ArkInventory
ArkInventory (for The War Within)
:boom: Please ensure you are using the latest alpha version if you have the War Within client.
ArkInventory (for Retail, Classic, and Cataclysm)
ArkInventory's display windows are built from "virtual bars", you assign categories to bars so that items in that category are displayed on the specific bars you want. There is no limit to the number of bars you can have inside a window but obviously you only have so much screen real estate before it becomes "too many".
ArkInventory uses several methods to assign a default category to an item such as what professions you have, tooltip scanning, basic type/subtype and PeriodicTable. You then assign those categories to a virtual bar.
You can also over-ride the default category by creating a rule that matches either a single or multiple items.
Overview:
- user configurable window width and height
- separate keybindings for each location for easy viewing
- assign items to a category of your choice (overrides the default assignment)
- assign categories to the bar of your choice
- unlimited number of bars (there are practical limits though before your screen becomes full)
- sort each bar differently if required
- user configurable bars per row
- sell junk items automatically or manually (delete available via a keybinding or right clicking when at a vendor)
- random pet and mount summons. can also assign a group of them to select from
Key Bindings:
- Press ESCAPE to bring up the blizzard menu
- click on Key Bindings
- scroll down to AddOns > ArkInventory
- bind the keys you want to use
Need Help?
:memo: Wiki
:memo: Frequently Asked Questions
:memo: Sorting
:memo: Rules
:memo: If you are having an issue the first step is to disable all other mods and test with only ArkInventory loaded
:memo: If the issue is still there, please check for an existing issue and create a new issue if required.
:memo: If the issue is gone, re-enable your other mods one by one until the issue comes back, then note the last mod you enabled in your issue as well as notifying the author of the other mod
See ChangeHistory.md for changes to the latest version. See VersionHistory.md for all previous changes.
:boom: The NoLib variant
it seems quite a few people are somehow getting the NoLib variant from their download client when they didn't specifically ask for it, instead of the full variant, and its causing issues as they don't have the required libraries installed separately. Please ensure you are downloading the full. if you see nolib in the filename then its the wrong variant, unless you are actually installing all of the required libraries separately as well. If you have to you can manually download the full variant from CurseForge, WoWInterface, or Wago.
:boom: Junk Sell getting blocked
While auto-destroy remains blocked, From 30960 onwards you can setup a Key Binding to manually sell and destroy your items. Note that blizzard require one keypress per item deletion, so if you have multiple items that need to be deleted you will need to press the Key Binding multiple times. A message will be output if you have remaining items that can still be deleted.
:warning: Ensure you have backup copies of your saved variables file
Sometimes you cannot revert back to a previous version without a backup, especially alpha or beta versions, so before upgrading please make sure you have made a backup of your saved variables file
Your saved variables file is normally located at ...\World of Warcraft\_client_\WTF\Account\yourwowaccountname\SavedVariables\ArkInventory.lua
It is your responsibility to ensure you have adequate backups of your saved variables file. You dont have to do them frequently, just after you've made major changes to your config is probably fine for most people, but you should get into the habit of making backups because when it does corrupt you wont have to reconfigure everything from scratch.
If you have your download client set to automatically download alpha/beta versions you should definitely have backups.
A simple way to back up the saved variables file is to just do a copy and paste then rename the new file (using the version number of ArkInventory or the date is a good idea), eg ArkInventory-30900.lua, or ArkInventory-20191228.lua
Excellent, I'll do that. Thanks for the quick reply.
Taint log included below. The log seems to indicate that it was ArkInventory, but is it possible (or even highly likely) that, since I'm using a UI mod (Spartan), the error lies there?
10/21 19:37:52.032 CloseDropDownMenus()
10/21 19:37:52.032 An action was blocked because of taint from ArkInventory - CastSpellByID()
10/21 19:37:52.032 Interface\FrameXML\UnitPopup.lua:1743 func()
10/21 19:37:52.032 Interface\FrameXML\UIDropDownMenu.lua:748 UIDropDownMenuButton_OnClick()
10/21 19:37:52.032 DropDownList1Button6:OnClick()
there should be way more in the taint log than just that, can you lodge a ticket via the link in the description and attach the whole taint.log file?
