console commands in addon?

[jlrm365]

Looking at these:
TOC format & Lua functions
and opening a few one / two line addons, with notepad, I am trying to grasp the basics of authoring.

Through wowwiki, I found this:
The Programming Language Lua
which leads to an e-book and video.
Does anyone have any other good lua resources - ideally with addon creation tutorials and / or walk-throughs?

More importantly and the reason for this post, I wanted to know...
Can console commands be included in any part of an addon?

As I play with an older PC, and when I'm on any pc and in Dalaran on a raid night, I've been using the macros on the following page:
How to boost your FPS In-Game

Since opening up those simple addons, looking at the above links and catching a bit of the authoring bug, I thought that it would be nice if I could make myself an addon that included all of the functions of those "prep" macros - listed on that molten-wow page.

Can that be done? If so, how?

Thanks!

[Waverian]

SetCVar("var", value)

[Duugu]

Have you seen the wiki page http://www.wowwiki.com/Getting_start...writing_addons?

Vars from config.wtf ("console commands") can be changed via http://www.wowwiki.com/API_SetCVar (see http://www.wowwiki.com/World_of_Warc...ings_Functions for additional functions).

[numein]

As far as I can see those are CVars, so it would be done via SetCVar
(late ... like Waverian sad :P)

Anyway, you have those CVars saved in the config.wtf file in your WTF folder
(you could run those macros first to save all those vars first, in case they aren't listed).

[jlrm365]

All good info, thanks.

It might be a while before I post again, as I'll have to look into CVar , but thanks.

EDIT:

Leatrix Gfx

I found that tweaking the options of that addon was quite a good way to get my head around CVar.

If anyone else is interested in doing what I asked, playing around with that addon would be a good place to start.