Sometimes you queue during a call to arms, but when the group is finally assembled (the queue pops), the call to arms has ended. The extra rewards are not included. Sometimes I notice the lack of a bag on the "Accept" frame and decline it. Half the time I probably don't notice and accept anyway. Yes it's the old bait and switch game. Some new feature to help prevent us from inadvertently accepting the non call to arms instance when we entered the queue during a call to arms would be nice.
I don't know if it's within the scope of this addon, LFG Call to Arms, to support LFR (raids)...but it might be nice for some people.
The issue is that a lot of people have addons like this. Everyone queues. Only so many healers are needed. By the time your turn is up, the call is over and you don't get your satchel.
On the question of having the addon play a sound when a Call to Arms happens.
The addon already supports playing a sound file. LFG Call to Arms Broker uses a library called LibSharedMedia (LSM) to:
provide a list of available sounds
play the user selected sound file
The problem is that we have to "register" some available sound files with LSM before they appear in the list of available sounds. By default, the LSM library itself only registers one sound file:
None: "Interface\Quiet.ogg"
If you have no other addons installed that happened to register any sounds theselves, then Call to Arms Broker will show you no sounds - except the default
None
Register some
In order to ensure there are some sounds available in the LSM list, we should update the LFG Call to Arms Broker file Core.lua:
Core.lua (before)
local LSM = LibStub("LibSharedMedia-3.0") local LDBIcon = LibStub("LibDBIcon-1.0")
local GROUP_TYPE_NONE = 1 local GROUP_TYPE_PARTY = 2 local GROUP_TYPE_RAID = 3
Core.lua(after)
local LSM = LibStub("LibSharedMedia-3.0") if (LSM) then --Ensure *some* sound files are registered with LSM, so that we have *something* to offer the user LSM:Register("sound", "Big Bad Wolf", "Sound\\Creature\\HoodWolf\\HoodWolfTransformPlayer01.ogg") LSM:Register("sound", "Murderous Rampage", "Sound\\Character\\Gnome\\GnomeVocalFemale\\GnomeFemalePissed01.ogg") LSM:Register("sound", "Big Bell", "Sound\\Doodad\\BellTollAlliance.ogg") LSM:Register("sound", "Karazhan Bell", "Sound\\Doodad\\KharazahnBellToll.ogg") LSM:Register("sound", "Bell (Klang)", "Sound\\Doodad\\BellTollHorde.ogg") LSM:Register("sound", "Fireworks", "Sound\\Doodad\\G_FireworkLauncher02Custom0.ogg") LSM:Register("sound", "Springs", "Sound\\Doodad\\Goblin_Lottery_Open03.ogg") LSM:Register("sound", "Troll Drums", "Sound\\Doodad\\TrollDrumLoop1.ogg") LSM:Register("sound", "Ogre Drums", "Sound\\Event Sounds\\Event_wardrum_ogre.ogg") LSM:Register("sound", "Alarm Clock", "Sound\\Interface\\AlarmClockWarning2.ogg") end;
local LDBIcon = LibStub("LibDBIcon-1.0")
local GROUP_TYPE_NONE = 1 local GROUP_TYPE_PARTY = 2 local GROUP_TYPE_RAID = 3
In reality, we would perform the above sound file registrations inside of the function OnInitialize. But for the sake of making it easier for people here to copy-paste a solution into their Core.lua, we'll perform it in the global section.
no recent posts so thought that id mention that its still working fine in 6.2.2. making several thousand gold a day running dungeons. ive even gotten a few dps queue satchels!
Can someone please specify how to add sound to this? I'm trying everything i can, but i'm getting nothing. How does registering libshared media work? There was no instructions here on how to do that, so i've got nothing. Can't understand why at least 1 sound effect wasn't added to this mod in all this time since it was created in 2011.
Any chance this will get an update to include things like LFR as well? I have yet to see it in action for Dungeons, but I notice it doesn't trigger for LFR CTA's
As a healer, this addon has gotten me quite a few satchels in the past so thank you. I am testing some LFR code and will send it to you if it seems alright, if you want.
Glad to hear it! And I'll definitely take a look if you send anything over. You can send me a private message or file a ticket on the wowace project site.
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Posted Nov 21, 2016Sometimes you queue during a call to arms, but when the group is finally assembled (the queue pops), the call to arms has ended. The extra rewards are not included. Sometimes I notice the lack of a bag on the "Accept" frame and decline it. Half the time I probably don't notice and accept anyway. Yes it's the old bait and switch game. Some new feature to help prevent us from inadvertently accepting the non call to arms instance when we entered the queue during a call to arms would be nice.
I don't know if it's within the scope of this addon, LFG Call to Arms, to support LFR (raids)...but it might be nice for some people.
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Posted Dec 26, 2016The issue is that a lot of people have addons like this. Everyone queues. Only so many healers are needed. By the time your turn is up, the call is over and you don't get your satchel.
The addon works a bit too well!
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Posted Nov 4, 2016Cool tool for catching that valuable satchels. Please update.
