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I’m still here and alive. My workload in the past few weeks was kind of crazy. I’ve not abandoned MRT, but after 8-10 hours of working each day I don’t really have the concentration for working on MRT in the nights. But thankfully there were no new bugs found, so I guess the current state of MRT isn’t that bad. If any important issues will show up, I’ll fix stuff asap. Anything else will have to wait until I’ve a bit more spare time than now.
In other news:
Comming soon(TM): Totally WoW unrelated blog posts about internet spaceships.
Mizus RaidTracker Version 0.26-2-Beta is now available for download. It a little bugfix/workaround release. Check the MRT page for the download link.
0.26-2 Beta – Changelog:
New:
Added zhCN translation (big thanks to luomoon)
Changes:
A few people reported, that MRT did not create a new raid after entering or changing raid zones. Turned out, that the WoW-Client reports wrong zone information for a few seconds after a zone change. MRT will now wait 10 seconds before checking the raid zone. The recognition of a raid zone will be delayed by these 10 seconds, but MRT should then be able to start a new raid accordingly. (Ticket #33 – Big thanks to gOOvER)
Mizus RaidTracker Version 0.26-Beta is now available for download. Check the MRT page for the download link.
I’d like to thank anyone who are using the alpha versions of MRT and are/or reporting bugs. MRT grew to a point, where I’m not able to test every single feature after each change anymore, so I really depend on feedback from you. Thank you very much.
I’d also like to point out, that the current state might become finally a 1.0 version, when the known issues are resolved. Although I still have a backlog with planned features, reported bugs are getting less severe and I’d finally like to call a version “stable” before I break everything again while implementing new features ;).
0.26 Beta – Changelog:
Deprecation Warning:
The old CTRT compatible export won’t receive any more compatibility updates for the EQDkp-Plus Raid-Log-Import-Plugin. Especially the attendance features. If you run into attendance issues, please change to the EQDkp-Plus-XML-Export.
New:
Added frFR translation of the Conclave of Wind win yell. (Thanks to Adama)
New option to disable raid tracking in WotLK instances. (Tracking of old instances is disabled by default)
If an export with an activated attendance fix for the EQDkp RLI is used, the export frame will now show a little note about setting the value of a RLI option to a lower value in order to avoid attendance issues.
Added experimental support for EPGP GP calculation.
Added new slash command: ‘/mrt additem <ItemLink> <Looter> [<Cost>]’ adds an item to the loot list of the last boss.
Changes:
“Trash mob” boss entries are now always saved as a normal mode encounters. (Reason: They don’t drop any heroic loot)
Zone name is now retrieved using GetZoneText() instead of GetInstanceInfo(). This should fix BWD detection on frFR clients.
When manually adding a boss, MRT will fill in a default value for the difficulty depending on the current raid difficulty setting.
EQDkp-Plus-XML-Export: If the attendance fix is enabled, the loot timestamps will now be modified to be closer to the corresponding boss kill. This should make room to adjust the ‘Time in seconds, the loot belongs to the boss before.’-setting in the EQDkp-Plus RLI to smaller values and prevent wrong loot assignments.
EQDkp-Plus-XML-Export: Rewritten a few parts of the attendance fix code. It should be now more suitable for mixed DKP systems which awards Invite-DKP and are also based around attendance checks for boss kills.
Registered functions are now called using pcall() to prevent MRT from failing, if one of the registered function failed.
Updates:
Updated zhTW translation.
Bug Fixes:
Added client cache request when modifying item information in the GUI. This should prevent the dialog to fail with an “Item not valid” error.
Fixed a bug which may corrupt the data of an active raid in a specific situation, if the tracker relogs and the automatic deletion of old raids is enabled.
Fixed a bug which caused the automatic playerDB pruning to fail, if all raids for a specific realm were deleted.
The CTRT-Export will now always have a <BossKills>-Tag, even if no bosses were in the current raid. This should prevent some issues with a few importers.
CTRT-Export: Fixed indexing of leave elements
Known Issues (working on it):
Attendance whispers may not work when using TukUI.
With WoW 4.0.6, Blizzard added a chat tab feature for whispers. When doing an attendance check, MRT may not prevent WoW from opening new tabs, leaving you with new, unnecessary (and possibly empty) chat tabs.
So, it is now possible to prevent authenticated users from automatically rejoining their last used channel without editing and compiling the source code. Simply open your server configuration file (usually ‘murmur.ini’) and add the following line:
rememberchannel=false
Make sure to restart Murmur after changing the settings. Authenticated users should now join the default channel after connecting to the server.
If you want to change the default channel, you may want to have a look at my old post.
In the last few days, Blizzard replaced the old WoW Armory with a new one hosted on http://battle.net. Aside from the confusing design (which may be a complete subjective thing, because I’m not used to the new design yet), the most annoying part was that my Firefox search plugin stopped working. I wasn’t able to find a new one, so I searched around a found a nice description how to create my own search plugins. I was able to write my own one pretty easily.
So, if you are also searching for a working search plugin for the World of WarCraft Armory, well, here they are. Just click on the corresponding link for your desired Armory:
Activated Javascript is required for installing. Search data, images and icons are copyrighted by Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.
These search plugins should work with Firefox 2.0 or later, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer 7 or later and any other browser, which supports OpenSearch search plugins. If you are interested in the XML files of these search plugins, here they are:
Mizus RaidTracker Version 0.25-Beta is now available for download. Check the MRT page for the download link.
0.25 Beta – Changelog:
New:
Added new export format: DKPBoard
Added backwards compatibility to older WoW clients (Version 3.x). MRT should now work on chinese clients
Added functions to resume the last raid. You can finde the resume button in the raidlog browser
The guild attendance check text is now customizable
The EQdkp-Plus XML export now additionally exports item notes
Added options for automatically ignoring enchanting materials and gems
Added BossID of Magmaw
Changes:
Renamed option “Enable MRT” to “Enable automatic tracking” to clarify its use
Changed boss kill detection of the Conclave of Wind from BossID based to bossyell. Bossyells for english and german clients are available (Thanks to Rhial for the german yell).
Updates:
Updated frFR translation (Thanks to Cindelle and Deepking)
Updated zhTW translation (Thanks to wushiny)
Bug Fixes:
Fixed a bug, which may caused a reset of the “delete raids older than x days”-slider back to 90 days
I’ve been pretty busy in the last few days with work. And since Cataclysm is live, most of my free time goes into playing WoW at the moment, but I’m still working on MRT. I use it in my raids myself, after all.
Regarding WoW, my first day in Cataclysm was pretty successful:
Btw, this screenshot was taken by Memoria.
In the meantime, Lisichk0 translated Memoria into russian, so I’ve released Memoria v1.2 yesterday. You can get it from the Memoria page here or at Curse.com
Regarding MRT, I’m currently testing the current alpha. A new beta version should be finished this weekend. If you would like to try out the current alpha build, then take a look at the MRT filesection of CurseForge. You can find the most recent alpha build and the changelog since the last beta version there.
