Portable Values

[Sychosys]

While I think the easiest way to move values from addon to addon from character to character is just going to be to hack the lua of the ones who have no profiles, I figured I would ask if someone had looked into anything to make that simpler, a profile tracker for things with out profiles for example

[Normak]

can you not just copy and then overwite the files in the profile folders in wow directory?

[Sajuuk]

can you not just copy and then overwite the files in the profile folders in wow directory?

That's exactly what you can do. Rather, you copy the addon's lua file over. (say....pitbull.lua) Make sure you grab it out of account/WTF/<youraccount>/SavedVariables if you have a profile saved.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

can you not just copy and then overwite the files in the profile folders in wow directory?

That's exactly what you can do. Rather, you copy the addon's lua file over. (say....pitbull.lua) Make sure you grab it out of account/WTF/<youraccount>/SavedVariables if you have a profile saved.

Ah, but grasshopper, certain addons save variables under a specific character name, necessitating the "hacking" of the LUA after you copy it to change the source character's name to your new character's name in that block of variables. I think what he was asking was, for those mods, is there an easier migration tool/script/etc. available. The answer to that is, for certain addons, yes (it's usually built in to the mod) but most addons lack any ability to do this. Fortunately, there aren't too many that do this. And this is one of the reasons I don't use those OMGBUTTONZ mods like bartender/etc.

[Sychosys]

Ah well, cut and paste is the way to go I guess. Beats setting it up every time though I can not help but wonder if a quick perl script or something could make life easier.

[Sajuuk]

can you not just copy and then overwite the files in the profile folders in wow directory?

That's exactly what you can do. Rather, you copy the addon's lua file over. (say....pitbull.lua) Make sure you grab it out of account/WTF/<youraccount>/SavedVariables if you have a profile saved.

Ah, but grasshopper, certain addons save variables under a specific character name, necessitating the "hacking" of the LUA after you copy it to change the source character's name to your new character's name in that block of variables. I think what he was asking was, for those mods, is there an easier migration tool/script/etc. available. The answer to that is, for certain addons, yes (it's usually built in to the mod) but most addons lack any ability to do this. Fortunately, there aren't too many that do this. And this is one of the reasons I don't use those OMGBUTTONZ mods like bartender/etc.

*hop*

It worked for me, but I would make a base profile, save it, and copy/load it. But as you say, your mileage may vary with addons.

[Dorffo]

I'm pretty sure I suggested this in another thread as well - but a diffing / merge app can make this go pretty quick. I like WinMerge personally. Can do folder and file compares, makes it pretty easy to synch everything up.