Sorry, due to covid and other issues I have been away for a while, but I'm back. Changes have been made and the addon has been updated!
IF you have suggestions or come across bugs or something just doesn't seem to be working right, PLEASE leave me a detailed message (what you have selected, what happened and the order it happened in)
I spent months working on this, trying to update it every day or two depending on how serious the bug is.
Any donations whether big or small, while not necessary would be a nice gesture saying you like the addon and appreciate the work going into it. :-)
To initialy use, type into chat the following:
/lfg
Once loaded , go into settings and you can check the Bind to I key option. You can also go into the WOW keybind settings and set the keybind to whatever you want it to be.
Things you can do:
- Create a complicated yet valid search with ANY of the instances via the filter windows (LFG/LFM) (Eg: Alterac Valley as well as Dire Maul can be in the same search)
- A valid search REQUIRES at least one instance and role selected
- Instances are ALL Dungeons, Raids, and PVP but also include custom text for special world events
- Save your complicated searches and them load them back at any time.
- View anyone that matches your search, invite them to your group or ask to join theirs right from the app.
- View and broadcast with the guild only for guild events and groups. No one outside of the guild will see these.
- Customize your whispers the app would use between players.
- Customize the Channels you wish to broadcast your searches on.
- Blacklist: Black list individuals that Ninja looted, etc. so they don't show up in the addon.
- Premades: You can create a premade list for specific events or groups. When loaded, those individuals will automatically get an invite when online. Unload the premade to stop the invites.
How to use:
Searches:
There are several types of searches and combinations you can use. The basic is Creating a Group or Join a Group.
- Create Group:
This is where you see all the people who are looking to join a group. You have to specify what you are looking for
(Roles) and what instance(s) you want to run.
Instance(s) can be any combination of Dungeons, Raids or PVP. On the right hand side of the selector, you will
see a text box, this text box will be appended to the end of what would normally be broadcast. Example, you
select Tank and Heals from the Role check marks, select The Deadmines and Shadowfang Keep from the
instances then Search. This would tell everyone that you are looking for a tank and dps for DM and SFK... but
what if you wanted to say more? in that text box you could add the words "and GTG". then the broadcast would
say you are looking for a tank and dps for DM and SFK and GTG.
- Join Group
This is where you find people who are looking for someone specific, like a healer or tank to run with them. This is
the same as Create Group except we are now viewing those who are looking for someone to join, as apposed to
you looking for someone to join you.
- Both
This is where it gets interesting. Here, you can view BOTH Create Group and Join Group but you can not do
any searches. You can still, however ask to join a group you like or ask someone to join yours.
- Custom Search
You can do a custom search by selecting Custom from the pull down. This is where you enter the text you want
to broadcast. First this you should do is select any and all instances you want to include in this broadcast, check
any roles then select Custom. this will use the same Format as Whispers. There are placecard holders that you
can use in your Custom Text (List of these placecard holders is in Settings under Whispers) hover your mouse
over the ? to see them. When you make a change to the Custom Text, an Example will show up in WHITE in your
chat window, using what you have pre-selected for instances and roles. When dong a Custom search, you can
still change Roles on an active search, just not the instances.
Saved Searches
Searches can be saved, only when you start an active Search. This helps verify that it is a valid search. Once
saved, you can view saved searches in the Saved Searches tab. From here, you can Load a search or
Remove it. Hover your mouse over the search to see the details. When you load a search, it will overwrite
anything you had previously set up.
Black List
A Blacklist is a list of individuals who have done harm or serous wrong to a group. As an example, someone Ninja
looted in a Raid, someone created a Raid with the intentions not normal of any raid group. To Add someone, you
can right click on their name and select Add To BlackList or just type the name into the Player
text box. You can not enter a form until ALL fields have been filled out.
You can view the records by clicking on the name of the person, then hover the mouse over the record to read
what happened.
Premades:
Premades can be the core of events, raids or BGs. You can create a premade by entering the name of the
individual OR right clicking on the name in chat, guild Roster or friends list and selecting LFG113.
The individual HAS to be a friend or Guild mate online and on your server to use the right click feature to
add them to the list. Battletag friend does not work (yet). You can also manualy enter in a new Group name,
or you can SHIFT-CLICK on the already created group name to auto fill in the Group entry
(Groups are case sensitive) When LOADING the list, click LOAD and it will
automatically invite everyone that is online. If they are not online it will invite once they are online. (AGAIN,
it will only invite GUILD and FRIENDS once they come online. It will not catch anyone else.) Once LOAD has
been pressed, it will try to invite everyone on the list and give you the results in chat. You can see who received
the invites and who was offline. Future release will have a "status" with the list of names while Auto invite is enabled
To stop the automatic invites, just click on the UNLOAD button. You can have more then one list, with
as many names stored as you like.
EDITING the list is simple: just SHIFT-CLICK on the name you wish to edit the role of and make your changes.
