Book of Crafts

Purpose

Book of Crafts (BoC) is a simple add-on which provide you with information regarding your other characters crafts. With it activated, whenever you display a recipe tooltips, it will list which character know this recipe already, which character may learn it now and which character will be able to learn it later.

In case no character is concerned by this recipe, a simple message is displayed.

Some special notes:

  • By default, currently played character is not displayed in lists, because top of recipe text should inform you about "known" state. However an option is available to force current character listing
  • When a recipe requires a craft specialisation, character should know this specialisation to be listed. Knowing the base craft is not enough. For instance, if your character knows "Dragon scale leather crafting", it won't be listed for a "tribal leather working" recipe even though it is a leather craft.

However, if you work with add-ons which do not handle tooltips correctly, through hook functions, BoC may be unable to display any information. So be sure to check which add-on you have in use before blaming BoC ^_^

Options

You may access to options through 3 ways:

  • with '/boc' command (or '/bookofcrafts')
  • A myAddOn button (my favorite way... if myAddon is installed)
  • A binding key, through normal binding menu

Available options are :

  • Same faction: Search of characters is limited to same faction as currently played one
  • Show skill level: If option is active, listed characters will show their current craft skill level (for instance 'Lini (78)'. Otherwise, only the name will be displayed)
  • Show chat message: More feedback is displayed in chat frame
  • Tooltip colors: choose your own color for BoC tooltip text and background
  • Show also current character in lists.
  • Use side tooltip: BoC Information is displayed in a detached tooltip

Credits

My big thanks to Ayradyss, maker of "RecipeBook" addon. I've been a first user of this add-on, but found myself in need of something different and I have developped "BookOfCrafts" (also at this time, RecipeBook development was stopped). This is thanks to "RecipeBook" that I started to get involved in Add-on development.

However, there is no competition with "Recipe book" and Ayradyss. Perhaps you should check also this add-on as it is a great add-on that you might prefer for its different features.

  • Special thanks to Lombra who has fixed the "Bind on pickup" problem while I stopped playing Wow for 8 months
  • Special thanks to Bburt for his overall help
  • Special thanks to Ghandi and Ayradyss for German translation
  • Special thanks to Lisurc a.k.a Lisenrak Sargeras (European server), for maintaining and tweaking BoC while I was away
  • Special thanks to ArtureLeCoiffeur and Tezaro for their bug fixing skills
  • ... and my thanks for all of you for your feedback

Facts

Date created
Jun 06, 2005
Category
Last update
Feb 01, 2012
Development stage
Release
Language
  • enUS
License
All Rights Reserved
Curse link
Book of Crafts
Downloads
24,303
Recent files
  • R: 4.0.0 for 4.3 Feb 01, 2012
  • A: r6 for 4.3 Feb 01, 2012
  • A: r5 for 4.3 Feb 01, 2012
  • A: r4 for 4.3 Feb 01, 2012
  • A: r3 for 4.2 Nov 29, 2011

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