Enchantrix for Alchemy?

[jenniebee]

Hi - I haven't done any programming with WoW yet, but I have an idea & I'd like advice on whether or not it's possible before I try to figure out how to make it work.

I have the enchantrix mod and it's marvelous - especially its percentless function, that tells me what items are on the AH that are likely to be worth more than their current buyouts if they're disenchanted. What I'd like to do is to make a similar mod for alchemy, that knows what I can make, uses Auctioneer to check for mats and tells me what's priced low enough to allow me to turn a profit by buying it, making pots, and reselling them. If I were making it, I'd make the output something like this:

Potion Name (Median Buyout) Mat #1 (Buyout Price) Mat #2 (Buyout Price) PercentProfit

Can this be done and how would anybody here begin going about doing it?

Thanks!

[shouryuu]

Yup it can be done. Now how hard will it be? That I cannot tell. To my ears it doesn't sound too complicated, but it will requiere a very well structured code and of course, some coding experience :P Making this your first ever program might be tought...
If you're interested in trying to code it yourself, well here a links to some cool tutorial, and info about wow add-ons :P

WoWWiki, your best friend. Has a list of all the events and functions in the WoW API
http://www.wowwiki.com/Interface_Customization

A very cool XML tutorial.
http://fara.webeddie.com/frames/

Lua manual, the language used in add-ons.
http://www.lua.org/manual/5.0/

Good luck!