Altoholic   

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IMPORTANT NOTE FOR 8.0 : As with every new expansion, many things have changed in the API, and it is REQUIRED to clear your Saved Variables for the addon.
This means cleaning the following files in \WTF\Account\<your_account>\SavedVariables : Altoholic.lua & All DataStore*.lua

There WILL be bugs if you use your old files without cleaning them first.
Some fixes to work around API changes are too time consuming, so cleaning is required. A meagre price to pay once per expansion.

How to support Altoholic's development :

- Use the donate button either on Curse or on WoW Interface
- Support me on Patreon : https://www.patreon.com/Thaoky , the page is still being setup, it might take a few days before it can be used, I still need a banner.
- Make a gift from my amazon's wish list : http://amzn.eu/7xWdnbZ

If you like the addon, consider supporting it, this has been the long term effort and commitment of a single person. #OneManArmy


9.2.006 (05/08/2022)

- DataStore : Removed a check that caused a clean of the current alt's data.

9.2.005 (03/08/2022)

- Search Tab : Added a new icon to filter search results by expansion.
This works particularly well with items that are known in LibItemInfo (thus most craft reagents, dungeon drops, etc..)
Note that the game does not provide this info reliably, so your luck may vary.
It remains quite helpful though for craft reagents. Need to find which herbs from Legion you still have ? now this is possible.
- Achievements Tab : Reworked the "Raids" category to better group achievements by expansion/patch.
- DataStore : fixed an issue where deleting an alt was not properly deleting all data.
- DataStore : Added a sanity check in RegisterModule to clean orphan data in sub-modules.


9.2.004 (05/06/2022)

- Summary Tab : Added an icon in the "Cypher of the first ones" currency column, to display if the "Improvised Cypher Analysis Tool" has already been used on a given alt.
- Summary Tab : Added an exclamation mark to the "Rest XP" column when an alt is not disconnected in a resting area.
- Tooltip : created a new option that, when used in combination with bank alt marks, shows you on which alt trade goods could better be stored.
Note: this applies only to crafting reagents from older expansions, and obviously does not apply to souldbound items.
The option is disabled by default, be sure to enable it in the Options tab.
- Guild Tab : fixed a Lua error in the guild members tab.


9.2.003b (27/04/2022)

- Fixed .toc in DataStore_Quests. This caused issues with some updaters.


9.2.003 (24/04/2022)

- Added support for weekly quests & weekly world bosses (Grids tab -> Quests).
- Added tracking of the cypher console (Summary tab -> Expansion Features)
- Updated LibItemInfo with zone-specific items (early implementation, it's working, but many items from older expansions are missing).


9.2.002 (28/03/2022)

- Updated LibItemInfo with 9.2 items.
- Added support for the 9.2 campaign.

9.2.001b (16/03/2022)

- Fixed file encoding for Italian localization files.

9.2.001 (14/03/2022)

- Added support for 9.2 factions.
- Added support for 9.2 currencies.
- Added support for 9.2 achievements.

9.1.008 (07/11/2021)

- Fixed the tooltip backdrop issue introduced in 9.1.5.
- Updated DataStore and some modules to work on all clients. Only Characters, Mails and Spells are done at this point, the others will follow.

9.1.007 (26/09/2021)

- Summary Tab : added a new panel to display the level of the sanctum reservoir (Expansion Features => Shadowlands)
- Fixed an error introduced in previous release, preventing the name-completion from working properly when sending a mail to an alt.
- Fixed an issue with the Portuguese localization files (thanks Thommas !)


9.1.006 (19/09/2021)

- Minor localization fixes.
- Fixed an issue with the French localization files (thanks Diru !)
- Account bound items from all realms are now visible in the tooltip.
- Grids Tab : added the missing LFR raids into the dungeon finder tracker.
- Options Tab : added an option to show counters for all realms for account bound items (default : true)
- DataStore Auctions : fixes an occasional error when placing a bid.

