another ping mini map type thing.

[Majestic_Clown]

If a character finds a ore, plants etc and it appears on the mini map is there an addon which will ping the map?

[zanthor]

I'd love this even for solo play... since my biggest reason to not use gathering skills is I never pay attention to the damn mini map...

[Majestic_Clown]

what to ping while solo play aye?!?!



Sorry its Friday... :P

[Stabface]

I think it's impossible -- I looked into the API and there aren't any events you can hook into for when tracking objects show up on the minimap, nor is there a way to poll and find out if there are any tracking objects visible on the minimap...

[Anozireth]

I was just hoping there would be a way I could have the tracking from my clones show up on my main's minimap. I suppose it makes sense that there is no way to detect that in the script, it would probably make it much easier for farming bots.

[Falkor]

Firstly yes this would work but only if you are in a group/raid with those members who are mining, secondly why not try using the latest version of Gatherer which shares your found nodes with every other person in your "Party/Raid/Guild" <<< I get about 200nodes a day appear on my maps from guildmates who automatically share their finds. :)

I'll see if I can find a way to automatically updated your main but I think you have to left click a node to actually broadcast its location....

[Stabface]

Right - you can have it show up on other people's maps as a discovered node through Gatherer or some other mods -- but this is only when you actually interact with it.

There isn't any method through the API that I've found that will let you know when a node is actually present or not. Meaning, there's no event that's fired when something that you are tracking shows up on the minimap, no API call that tells you if there are any tracked items on your minimap, etc.

[Falkor]

To close this thread -

Can I re-color/enumerate/scan/detect the dots on the minimap?
- No, the minimap tracking layer is rendered in the game engine, the UI doesn't have any visibility of the contents of the layer other than the dot the cursor mouses over. It IS possible to add your own simulated tracking dots by moving a frame containing a dot graphic of your own creation over the mininimap, but you are responsible for calculating where to put it

Source: http://www.wowwiki.com/Interface_Customization_FAQ#Minimap

[Djarid]

Getherer used to have this functionality (or was it a mod for gatherer?) anyway it would ding when a resource (tracked by Gatherer) came onto the map. TBH this was VERY annoying (often the node wasn't there)

[Falkor]

Getherer used to have this functionality (or was it a mod for gatherer?) anyway it would ding when a resource (tracked by Gatherer) came onto the map. TBH this was VERY annoying (often the node wasn't there)Yep this was an old API call that has since been protected :(
Had this API call still been available we could of had all chars sync together!!!