Again with me likely being an idiot somehow, and I'll just give pre-emptive apologies if that's the case:
The normal taint log is incredibly small, because I can repro the bug right after loading my character. The taint log (2) is massive, and exceeds the allowable attachment size for your addon's bug-submission form. I'll just keep trying to isolate some other culprits, and see what I can come up with.
you can email the taint log to me via my arkayenro gmail address com address if you want
i know there was an update to elvui that fixed it for another user, have you updated that to the latest to see if it fixes it for you as well?
Thanks Ark, for this help and for the addon.
Probably a stupid question - I can't figure out how to make things wider. I play on widescreen, but not that big of one, and my stuff is stacked way too high. Is there a way to make e.g. my bank bag set wider?
just change the width (config > settings > display > width) - next version it will scroll so you wont have the massive height isues any more
you may also have to increase the number of bars per row (config > settings >bars > per row) but that depends on how many items you have in each bar
sounds like another mod tainted the quest stuff which in turn taints the shared libraries - if you can access them straight after a uireload then its usually that and you have to pinpoint which mod did it (do you have a quest mod?) theres an entry in the FAQ about how to turn on taint logging if you want to find it.
Having an issue when trying to use items from the quest objectives interface, comes up with an error referencing arkinventory.
I'm not using a questing addon just the default questing ui, but after viewing the taint log it seems to be as a result of the blizzard objective tracker.
10/21 19:38:01.593 Interface\AddOns\Blizzard_ObjectiveTracker\Blizzard_QuestObjectiveTracker.lua:198
10/21 19:38:01.593 An action was blocked because of taint from ArkInventory - UseQuestLogSpecialItem()
10/21 19:38:01.593 Interface\AddOns\Blizzard_ObjectiveTracker\Blizzard_QuestObjectiveTracker.lua:198
Tracking from bank not working?
upgrade to 3.04.09 if you havent already
Absolutely love this addon couldn't imagine playing without it. Only issue I seem to be having with it...checking ignore this bag doesn't seem to stick when logging in and out...and unable to check ignore this bag at all for the default backpack.
forgot about hte backpack (i probably missed hte bank as well), i'll add that in. not sure about the values not sticking, i'll look into that as well
you have to click on the refresh icon after a cleanup to bring it all back - i'll probably make that automatic to stop this sort of thing
Ran into an issue where the bag was not updating itself after a cleanup. For example, I would choose Cleanup to fix some stacks, the bags would fix the stacks, but display the wrong information on tooltip. Such as: I have two stacks of the same flasks, both are not maxed. I use cleanup, the stacks remain the same, but on mouseover, one of the stacks will list something different from my bags, but visually nothing has changed.
Closing the bags and reopening them does not fix it. I didn't try reloading the UI, but I did close the game and reload it and everything was as it should be.
I use 42 custom rules along with 33 presets. So the bags are heavily customized. I don't think that was the problem, but I thought I would throw it in there anyway.
I love Arcinventory, but resently i have problems with the search function in my bags.
When i type a part of the stuff i need eq SEED then i see some or more stuff but nothing to do with the sentence i give in like it show ore, or cloth or armor or weapon but not showing stuff with seed in the name.
Is that in my WOW a problem or with everyone i put the part of the stuff in the search bar not the search option on top that works greet on the chars like always
IDK if the answer was for me but refresh was indeed the answer to my problem, so my problem solved not a program problem :-)
Thanks! Works great.
But as I got to playing around with it a bit more I realized just how much better I could make the display. I'm kind of OCD that way, I guess. But, for people like me, fixing it is as fun as the game itself. BTW, I didn't see it immediately and I'm probably asking something in the FAQ (nope, just checked), but can you hide the empy cells in your bank?