9.1.005 (05/09/2021)

- Account Sharing: fixed a Lua error on the receiving end of the process.
- Fixed a minor tooltip issue.
- Characters Tab : fixed an error when clicking on the DataStore_Quests options in the Quest Log drop down menu.
- Fixed a few minor navigation issues when clicking on menu items that send you to the Options Tab.
- Achievements Tab : Added missing 9.1 achievements in Quests and Exploration.
- Achievements Tab : Added Feats of Strength. (Legacy still missing)

9.1.004 (29/08/2021)

- Fixed a Lua error when clicking on a quest link.
- Re-activated disabled code from the 9.1.001 to detect the amount of ores/herbs when mousing over gathering nodes. Code is also moved to its own library : LibObjectInfo.
- Fixed the text displayed when a calendar event expires (no longer "%s Begins") (Thanks Belazor !)
- Fixed an error in the account sharing process when trying to share a guild bank tab.

9.1.003 (22/08/2021)

- Summary Tab : Added tracking of the Mythic+ dungeon score (levels panel).
- Summary Tab : Added a new filter to find characters who could upgrade their riding skills (miscellaneous filters).
- Fixed an issue with the German localization files (thanks Honkinator22 !)
- Options Tab : fixed an issue where DataStore options were not properly updated.
- Options Tab : fixed a Lua error in the DataStore_Auctions panel.
- Options Tab : in the Memory Used panel, changed the 'disabled' text to 'Tab not loaded yet', for clarity.
- Brought back addon:GetItemCount for add-on's that use it (like XLoot), overlooked in previous version.
- Tooltip: added an option to show a guild bank's realm (default: hidden)
- DataStore_Quests: Added tracking of the 9.1 Storyline.
- Summary Tab : Added a column for the 9.1 Storyline (in expansion features).
- Summary Tab : Added an option under the tradeskill filter, to choose if you want to display tradeskill levels using colors or not, this affects only the Skills panel.
- DataStore_Reputations: fixed a minor issue where negative reputation levels were not kept track of.
- Fixed an issue where unknown recipes were colored in red, but there is still an issue with higher ranks seen as known when a lower rank is known.
- Characters Tab : fixed an issue when switching to another alt while viewing mails.
- Agenda Tab : fixed a few bugs related to the event manager and the expiry of events.

9.1.002b (15/08/2021)

- Brought back the LibDataBroker launcher forgotten in .002
- Fixed a Lua error when reporting expired mails.


9.1.002 (15/08/2021)

For the past 4 months, I have been hard at work on a major UI overhaul, and I hope you enjoy the results.

My first goal was to migrate Altoholic's UI from the "old" auction house to the "new" one, which is something I had been looking up to for a long time.
But as I also have other add-on's in mind (3 of them are in the works, and 2 more are in the planning phase), it became clear that I would need to do something to speed up development.
So what started as a sandbox version of the new Altoholic has since become "AddonFactory", a small add-on that does nothing in itself, except provide a collection of templates and code to rapidly build add-ons.

Objects like the list of categories you see on the left of each panel are now super easy to manage, and I have already reaped the benefits of this approach while rewriting Altoholic.
Yes, you read it right, I did a full rewrite of the add-on, from scratch.
One of my secondary goals was to get rid of all the legacy code that had been there practically since the beginning, some of which I was not happy with.
Not everything was bad though, the most recent panels (ie: since Blizzard introduced parentKey's in XML), were already quite ok, but the older ones needed work.
Altoholic has always been a hobby project, but I felt it was more than time to professionalize the whole thing.

The whole thing results in a more robust framework, and way less sources of errors.
That is not to say that there won't be bugs (it would be pretentious to think so), but it will definitely be better than before.

"But Thaoky, I loved the old interface, will it be back ??" : nope, it's gone, forever. Out with the old, in with the new.

