TOAD, or Task Oriented Addon Director, is an addon manager that builds on top of ACP (Addon Control Panel) to provide easy, prompted, switching between task based addon sets by detecting where you are and what you are doing. This allows you to reduce the number of addons you have loaded at any one time, which decreases memory consumption and improves performance. TOAD also provides a capability to disable all but a minimal set of addons when you log out or disconnect to significantly reduce the amount of time it takes to get back in to the game world.

After you log in and as you move between zones and instances, the TOAD will try and detect what you are doing and suggest an addon set to be loaded based on the task you are performing. Currently supported tasks include PvE tasks such as questing, instancing (ie. 5-man dungeons) and raiding, profession related tasks such as crafting and gathering, PvP tasks such as fighting in battlegrounds and arenas (as well as the game world), and standalone tasks for dealing with banking alts and auction house mules.

At logout (or disconnect) time, TOAD can disable all but your configured set of minimal addons so that when you login to the game world, load times are drastically reduced. Ever DC in the middle of a boss encounter and have trouble getting back in? TOAD will give you the best chance to return to the battle ASAP! Additionally, define an Emergency Combat set and should TOAD detect that you have reentered the game world in combat, TOAD will make it quick and easy to get back on your feet and get back to the battle! Click the accept button and the addon set will be loaded - and then you can sort out all those somewhat less essential addons straight after you've looted. ^^

TOAD requires you to set up addon sets in ACP, but uses the addon sets in an additive fashion. For example, you could set up an ACP addon set containing all the addons you always use for PvE and further sets containing additional addons that you only use during questing (QuestHelper for example? :)) or raiding (hello BigWigs and oRA2). Then, when you find a brand new addon you want to use everywhere, just add it to one of the base sets and it will be available for all the related tasks (eg. Raiding -> PvE -> PvX -> Base -> Minimum -> System, while Battleground -> PvP -> PvX -> Base -> Minimum -> System).

TOAD is integrated with LDB in order to display the currently selected task and allow quick access to the task switching panel and has full command line support making it simple to write macros to perform task changes yourself.

1.0.0-beta-3 changes

While performing a reload UI on task switch set the DND message rather than AFK message everywhere - not just in battlegrounds. It's more reliable to clear the DND status - AFAICT, AFK has some kind of protection on it to prevent addons removing the flag without a UI interaction (makes sense!). Also, make sure we don't trample over any existing DND status - just leave it intact.

1.0.0-beta-2 changes

Meneh improvements!

corpse runs no longer cause a task switch prompt
renamed "static task" to "sticky task"
added "manual task switching" option
added duplicate and unused addon list command (/toad list dups, /toad list unused) so you can see what's, well, duplicated or unused across your ACP addon sets
added "Minimum" as an activity, to make it easy to switch to the minimum addons setting
added "combat failsafe" option which activates the Emergency Combat set if you disconnect while in combat (not fully tested)
removed panic worldframe clicker - can't do that in combat.
renamed "idling" to "idle" for consistency with other verb tenses
Emergency Combat set now depends on Minimum UI base set, not Base UI set - put whatever bits of the Base UI you need for emergency combat into the Emergency Combat set
added a "Detect now" button to the GUI options and "/toad detect" to the command line options
LDB data object toggles options screen with LeftButton and causes a task detect with RightButton
Added tooltip to LDB data object to explain the different clicks
Default the guild announcement spam to off - raid and party spam remains on by default
Deal better with current task vs. detected task and sticky task
Correctly deal with disabling/re-enabling current addons when zoning (ie. leaves, enters when not reloading)
various code tidying
trigger detect task when leaving a raid group (not fully tested) and not before (aka the Naxx corpse run fix)
trigger detect task when unghosting
nicer default chat frame feedback as to what Toad is detecting

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