world-of-warcraft

WOW Addon Development / Events....

Not sure if this is an appropriate programming question or not; but here goes.... I've written a very simple add-on that displays text/plays a sound when certain spells become usable (Overpower / Revenge). But I've been unable to find the appropriate event to listen for to check this. My hack-ish approach is to simply check the state ...

White frame around images in WoW Addon

I am having some trouble with my World of Warcraft addon. Whenever I display my TGA files in the addon, there is a thin white frame around them. The same happens when I convert them to BLPs. When I look at the images themselves with Preview, there's no white frame, but WoW decides to display one. How do I resolve this? ...

World of Warcraft addon — SetCursor not working when hovering over WorldFrame

In my World of Warcraft addon, I want to set the cursor to a certain image. I do this using SetCursor. Problem is, whenever the cursor exits my frame and hovers over the WorldFrame, the cursor is reset back to the normal one. I know of a certain addon that does overcome this problem, but I am not too sure how, because its source code is...

How do i parse the new wow RSS feed? (LINQ to XML)

The link i want to parse is here. I'm looking to parse it in "real time" so that as things happen i can send myself messages/tweets and what not. I plan on having each element of the XML from the feed as an item of a class/struct. I'm really looking for LINQ to XML examples, and a good book. I've seen other LINQ to XML articles out th...

Old installer.app for World Of Warcraft OSX

Hey guys, I have the 3.2.0 full installer.exe together with it's downloaded archives for windows of World of Warcraft, and I have the 3.x.x to 4.0.0 update installer for both windows and osx. The problem is as follows: the new World of Warcraft installer wants to download a whole new 12GB to install the game under osx. I need the old ...