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 Cartographer(v2) uses an outdated framework that will not be updated in the case of major breakages so Cartographer(v2) would require a complete rewrite.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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Posted Oct 22, 2008a little errata from me, apparently instance maps are working (except the mechanaar, which is weird...) only when look'n feel is disabled, when i re-enabled it, some of instance maps wont work... :/
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Posted Oct 22, 2008I took another suggestion to delete the cartographer.lua file from my WTF/Account/%USERNAME%/SavedVariables folder and it seems to be working fine for now with look & feel enabled. Deleted the file and restarted the client, and now everything works fine... Odd
Even with that, something seems to be fishy in the code somewhere
I'm not savvy enough to dig into the code to try to help and troubleshoot any further, but thought I would pass along my feedback.
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Posted Oct 22, 2008i am running it on a Mac as well if that helps.
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Posted Oct 22, 2008i am running it on a Mac as well if that helps.
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Posted Oct 22, 2008@KoKeRs: Because everything that isn't a release is for alpha testing.
@MattOne83: I am unsure about this, since the SVN checkout of HEAD has everything as a sub-directory of Cartographer, but with the downloaded archive of HEAD, the module directories (Cartographer_Notes, etc.) are in path/to/wow/Interface/AddOns, and that seems to work properly.
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Posted Oct 22, 2008Addons\Cartographer_Treasure\Cartographer_Treasure.lua:1275: attempt to index global 'SIMPLEPREFORSELFOTHER' (a nil value)
Can you tell me whats wrong?
I typed it the same way it shows up in game.
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Posted Oct 22, 2008i have tu put the cartographer directory into the addon directory..and all the other directory cartographer_battleground coordinate foglight ecc...into the cartographer directory?
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Posted Oct 22, 2008Why those updates are not uploaded to curse.com? and why the description of this mod is blank there?
Nice work thou, instance maps wasnt working for me (everything else was good, and working without problems) since this last update. Thx m8 :)
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Posted Oct 22, 2008[2008/10/21 23:03:41-55-x5]: Cartographer_Icons-1.0\addon.lua:310: attempt to index global 'Cartographer_Notes' (a nil value)
AceAddon-2.0-91091 (Ace2):541: in function <Interface\AddOns\Ace2\AceAddon-2.0\AceAddon-2.0.lua:518>
<in C code>: ?
AceEvent-2.0-91091 (Ace2):298: in function `TriggerEvent'
AceEvent-2.0-91091 (Ace2):910: in function <Interface\AddOns\Ace2\AceEvent-2.0\AceEvent-2.0.lua:903>
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Cartographer Icons seems to be updated and all but I can't find the basic Cartographer Notes ... anyone know where there's an updated version?
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Posted Oct 22, 2008If you wish to try this, please be aware: the cartographer.lua variable file contains your user-created map notes (the ["Notes"] group within ["namespaces"]). So don't just delete the old file, move it somewhere else. Once you establish a new variable file, sign off of WoW and use a text editor to copy the old notes into the new file.
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Posted Oct 21, 2008As it stands, there has not been a version of Cartographer since 3.02 that has been able to work for me. The latest alpha build is the most stable so far (r2271 I believe) but I am still having some problems with zoom functionality. If I try to zoom out, that works fine to the continent level, but if I attempt to zoom out to the world level (showing azeroth and outlands) it goes back to my current location. Also, if I zoom out and attempt to select a new zone to view, it goes back to my original location. This is probably a simple fix, but I don't know how to do it :/
This behavior has been present on all my machines (2 pc's and a mac) since the original v2.3.1 revision. All machines have fresh downloads from different source. I have tried the files from both here and wowace with the same results every time.
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Posted Oct 21, 2008(Quoted from "Moncai") It is broken because LoadOnDemad does not function properly in the current patch. You Will probably have to reverse the .toc changes after next patch
Open the .toc files with notepad
To fix, edit Cartographer_Notes\Cartographer_Notes.toc to read:
## LoadOnDemand: 0
And edit Cartographer_QuestInfo\Cartographer_QuestInfo.toc to read (only lines to be modified are shown):
## Interface: 30000
## RequiredDeps: Cartographer, Cartographer_Notes
## OptionalDeps: Cartographer_Quests, Cartographer_QuestObjectives, LibQuixote-2.0, LibGratuity-3.0
Then to get Cartographer_Quests working first you need to get the new lib for the Quests addon to work. You can find this in the Cartographer_Questinfo\Libs\LibGratuity-3.0
Copy the LibGratuity-3.0 folder to the Cartographer_Quests\Libs folder
Then open the Cartographer_Quests.toc file with notepad. Change whats in the file to look like this and your done.
## RequiredDeps: Cartographer
## OptionalDeps: Ace2, LibGratuity-3.0, Cartographer_Notes
## SavedVariables: Cartographer_QuestsDB
## SavedVariablesPerCharacter: Cartographer_QuestsDBPC
Libs\LibGratuity-3.0\LibGratuity-3.0.lua
This should only be used as a fix until hopefully the devs update them. So far the fix has worked fine with my system.
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Posted Oct 22, 2008Message: ..\AddOns\Cartographer_Quests\addon.lua line 532:
Cannot find a library instance of Babble-Zone-2.2.
Debug:
[C]: ?
[C]: error()
...nterface\AddOns\FuBar\libs\AceLibrary\AceLibrary.lua:490: AceLibrary()
Cartographer_Quests\addon.lua:532: in main chunk
Do you know where I should put a copy of Babble-Zone-2.2 (I downloaded a copy off WowAce)? I tried the obvious spots, such as Cartographer_Quests\libs\ but that didn't help. I found LibBabble-Zone-3.0 instead and put that in the aforementioned folder, changed the addon.lua to load that instead:
-- local BZ = AceLibrary("Babble-Zone-2.2")
local BZ = LibStub("LibBabble-Zone-3.0")
But then I get this error instead:
Message: ..\AddOns\Cartographer_Quests\addon.lua line 973:
attempt to call method 'HasTranslation' (a nil value)
Clearly I couldn't just drop in the new Babble-Zone as I had tried. Any thoughts? I am just shooting in the dark here.
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Posted Oct 21, 2008All updates can be found here: http://www.wowace.com/projects/cartographer/files/
Note: Unless the release version is preceded by a v, i.e.: v2.3.1, you are most likely dealing with alpha (development) code, which may be buggy.
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Posted Oct 22, 2008May I suggest a way to tie in the release number to the version number so that they are a bit more intuitive to the user? I really appreciate all the hard work. I could never do it. I feel lucky if I can get the occasional macro to work.
I do not know if this is a bug or me not knowing how to use the app, but the map show all the areas, explored or not. This makes it hard to do the achievements. Advice is welcome. ;^)
Finally other Cartographer related items that came with the download, such as Cartographer [Battlegrounds, Foglight etc.] show up in red when I look at my addon listings. The interface number is current.