Mar 10, 2009 0
My first World of Warcraft Addon – WhisperDKP
So I wrote my first WoW addon last night and named it WhisperDKP (with the help of a good friend of mine). It’s an extremely simple addon for my first attempt, intended for guilds that use eqDKP to monitor points for end game content raiding. A user sends a ‘whisper’ with the text ‘dkp’ to the player with the addon installed, a whisper would be then returned with the point value of the players current DKP (dragon kill points).
There is still room for improvement, as the only way to provide the DKP information to the addon is to manually extract the values from the eqDKP website. I’ll probably have to write a simple Java application to automate this. After speaking with my friends in the guild, they want to be able to keep track of on-the-fly changes mid-raid as well as display a list of users in order of DKP so they can use it to choose the winner of an item.
For my current knowledge level, I can probably do this easily in a text based format, going into graphical windows is a new step and might take me a bit longer, maybe I’ll do it textual first then step into a graphical window.