Farmhand
Description
Farmhand adds dynamic buttons on the screen while you are at Sunsong Ranch.
The buttons allow quick access to the Plow, Shovel, Bug Spray and Watering Can if they are in your inventory. If you do not have a given item, there will be no button for it. Also adds buttons for seeds that are in your inventory. You can even sell unwanted seeds at a vendor without having to open your bags.
When you leave Halfhill, any tools remaining in your inventory will be dropped. You can pick them up again at the farm. (You can disable this feature.)
A special Crop Scanner tool will let you quickly find any plants you've overlooked that need special attention. (Very hand for the hard-to see Smothered and Runty plants.)
To move the buttons, hold SHIFT and drag a button with the left mouse button.
In the Interface Options panel, you can turn on/off tool dropping, turn on/off chat messages and sounds, turn on/off the portal shard buttons and control whether Farmhand automatically hides itself during combat.
I recommend using Masque (optional) to make your buttons pretty.
Localization
Farmhand has translations for all game-supported locales, but if you see a bad translation please visit the localization page and correct it. Then let me know so I can repackage the addon to pick up the changes.
Thanks to all the translators!
Translator Credits
Thanks as well to the Farmhand users who've made great suggestions:
TaraNTino
adore33
Sentinelum
That's very strange. The addon checks and double checks that the items it is dropping are only the farm tools. If you are seeing other items getting destroyed I can only guess there might be a conflict with another mod. Try disabling all other mods but Farmhand and see if it happens
every time I enter the farm and do not have the weapon star shatter equiped the weapon will get destroyed. I think it might have something to do with this addon. if you could look in to it I would appreciat it
How about monitoring Auctioneer data for prices of crops (including the special seeds) and reporting a ranked list of prices and seed costs, so we know what crop will give us the best return?
Add to that the ability to share the crop of the day report among addon users and one could know if that crop would result in more profit than an otherwise more lucrative crop.
Exactly what I was looking for! THANK YOU! :)
Great addon, thank you very much.
One request, when leaving the farm the Earth-Slasher Master Plow does not get removed from inventory. If that is simply updating a file with the item name, which file?
If you have an item named "Earth-Slasher" Master Plow then you need to right click it and accept the quest to have the master plow installed at the ranch. The "Earth-Slasher" Master Plow item is different from the actual plow that you use on the farm.
The Earth-Slasher Master Plow becomes an item that you pick up and use just like the Rusty Water Can or Vintage Bug Sprayer; not a clickable installed item like the Jinyu Princess Irrigation System or the Thunder King Pest Repellers. It can be picked up and deleted from inventory.
Wow, completely my bad here. I had tested by going to the market. After I read through your lua files I realized it doesn't drop until you actually leave Halfhill, not just the farm. The Plow does get deleted as it should.
my appologies and thanks again for a great add-on.
Right. So v1.4 is available. I made an attempt to address the vendor error issue. It's sort of a blind stab at fixing it since I was never able to reproduce it.
v1.4 should also pick up the new translations. Thank you all for your help on that!
Edit: I'll try to spend some time on new features like the school bell, guild bank and the new farm items in 5.2 in the coming weeks.
AlexSkylark is correct about the crop names. The addon uses macro functionality to target the crops and adjective-noun languages can simply list the adjective whereas noun-adjective languages must specify the full name.
Take note that you can edit the Localization.lua file in your local copy of the addon to see your changes in game and ensure that verb tenses and such make sense in context.
Does anybody know of JCinDE?
I posted the PT-BR localization for the addon about 1 week ago, and had it peer reviewed, however no word from the author yet...
I'm sorry for my absence. RL has been merciless. I'll try to get a repackage done today.
Hey, nice! thanks a LOT!
In the name of the Brazilian community on Goldrinn-US, we salute you.
Many of us are really eager to try out the addon!
Thanks again!
Salutations from Brazil
Alex,
There are some mistakes in your translation, especially in verb tenses. Please review my corrections and also pay close attention to item names and the order in which they need to appear on those vegetable lists you wrote, there's no way for JC to know that 'cebola' is the equivalent to 'onion' (just an example).
Other than that, great work.
Cheers,
Leandro "MuTLY"
I posted some considerations about your corrections over PM. I'm guessing you used the addon in an english WoW client, which I didn't do.
But replying to the things you mentioned here: About the verb tenses, I feel they were correct before. Those strings refer to label text for option boxes, and as such they need to be in infinitive form. Feel free to explain why you feel they shouldn't.
And about the vegetable lists, JC clearly states on the localization page that he wants this:
Either one word that can be used to target bursting crops or a full list of bursting crop names.
Why? because the addon probably targets things using a command similar to the /target macro. That being, in languages where the crop debuff (which is an adjectve) comes before the substantive (like English, for example), he can just issue a "target runty" command and all is well. However, in languages like Portuguese where the adjective comes AFTER the substantive, he can't do that (since he can only target partial things by typing the BEGGINING of the sentence), and therefore, he asked for a full list of all vegetables with that condition, probably so he can call the checking command on them in a loop to check if there's any in your farm. And as such, I used WoWHead to check and certify that every name on those lists reflects the official names used on WoW's PT-BR translation.
As such, fell free to explain further why this should be revised. Also, if JC wants to point any incorrectness in my arguments, please do so I can fix the vegetable lists.
Anyways, thanks a lot and great work revising the translation. It is with our combined effort that we'll make this addon be helpul to a lot of people in Brazil =)
Been using this for week. My alts love it! Thanks JCinDE.
So far, I have not seen any error messages (knock on wood).
REQUEST: Can you make the frame hide when we're "in vehicle"? (I think that's the mode when we are 'fighting' the Wild Crop.) Make it hide like in Combat.
Regards
Had the error with justice trade goods vendor as well. Happened when I hovered over the honor point exchange item. (because it doesn't return a link from GetMerchantItemLink)
Recently posted translations for PT-BR. Looking forward for the next release and to be a ble to use the addon! =)
I love this addon, but it kills my framerate. Disabling it doubled my framerate throughout pandaria.
Really? Disabling just this addon had that effect? It doesn't do anything on an ongoing basis. The only time it does anything is when you're either entering or exiting Sunsong Ranch.
I'd suggest disabling your other addons and enable just Farmhand and see if the issue occurs. If not, then there's probably some sort of conflict with one of your other addons.