Should the World of Warcraft community really create its own addons?
AddOn Studio (AOS) is an open source development environment designed to bring a Visual Studio-like experience to building World of Warcraft AddOns. Visual Design Surface AddOn Studio includes a set of toolbox controls that you can drag-and-drop onto the designer to visually design the layout of your addon including popular Visual Studio features like Snap lines which enable you to visually align controls. http://www.codeplex.com/AddOnStudio Since I’m still waiting to get my iPhone 3G, I decided to start learning how to make AddOns for WoW. I’ve been playing WoW off and on since it came out, and I’ve always been a big user of addons. However, lately there have been a couple of addons that I used to use that don’t work anymore. So I decided that I’d learn how to make addons so that I could create some of my own. I first started by searching about how to make addons for WoW, but mostly I would just get information about the
Programming World of Warcraft Addons is an all-in-one guide to writing addons for World of Warcraft, leading the reader through a tutorial on Lua programming, guiding them through several example addons, and providing them with a comprehensive reference for the World of Warcraft API. Readers should be familiar with the user interface of World of Warcraft, and may have some experience downloading and installing addons. Some familiarity with programming is ideal, but the reader doesn’t need actual programming experience. The book teaches programming in Lua and XML, the programming languages used to write addons, by introducing concepts that build on prior knowledge to craft more complex programs. This tutorial is geared specifically towards using Lua in World of Warcraft, so the book covers only the most relevant material, and covers a number of pitfalls and common mistakes that the reader may experience through the course of the book; even experienced users will find this useful. Once t
A number of players of World of Warcraft developed custom add-ons in order to enhance the game, even though a patch was underway. These add-ons also helped people out whom were having trouble with playing. One such add-on was ColorBlind 4.0, which helps out those whom are color blind, as well as numerous others to improve the interface. Although the patch has made these add-ons obsolete, you can’t help but feel the community trying to help people out.
Programming World of Warcraft Addons is an all-in-one guide to writing addons for World of Warcraft, leading the reader through a tutorial on Lua programming, guiding them through several example addons, and providing them with a comprehensive reference for the World of Warcraft API. Readers should be familiar with the user interface of World of Warcraft, and may have some experience downloading and installing addons. Some familiarity with programming is ideal, but the reader doesn’t need actual programming experience. The book teaches programming in Lua and XML, the programming languages used to write addons, by introducing concepts that build on prior knowledge to craft more complex programs. This tutorial is geared specifically towards using Lua in World of Warcraft, so the book covers only the most relevant material, and covers a number of pitfalls and common mistakes that the reader may experience through the course of the book; even experienced users will find this useful. Once t
