UI Mod Guide - Appendix 2

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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

 

 

 

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