[Addon] WhisperRelay - v1.0

[The IT Monkey]

New Addon: WhisperRelay - v1.0
Inspired by Falkor's "SilentWhisper -v0.1.1"

Update: WhisperRelay has been updated.
What's new for Version 1.0:
1) You can now set the text that is displayed before the name of the person who sent you the text. Previously it was set to "Message from" and that is still the default. But you can now change it to whatever you like via /wr wrtext <Whatever text you like">. Short or long, you decide.

And that's it. The other suggestion regarding "what happens if I get a BUNCH of tells on my alt?" and how to handle that would require me knowing a lot more code than I know at the current time. So, this is version 1.0. I'll keep working on finding a solution for the above but if/when that happens it will be for version 2.

What it does: Relays whispers sent to your alts to your main. Allows your main to reply as alt. Invisible to the original person who whispered your alt.

Example: Joe whispers Alt "Hello"
Alt receives: "[Joe] Whispers: Hello"
Alt relays whisper to your main.
Main receives: "[alt] Whispers: Message from [Joe]: Hello"
Main replies with: "/r What's up?"
Alt recieves: "[Main] Whispers: What's up?"
Alt relays whisper to Joe.
Joe receives: "[alt] Whispers: What's up?"

For the above example just pretend alt and main are your character names.
As you can see it's invisible to Joe... he is having a conversation with Alt. It is also invisible to you as the player in that you don't have to do anything other than you normally would when replying to a whisper.

Installation:

1. Download WhisperRelay
2. Unzip
3. Copy WhisperRelay to your addon directory in WoW. (You must put it in the addon directory of every instance of WoW you are running. Even your main's.)
4. Enable the Addon and run WoW

Configuration:
Configuration is very easy. Type /whisperrelay (or /wr) for a list of options. There are only two. Turning it off and setting your main. To set your main type "/wr main <name>" (without the quotes and replace <name> with the name of your main character). WhisperRelay remembers the name on each of your characters on a per character basis. This means you can set them main for character A (acount 1) and have it be different from character B (account 1). YOU MUST SET THE MAIN FOR ALL CHARACTERS INCLUDING YOUR MAIN. This means your main will set his main to himself. This is so you don't get an endless loop thing going and crash the world.

Pros of WhisperRelay:
1- Set your main from within game. (No having to manually edit the .lua file).
2- Remembers mains on a per team bassis. (Team A can have a different main than Team B and it remembers that.)

Cons of WhisperRelay:
1- I built it using Ace2 Libs... which means it's bigger than SilentWhipser by a large margin. Especially if you are not running any other Ace2 Mods.


WhisperRelay v1.0

Comments, suggestions, bug reports are all welcome.

[firest4rter]

Thanks mate, I'll down load and install shortly. I also run WIM so hopefully it will work with that. If not I can live without wim whilst boxing.

[Cesare]

Nice addon, gonna try it!

The main thing I missed in Falkor's SW, was the inability to set a main ingame. Since I box two teams, that makes it unusable.

Would be good if you could bind a key to it.

[Djarid]

I have added a wiki page for this...

It can be found under addons or community developed addons... I hope you don't mind IT Monkey but I think it would be a good idea to collect as many of the small addons that people create so that we can work on consolidating them into the definitive MB addon

[The IT Monkey]

Thanks mate, I'll down load and install shortly. I also run WIM so hopefully it will work with that. If not I can live without wim whilst boxing.

Not sure if it works with Wim but it shouldn't interfere with it as it just communicates via whisper... so WIM should treat it as any other whisper that comes in.

Nice addon, gonna try it!

The main thing I missed in Falkor's SW, was the inability to set a main ingame. Since I box two teams, that makes it unusable.

Would be good if you could bind a key to it.

Bind it how? As it is now there is only one setting you need to worry about and that is who is your main. It remembers that on a per character basis so you only need to set it once per team. I am unsure of what you wish to have bound to a key.

I have added a wiki page for this...

It can be found under addons or community developed addons... I hope you don't mind IT Monkey but I think it would be a good idea to collect as many of the small addons that people create so that we can work on consolidating them into the definitive MB addon

While the size of this addon is not small (weighing in at 400k with the ACE2 Libs) it is small in what it does. I am planning to work on other addons for multiboxing to bundle with it to justify using the Ace Library. Thanks for adding it to the wiki.

[Maxion]

I believe the binding idea is so that you can change main to your active window whenever you hit your key to swap PiP window.
I would want this as well, since I have just set it up to change my follow/assist focus when I change window.

[The IT Monkey]

Personally I wouldn't see this as very useful as I only lead from a toon other than my main in a OH SHIT moment... and if that is happening the last thing I have time for is whisper conversations.

If this is a real concern of a good number of you then I will look into it.

BTW... when setting your main... it's case sensitive... so don't for get the Capital letter at the beginning.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Personally I wouldn't see this as very useful as I only lead from a toon other than my main in a OH SHIT moment... and if that is happening the last thing I have time for is whisper conversations.

Same here.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Monkey, you rule. This is a wonderful addon. /highfive

[The IT Monkey]

Wow... thanks Ughmahedhurtz I appreciate the feedback. I look on it as a building block... I am hoping to add to it but only things that we multiboxers might find useful.