Change log

2.1 Battleground General can now interface with Clique by Cladhaire: http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info5108-Clique.html To use it, open Clique and press 'Custom'. Select 'Create Custom Macro', and for the macro, type:

/bgg click select

Now, clicking on their unit frame (with for example shift-left click) will toggle their selection in Battleground General. To make the macro always select or deselect, use:

/bgg click select on|off

You may have noticed that you can only send ten whispers at a time before WoW says it’s too many. If players in your team also have Battleground General, it will send them their message via an Addon Channel rather than as a normal whisper, which will let you whisper more people at once. For sender and receiver it should be indistinguishable from an ordinary whisper. (This took a lot of debugging, which is why this version took so long- please let me know if there are any more problems).

BGG should now behave better going straight from AB to AV for example. Sorry, the /bgg select 134 command is still buggy, or not worky. Next version!

A LOT has been done behind the scenes, only of interest if you like... ok, not of interest to anyone but me :-) Reducing BGG’s global footprint and the like.

2.02 Added support for Death Knights. Their presence on a battleground may have been causing errors.

2.01 Updated (and tested) for WotLK. The event scheduling algorithm is now more efficient.

The Battleground General pane will now hide during combat. Specifically, it will hide when an enemy player (not a pet) causes you normal or spell damage. So it won’t hide if you’re riding through AV and are attacked by NPCs such as harpies, frostwolves, archers etc. To enable or disable this feature, type: /bgg hidecombat on|off

2.0 Battleground General has come to Alterac Valley! It works the same as before in Warsong Gulch and Arathi Basin. Out of necessity the interface is different in AV.

Instead of individual players, the frames now represent areas. Mousing over the frames will show you which players on your team are in that area, and which enemies have been sighted there. If you have selected any players it will list them by their area.

You can left- and right-click on the frame do select and deselect players: Left-Click: Select one player Right-Click: Deselect one player Shift-Left-Click: Select all players in that area Shift-Right-Click: Deselect all players in that area

Left-Clicking three times will select three players from a particular area. They will be the three closest players to each other so that they can group up easily (BGG selects the player with the shortest total distance to every other player in the area- processor intensive but it only happens when you mouseover, so it’s unlikely to cause problems in combat).

The eight buttons at the top are for selecting and deselecting raid groups. For example with button 1: Left-Click: Select Group 1 Shift-Left-Click: Add members of Group 1 to selection Alt-Left-Click: Remove members of Group 1 from selection Right-Click: Clear selection

Mousing over the buttons with the Alt key down will remind you of these options.

All communications are done with the /bgw command. Players on your Do Not Whisper list will never be selected. There is a shortcut for selecting groups: /bgg select 34

...will select members of Groups 3 and 4. So the following macro: /bgg select 57 /bgw protect bal

...will instruct members of Groups 5 & 7 to help Balinda.

Known caveats

The /bgg select 34 etc command is not working at the moment :-(