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Last Update:	June 9, 2008 (3 months ago)
Category:	Group/Guild Management
Tags:	guild and roster
Project Manager:	Farmbuyer
Current Version:	Guild Delta 2.4.2 extras (for World of Warcraft 2.4.2)
Downloads Today:	3
Downloads Total:	2,734
Favorites:	36
Comments:	13

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Created On:	Aug. 31, 2007
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About Guild Delta

When you login, Guild Delta displays changes ("deltas", in math terms) to the guild roster since the last time you logged in. Specifically, names of players who have joined the guild or are no longer in the guild. See below for tracking other kinds of changes.

I didn't like being unaware that people had left my (large) guild merely because I happened to not be online at the time they left. And I kept being surprised to find that people I knew had joined the guild when I was offline. So I wrote this simple tool to discover changes in the roster.

Guild Delta only updates its list when you login. After that, it becomes totally inactive. This means that even players who join/leave the guild while you are online will be listed the next time you login. This is by design.

There are a couple of versions available. The basic "name/rank" version only stores players who have joined or left the guild, and changes in the rank of existing members. The "extras" version additionally tracks changes to the public/officer notes of existing members. You only need to load one or the other, not both.

If a player joins/leaves and you are running the "extras" version, then their notes will be printed along with their name. This helps with the problem of "who was that guy who just left?" in very large guilds.

NOTE 1: If you switch between basic and "extras", you may get a flood of data the first time you login. Likewise, if you are promoted to officer rank, any existing officer notes will all be printed out the next time you login.

NOTE 2: There is no way IN THE GAME to change which fields are tracked. (Sorry, no time or interest in writing a UI to control that.) However, the list of tracked fields is set at the top of the .lua file, with comments. It should be easy to customize if you wish.

1 Installation Guide
2 Translations
3 TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)
4 Mac Support
5 Directory Structure

Installation Guide

Exit "World of Warcraft" completely
Download the mod you want to install
- Make a folder on your desktop called "My Mods"
- Save the .zip/.rar files to this folder.
- If, when you try to download the file, it automatically "opens" it... you need to RIGHT click on the link and "save as..." or "Save Target As".
Extract the file - commonly known as 'unzipping'
Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!
- Windows
  - Windows XP a built in ZIP extractor. Double click on the file to open it, inside should be the file or folders needed. Copy these outside to the "My Mods" folder.
  - WinRAR: Right click the file, select "Extract Here"
  - WinZip: You MUST make sure the option to "Use Folder Names" is CHECKED or it will just extract the files and not make the proper folders how the Authors designed
- Mac Users
  - StuffitExpander: Double click the archive to extract it to a folder in the current directory.
Verify your WoW Installation Path
That is where you are running WoW from and THAT is where you need to install your mods.
Move to the Addon folder
- Open your World of Warcraft folder. (default is C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\)
- Go into the "Interface" folder.
- Go into the "AddOns" folder.
- In a new window, open the "My Mods" folder.
- The "My Mods" folder should have the "Addonname" folder in it.
- Move the "Addonname" folder into the "AddOns" folder
Start World of Warcraft
Make sure AddOns are installed
- Log in
- At the Character Select screen, look in lower left corner for the "addons" button.
- If button is there: make sure all the mods you installed are listed and make sure "load out of date addons" is checked.
- If the button is NOT there: means you did not install the addons properly. Look at the above screenshots. Try repeating the steps or getting someone who knows more about computers than you do to help.

Translations

When you download a mod, please be sure that the mod is compatible with your translation of wow. Some mods only work on the US versions, while some only work on some of the various European versions. These variations are called "Localizations".

TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)

When Blizzard patches WoW, they change the Interface number. This means that all mods will be "out of date" unless or until the author releases a new version for that interface. Some people go into the .toc files and update the numbers themselves, but this is STRONGLY advised against as it will cause problems locating possible incompatibilities addons. When you log into WoW after a patch, you DO NOT have to delete your interface directory. All you have to do is simply tell WoW to ignore the interface numbers and load all the mods anyway. All you have to do is, while at the "character select" screen, look in the lower left corner and click on the "addons" button. A window will pop up listing all your installed mods.