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Posted Oct 10, 2016Major/breaking bug: It does not catch LFR satchels.
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Posted Oct 5, 2016Will this be updated for Legion?
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Posted Oct 6, 2016AFAICT it works just fine in Legion. I should probably bump the TOC though.
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Posted Oct 7, 2016Yep, thought it wouldn't work, since the "Supports" version is 6.0.3, but it's working just fine.
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Posted Oct 10, 2016It does not. It does not catch LFR satchels.
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Posted Jul 13, 2016no working for 7.0.3
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Posted Nov 21, 2015On the question of having the addon play a sound when a Call to Arms happens.
The addon already supports playing a sound file. LFG Call to Arms Broker uses a library called LibSharedMedia (LSM) to:
The problem is that we have to "register" some available sound files with LSM before they appear in the list of available sounds. By default, the LSM library itself only registers one sound file:
If you have no other addons installed that happened to register any sounds theselves, then Call to Arms Broker will show you no sounds - except the default
Register some
In order to ensure there are some sounds available in the LSM list, we should update the LFG Call to Arms Broker file Core.lua:
Core.lua (before)
local LSM = LibStub("LibSharedMedia-3.0")
local LDBIcon = LibStub("LibDBIcon-1.0")
local GROUP_TYPE_NONE = 1
local GROUP_TYPE_PARTY = 2
local GROUP_TYPE_RAID = 3
Core.lua (after)
local LSM = LibStub("LibSharedMedia-3.0")
if (LSM) then
--Ensure *some* sound files are registered with LSM, so that we have *something* to offer the user
LSM:Register("sound", "Big Bad Wolf", "Sound\\Creature\\HoodWolf\\HoodWolfTransformPlayer01.ogg")
LSM:Register("sound", "Murderous Rampage", "Sound\\Character\\Gnome\\GnomeVocalFemale\\GnomeFemalePissed01.ogg")
LSM:Register("sound", "Big Bell", "Sound\\Doodad\\BellTollAlliance.ogg")
LSM:Register("sound", "Karazhan Bell", "Sound\\Doodad\\KharazahnBellToll.ogg")
LSM:Register("sound", "Bell (Klang)", "Sound\\Doodad\\BellTollHorde.ogg")
LSM:Register("sound", "Fireworks", "Sound\\Doodad\\G_FireworkLauncher02Custom0.ogg")
LSM:Register("sound", "Springs", "Sound\\Doodad\\Goblin_Lottery_Open03.ogg")
LSM:Register("sound", "Troll Drums", "Sound\\Doodad\\TrollDrumLoop1.ogg")
LSM:Register("sound", "Ogre Drums", "Sound\\Event Sounds\\Event_wardrum_ogre.ogg")
LSM:Register("sound", "Alarm Clock", "Sound\\Interface\\AlarmClockWarning2.ogg")
end;
local LDBIcon = LibStub("LibDBIcon-1.0")
local GROUP_TYPE_NONE = 1
local GROUP_TYPE_PARTY = 2
local GROUP_TYPE_RAID = 3
In reality, we would perform the above sound file registrations inside of the function OnInitialize. But for the sake of making it easier for people here to copy-paste a solution into their Core.lua, we'll perform it in the global section.
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Posted Sep 30, 2015Any chance we could add a feature where we could announce a Call To Arms notice to a selected channel...for instance...a guild channel?
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Posted Sep 7, 2015no recent posts so thought that id mention that its still working fine in 6.2.2.
making several thousand gold a day running dungeons. ive even gotten a few dps queue satchels!
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Posted Jun 27, 2015Very nice Addon. Will there be an Update for Patch 6.2 ?
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Posted Jun 25, 2015I'm not longer playing World of Warcraft. If anyone wants to take over maintainership of this addon, please let me know.
EDIT: I'm playing again.
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Posted Mar 9, 2015Can someone please specify how to add sound to this? I'm trying everything i can, but i'm getting nothing. How does registering libshared media work? There was no instructions here on how to do that, so i've got nothing. Can't understand why at least 1 sound effect wasn't added to this mod in all this time since it was created in 2011.
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Posted Feb 13, 2015Hi,
I just stumbled over this addon as 'LFD: Call to Arms' (http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info19750-LFDCalltoArms.html#info) does not work anymore.
Is there any chance to have this nice window move in so you are notified about your role being called?
Regards
Sarbor
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Posted Aug 14, 2014Any chance this will get an update to include things like LFR as well?
I have yet to see it in action for Dungeons, but I notice it doesn't trigger for LFR CTA's
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Posted May 30, 2014As a healer, this addon has gotten me quite a few satchels in the past so thank you. I am testing some LFR code and will send it to you if it seems alright, if you want.
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Posted May 30, 2014Glad to hear it! And I'll definitely take a look if you send anything over. You can send me a private message or file a ticket on the wowace project site.
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Posted Dec 10, 2015Any news on this LFR thing? It will be awesome to add it to this awesome addon!