Now for the good stuff, here is what changed:

- Fixed a crapton of bugs.
- AddonFactory : this is a new folder that is part of the package. It will be the core of multiple add-on's I will release in the future (nope, don't ask, not sayin' ;-D)
- Altoholic's UI now uses the "new" auction house layout.
- Altoholic's UI is now resizable !
- Summary tab: Introducing alt groups => you can now group your alts the way you like.
Ex: I have 24 alts on my main server, 12 are my mains, 12 are banks, I created 2 groups to separate them.
Check the help in-game for the details.

- Summary tab: Introducting bank characters filters => you can now mark an alt as a special type of bank.
Ex: Mark an alt as a mining bank, or a cloth bank, or both !
You can then easily find these alts back using filters.

Note: Both alt groups & bank character marks are just a first iteration, I do have more plans to expand on those features.

- Summary tab: Added an icon for "miscellaneous filters". Quickly filter alts that have mails, or mail about to expire, etc..
If you have more ideas about quick filters you'd like to see here, let me know !

- Summary tab: Added an icon for "bank characters filters".
- Summary tab: Added a count of how many characters/realms are visible, and a warning to check the filters if none are visible.
- Summary tab: Added several new views/columns.

- Characters tab: Changed the navigation by adding the list of accounts/realms/alts to the category list on the left.
- Characters tab: Everything now supports resizing, although admittedly I use more vertical space than horizontal (that will come where applicable).

- Search tab : Complete rewrite.
- Guild tab : Complete rewrite.
- Achievements tab : Complete rewrite.
- Achievements tab : The achievement lists have now been broken down in more subcategories than Blizzard provides.
I was tired of very long lists and achievements that were not grouped together as they should.
This is my attempt at making things better. If you find areas to improve, let me know !

Note : Feats of strength and Legacy are temporarily missing. Dungeons & Raids could be broken down in subcategories more (but it takes a ton of time).

- Agenda tab : Fixed a few refresh issues.
- Grids tab : Complete rewrite.
- Grids tab : The navigation has also been changed to use a category list.
- Options tab : This tab is completely new.
My goal with this was to move all the options to Altoholic's UI, and also to make room for help pages.
I strongly recommend you give it a look, and take time to read what's there, you might learn a thing or two :)

- Account sharing : Complete rewrite, and moved to the Options tab. Here too, be sure to read the "how to".
- Options tab : added icons for Discord, CurseForge, WoW Interface, and my e-mail address, so that you always know where to find me !

Known issues :
- Color coding at the Auction House is not working, will be back soon.
- Mousing over a gathering node does not display the counters in the tooltip, will be back soon.

Oh and to end up on a good note : if you are upgrading from a recent version (any release of 2021), you do not need to clean your saved variables.
Only Altoholic has changed, DataStore was only improved, so your data are good :)

How you can help :

- Test everything ! as mentioned above, it's a complete rewrite, I may have left out a thing or two.
- Achievements lists : check them in details, especially dungeons, raids, feats of strength and legacy, if you can help with those lists, that would be great.
They are in : Altoholic_Achievements\Services\AchievementsLists.lua

- Localizations : from now on I will stop using the Curseforge packager.
Making releases in the past has always been too much work because the add-on's structure, and releasing should be as simple
as zipping and uploading, but it's not, thus I'm done with losing time because of that.
As part of the rewrite, I also cleaned-up and split the localization files,
which instead of all being located under Altoholic/Locales are now in all of Altoholic*/Locales.
Ex: text shown in the Options tab is in Altoholic_Options/Locales.

Note that some strings may exist in multiple files, since we do not know which tab the user will load first.
The rule is : if a string is used in a tab, it should be in its own localization file.

I did carry over most of the old translations, but there are some new ones.
Any help you can provide about this is welcome.

You can send me your work by mail of on the localization channel on Discord.
Join us on : https://discord.gg/J7JnuQV

Well that's it, it may not seem like much, but it was a lot of work to get here.
Totally worth it though, one of the add-on's I am preparing on the side started reaping benefits in barely 2 hours of coding.
New features will hopefully come faster in Altoholic from now on.

