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World of Warcraft Programming: A Guide and Reference for Creating WoW Addons
John Wiley and Sons Ltd, June 2008, Pages: 1,022
“WoW” is what you’ll say when you see how many ways you can tweak the World of Warcraft interface after you read this book! If you’re new to programming, we’ll teach you the basics of Lua and XML and walk you through writing your first addon. If you already have some original addons in your arsenal, jump right into Parts III and IV and work with templates, function hooking, custom graphics, state headers, and more. We’ll even help you distribute your addons, making WoW better for everybody.
-Respond to events, creates frames, and use the WoW API to interact with the game
-Learn the Lua programming language through interactive examples, from values and variables to custom functions and control structures
-Write well-formed XML and validate using schemas
-Find specific functions easily in the comprehensive references of APIs, API categories, events, and widgets
-Create custom graphics, scroll frames, dropdown menus, and much more
Authors bio:
James Whitehead II is the author of a number of popular addons for World of Warcraft such as PerfectRaid, Clique, LightHeaded, TomTom, and many other small addons. He has been an active member of both the WoW UI and the Lua communities since the World of Warcraft Beta began and has been writing addons since. When he actually has time to play the game, you can find him playing one of his many characters on the Stormrage (US) server, or feverishly leveling his characters on Ravencrest (EU).
Bryan McLemore has been a member of the UI community since early 2005. After creating KC_AutoRepair, he went on to co-found the Ace Project, as Kaelten alongside Brent Miller (Turan in the UI community). Following Brent’s official departure from WoW, Bryan found himself having to devote more and more time to WowAce and less to his addons; however, he refuses to give up on OneBag and KC_Items. When he actually manages to spend time playing World of Warcraft, he plays one of his many alts on the US server Whisperwind.
Matthew Orlando is the author of numerous addons for World of Warcraft, including BuyEmAll, CogsBar, and MacroTalk. He has been programming for 13 years and has been active in the addon community since early 2006. In addition to his extensive experience with Lua and the World of Warcraft API, he maintains “Cogwheel’s Complete Macro Guide,” the definitive source for information on writing macros for WoW
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