ProfessionsBook
| Last Update: | May 21, 2008 (2 months ago) |
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| Category: | Tradeskill |
| Tags: | ace2, addon, interface, professionsbook, and tradeskill |
| Project Manager: | Anxarces |
| Current Version: | ProfessionsBook 2.1.9 (for World of Warcraft 2.4.2) |
| Downloads Today: | 66 |
| Downloads Total: | 84,512 |
| Favorites: | 760 |
| Comments: | 213 |
- About ProfessionsBook
IMPORTANT NOTICE: Due to name changes of some headers with Patch 2.3 you will have double entries of recipes in PB. Please delete your database via the option menu of PB and rescan all your professions.
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Overview
ProfessionsBook keeps track of all known trade items your characters can craft/enchant. You can easily select each character and browse the known recipes and view the needed reagents to craft that item.
Additionally recipes in the auction house are color coded:
- red = no character may learn that recipe
- green = at least one of your characters may learn the recipe
- blue = one character has learned the recipe already
- yellow = a character has the tradeskill but not the appropriate skill level
The tooltip for recipes is enhanced by two lines displaying the characters who already know the recipe and characters who may learn it.
If you have ProfessionsFu or TitanProfessions installed (recommended) you can easily open ProfessionsBook via ProessionsFu's or TitanProfessions' menu.
Features
- Scan all professions of a character and store them
- Browse stored professions of all characters
- View required reagents for a selected trade skill
- Post required reagents to a channel.
- Color code recipes in the auction house
- Display characters knowing or be able to learn a certain recipe in the tooltip
Usage
Before using ProfessionsBook all professions windows (e.g. Enchanting, Smithing...) must be opened to enable the scan of all known recipes.
Open ProfessionsBook:
- Slash command: /pb show or /professionsbook show
- Open via ProfessionsFu
- Open via key binding
Select the character whose trade skill you want to view. Select a tradeskill below and browse the known recipes to the left. Additional filters can be applied.
The button "send" posts the required reagents of the currently selected trade item to the channel selected in the drop down box next to the button. If you want to whisper the reagents to an other player you will be prompted to enter his/her name. Support for numbered channels (e.g. "Trade"...) will be added in a later release.
Open the options dialog to change visibility and position of the minimap button. That button is invisible by default. The features to enhance the tooltips and color coding of recipes in the auction house may also be enabled/disabled in this dialog.
The option dialog lets you delete the ProfessionsBook data from your characters of the current server and faction (e.g. "ServerXY - Alliance"). This comes in handy if a character of yours has dropped a profession and learned an other one. After using that option you need to scan all professions of your characters on that server and faction.
The search function accepts strings and substrings which are case insensitive. Searching for 'nether' will display all recipes containing 'nether' in their titles (e.g. 'Heavy Netherweave Bandage').
Installation
- Copy the 'ProfessionsBook' directory to your "WoW/Interface/AddOns" folder.
- If you are upgrading from a version previous to 2.0.0 or 2.0.0 Beta you need to delete the folder "ProfessionsBook" in "WoW/Interface/AddOns" and "Professions.lua" in your "WTF/Account/<AccountName>/SavedVariables/"-folder.
Known bugs and limitations
- It may happen that when opening a trade skill window, not all recipes are scanned. If such a case occurs, please reopen the trade skill window again to performe an automatic rescan of the recipes.
- Only characters of the same realm and faction are selectable. In a future release I will add support for selecting characters from the opposite faction.
- Books to increase your maximum level of a tradeskill (e.g. Cooking 225) are not color coded in auction house. These books are not part of the recipe book itself and are not scanned.
- Color coding and enhanced tooltips do not work in the french version correctly.
- When using color coding in combination with Auctioneer Advanced the colors do not reflect the new order of items when the default sorting is changed.
- Due to a bug in AuctionFilterPlus the color coding does not refelct the true order in the auction house. The tooltips are correct, however.
- You may experience a lag (from several seconds up to a minute) after the cache of WoW has been cleared (e.g. after a new WoW-Patch, etc.). This will happen only a few times when opening a trade skill window. As soon as the cache of WoW is filled with the recipes, there will be no more lags until the cache has been cleared again.
Credits
- Blackdove (author of Book of Crafts, http://www.curse.com/downloads/details/1014/) for kindly supporting the contents of PB_Exceptions.lua.