I hope you enjoy what you see :)


9.1.001 (01/07/2021)

- DataStore_Inventory : fixed a Lua error when scanning transmog collections.
- DataStore_Reputations : Added new 9.1 factions.
- Characters Tab : Fixed a Lua error when viewing the sanctum reservoir.
- Summary Tab - Covenant Sanctum : Fixed an error in the reporting of the campaign progress.

Note: Updates have been slow lately, but for a good reason :)
In the past months, aside from working on the TBC version, I have also been working on revamping the UI.
Suffice to say that it has been a tremendous effort, and that there is still quite some work to do, but as I start playing with it, I really enjoy
the results and the improvements. Let's just say that the whole thing will be less rigid than it was.

I am also working on removing all the old legacy code, some of which practically dates back to the very first versions of the add-on.
At the end, it's close to a full rewrite.
As you may expect, I am taking my time to do things right, and strengthening the code everywhere I can, while improving the UI at the same time.
When I am satisfied with the results, and getting closer to a release, I will be posting pictures on the Discord Server.

Join us on : https://discord.gg/J7JnuQV


9.0.010 (14/05/2021)

- Summary Tab - Miscellaneous : Fixed guild info not properly reset when leaving a guild
- Summary Tab - Added a faction filter for "this faction"
- Summary Tab - Currencies : changed the columns to show Shadowlands currencies.
- Fixed a Search issue related to the localized faction name. enUS & frFR clients were not affected, but most likely all other locales were.
This is a proper fix to a bug I tried to fix earlier but only made worse :(
Unfortunately, for some of you, reloading alts will be necessary.
Do not fully clean your SV files, but if you detect something fishy related to an alt's faction, just reload it.
This issue may impact faction filtering in the account summary too.


9.0.009b (03/05/2021)

- Minor bug fix in core.lua

9.0.009 (02/05/2021)

- Added missing BfA reputations.
- Updated LibBabble-Factions.
- Added the missing tooltip option for the extra information added in the previous release (doh!).
- Fixed profession cooldowns not properly updating the agenda.
- DataStore_Auctions : added 2 options to get a reminder when an alt has not visited the auction house in a long time.
If an alt has not visited the AH in 15 days (default value, configurable from 10 to 30), and this alt has placed auctions, the player will
be reminded to visit the AH and check their mails.

- Added support for LibDeflate, data transferred using the account sharing feature is now compressed, and the whole process is now much faster.
Note that data transfer is still throttled, while the whole process will be 3-4 times faster than it was, it will never be lightning fast.



9.0.008 (05/04/2021)

- Added an option to display an item's expansion level in the tooltip.
- Created a new library, LibItemInfo, with the long term goal to deprecate LibPeriodicTable and offer a different kind of information.
- This new library currently contains information about reagents and some additional items, to indicate to which expansion they belong, and in which bag
they could be stored.
This feature, along with additional features coming in future releases will help you better manage your alts and your bank alts.
Data has not been datamined, it has been manually curated with in-game data + Wowhead.
It is by no means complete yet (there is definitely more to come).
Because it is manually curated, compiling it does take time even though it looks like a small feature (I did this at my pace while working on Classic features).

The next few releases of retail should be interesting, stay tuned :)

Note: You used to see "Source" in the tooltip, this will also be deprecated and replaced by "Info" + "Expansion".
Only the latter will be displayed if information is found in LibItemInfo, if not, "Source" will be displayed instead.

Just head to the auction house, and browse the trade goods, it should give you an idea of how useful this feature is :)


9.0.007 (28/02/2021)

- Summary Tab => Fixed the faction filter not working properly for languages other than English. This was due to the character faction being saved in English instead of localized.
Reconnecting your alts is necessary. Players using English clients are unaffected.
- DataStore_Characters : Fixed the reported faction name for languages other than English (this is related to the previous line). This could cause Alliance characters to be reported as Horde. But fear not, the Alliance had not been infiltrated by the Horde !
- Summary Tab => Added a panel for the mythic keystones.