Adding player to more then one list: SHIFT-CLICK the player in the list as if your going to edit it, then
SHIFT-CLICK the name/title of the list you wish to add the player to!
Black List and Searches
While searching, you may come across someone who was black listed. This will show up with a large red X by the
name, and a black star in the background. IF you come across this, you can go to the Black List tab, look at the
Name and read the records to see why and make the judgement yourself if you wish to add them to your group.
Things to be aware of:
Searches are filtered. Once you change a pull down (Activity like Raid, Dungeon or select specific instances) the
display will only show those that match what you have selected.
The check mark for Show All will give you the ability to see ALL instances in the pull downs. By default, you can
only see those that match your level.
The check mark for Guild Only will broadcast to your Guild only and not to the public, useful for guild events.
The Reset button will erase your searches, clearing everything and allow you to start over.
ALL changes made when a search is going will take effect immediately. If you are searching and checked DPS,
your next broadcast will be with the DPS added.
All searches have to be Valid for it to continue. As an example, If you forget to select a role or accidentally
unchecked and have no roles during an active search then the search will fail and halt.
*Note
Just to make this clear, the app will only be an extension of the chat, to organize what you see in a way that is organized. The App will not do anything automatic (No auto grouping people that are NOT in your friends/guild list, etc). Chat should still be monitored and you can mouse over the person/group to see what they typed in chat. The app is a standalone app and does not require ANY other client to have the same app installed. It will, however communicate with other clients so they could get chat they may have missed. No one will be "Required" to use this app on another computer with the fear they will be left out or miss anything.
Since there has been no fix, i've gotta warn others against using this addon! It sporadically leaves various channels, without any warning.
It's the best looking and functional of the bunch, but until (if) this is fixed i advise anyone to use another LFG addon!
In reply to Forge_User_29277239:
Thank you for liking something I haven't had time to work on or fix. I'm now back (albeit, a little late) and have made changes to the code, affecting how channels are handled.
IF you still use this addon, you can go into settings and uncheck "Enable modifications of channels".
Love this addon vs others similar to it due to the nice UI it has. However I've noticed this addon messes with my chat channels IE it randomly removes all my chat channels, after a few minutes I realize wait why is no-one talking? Oh all chat channels are unchecked, When I remove this addon I never get this Issue, or it rearranges my chat channel order, which is kinda annoying.
One feature I wish was added was when there is a Match it puts a message like center of your Screen or it just simply opens the Addon to show there was a Match. Basically to use this Addon I either 1 have to watch chat anyway or 2 Keep addon open to see if there are matches and well with a big Addon window in your way you ain't playing while it searches. Some visual display for a new match would be nice instead of starring at the addon waiting for something to pop up.
In reply to Moirior:
Thank you for liking something I haven't had time to work on or fix. I'm now back (albeit, a little late) and have made changes to the code, affecting how channels are handled.
IF you still use this addon, you can go into settings and uncheck "Enable modifications of channels".
Very nice addon, good job!
One thing thought... it seems I cannot broadcast looking for members if I am not the group leader. Why that restriction? Can't you just allow it and add an auto-whisper that says to send message to party leader or something?
In reply to Forge_User_72663818:
Its been a while, but I think that was an Anti-spam feature I put in place so the channels wouldn't be "Spammed" by all the group members using the addon...
(I tried to make the addon as useful as I could without irritating other players who don't believe in addons like this OR by using more SERVER chat resources then necessary so the WOW developers would further restrict addon system calls)
But I do think I allowed you to browse and search and let the Group LEADER know (A button on the persons "REQUEST" bar?). It would automatically whisper the leader when you click that.
In reply to jforrestna:
Ok but what if no one else in the group has the addon, and I am not the group leader? What if I want to help search for more using the addon?
In reply to Forge_User_72663818:
Because you can not add people to the group, the addon will only whisper the leader of the group. But you can still browse for and search like normal... you just can not broadcast or ADD to the group. (Your not the leader, you do not have rights to add or remove) When you find someone you like, just click on the button that will notify the leader.
In reply to jforrestna:
Yeah but I should be able to broadcast is what I am saying.
In reply to Forge_User_72663818:
I will look into it.
Unusable as is, it messes with channels it shouldn't. Tried the advice listed, listening on General and it's joined, but not displayed on my tab for it.
Disabled the addon, shame since it's rather nifty.
If it didn't do this, i would use it.
In reply to Forge_User_29277239:
Need a little clarification please. When you Check the channel, it doesn't stay checked? Where doesnt it stay checked? The tab your talking about, its not being used?
In reply to jforrestna:
It gets unchecked so it's not displayed, and the tab called General for me has all the various info on things, loot etc and the two channels General and Trade. And LFG in another tab so it's hidden until i want to look.
Think it left it unless i "listen" on it, and not checking broadcast for those channels since this mod shouldn't at all be on either General or Trade, or mess around with what chats are displayed.
