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I know it has been quiet on the site for a while now. I have been reading everyone's posts and responding to most of them.

Currently as it stands, the latest version of WIM for the most part is stable. That being said, I have been working on WIM 3.0. From the ground up, WIM is being completely rewritten. I have learned a lot programming WIM and feel that it's code is too archaic and makes adding new features sloppy and limiting. Visually, WIM will look the same. However, under the hood, the code will be completely revamped and more logical. This framework i'm building for WIM will allow for many of the requests that everyone has been requesting as well as future ideas. I have and will be continuing to keep memory usage and CPU resources in mind at all times during the development process.

My goal is to have WIM 3.0 finished for when WoW 3.0 is released. In the meantime, I will continue to maintain WIM 2.4 between patches.

Remember, I can answer most but not all requests, I am only one person and please remember that WIM is a hobby of mine, not a job.

Respectfully,

Pazza

This is an update to correct the errors introduced in the World of Warcraft 2.4.2 update released today.

Also, an adjustment has been made to make WIM friendly with MBB (Minimap Button Bag).

-Pazza

This updated version of WIM addresses various bugs/issues that have been reported since the last update. Locales that have female class names are now handled correctly, and currently have the latest localization for German thanks to the various contributors.

Also in this update, interaction with the general chat frame has now been modified. WIM no longer hooks into the default chat frame which now makes WIM both easier to hook into as well as avoids any confusion with other addons also hooking the chat frame. For example, most spam blockers. WIM also honors WoW 2.4's message event filters. If another addon is filtering whispers (both inbound and out), messages will also be filtered in WIM as well. Suppression of whispers are now handled by these filters as well. The above changes required some code rewriting so it also allowed me to better optimize the effected functions.

Pattern's used in the detection of emoticons have been updated. The old pattern sometimes broke player links which contained characters other than A to Z. This new pattern has resolved this issue.

Two new features include:
- A new key binding: Focus selected tab.
- An option to allow item links to have their tooltips shown when hovering over them with your mouse. This applies to WIM windows only and was designed to accompany other addons which provide this feature. Hovering links is disabled by default. You may turn it on from WIM's option window (/wim) and scrolling down on the General tab.


For more details on the update, refer to the change log. Because of some file changes (updated libraries), the game must be restart upon updating your version of WIM.

Sincerely,

Pazza

Early downloaders of WIM 2.4.9, may experience some errors running WIM. I have fixed and repackaged the file and can now be downloaded. Sorry for the inconvenience.

WIM 2.4.9 is now available for download. This version comes with the ability to view emoticons in your WIM conversations. I have preloaded 50 emotion-icons into WIM. Skin developers also have the ability to add more as well as replace WIM's preloaded icon/emotion definitions. The skin section of the site still isn't finished, nor is the documentation for skinning. There have been a couple developers however who have taken the initiative and figured it out for themselves. Be sure to check out the Skinning Discussion found on this site's forums.

As usual, read the change logs for more details, post comments, questions and concerns on the forums.


*** Below was April 1, 2008's April Fools Joke - Do not take seriously ***

A brief change of subject, a side project of mine has been working with the Apple iPhone. Some of you might have heard about the SDK (Software Developer's Kit) which was released not so long ago. This extremely large download (~2 gigs) has brought new possibilities to the iPhone. I can't explain how much sleep has been lost trying to get this to work, however I have been able to port a version of World of Warcraft to the iPhone. As most of you know, the iPhone runs on a BSD type kernel and therefore can be tweaked to support Wine. Wine is used to run windows based apps on linux machines. Many are currently, and successfully playing WoW on linux computers. Anyway, below is a screenshot of WoW running on my iPhone. Because of the size of the device, it does make gameplay a little difficult. With a frame rate of 8fps and AT&T's extremely slow network, raiding doesn't seem feasible. The good news however? WIM works flawlessly! Once I work out all of the kinks, I will release a beta on the site. till then, here's the screenie.