AltManager

Has anyone found/seen a reason to use this now that notes are enabled again?

In the line (line 164):

if string.sub(objName, 1, 15) == "gwrosterlistrow" and string.find(objName, "membernamestring") then

Change "membernamestring" to "membername" and the MOD will start working again.

FYI. The MOD will not work if "Show Notes" is turned on (checked) on your guild window.

Thanks Gandiel!

Oh I do so hope that this gets going again. It's just essential to me. I have a brain injury and can't remember all those alts out there. This was a godsend.

Broken as of 1.1a

Please fix this as I thought it was pretty useful! Thank you

this addon is great but i'm missing something...
is it possible to save the information about the alt's in a file?
then you can share this file with other guildmembers and only 1 person does the work.

This sounds like a good mod, and I'm sure I'm doing something wrong, but it doesn't respond when I type /altm or /altmanager at all. I have libslash installed.

For some reason I am unable to remove an alt. /altm rem just lists the commands as if I had only typed /altm.

OK. I figured this out. The listed command is wrong to remove a character. You say /altm rem but actually it is just /altm rem . Your elseif command looks only at the size of the input and if it is 2 (rem + altname) it does the remove command. If the size is three, it thinks I'm doing an add command and then seems to think that the main name is part of the alt name or just doesn't know what to do with the main name. Anyway, seems like you just need to change the instructions for the commands to not include main name when you remove an alt name.

Hmmm. OK. That didn't come across right because the little arrow signs deleted the words I had there. /alt rem altname mainname doesn't work. /alt rem altname does work.

I found that naturally you aren't restricted to using the name of another toon for an alt, which is great because it could serve as a small note of sorts. However, it is limited in the characters you can use and the amount of space. Could you make the space of the mainchar variable unlimited and allow all characters? Then we could add notes for all players. Thanks.

An example of how I would envision SavedVariables.lua

AltManager_DB =
{
ver = 1.1
mains =
{
MainToon = true,
Someone Else = true,
},
alts =
{
Alt1 = "MainToon",
Alt2 = "Maintoon",
Alt3 = "Someone Else",
},
Notes =
{
Toon = "note",
Toon = "note",
},
}

or alternatively add a note function so you could just go /altm note . This would keep note information separate in the saved variables file.

Some other thoughts:
*Allow sharing over a channel with other players(particularly guild officers)or controlled by a list.
- If you implement notes, then you would need to make that an option to not sync notes.

*Sort the alts in the variables file alphabetically for manual editing when not in game
- Separate mains from alts as well.

Thanks

Great addon. Just a quick question.
If a player have a list of 9 alts and want to play 1 of his alt as new main.
Is there any way to update Main and alt automatically?

A possible future option (but probably a nightmare to code) would be to able to add non-guilded alts, possibly in a different color.

Great idea for an addon. I'll probably end up using this!
Thanks for the work.