Using Prat 3.0 addon, but it doesn't have any modules controlling what's displayed, just the layout.
In reply to Forge_User_29277239:
Are you using an english client?
In reply to jforrestna:
Yes, EU and everything in English.
In reply to Forge_User_29277239:
I posted a working solution earlier in this post, for whatever reason, when the last major update/changes to the addon was made, it messed up the channel settings (IN the addon, not wow)
Only way to resolve this was to DISABLE the addon, close the client, edit the LFG113.LUA settings in the _classic/WTF folder and remove the channel settings for each character with the issue, LOAD the client and character with the issue, Set up your channels the way you want THEN enable the addon...
WARNING!!!! Before doing this, know that STEP two is easier to do, BUT you will lose ALL information, settings, groups settings, Blacklist, etc!
Second option was to disable the addon, close the client, search for and delete all LFG113.lua files in the _classic\WTF folder, then load the client, Set up the channels the way you want THEN enable the addons.
UNFORTUNATELY I'm constantly deleting these files while working on the addon, so I never ran into this issue (NOR can I reproduce it).
Contents of the lfg113.lua file you want to delete look like this (Each segment is the channel name):
["channels"] = {
["worlddefense"] = {
["Load"] = true,
["WithCaps"] = "WorldDefense",
},
["general"] = {
["WithCaps"] = "General",
["Load"] = true,
["Broadcast"] = false,
},
["trade"] = {
["WithCaps"] = "Trade",
["Load"] = true,
["Broadcast"] = false,
},
["localdefense"] = {
["WithCaps"] = "LocalDefense",
["Load"] = true,
["Broadcast"] = false,
}
},
In reply to jforrestna:
Allright, deleted the files and trying the mod again.
In reply to Forge_User_29277239:
did it work? I should of asked you for a copy of those LFG113 files so I could see what was going on.
In reply to jforrestna:
There's the option to join General, in tab options, but button doesn't do anything, seems to work however.
Had them in recycle bin still.
Char:
LFG113Saved = { ["ForceKeybind"] = false, ["compactDesign"] = false, ["hooksecurefunc"] = true, ["popupAlert"] = false, ["accurateScan"] = false, ["addonLoadTime"] = 10, ["useDMnotVC"] = true, ["minimapX"] = -27.7619804096196, ["pingAlert"] = true, ["fullGRPAudio"] = true, ["LFMFormat"] = "LF{n}M {r} for {i} {s} {g}", ["freeMovingEye"] = true, ["minimapY"] = -58.1665615326092, ["whisperGuildInvite"] = "I sent a Guild invite to you to so you can join us {t} {i}", ["whisperInvite"] = "I sent an invite to you so you can join us to {t} {i}", ["LanguageUsed"] = 4, ["whisperAccept"] = "You can come along with us if you want to.", ["whisperMissingInformation"] = "Please whisper me your level AND role eg. '60 tank/dps' or more specific 'level 60 warrior dps/tank'", ["whisperDecline"] = "I'm sorry but Im not taking you on this adventure to {i}.", ["channels"] = { ["classiclfg"] = { ["WithCaps"] = "ClassicLFG", ["Load"] = false, ["Broadcast"] = false, }, ["trade"] = { ["WithCaps"] = "Trade", ["Load"] = true, ["Broadcast"] = false, }, ["localdefense"] = { ["WithCaps"] = "LocalDefense", ["Load"] = false, ["Broadcast"] = false, }, ["lookingforgroup"] = { ["WithCaps"] = "LookingForGroup", ["Load"] = true, ["Broadcast"] = true, }, }, ["whisperJoin"] = "Level {l} {c} {r}", ["sliderTimer"] = 90, ["enableSound"] = true, ["autoAcceptWhisper"] = true, ["LFGFormat"] = "{l} {c} {r} LFG {i} {s}", ["CommLanguageUsed"] = 4, ["disableAutomaticBroadcast"] = true, ["sliderTimeToLive"] = 180, ["alwaysShowEye"] = true, ["messageNumber"] = "Version 1.15", }SavedVariables:
LFG113BlackList = { } LFG113Searches = { ["SM"] = { ["Roles"] = "3", ["Custom"] = "", ["TAB"] = 2, ["Searches"] = { { "1", -- [1] "sm arm", -- [2] }, -- [1] { "1", -- [1] "sm lib", -- [2] }, -- [2] { "1", -- [1] "sm cath", -- [2] }, -- [3] }, }, } LFG113Premades = { } LFG113Players = { }In reply to Forge_User_29277239:
There are should be two check boxs, one for Loading the channel and another to enable broadcasting on that channel. WHEN the channel is loaded by default (through wow) before the addon is loaded, its supposed to ignore the load/unload and grey out that option. the only checkbox at that point is the Enable Broadcasting on that channel.
Thank you for the settings. I see what I have to do.