Description:
This tool provides an easy way for you to keep your Ace addons up to date. When it first launches, it will download a list of available addons from http://www.wowace.com/files. If it can determine your local World of Warcraft installation folder, it will also compare that list with the addons you currently have installed and pre-check them.
Check the boxes of any addons you want to update/download and choose "Update Checked Addons" from the File menu (or press F12). The status of the download will be presented in the lower pane.
Screenshots:
NOTE: Rather than keep updating this page, I'm going to maintain a wiki page instead. Please use this thread or (even better) the tracker on the SourceForge site. :)
It simply kick my Java console updaters but :-) If i knew you made this i would never have written it, although i only spend a couple of hours on it.
Hey man... didn't mean to steal your thunder. I've been getting this ready since Wednesday and testing it with a few others since Friday. Didn't know about yours until this morning.
Keep yours going though, the Mac people are gonna need an answer too. :)
Here's a suggestion for a future version: Categorisation.
I was thinking maybe in the form of a tree view? (go go gadget .net :P)
Alot of addons on the svn dont use this extra toc data. We can add it. Would be good for the wiki too, right?
Edit: I also see the artist at the end of the description, could make that an extra (sortable?) column.
Just throwing ideas in atm..
Excellent ideas. Clad and I have been talking about adding more data to the descript.ion file to do these kinds of things. I also want to add sorting, searching, etc. Also, I don't need a tree since the new ListView control has grouping.
Wow, this saves me so much time! Thanks for making this. Only problem I noticed was with updating SCT and having to manually bring out all the subfolders contained inside.
Hey man... didn't mean to steal your thunder. I've been getting this ready since Wednesday and testing it with a few others since Friday. Didn't know about yours until this morning.
Keep yours going though, the Mac people are gonna need an answer too. :)
Im gonna use yours now instead. So neat to be able to add new mods in the application.
Im a bit curious on some stuff though. Do you parse the modnames from index file using a regex or do you have a better method? Latest revision numbers is pulled from latest.txt right? Im just interested to know what things i could done another way. :-)
Wow, this saves me so much time! Thanks for making this. Only problem I noticed was with updating SCT and having to manually bring out all the subfolders contained inside.
Yeah, SCT has this problem and I think one other one does too. I've been trying to convince either clad to change the ZIP script or grayhoof to changing the folder structure in SVN. (I prefer the latter for consistency with the rest.)
Even before this tool I found SCT's ZIPs annoying because I couldn't just unzip them into my Addons folder.
Im a bit curious on some stuff though. Do you parse the modnames from index file using a regex or do you have a better method? Latest revision numbers is pulled from latest.txt right? Im just interested to know what things i could done another way. :-)
Yeah, simple regex at this point since it works. Latest rev from latest.txt. Yep.
In fact, when I read your post I thought, "Hey, that sounds exactly like the algorithm I'm using!" :)
Might be too much to ask, but is there any chance this app can handle the removal of the embedded libraries and maintaining them as regular addons? Almost all my addons use embedded libraries so it would make sense for me to simply load the libraries normally if I had an easy way of maintaining them. :)
As everyone else has said, thanks for this great tool! Another win for the Ace community.
EDIT: eeep just saw the skip externals option. Maybe I can use that...
Yeah, simple regex at this point since it works. Latest rev from latest.txt. Yep.
In fact, when I read your post I thought, "Hey, that sounds exactly like the algorithm I'm using!" :)
Haha thats funny. Im pretty sure your regex is cleaner. First time used regex except for a simple mail address checker i had in a PHP script. Well atleast i got it working.
A bit off-topic: I recall there was some discussion about the use of the !!!Libraries package. If one indeed uses every library included there, is it recommended to use that and remove all externals from the Ace2 addons? Does !!!Libraries always contain the latest version of each library on SVN, or does it have to be "touched" to get updated?
!!!Libraries is an attempt by some to be lazy about un-embedding their addons and still having every lib they need. It works fine if you SVN checkout, but the zips tend to drift out of date.
