Issue 8 - autobar - Auto-add Items / Dynamic slots

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Reported by Mar...@web.de, May 20, 2007

Only read Wiki & FAQ, so (don't) slap me if it's already possible ;).

How I understand it is only possible to make slots with items I (have to)
add to them.

It would be great if AutoBar would automatically add items. Means I can
specify a slot (or a category for which is then added for every item a
single slot) which should search for all items that are useable and that
contain "water". Or every item which has (sub)class "Quest". And so far....

Comment 1 by dirk.bester, May 28, 2007

It sounds like you are suggesting searching through the tooltips of items for some 
word and based on that use them in a button.

An interresting suggestion to be sure but one which I will leave as an exercise for 
the student after I implement custom buttons.

Labels: -Type-Defect -Priority-Medium Type-Enhancement Priority-Defer

Comment 2 by egingell, Oct 26, 2007

The function GetItemInfo() (http://www.wowwiki.com/API_GetItemInfo) returns "Quest"
for quest items (6th returned value). Perhaps this can be used to automatically add
all quest items (even if you can't "use" them) for easier tracking? Sorry to
piggyback this suggestion, but it seems a better place than starting a new issue for
the same thing.

Comment 3 by dirk.bester, Nov 16, 2007

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Labels: -Type-Enhancement Type-Feature

Comment 4 by ronaldscott, Apr 23, 2008

A system similar to (or directly stolen from) arkinventory's rules expressions (which
includes periodictable support) would be perfect for this.

Would also need to support sorting rules per button.

Comment 5 by dirk.bester, Apr 24, 2008

Well no, useable quest items are specifically an example of where this does not 
work.  Clogging the quest button with unuseable items would be rather bad.  
Maintaining PT3.1 can be done by anyone and is quite a trivial exercise.

Many PT3.1 sets are also automatically generated off of wowhead.com

Comment 6 by ronaldscott, Apr 24, 2008

Not sure if you're responding to me or egingell, but usable quest items are in PT's
Misc.Usable.Quest set, so assuming one supported ArkInventory's rules syntax, one
could check for that rather than scraping tooltips.  

However, ArkInventory supports tooltip scraping too, and searching for "Use:" would
have the same result.

Comment 7 by dirk.bester, May 02, 2008

Thats correct.  I created the Misc.Usable.Quest set in PT3 specifically for this 
reason.  You are still not getting it though.  Searching for "Use:" specifically 
does NOT get you the items in Misc.Usable.Quest, it also gets you stuff you can NOT 
click on but that allow you to click on in game objects instead.

On the other hand I have been looking at the available Blizzard API: specifically 
the itemType and itemSubType returns of GetItemInfo that egingell suggests.  I will 
implement Buttons based on those returns.  As noted they are not necessarily 
replacements for current buttons.  But it seems like a good way to get weapons in 
for example.  Also armor if u want some kind of equip button and dont want to use an 
appropriate mod like ItemRack etc.