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Looking For a Guide

With my newest addon I am working on I've decided it's time to start including some options.

I'm hoping someone can point me in the direction of an up to date guide of some sort to help with slash commands and/or interface options.

Anyone know of a good one? :)

slashcmds you can do this..

Code:

local function doThisFunction()

        print("pewpewrawr")

end



SlashCmdList['EXAMPLE'] = doThisFunction

SLASH_EXAMPLE1 = '/exampleslash1'

SLASH_EXAMPLE2 = '/exampleslash2'

this is limited tho, i used NugRunning to help me with slashcmds that have a variable.

This is not limited at all!

Code:

local function slash(arg)

        print(arg or "No arguments given.")

end



SlashCmdList["EXAMPLE"] = slash

SLASH_EXAMPLE1 = "/exampleslash1"

SLASH_EXAMPLE2 = "/exampleslash2"

Wowwiki has a short guide on creating slash commands.

http://www.wowwiki.com/Creating_a_slash_command

I think it depends how many options you want to have. Consolid8 (my chat addon) just has a few, so I use slash commands. The simplified handler goes something like this:

Code:

SlashCmdList["CONSOLID"] = function(msg)

        msg = string.lower(msg)

        if msg == "report" then

                Consolid8.Report()

        elseif msg == "show" then

                Consolid8.Show()

        -- ...

        else

                print("Command not recognized.")

        end

end

If you have a lot of commands, you may wish to use a table, e.g.:

Code:

switches = {

        report = Consolid8.Report,

        show = Consolid8.Show,

        -- ...

}



SlashCmdList["CONSOLID"] = function(msg)

        msg = string.lower(msg)

        if switches[msg] then

                switches[msg](msg)

        else

                print("Command not recognized.").

        end

end

To use the interface options, it's just a case of creating a frame and using an API function to register it, although I haven't done it personally.

Thanks for all of this. Anyone know of a good place to look for saving and calling variables so I can save some settings to go along with this? :)