Considering that I'll be pushing my lib standalones to LoD so they only load if needed, I much recommend the normal standalones over !!!Libraries.
Is there any way to keep a certain file from updating while running the winaceupdater mod? I've replaced a font and a texture in a few mods, and didn't to go replacing them every time a new ace mod is out. Would setting the particular file to be read only be sufficient?
simply uncheck that particular mod and not update it via the aceupdater (use the zip or something else)
as for aceupdater, my only complaints have been mentioned already i think
SCT screws itself in the process (plz fix :-D )
and when something fails or results in an error it can result in losing the addon completely (happened to me a few times, but i watched carefully and checked to catch it.)
some of the errors i had previously have since righted themselves
so far so good, gogo ace community
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SourceForge Site: http://sf.net/projects/wowaceupdater
Description:
This tool provides an easy way for you to keep your Ace addons up to date. When it first launches, it will download a list of available addons from http://www.wowace.com/files. If it can determine your local World of Warcraft installation folder, it will also compare that list with the addons you currently have installed and pre-check them.
Check the boxes of any addons you want to update/download and choose "Update Checked Addons" from the File menu (or press F12). The status of the download will be presented in the lower pane.
Screenshots:
NOTE: Rather than keep updating this page, I'm going to maintain a wiki page instead. Please use this thread or (even better) the tracker on the SourceForge site. :)
It simply kick my Java console updaters but :-) If i knew you made this i would never have written it, although i only spend a couple of hours on it.
I have nothing to add. Everything important is already there.
I was thinking maybe in the form of a tree view? (go go gadget .net :P)
Alot of addons on the svn dont use this extra toc data. We can add it. Would be good for the wiki too, right?
Edit: I also see the artist at the end of the description, could make that an extra (sortable?) column.
Just throwing ideas in atm..
Hey man... didn't mean to steal your thunder. I've been getting this ready since Wednesday and testing it with a few others since Friday. Didn't know about yours until this morning.
Keep yours going though, the Mac people are gonna need an answer too. :)
Excellent ideas. Clad and I have been talking about adding more data to the descript.ion file to do these kinds of things. I also want to add sorting, searching, etc. Also, I don't need a tree since the new ListView control has grouping.
Good stuff. Keep it coming.
Im gonna use yours now instead. So neat to be able to add new mods in the application.
Im a bit curious on some stuff though. Do you parse the modnames from index file using a regex or do you have a better method? Latest revision numbers is pulled from latest.txt right? Im just interested to know what things i could done another way. :-)
Good luck. It will be fun watching this evolve...
Yeah, SCT has this problem and I think one other one does too. I've been trying to convince either clad to change the ZIP script or grayhoof to changing the folder structure in SVN. (I prefer the latter for consistency with the rest.)
Even before this tool I found SCT's ZIPs annoying because I couldn't just unzip them into my Addons folder.
Yeah, simple regex at this point since it works. Latest rev from latest.txt. Yep.
In fact, when I read your post I thought, "Hey, that sounds exactly like the algorithm I'm using!" :)
As everyone else has said, thanks for this great tool! Another win for the Ace community.
EDIT: eeep just saw the skip externals option. Maybe I can use that...
Haha thats funny. Im pretty sure your regex is cleaner. First time used regex except for a simple mail address checker i had in a PHP script. Well atleast i got it working.
EDIT: I guess the use I described is not recommended:
http://www.wowace.com/forums/index.php?topic=2272.msg44207#msg44207
What exactly is the intended purpose of !!!Libraries?
Considering that I'll be pushing my lib standalones to LoD so they only load if needed, I much recommend the normal standalones over !!!Libraries.
as for aceupdater, my only complaints have been mentioned already i think
SCT screws itself in the process (plz fix :-D )
and when something fails or results in an error it can result in losing the addon completely (happened to me a few times, but i watched carefully and checked to catch it.)
some of the errors i had previously have since righted themselves
so far so good, gogo ace community