World of Warcraft at Ten Ton Hammer

Krimm's Guide to World of Warcraft Addon Design

Appendix 2
Links & Credits

• Part 1 - The Basics: Making your first WoW Addon
• Part 2 - Slash Commands: Bringing your addon into the game.
• Part 3 - Saved Variables: "Remembering" info between gaming sessions.
• Part 4 - Tables: Organizing saved info for easy access.
• Part 5 - Packages: Tightening up your code
• Part 6 - Localization (coming soon!)
• Part 7 - User Interfaces (coming soon!)


• Appendix 1 - Debugging
• -> Appendix 2 - Credits and Links <-

Here are sites I looked at either while learning to write AddOns myself, or while writing this guide:

Nevir’s sticky post in the WoW forums:
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/ ... #post173

WoWWiki AddOns page:
http://www.wowwiki.com/AddOns

WoWWiki Interface Customization page:
http://www.wowwiki.com/Interface_Customization

slouken’s post, as presented on WoWWiki:
http://www.wowwiki.com/WoW_UI_Customization_Guide

Details on events during the AddOn loading process:
http://www.wowwiki.com/Events_that_fire_ ... _Process

There are a bunch of good “How To” articles here:
http://www.wowwiki.com/HOWTOs

Here are some other sites with some good information:

The official Lua site:
http://www.lua.org

A free online Lua book (at the official site):
http://www.lua.org/pil/

A good Lua FAQ by Lua users, with lots of links:
http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaFaq

A list of Lua editors is here:
http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaAddons

My favorite XML editor is here:
http://www.softgauge.com/xmlshell/

A really versatile programming editor is here:
http://editplus.com/

Lua support for the above editor is available from:
http://editplus.com/others.html

Some Mac tools are listed here:
http://www.cosmosui.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1240