Person_Congratz

Future Changes as at 09.12.09

1) Adding a 5 second delay into the addon and making it user changeable so you can decided on how much of a delay you require

2) Adding an option to switch off whether the guild details are checked or not

3) Adding a /list option so you can see what your settings are

4) Making the settings gui...this will be a longer job as it will take more knowledge of LUA than I already have

Changes 1-3 should be available by Christmas once I've ironed out the kinks.

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Because I can get really involved in what I'm doing, I tend to miss when people ding in my guild or party, or get an achievement. Now I have used automated congratulation addons before but I find them so impersonal. I decided to try and create one that could be personalised and here is the outcome.

The default message for both ding and achievement is "gz #n" (where #n will be replaced with the player's name when it is envoked in the game). The message can be changed. To do this, use one of the following commands :- "/Pcongratz", "/pgz", "/PGZ", or "/pcongratz". Follow this with the word "msg" for ding and "achievemsg" for achievement (in case you want different messages for them). After this type "#n" so the name will appear e.g. /gz msg well done #n

The ding will only work if the first word is "ding" and unlike alot of other auto congratz addons, it is not case sensitive so will pick up someone typing "Ding", "DING", "DiNg" etc.

Because I also use my DingAling addon to automate my leveling, I obviously didn't want Congratz to kick in for me, so it will know to ignore if you notify a ding to your guild or party.

Now to personalise the name it checks as follows :-

a) if the player is in your friends list and you have their name or nickname in the friends note, it will use that

b) else it will check if the player is in your guild

c) if there is something in the officers note, it will use the first word

d) if not, it will pick up the first word from the player's guild note

e) else if there is is nothing in any of the notes or the player is not in your friends list or guild, it will use the player's name.

I hope that made sense. If not, let me know and I'll try to explain it another way.

Thanks to my partner for letting me use his account/characters as guinea pigs for testing this addon.