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Last Update:	March 24, 2008 (3 months ago)
Category:	Applications
Tags:	addon, mod, tool, updater, and utility
Project Manager:	amthea1
Website:	visit
Current Version:	UI Central v4
Downloads Today:	88
Downloads Total:	16,110
Favorites:	6
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Updating an addon with UI Central

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Created On:	March 24, 2008
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amthea1

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About UI Central

Take the stress out of maintaining addons! UI Central is a free tool that runs on Windows and Mac OS X, which keeps your WoW addons up to date automatically. It will try and detect which addons you have, and highlight ones which are out of date. You can then simply click Update and it will update all of them to the latest versions with no fuss. If it accidentally detects an addon you don't have, simply right-click on it and press Hide. You can also use the tool to remove addons you don't want anymore. To install, simply open the tiny uicentral.jnlp file included in the package. This will download the full version UI Central to your Start Menu, or the Dock for Mac users. From there you can copy the shortcut to the desktop if you wish. Please note: UI Central requires Java 6. Mac users must install the beta version of this from http://uicentral.incgamers.com/v4/javase6dp9.dmg before attempting to use UI Central. UI Central is digitally signed, and virus/spyware-free. Important note: you must click "choose a mirror automatically" after clicking Download above. The Curse Client is not currently able to install UI Central correctly.

Installation Guide

Exit "World of Warcraft" completely
Download the mod you want to install
- Make a folder on your desktop called "My Mods"
- Save the .zip/.rar files to this folder.
- If, when you try to download the file, it automatically "opens" it... you need to RIGHT click on the link and "save as..." or "Save Target As".
Extract the file - commonly known as 'unzipping'
Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!
- Windows
  - Windows XP a built in ZIP extractor. Double click on the file to open it, inside should be the file or folders needed. Copy these outside to the "My Mods" folder.
  - WinRAR: Right click the file, select "Extract Here"
  - WinZip: You MUST make sure the option to "Use Folder Names" is CHECKED or it will just extract the files and not make the proper folders how the Authors designed
- Mac Users
  - StuffitExpander: Double click the archive to extract it to a folder in the current directory.
Verify your WoW Installation Path
That is where you are running WoW from and THAT is where you need to install your mods.
Move to the Addon folder
- Open your World of Warcraft folder. (default is C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\)
- Go into the "Interface" folder.
- Go into the "AddOns" folder.
- In a new window, open the "My Mods" folder.
- The "My Mods" folder should have the "Addonname" folder in it.
- Move the "Addonname" folder into the "AddOns" folder
Start World of Warcraft
Make sure AddOns are installed
- Log in
- At the Character Select screen, look in lower left corner for the "addons" button.
- If button is there: make sure all the mods you installed are listed and make sure "load out of date addons" is checked.
- If the button is NOT there: means you did not install the addons properly. Look at the above screenshots. Try repeating the steps or getting someone who knows more about computers than you do to help.

Translations

When you download a mod, please be sure that the mod is compatible with your translation of wow. Some mods only work on the US versions, while some only work on some of the various European versions. These variations are called "Localizations".

TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)

When Blizzard patches WoW, they change the Interface number. This means that all mods will be "out of date" unless or until the author releases a new version for that interface. Some people go into the .toc files and update the numbers themselves, but this is STRONGLY advised against as it will cause problems locating possible incompatibilities addons. When you log into WoW after a patch, you DO NOT have to delete your interface directory. All you have to do is simply tell WoW to ignore the interface numbers and load all the mods anyway. All you have to do is, while at the "character select" screen, look in the lower left corner and click on the "addons" button. A window will pop up listing all your installed mods.

If you look in the upper left corner of that window there should be a box that says "Load Out of Date AddOns". You want to CHECK this box. Now simply go into WoW normally and all your mods should load. As of the 1.9 patch, you will have to do this after EVERY patch/update that Blizzard posts! If you encounter any problems with a mod after a patch, please be sure to let the author of the mod know so they can fix it.

Mac Support

WoW addons are not platformed based. As such, they can be used on either Mac or PC. You can extract both .zip and .rar files on a Mac using StuffitExpander.

Directory Structure

World of Warcraft
    |_ Interface
        |_AddOns
            |_*AddonName*
                |_ *AddonName*.toc
                |_ *AddonName*.xml
                |_ *AddonName*.lua
                |_ (possibly others as well)...

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Zoopes said
May 19, 2008, 02:49AM (1 month, 2 weeks ago)
well i got vista too bellak and i got the same error message. since the newest version of ui central came out i just kept using my out of date addons but because of the new instances and such coming in from the new patches i finally decided to delete all my old addons and get new ones.... since ui central no longer worked i tried not using it and just putting the addons straight into the wow addons folder but this didnt work as when i went in game the addons button wasnt there (proving the game didnt see that i had any addons). so seems to me the only way i can use any addons is from ui central but because of vista i cant even use ui central.... someone want to tell me how to make ui central work or tell me why warcraft isnt detecting the addons i put in the addon folder?

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EagleEyeKing said
May 12, 2008, 03:52AM (1 month, 3 weeks ago)
that is because this is the updater that was disable in the wowui.incgamers.com website, it was found carrying a Trojan virus. Dumb shit wants to mess up people machines.

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bellak said
April 27, 2008, 12:19PM (2 months, 1 week ago)
The install errors out on Vista with the following error:

com.sun.deploy.net.FailedDownloadException: Unable to load resource: http://uicentral.incgamers.com/v4/jws/webrenderer-swing.jar
at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.actionDownload(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getCacheEntry(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResourceCacheEntry(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResourceCacheEntry(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.deploy.net.DownloadEngine.getResource(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.LaunchDownload.downloadJarFiles(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.LaunchDownload.downloadEagerorAll(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.downloadResources(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareLaunchFile(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.prepareToLaunch(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Launcher.launch(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Main.launchApp(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Main.continueInSecureThread(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.javaws.Main$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Are you expecting Windows UAC to be disabled? If so, this is bad design..

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gstart said
March 30, 2008, 05:53AM (3 months, 1 week ago)
hmm cant seem to DL this

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World of Warcraft Tools

Updating an addon with UI Central

amthea1

Table of Contents

Installation Guide

Translations

TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)

Mac Support

Directory Structure

Updating an addon with UI Central

Displays your list of addons

Highlights out-of-date addons