Seeing the Rested status/amount of ALL your toons

[Zub]

Originally Posted by Tim

Oh man that is one HELLUVA feature!

Now people with 5x accounts could literally build 10x level 85s on each account, and juggle them around based on rested XP!

that's the idea :-)
still ironing the last bugs out, should be ready soon

[Zub]

Well, for those interested, here it is:

http://www.wow-ratings.com/MultiToons.zip

Note: This has been tested and found working with IE 8 and FireFox 3.6.8
It doesn't seem to work with Chrome due to limitations on XMLHttpRequest.

This tool consists of 2 parts:

A. The Addon
You will most probably have unzipped this file in the WoW/Interface/AddOns/MultiToons folder. Good move.
The MultiToons.lua and toc files should remain there, and next time you start WoW the addon should be automatically loaded.
To make sure, just type /multitoons while in-game and you should get an answer stating the version number. You can also check the loading chat at the start.

For you toons to be listed, you will need to log at least once on each of them. The Addon will automatically save all the necessary information (current XP, rested XP, Justice Points etc) in WoW/WTS/Account/<Account Name>/SavedVariables/MultiToons.lua file.

To make things easier to read, you can organise your toons in teams. For example, just log on a toon and type /multitoons AllStars to put it in the AllStars team.
To remove a toon from a team, just type /multitoons again.


B. The Web Page
This web page will display all the information gathered by the addon.
The easiest way to do so it to copy the MultiToons.htm file to the WoW folder. For security reasons there is no other way for a web page to see local content (online web pages cannot access local hard drive files)
If you have any security concerns, feel free to check the code in this file; it is all easily accessible, and even commented a bit. If you are paranoid, feel free not to use this at all! :-)

Once you copied the MultiToons.htm file to the WoW folder, open it in a text editor and scroll down to line 20 to 50.
Edit the Account information (no email or password or anything risky, just the name of the folder to look into for the mods SavedVariables.lua)
Save the file, and double-click it to load it in a browser. You will need to be online for the images to load correctly.
Alternatively you probably can type this url in your browser: C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\MultiToons.htm

Once everything is working fine, if you wish to remove the instructions just edit the file and change the showHelp parameter to "false" :-)

If everything goes well, you should end up with something like this:
http://www.wow-ratings.com/images/multitoons-addon.jpg


I'd be very interested to see how it all looks for you guys, so please don't hesitate to post screenshots (or send them to webmaster@wow-ratings.com)

Feedback more than welcome (was it easy enough to install? do you see all the info you want? etc)
Thanks!
-Zub

[lofblad]

The addon loads fine in WoW, but nothing happens when I type "/multitoons". When I close WoW and open the page in IE, it says "1 account found, 0 characters listed."

I have typed in the name of the account I logged on to in the .htm file, so it seems to find the account but not the character data.

[Zub]

Originally Posted by lofblad

The addon loads fine in WoW, but nothing happens when I type "/multitoons". When I close WoW and open the page in IE, it says "1 account found, 0 characters listed."

I have typed in the name of the account I logged on to in the .htm file, so it seems to find the account but not the character data.

My apologies, i have indeed found a stupid bug on line 87.
I've corrected it, you should be able to download the corrected version now.
http://www.wow-ratings.com/MultiToons.zip

thanks,
-Zub

[Zub]

fixed normaly

[lofblad]

Works fine now after the "patch", thanks.

Is there any way to get rid of the meny with the large pictures to the left? I don't normally run my browser fullscreen, so the part with the information gets a little cut off on the right.

In general, some options regarding look&feel would be awesome, since it's an information screen that you want to be easy to read according to personal preferences.

Also a minor annoyance and probably out of your control, it's too bad you can't use the page in Chrome. I dislike having to open up IE, lol.

Otherwise, cool stuff, I appreciate it.

[Zub]

Originally Posted by lofblad

Works fine now after the "patch", thanks.

Is there any way to get rid of the meny with the large pictures to the left? I don't normally run my browser fullscreen, so the part with the information gets a little cut off on the right.

In general, some options regarding look&feel would be awesome, since it's an information screen that you want to be easy to read according to personal preferences.

Also a minor annoyance and probably out of your control, it's too bad you can't use the page in Chrome. I dislike having to open up IE, lol.

Otherwise, cool stuff, I appreciate it.

I'll see if I can make some part collapse/expand to allow more toon space tomorrow.

Thanks for the feedback :-)

[Zub]

Originally Posted by Zub

I'll see if I can make some part collapse/expand to allow more toon space tomorrow.

Thanks for the feedback :-)

Ok done.
There is now a "ShowUI" setting in the htm file that you can set to "false" to hide everything but the toon data.

You'll need to download the package again here: http://www.wow-ratings.com/MultiToons.zip and copy/edit the MultiToons.htm file again i'm afraid.

Hope this helps
-Zub

p.s. i'd be interested in seeing a screenshot of the result (maybe link here, or a PM? )thanks

[lofblad]

Thanks, much improved! One question, and it's probably a stupid one:
Do I have to type /multitoons everytime I want the data updated for that particular toon, or does the addon do that automatically?

[Zub]

Originally Posted by lofblad

Thanks, much improved! One question, and it's probably a stupid one:
Do I have to type /multitoons everytime I want the data updated for that particular toon, or does the addon do that automatically?

nope, it's automatic.
you only have to type /multitoons to add to or remove from a team