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12-06-09, 12:56 PM   #1
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Please Doctor WhoDat.

(I sincerely hope this is posted in the right subforum. Also, sorry for the pun. Couldn't resist. ^^")

Hello, addon authors hosted on WoWInterface!

I come before you all with a humble request. An addon called WhoDat is in need of repair, however its author (Frella) no longer plays World of Warcraft and has not logged into WoWInterface in months. I am trying to get ahold of Frella to see if they will be able to fix the problem themselves, but with no activity in months, I do not have much hope.

The purpose of WhoDat is to provide a stand-alone addon that will insert a main character's name next to the corresponding alt whenever the alt speaks in a chat channel. It's similar to a module in Chatter but can require less configuration if a GM or Officer has already made necessary additions to the Guild Info tab and either Public or Officer notes.

It's broken because of the following: if a person is playing their alt and types something, their message will simply not be displayed in the chat window of a user running WhoDat. My hunch is this is a result of Blizzard adding in class-colored name support to chat windows. Sometimes the alts text isn't blocked - possibly depending on if an alt is online before the WhoDat user comes on, or logs on after the WhoDat user is on. I haven't used the addon in some time as I had started using Chatter, but I really do not utilize all that Chatter has and do not like manually adding in alts/mains.

There is one other problem that I will copy/paste from WhoDat's comment page:

Aside from this, I noticed something the other night. I was having a whisper conversation with a guildmate's alt using the addon Cellular. When the alt said something, the main's name showed up in brackets, correctly. When I said something though, that main's name showed up in brackets too - even though I am clearly a separate person. Clarification:

BOB [DAN]: Hi!
JILL [DAN]: Hi!
JILL [DAN]: Wait... I'm not Dan! D:
I'd be happy to test any fixes that could be made to WhoDat - this addon was extremely handy not only for the addition it made to the chat window, but also in displaying a tooltip stating alts/mains when browsing over members in the Guild window.
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12-06-09, 01:24 PM   #2
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Have you tried this? http://www.wowinterface.com/download...arityAlts.html I seem to remember there being another addon which did this function as well, but I can't remember the name.
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12-06-09, 02:36 PM   #3
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Identity 2 was one I used and allowed me to set up a name to display alongside my characters name so that everyone knew it was an alt of mine or explained why someone called me a completely different name rofl.
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12-06-09, 03:54 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by Seerah View Post
Have you tried this? http://www.wowinterface.com/download...arityAlts.html I seem to remember there being another addon which did this function as well, but I can't remember the name.
I just tried SolidarityAlts and get a bug similar to the one I am experiencing with WhoDat, where it doesn't show whatever the alt character says. I posted the bug on SolidarityAlts' comments page in the hopes that the author might fix it. Though, unfortunately SolidarityAlts doesn't work with /officer right now and this is a channel that is more active than /guild. This is because I am in a Roleplaying guild and we use /guild for "in character" talk and /officer for "out of character" talk.

So far it's 2/2 addons that are broken likely due to some sort of change Blizzard has made. Identity-2 is an addon last updated in 2008 - I'm certain it'd also be broken.

I need to get back to Frella and see if he can figure anything with the addon. If he can't, I suppose the request will stand if someone else can step in and take a look/fix it.
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12-06-09, 07:22 PM   #5
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Identity is currently in use by almost everyone in my guild and it works perfectly fine with no errors. Its fun to mess around with too.
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12-06-09, 10:01 PM   #6
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Just off topic I saw the topic and thought :

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12-06-09, 11:26 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by Bluspacecow View Post
Just off topic I saw the topic and thought :

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