[Addon] Jamba 0.6a-preview #2 available for test run...

[Jafula]

I've made a change to the way the settings are displayed, they are now categorized and as an added bonus, the help sections have a list of available slash commands.

Grab the new version from the link below; opinions and feedback on the updated settings wanted (or you could just buy me a coffee).

http://wow.jafula.com/remository?func=startdown&id=33

[Tehmuffinman]

Jafula,

Sorry I have been meaning to update my "bug". Life gets away eh? lol

After I quit playing WoW that night and then played it again the next day I never saw the issue again, and haven't seen it since.

If someone complains about something weird on their first boot I guess make them close all WoWs and start up again.

Everything is running great!

[3box]

I really like it so far. Love the quest sync'ing. Makes it a breeze for everyone to get rid of those old collection quests hehe. And the scroll bar for the tracker is a nice touch.

[Iru]

Downloaded the update. Will test later today.

Tag
/jamba-tag add and /jamba-tag remove slash commands have been changed. They are now:

• /jamba-tag add <name|existing-tag> <tag>
• /jamba-tag remove <name|existing-tag> <tag>

I don't supposed you added auto-generated class tags, e.g. mage for all mage toons, while you were doing this did you?

[DLoweinc]

I installed this last night and noticed that the quest completion doesn't seem to work 100% of the time. I'll try to get some more details tonight for when it is and isn't working and let you know..

[Iru]

So complaint/issue #1

The new default is 'Assume all team members always online'. Unfortunately, as I have all of my RAF boosted toons etc in the team list of my profile - it makes managing settings etc easier - this means Jamba went looking for 60 toons at startup and spammed the non-existence of 57 of those (I only had three toons logged in).

I realise that there is no answer that will make everyone happy but could the default not be that way. Or at least could Jamba prompt with a dialog the first time this release starts so that the user can choose how they want things prior to the addon looking for every toon in the team list?

Complaint/issue #2

The jamba-watch window's position has reset. I'm guessing this is because you don't track/manage window locations in the addon and just let the default Blizzard frame code do it for you (so the location is hiding in layout-local.txt). If that's not true is it possible to retain the previous settings. If it is true, is it possible to retain the previous frame name so that it goes back where it belongs?

Complaint/issue #3

Some of the quest watcher settings weren't carried forward from the previous version: specifically 'Show Team Quest Watcher on Master only' and 'Hide Quest Watcher in Combat'. On a related note, what's the point of having both 'Hide Quests completed by team' and 'Do not hide completed objectives' and which one is supposed to win when?

[Jafula]

Jafula,

Sorry I have been meaning to update my "bug". Life gets away eh? lol

After I quit playing WoW that night and then played it again the next day I never saw the issue again, and haven't seen it since.

If someone complains about something weird on their first boot I guess make them close all WoWs and start up again.

Everything is running great!

Sweet, now, I don't have to dread hunting through code for a bug!

I really like it so far. Love the quest sync'ing. Makes it a breeze for everyone to get rid of those old collection quests hehe. And the scroll bar for the tracker is a nice touch.

Awesome, thanks for posting that, I like that you like it!

Downloaded the update. Will test later today.

I don't supposed you added auto-generated class tags, e.g. mage for all mage toons, while you were doing this did you?

Ah, I see your ticket here:

http://wow.curseforge.com/addons/jam...ss-based-tags/

I've bumped it to critical so it should get done before I release this version.

[Jafula]

I installed this last night and noticed that the quest completion doesn't seem to work 100% of the time. I'll try to get some more details tonight for when it is and isn't working and let you know..

Please do. I've yet to do a quest trip with my toons after making the changes, but I hoping not too much has changed. I did rip the Quest Watcher code out of the Quest code, so I could have broken something in that process.

[Jafula]

Thanks for your feedback. I appreciate it.

So complaint/issue #1

The new default is 'Assume all team members always online'. Unfortunately, as I have all of my RAF boosted toons etc in the team list of my profile - it makes managing settings etc easier - this means Jamba went looking for 60 toons at startup and spammed the non-existence of 57 of those (I only had three toons logged in).

I realise that there is no answer that will make everyone happy but could the default not be that way. Or at least could Jamba prompt with a dialog the first time this release starts so that the user can choose how they want things prior to the addon looking for every toon in the team list?

Wow, you have 60 toons in the team list! Um, I never imagined that. Anyway, to answer your question, the default for 'Assume all team members always online' is going to stay 'checked'.

I realise for you, that this is a royal PITA, but you can uncheck the box and push settings and be done with it.

But for new Jamba users, the channel rarely works unless you mess around with the settings and it makes for a really bad first impression. I worked with someone on my server the other day who was just starting out and none of the advertised functions would work because the master was offline on the slaves. It took ages to get sorted. I have no idea why the chat channels are so picky and uncooperative, but I'd much rather Jamba worked out of the box for the likes of them.

At least now both camps can be happy, after the initial WTF! from veterans like you when they load it up.

IMHO, a dialog on startup would be too intrusive and I'd actually have to code the thing. I think you would prefer I work on the class based tags...

Complaint/issue #2

The jamba-watch window's position has reset. I'm guessing this is because you don't track/manage window locations in the addon and just let the default Blizzard frame code do it for you (so the location is hiding in layout-local.txt). If that's not true is it possible to retain the previous settings. If it is true, is it possible to retain the previous frame name so that it goes back where it belongs?

I do track and manage the window locations in the addon. The problem is that the Quest Watcher got moved into its own module, so now all your settings are gone. Sorry about that, you'll have to reset them for the Quest Watcher, but once done, they shouldn't change again.

FYI: I'm happy to let these settings get lost as its not too much needs to be reset, but if I redid the macro module, I'd make sure your settings (macros) weren't lost.

Complaint/issue #3

Some of the quest watcher settings weren't carried forward from the previous version: specifically 'Show Team Quest Watcher on Master only' and 'Hide Quest Watcher in Combat'. On a related note, what's the point of having both 'Hide Quests completed by team' and 'Do not hide completed objectives' and which one is supposed to win when?

Settings missing, see above.

'Hide Quests completed by team' (Team, Quest) will hide the quest once all toons have complete the quest, otherwise it'll hang around until you complete it or remove its watch.

'Do not hide completed objectives' (Toon, Objective) - by default once a toon has completed an objective the objective goes away, with this option checked, the objective stays visible.

Hope that explains a few things. Thanks for testing this one for me. Will get your class based tags in the code before this goes out live.

[Jafula]

I don't supposed you added auto-generated class tags, e.g. mage for all mage toons, while you were doing this did you?

Done. In for the release. The class based tags are system tags and cannot be removed or renamed.