If you look in the upper left corner of that window there should be a box that says "Load Out of Date AddOns". You want to CHECK this box. Now simply go into WoW normally and all your mods should load. As of the 1.9 patch, you will have to do this after EVERY patch/update that Blizzard posts! If you encounter any problems with a mod after a patch, please be sure to let the author of the mod know so they can fix it.

Mac Support

WoW addons are not platformed based. As such, they can be used on either Mac or PC. You can extract both .zip and .rar files on a Mac using StuffitExpander.

Directory Structure

World of Warcraft
    |_ Interface
        |_AddOns
            |_*AddonName*
                |_ *AddonName*.toc
                |_ *AddonName*.xml
                |_ *AddonName*.lua
                |_ (possibly others as well)...

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Farmbuyer said
Jan. 9, 2008, 08:41PM (8 months ago)
9 January: for those of you running the extras (guild notes) version, the notes will be printed next to the names of players who join or leave.

I've updated the TOC of both versions, and deleted the older ones. No other changes.

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Farmbuyer said
Oct. 24, 2007, 06:13AM (10 months, 2 weeks ago)
24 October: I've made a fix to the printing of changes in rank. Previously only the new rank was being printed; now both the old and new ranks are properly printed.

Both the "name/rank only" and the "extras" (guild notes) versions have been updated. I took this opportunity to delete the older versions.

There are no changes other than the fix to printing rank changes.

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jaguar said
Oct. 16, 2007, 10:51PM (10 months, 3 weeks ago)
what's the slash command to bring up options on this program, please?

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Farmbuyer said
Oct. 16, 2007, 11:33PM (10 months, 3 weeks ago)
See note #2. There are none. Patches cheerfully accepted.

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ryanhamshire said
Sept. 25, 2007, 08:08PM (11 months, 2 weeks ago)
Props! Awesome idea, FB.

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dimitrimalik said
Sept. 23, 2007, 08:26AM (11 months, 3 weeks ago)
Ilove this addon

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KarlKFI said
Sept. 23, 2007, 04:50AM (11 months, 3 weeks ago)
<3 Farmbuyer.
I would like to put in my vote for tracking rank and note differences. Level differences I don't care much about unless they hit 70 while I was offline.

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Farmbuyer said
Sept. 26, 2007, 05:01AM (11 months, 2 weeks ago)
Okay, KarlKFI, I owe you for all of the work you've done to addons that I use. :-) I'll add those in the near future.

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Kobihunt said
Sept. 3, 2007, 10:00AM (1 year ago)
Changes in rank, level, notes, etc, are not tracked. are all features i like and both ES and guild log do that. ES is missing the "memory" funtion that guild log has, it is nice to look back and have a record of the log of what changes have happened in the guild. Guild log would completely replace ES if it 1> could export this info and 2> if it stored the guild note of the player that left. this is helpfull if you need to remeber info on an X-guildy, especially if you run a large guild where sometimes players that leae wish they had not and want to come back.

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Zidomo said
Sept. 2, 2007, 08:34AM (1 year ago)
Very nice idea to record & show on next logon changes that happened during your last logon. This is the single thing ES_GuildCheck (which provides similar functionality) is missing.
One thing, though. Any possibility of considering to make this work without the included Chronos dependency? And/or using a scheduler library that far more users already are loading (such as the Ace2 libraries)?

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Farmbuyer said
Sept. 3, 2007, 09:00PM (1 year ago)
> Any possibility of considering to make this work without the included Chronos dependency?
It's included, so what difference does the dependancy make? You *could* simple remove the delaying calls and fire off the resulting functions directly, but it's very common to "miss" things during periods of high latency. Guild information in particular is not always available immediately after login. Delaying the work until several seconds after login avoids those problems.

> And/or using a scheduler library that far more users already are loading (such as the Ace2 libraries)?
I have no such plans. Feel free to replace it yourself if non-Ace2 stuff bothers you.

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justcallmefred said
Sept. 1, 2007, 02:55AM (1 year ago)
where is the list found? In game that is.....

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Farmbuyer said
Sept. 1, 2007, 06:45AM (1 year ago)
It's printed out when you login.
By default, it's printed to the main chat window. You can change where it's printed if you want (a different chat window, or the "raid warning" invisible window in the middle of the screen, etc). You have to change the GuildDelta.lua file, but it's a single one-line change at the top of the file, with instructions.

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