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This project is abandoned and its default file will likely not work with the most recent version of World of Warcraft. Whether this project is out of date or its author has marked it as abandoned, this project is no longer maintained.

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 Cartographer(v2) uses an outdated framework that will not be updated in the case of major breakages so Cartographer(v2) would require a complete rewrite.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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Posted Oct 28, 2008
A little clarification on the "right click zoom" thing. The problem only happens when attempting to go to the "galaxy" tier of maps.

When right clicking on the default ui map, you start going up. You start at the zone level (showing for instance The Barrens), then go up to continent level (showing Kalimdor), then go up to planet level (Showing Kalimdor, Northrend, and the EK) and finally go "galaxy" showing the globes which represent Outlands and Azeroth. If you're in Outland the continent and planet view are the same, since that's all that's left of Draenor.

The problem is that Cartographer never goes up to that "galaxy" level. This makes viewing an Azeroth zone while in Outland (for example, trying to see what areas are being invaded by the Scourge) impossible.

I hope this helps solve this strange bug. Thanks for maintaining Cart2, since while Cart3 is neat it's a bit weird.

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Posted Oct 29, 2008
I cant go up from "zone level" to "continent level" as well. >.<

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Posted Oct 29, 2008
Disable the small zonemap from WoW with shift-M before opening Carthographer, then zooming out works fine.

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Posted Oct 29, 2008
This is absolutely correct. I can reproduce the right-click zoom problem over and over by turning the mini zone map off using the shift-m combo. Turning off the zone map is a good work around, and I would suspect that most who aren't experiencing the right-click zoom issue have their zone maps off to begin with. You can also go into the main map view and use the drop down menu in the top left labeled Zone Map and set it to "Never Show" which is a temporary work around for this issue until it is resolved.

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Posted Oct 28, 2008
nother update, it aparently works when i'm in certain instances, but not in open world

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Posted Oct 28, 2008
I'm having the problem where if I right click to zoom out, then left click to zoom in on a different zone, it returns me to the zone I am in (rather than the one I wanted to look at) as well. If I turn off the Look and Feel add-on included with cartographer, it works correctly, I am just stuck with a full screen map I with which can't play with as many appearance settings.

So, seems to me like it's a bug with the Look and Feel add-on included in cartographer. It was working fine pre-3.0, but all post-3.0 versions I've tried have had this same problem. Hopefully it will be fixed soon. In the mean time, I'd recommend disabling look and feel, and just deal with it till it's fixed.

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Posted Oct 28, 2008
ya i try that and get the same result, but if i disable all my addons and Just put cart on it doesn't work, and yet like i stated in a previous post it works on another toon....so confused.

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Posted Oct 28, 2008
my apologies for string posting, but i just figured out something that should help figure out what is going on. if you hit alt-z and hide your UI, cartographer responds as expected -- as soon as you bring back your UI, it messes up again.

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Posted Oct 28, 2008
2nding Fanli0902, usually I can find addons np, but can't find any herb/mining addons today :(

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Posted Oct 28, 2008
before 3.0.2 i deleted all addons and wdb + wdf.
its a complete and fresh installiation in the mean while, too.
I'm using the newest cartographer, but right click simply doesnt work!

It's nice to read that for some of you it is working, but simply not on my side. Further on, i dont know anyone on my realm where it is working.
Have i mentioned that i am using the german client? may be this might be a problem.

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Posted Oct 28, 2008
to the person who says right click to zoom out of the current zone doesnt work... have you tried deleting everything and reinstalling the addon? I do not have any problems with this.

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Posted Oct 28, 2008
i take that back -- the problem definitely exists, but it is intermittent.

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Posted Oct 28, 2008
to clarify, it gets stuck in the zone you are in. if you right click, itll zoom out, but attempting to push any other zone ends up in it going back to your current zone (including trying to use the dropdown)

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Posted Oct 28, 2008
still have ?s for most of my icons... and adding new notes only options are the raid icons

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Posted Oct 28, 2008
Right click to zoom out current zone works well

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Posted Oct 28, 2008
That feature was a Cart Plugin called HotSpot, it may still work with Cart.

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Posted Oct 28, 2008
Is it possible to have the map do like it did before in that if you hover your mouse over minimap button it would open map and close it automatically when you moved the mouse off of the minimap button? This was a great feature to use as you are running as it gives you a split second glance. Otherwise it working quite well. :)

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Posted Oct 28, 2008
Hotspot has been completely broken for a long time.

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Posted Oct 28, 2008
I know, its well known here, that "right click" doesnt work anymore to leave the current zone.
What i have noticed is: If i mouve around my mousebutton on the cartographer map, i get the tooltips of the world behin it.
Is it possibel, that the frame isnt registered right (or something like this), so the game does not notice that the mouse is inside of an addon?

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Posted Oct 28, 2008
I love this addon :) I just have to ask... when I start my game it says that there's an error with something having to do with Babble.lua? I don't know if this makes sense, but please answer, if you can, and you can msg me if you don't wish to comment lol...would really like some help on this :)

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