Mining + Herb tracking mod?

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Post by NeoBlackheart

I would work on finding a addon that cycles through the 2 buffs find herb and find mineral every 2 secs that way you can see if it pops up. It doesn't sount like it is something that would be against the rules because you would have to click a button to start the procces and stop it. and it wouldn't be any differnt than the addon that cycles through the titles you have obtained I have seen like 5 people using that addon.

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Post by gameldar

Not possible. You can cycle trackers by pressing the button over and over, but it can't do it automatically. Titles are not a spell.

Actually it would be possible SetTracking is not protected (yet) so you can cycle between them (hence the now defunct tracking macros for hunters). I imagine it would be relatively straight forward to set up using some sort of timer library (e.g. AceTimer). Whether it should be done is a different issue...

Post by Gryphon

It is not possible.

Post by gameldar

It is not possible.

Ahh, I love blanket statements without justification:

SwitchTracking = LibStub("AceAddon-3.0"):NewAddon("SwitchTracking", "AceConsole-3.0")
local timer = LibStub("AceTimer-3.0")

function SwitchTracking:OnInitialize()
SwitchTracking.tracking = 1;
SwitchTracking:Print("Initialized");
end

function SwitchTracking.doSwitch()
if (SwitchTracking.tracking == 1) then
SwitchTracking.tracking = 2;
else
SwitchTracking.tracking = 1;
end

SetTracking(SwitchTracking.tracking);
end

function SwitchTracking:OnEnable()
timer:ScheduleRepeatingTimer(SwitchTracking.doSwitch, 5, nil);
end

That will do what you want (tried and tested)- switches tracking between 1 and 2 every 5 seconds (you'll need to work out the numbers - but they correlate directly to menu you use to change your tracking). Note it depends on Ace3.

Post by pelf

I almost feel like this isn't really exploitation -- may be they will never protect SetTracking.

Post by Gryphon

It is not possible.

Ahh, I love blanket statements without justification:

I justified it in my previous comment....

I believed that it wouldn't be possible because SetTracking is casting a spell regardless of any functions wrapping it. On top of that, this is request that has been covered as long as I can remember and have never heard mention of such a solution. This would certainly be one of the more popular items on any addon db. If you have proven me wrong, grats I know now, but it was justified.

Post by eevee

Simple macro that changes between Find Herbs, Find Minerals - bind it to a mouse key and you can change it every few second or so as you run along.
/castsequence Find Herbs, Find Minerals

You can constantly switch between two trackings every time the GCD is up. Here's a drycoded example of how to:
/run local t=0;TRACK=TRACK or CreateFrame'Frame'TRACK:SetScript('OnUpdate',function(s,e)t=t+e;if t>=1.5 then t=0;SetTracking(s.a and 1 or 2)s.a=not s.aend;end);TRACK.on=not TRACK.on;if TRACK.on then TRACK:Show()else TRACK:Hide()end
Clicking it should toggle enabling/disabling it. It'll switch between your two tracking spells every 1.5 seconds. It'll also flood the GCD, so be careful.

Gatherer does not track like a tracking ability does, rather it "remembers" where you have found various items in the past.

Post by gameldar

For anyone interested - I've created a project on wowace and the current revision (r2) is the proof of concept code I wrote above.

http://www.wowace.com/projects/switchtracker/ (direct download link)

If you want to configure it - you need to do it manually just change the numbers 1, 2 and 5 to what you want:
1 - the first tracking (in my case Find Herbs)
2 - the second tracking (in my case Repair)
5 - the time in seconds between switching 1 and 2.

I'll probably spend some time and make this into a more configurable add-on.

Post by bwirum

Huh, nice job thus far gameldar! I'm definately gonna try this out on my farmer =)

Post by Aldones

Not a bad thing to have...before I always thought it was best just to have skinning as the secondary gathering profession b/c it doesn't require a tracker.

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