I'm sort someone is going to think I'm an obnoxious noob for making this request, but here goes...
I can't program, beyond some very basic HTML/XML (I used to be able to make UI mods in EQ/EQ2 and customize them using a sort of "monkey see, monkey do" approach, but I could never generate one of my own from scratch.)
I've spent all morning reading up on making WoW addons, read several howtos and starter guides, and I just
don't have the skillset and won't be able to acquire it with the time/attention span I have available (I have a young child, my ability to concentrate is often not good.)
And yet, I have an addon I really want to take a stab at, because I've been told it would be "pretty simple" to do, and because I hate asking someone else to do something I'm not willing to do myself.
Basically, I want to try the mod I described
in this thread. In essence, if you're escorting an NPC on an escort quest, and an event happens (the NPC faints, falls asleep, gets attacked) then the addon will play an alert sound (I'm thinking the basic "error" gong type of sound) and flash a warning message on your screen (not just in the chat box, but on the screen like a raid warning.)
Like I said, I can often do scripting in a sort of "monkey see, monkey do" sort of manner, so I've been searching for other mods with this sort of functionality, and I haven't yet found one that's just barebones enough for me to really get an idea of what they're doing so that I can emulate it. I get lost in the specifics of that particular mod with all its different events its looking for.
So what I would like to see is a very no-frills, straightforward sample of script with exactly the sort of functionality I've described. From there, I can go on to do the research as far as finding out what specific text event happens in the chat window with the various escort quests (i.e. Ringo says "Ughhhhh!" or "I don't feel so well" or whatever when he faints, or the chicken alerts you when it's being attacked, etc) and customize the script to look for those events.
In other words, you generate the code, I'll do the plodding and boring footwork of adapting it to various escort quests.
In the (admittedly unlikely, but a girl has to try) event that I actually do emerge from this experience with a functional addon worth sharing with others, you will of course get credit for it.