehow when it's "locked" i keep looking @ it lol .... , maybe something simpler like hidden till you mouse over it (or the ZI panel button) ? :p

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Posted May 30, 2020
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If the checkbox is at the options panel, moving a locked ZoneInfo would mean: exit the map, open the game menu, open de interface dialog, select addons, select Zoneinfo, uncheck the lock checkbox, close the dialog, open the map, move ZoneInfo, exit the map, open the game menu, open de interface dialog and check the lock checkbox.
Whatever you prefer :-P

But I'll think about a less ...uh... intrusive way to provide the functionality ;-)

Personally I would prefer a small button with a pin or lock icon on it but I don't know how to make that.

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Posted May 31, 2020
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i found a possible simple "press" button on wow.tools but i don't know to differentiate lol

ID: 375502 , Interface/common/ui-dropdownradiochecks.blp

and maybe try something like this template (needs adaptations)

local f = CreateFrame("Button", "MySpecialButton", UIParent, "UIPanelButtonTemplate") f:SetSize(70, 25) f:SetText("Hellooo!") f:SetPoint("LEFT", UIParent, "LEFT", 10, -20) f:SetScript("OnClick", function(self) print(self:GetText(), self:GetName(), "was just clicked") end)
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Posted May 31, 2020
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In reply to reaper666735:

and if you use Discord you can try and join the addon community for more specific answers :)

https://discord.me/addons
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Posted Jun 1, 2020
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Hi all, a new alpha7 is available:

- replaced the "locked" checkbox by a lock button
- the settings, which are stored per character, can now be saved to a global template. This template can be applied to other characters. The template contains all settings in the settings dialog. It also includes the current position of the panel and whether its position is locked (if not attached to the map) and whether the panel is minimized.

Hope you like it ;-)

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Posted Jun 2, 2020
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Hello,

once again a work of art is born ^^, everything seems to work wonderfully with no side-effects (first test) from making the template and loading it on another char, the lock/unlock button works even in Mapster and no errors/taints to be seen

i think ZI-2 is near to being fully loaded for the future :p

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Posted Jun 2, 2020
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Thanks, that sounds good :-) If no issues arise in the upcoming days, I'll release a new beta.

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Posted Jun 3, 2020
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Promoted alpha7 to beta2 (no changes) and updated the project description and sample images to match the new functionality.

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