Fountain, a World of Warcraft Addon by me

[Zacker]

Some weeks ago I decided to give a go at learning LUA. The result of this is an addon for the mage class in WoW which automatically gives water to people who ask for it.

Usually a mage spend a bunch of time with handing our water when raiding. With this addon, that is a thing of the past.

This is the first public beta and it is therefore still in the early stages.

http://www.curse-gaming.com/en/wow/addo ... ntain.html

[Spellbinder]

I don't know what it is since i don't play WoW. But i just love innovated and productive people so Good job!

[e-freak]

wow doesn't detect this as cheating?

[dissonance]

wow doesn't detect this as cheating?

it's not.

[Polaris]

Is it sort of like a macro that autotrades the water (wich im guessing the wizard already has to be carrying) to the player that makes the request?

[RD]

A nano add-on

[Sindwiller]

LUA is damn cool, isnt it?

[Zacker]

Yes Polaris, you got it there:) And well LUA itself is interesting, so far it feels like a mix of coding javascript and vb.

[dissonance]

i've been meaning to get into it; have any good nub tutorials or hints, anything like that?

[Zacker]

I have learned everything so far by studying other addons. Many prefer tutorials, but just studying other peoples code can learn you a lot.

If you want WoW specific LUA tutorials then I think you can download some kind of sdk somewhere. Afaik it's not of much use though.

[dissonance]

heh.

i'm hacking up a few addons right now.

trying to learn xml and lua at the same time is a blast, imo.

well, sgml-based shit aint that hard, but lua got me.

[Zacker]

LUA turned out to be a great language and WoW is easy to mod, although it lacks official documentation.

Released a few more versions of the mod. So far it has been received well with more than a thousand downloads and good ratings on curse-gaming.

[e-freak]

lol i looked into some lua code and it's basicly... basic in the very same style it has been 1982...

[Zacker]

I am pretty sure that the e.g. the or operator in 1982 basic did not have support for returning non-boolean values. I do not believe it had extensive support for strings and patterns either.

Here is an example of how I used those things in Fountain:

result = string.find(msg, FountainPattern) or string.find(msg, FountainPattern2);

There are also other also many other differences, but the syntax is similar yes. This however can be said about most of todays common languages.

[e-freak]

nah i programmed 3 years with basic for school and it could handle all stuff for strings and arrays (patterns) and so on...

the syntax is in basic imho totally different from c++ and delphi. while basic and lua don't split var types in integer and string c++ and delphi do. for example:

basic:

x = "Hello World"

x = 12 * SQRT(13)

x(1,5) = "Vars is free"

delphi:

VAR x := Integer;

x1 := String;

x2 := Array of String [...]

begin

x := 12 * SQRT(13);

x1 := "Hello World";

x2(1,5) := "Vars in an array";

end;

end.