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03/03/14, 01:38 PM   #1
ronsavage
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Addon development after weekend beta is over

Heya - just getting started with addon development, reading up on LUA syntax, the wiki, examples etc.

I got started with the MyFirstAddon example and snooping around with zgoo during the weekend beta period but would like to continue after the beta weekend is done.

Is there a way to fire up the game in a "sandbox" mode for addon development without being logged into the server?

Thanks,

Ron
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03/03/14, 01:39 PM   #2
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No, there is not.
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03/03/14, 01:59 PM   #3
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If you want to just get familiar writing addons you could boot up WoW and write addons there. Would require looking at a different API, but everything is very similar (and their API has much better documentation. http://wowprogramming.com/).

Porting over code is really quick and usually just requires changing some function names.
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03/03/14, 02:03 PM   #4
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Thanks for the quick response Seerah, albeit with the sad, yet not unexpected news. :-)

Are there any official API docs that you know of to read? I've read the wiki but it is lacking quite a bit of information used in several of the more complex addons available on this site, so that information must exist somewhere - I just can't find it. :-)

Thanks again,

Ron
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03/03/14, 02:04 PM   #5
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Thanks Errc, I might give that a shot - it will probably take all night to update my WoW install to the latest patch. :-)
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03/04/14, 10:44 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by ronsavage View Post
Are there any official API docs that you know of to read? I've read the wiki but it is lacking quite a bit of information used in several of the more complex addons available on this site, so that information must exist somewhere - I just can't find it. :-)
That doesn't mean it was well documented. There are 2 word docs that they released on a private section of the forum. They are both about 60% to 70% accurate, at best, and neither is more than 50% inclusive of the game's actual API. When you dig through both docs you get a combined 75% to 80% of the picture.

Most of us use ZGOO addon, or our own parsing commands, plus a lot of trial and error to find commands, global variables and UI objects and how we can interact with them.
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