Cartographer

CARTOGRAPHER HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED FOR 3.3!

DO NOT CREATE BUG REPORTS SAYING IT IS BROKEN!

There are no plans to do any major bug fixes for Cartographer (v2 or v3). If there is an update it will only be a minor fix. (It has already been this way since at least 2008.) Cartographer(v2) uses an outdated framework that will not be updated in the case of major breakages so Cartographer(v2) would require a complete rewrite. Neither of the two main developers (Ckknight and Arrowmaster) have the time nor desire to do this currently. Occasionally a new version might be released to include fixes made by other developers or new versions of embedded libraries.

Cartographer is a modular, lightweight, and efficient framework for manipulation of the world map. It is based on Rock and other libraries of the WoWAce community.

Battlegrounds : allows viewing of battlegrounds outside of the zone.
Coordinates : adds coordinates to the bottom of the world map of the player and the cursor.
Foglight : Shows unexplored areas on the map. replacement for MozzFullWorldMap or Unexplorer. Much more efficient, though.
Group Colors : turns all your party's and your raid's POIs into circles colored based on class, and shows a number on them based on their raid group.
Instance Maps : shows maps of instances.
Instance Notes : adds boss notes and such to instance maps.
Look 'n' Feel : allows you to change the transparency, position, and scale of the world map.
Notes : lets you put notes on the map, similar to MapNotes.
Zone Info : on hovering over a zone, it will show the levels of the zone, the instances in the zone, their levels, and the group size the instance is made for (e.g. 5-man, 40-man).

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- #120
Morpheus78 Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:47:29
Hi,

i tried to fix cartographer how Asagron told: Asagron said Mittwoch, 13. Januar 2010 19:15:24 (4 days ago) (post from Curse)

@MrDreamers ---- cartographer.lua ---- at the beginning of line 371 add "[[" with no quotes. at line 385 add a - in front of the --[[ just to make sure our block comment doesn't end prematurely. at line 398 remove a ] from the --]] again to make sure our block comment doesn't end prematurely. at line 1070 add "" at the front of the line to comment out that line, don't use quotes...do this again at line 1074

- ~~notes.lua~~ - ~~goto line 1810 change the whole line "frame:SetFrameLevel(9)" to "frame:SetFrameLevel(WorldMapFrame:GetFrameLevel() + 20)" don't add the quotes.~~

at the end of notes.lua add the following block starting on a new line:

"function Cartographer_Notes:PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD(...) rotateMinimap = GetCVar("rotateMinimap") == "1" end "

don't put the quotes in. If you are not sure how to jump to a specific line simply open the .lua file in notepad and press ctrl+g to open the goto box allowing you to go to a specific line.

Hope that helps! --------------------------- I use notepad but i can´t use ctrl+g to go to a specific line. I count manually the lines and comment the lines out. After next login i get a bunch of errors.

I only want to use cartographer + questobjectives + questinfo. Mapster is the latest v. 1.3.4. I use the german client.

Hope, somebody can help me out.
- #119
Skyl1ner Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:37:41
This is what i did to keep all the cartographer features, while using Mapster for the map itself It disabled the cartographer wolrdmap buttons since they seemed outa place

1. I installed the latest cart v2 from the wowace site.

2. I installed mapster

3. now for the disabling of worldmap buttons parts, comment out lines 371 to 442 + line 1070 + line 1074 in Cartographer.lua

4. To make cartographer notes to work Edit Notes.lua thats in Cartographer_Notes folder

Change line 1810 from: frame:SetFrameLevel(9)

To: frame:SetFrameLevel(WorldMapFrame:GetFrameLevel() + 20)

This will put the note creation/editing window above the map and above gathermate icons.

If you still get icons/notes showing above the edit window, increase the "+ 20 " till it's above them.

5. completely disabled the look'n'feel component in the char selection screen addon button.

load the game and there you have it, worldmap using mapster, with all the questinfo and other stuff from carto still functioning normaly,

and the new "show quest objective" working properly.

I also turned off the carto coordinates component and use the mapster one

Last edited on 11 Jan 2010 by Skyl1ner
- #118
Steak21 Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:05:53
Guys, My cartogropher works good! Everything will work except for the Look 'n' feel function. Really, to make it not mess up your map, in the addons menu (at the choose character screen), click the addons button. Make sure that you load out of date addons as cartogropher might count as out of date, and uncheck "cartographer [look 'n' feel]" under "cartogropher" Now, just restart your game, and everything should work except for resizing. Ps: Not sure if notes work as i don't know how to make notes but, if they dont just use MapNotes. This might not work for everyone unfortunately, but it will work for some people. :)

Last edited on 31 Dec 2009 by Steak21: Big letters at the end?
- #117
cyberian Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:51:03
StijnH, thanks for your efforts here. You are correct, Mapster is good. I just wish there was a keybind to go between the two regular and smaller maps. :/
- #116
Aoife Sat, 19 Dec 2009 13:14:05
the Mapster/HandyNotes/BRZ is the setup I use too. also GatherMate, which I used with Cart2 as well.
I do miss Cart_QuestInfo and Cart_QuestObjectives tho....
- #115
fairways8363 Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:02:13
kazso, your recommendation is excellent! It is the only combination that has worked for me. ty!!!
- #114
kazso Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:32:06
I would recommend Mapster, TomTom (waypoints), HandyNotes and Broker Recommended Zone (zone info) for those who want to replace Cartographer. With these addons you will have similar funcionalities as Cartographer.
- #113
StijnH Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:28:37
I've had a look at Mapster, and I can only recommend to switch to it. It has map scaling, coordinates, revealing of undiscovered areas and some more things. For waypoints, you can use TomTom together with Mapster.

Sorry for getting the hopes up, but this seems like a lot more work than I initially thought, and to be honest I'm not willing to do all this work.

Last edited on 16 Dec 2009 by StijnH
- #112
neadayandrakhon Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:57:44
Tried r2331: cart is still locking up and visually breaking up (buttons off the top, map out of proportion, etc) when I try to revert it to "normal" size (normal for me is something like 2/3 of the screen? I don't know if that is default). This is with bliz's new screwed up map-based quest tracking turned OFF. I do not like the map based quest objectives tracking, I have questguru and cartographer for that (I like questguru's tracker, and I use cart for waypoints).

Strangely, it didn't actually break on me until earlier today, until then it seemed to work ok once I disabled the map objectives tracking, but today it just siezed up and nothing seems to shake it.
- #111
StijnH Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:42:55
cyberian, officially the development has been halted. I've made a small update but I'm not an author (and have no intention of being one), so it's still 'dead'.

Yahweh, what exactly doesn't work? The only problem I had was the map not properly rescaling when I enabled the quest tracking. The update should fix it, I have no problems with it.

thedarkeritgets, indeed the code is huge. Way too huge for what it's doing, I believe.

EDIT Ok I've found some bugs with it (only tested it briefly). On logon, the scaling won't be working. When switching zones it won't work either. In cities the scaling seems to be wrong. For now just disable and re-enable objective tracking when you enter a new zone and you should be fine.

Last edited on 16 Dec 2009 by StijnH