Ultimate Craft Queue add-on

A few people asked me what I was doing with Lua, so here it is: http://beust.com/ucq.

It’s a simple add-on called “Ultimate Craft Queue” that I wrote to help me craft glyphs. This will probably only mean something to WoW players, but in short, with some discipline, it’s possible to make a lot of money with this profession in WoW, but there are a lot of repeated operations involved in this process, so any automation you can come up with helps. This add-on is simply helping me streamline my process.

Back to Lua, I have to admit that the problems I described in my previous entry were pretty minor overall, and the hardest part of writing this add-on was the WoW Lua API itself, not the language. It is extremely powerful, if the number of add-ons in existence is any indication, but it takes quite a bit of effort to navigate through the scarce and sometimes nonexistent docs. The usage of extra libraries (such as AceGUI) is pretty much mandatory and there are quite a few holes (such as the tooltip API) that make a WoW add-on developer’s life absolutely miserable.

But once it works, it’s really rewarding…