- Korean translation: Eerien, Aresda of Garona
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bllavc saidThis addon is great to track all the profession I have on my characters. However, is there any way to let it also scan my characters on a seperate account? Or maybe store the information in a file and import it. It would make tracking profession and skills on all my characters regardless of accounts simpler.
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vomonte saidMy older copy of Professions Book stopped scanning my recipes so I downloaded the new one, cleared my log, and deleted the file and all the .lua PB files... and it still wont scan my professions. And idea on how to fix this?
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Chipper02 saidSomehow I dragged profession book off screen on one of my toons. How do I reset or center its screen position from the console? If thats not posible what file do I have to delete to get it to reset?
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Sunspot saidGreat mod...
My only problem is also with cooking, im also 375/375 there is only one recipe that appears in orange and all the rest are grey and in alphabetical order, i dont really mind the color, but its a pain to browse one by one the recipes till i find the high level ones
;-)
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anavolver saidColor Coding in Cooking is incorrect (english interface version) patch 2.42 with PB 2.1.9
my toon is 70 and cooking level 375 .
In my cooking window only "Fisherman's Feast" , "Hot Buttered Trout" and "Spicy Crawdad" are yellow but in the Prof. book
the recipe "Baked Salmon lvl45/55 and "Smoked Desert Dumplings 45/55) are yellow coded too.
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Anxarces saidI will release a toc file update in the next days. Currently I don't play WoW a lot, thats why responses from my side may take some time. However I browse through the comments here on a regular basis.
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sir-markus saidnot even a small toc file update, so i take it this mod is officially dead?
thats to bad, cause i just cant find any mod that does what this one does without and crap i never wanted.
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Anxarces said@songokussm:
Quote of kown bugs and limitations: "You may experience a lag (from several seconds up to a minute) after the cache of WoW has been cleared (e.g. after a new WoW-Patch, etc.). This will happen only a few times when opening a trade skill window. As soon as the cache of WoW is filled with the recipes, there will be no more lags until the cache has been cleared again."
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songokussm saidlocks up my system.
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Kerecha saidIs there any way to get rid of the nasty memory issue?
Every time i open a main proff window the mem use jumps by ~2mb and that dun come back on garbage collection, if i just alternate my tailoring and ench windows the mem will easily go above 250mb and ultimately crashing the game due to memory.
And on a night of selling crafts opening/swapping tradeskill windows 100 times or more is easy, each time increasing memory by 1.5-2.5Mb
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Lombra saidAh, that sucks =( Hope it'll be fixed soon, for everyone's sake!
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Anxarces saidI can confirm the empty headers. Currently I have problems with my computer and can not do any testing. As soon as my system is working again, I will see what I can do.
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Lombra saidAfter a little (accidental) testing, it seems that the empty headers appear when I do the following:
- Open the PB frame and choose a character
- Click a profession (engineering in my case, couldn't figure out if it happns for other) and click the 'Subcategories' dropdown
- Choose another character which has engineering, do not click the engineering button
- Click the 'Subcategories' dropdown (it will already display empty headers now)
- Now click engineering, and then the dropdown. There will be a few empty headers
I wouldn't be surprised if it only happens on my system, but tell me if you want more information and I'll see what I can do.
Edit: Tried a little more and it seems to happen for any profession. I have a miner who has the categories "Metal & Stone" and "Elemental", switched to another miner who only knows metal and it would display that as well as an empty header.
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Anxarces said@Perrins: I have tested PB with ATSW and it worked fine for me. What version of ATSW are you using? What do you mean with crash? If the game freezes it may be the cleared cache freeze. For more details take a look at the "Known bugs and limitations" topic above.
@Jacara81: Great to hear that. I have reverted to the older but working scan engine.
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Jacara81 saidGood news, With 2.1.7 the scanning seems to be working again thanks =D
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Perrins saidPB seems to be conflicting with Advanced Tradeskill Window. i use both of these but when i have Pb enabled it will freeze up ATSW and cause my toon to crash. when i disabled PB it worked fine. just FYI
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anavolver saidThe no name slots are not in the german version.
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Anxarces saidStrange. I will see, if I can reproduce that problem.
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Lombra saidThere is no name, just an empty slot. I took a lil' screenshot.
http://img297.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pbfk4.png
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Anxarces saidWhat is the name of that category? I haven't heard about that problem yet.