9.0.006d (22/02/2021)

- Fixed a localization error on "Hearthstone".

9.0.006c (21/02/2021)

- Fixed another packaging error of the Characters tab sources.

9.0.006b (21/02/2021)

- Fixed packaging error of DataStore_Characters (missing locales).

9.0.006 (21/02/2021)

- Fixed a bug that probably existed since a very long time in the account summary, when randomly sorting on a column that would try to get data
from a DataStore module where a character key was completely missing.
This impacts alts that do not have talents yet for example.
If you have low level alts (<15) you haven't logged in in a long time .. now would be a good time to do it.
- Summary Tab => Skills : Added the "Riding skill" column.
- Summary Tab => Added a new menu item with miscellaneous information : guild name, hearthstone, class & active talent spec.

9.0.005 (14/02/2021)

- Summary Tab => Added two more options to filter alts by level : 1-44, 45+ & 50+
- Summary Tab => Covenant Sanctum : Fixed a color issue for the current chapter being displayed as grey instead of white in the campaign progress tooltip.
- DataStore_Quests => Fixed the campaign progress quest status (related to previous line)
- Added a tooltip option to hide counters for hearthstones.
Namely : Hearthstone, Dalaran Hearthstone, Garrison Hearthstone, Admiral's Compass and Flight Master's Whistle
- Grids Tab => Added a drop down in the emissaries, to allow filtering quests by expansion pack.
- Grids Tab => Reputations : Fixed a lua error when selecting the "All-in-one" view, due to the "Chromie" reputation being missing.


9.0.004 (24/01/2021)

- Summary Tab => Covenant Sanctum : added a new column to track campaign progress.
- Summary Tab => Covenant Sanctum : added a tooltip of the covenant name to show the best covenant for this character (sources: Icy Veins & Wowhead)
=> You have to login with the alt once for the tooltip to show !
- Fixed a Lua error again when trying to get the soulbind's name of a low level alt.
- Characters Tab => Renown Panel : Fixed a Lua error when viewing an alt's renown levels.
- Fixed a minor bug that preventing alt's currencies to be shown in the tooltip.


9.0.003c (15/01/2021)

- Fixed a bug where a soulbind's name could be returned as nil and cause a Lua error.
- Fixed 2 Lua errors in the Skills panel of the Account Summary Tab.


9.0.003b (14/01/2021)

- Minor fix, forgot to include files in the Altoholic_Characters .TOC file.

9.0.003 (13/01/2021)

CLEARING YOUR PREVIOUS INSTALLATION IS MANDATORY FOR THIS RELEASE, AS WELL AS YOUR SAVED VARIABLES !!!!

- Following the addition of the offensive code by Teelo in the latest release, I have taken back control of the development based on 8.3.001.
- All changes by Teelo have disappeared and will not come back, at least not in their original form.
- Code has been updated to support 9.0 API changes.
- Summary Tab : added a new menu item for Covenant Sanctum data.
- Characters Tab : minor fixes in several places
- Characters Tab => Garrison Icon : added support for the command table missions of the covenant.
- Characters Tab => Covenant Icon (new) : added 2 panels for renown & soulbinds. More to come here.
- Grids Tab => Emissaries Icon : modified string formatting a bit to show to which extension an emissary quest belongs
- Grids Tab => Emissaries Icon : added support for Callings
- The following DataStore modules are no longer part of the project, and are not supported : DataStore_Rares, DataStore_Keystones, DataStore_Covenants.

Note: I reactivated my subscription on 28/12/2020, so not everything is in yet, and I still have to make further in-game progress on some things before they get into the add-on.

Many of you will probably wonder which features will come back or not, all I can say is some will, some won't.


Older patch notes : see changelog.txt