Rejoice!
This is the long awaited expansion to EngBags, which works with 2.0. Yay!
In addition to the auto-sorting you've come to know and love, I've added many new features, including searching for items (in mail, etc.) You can also see and use the original default UI bags, which have slots free overlaid on top of them. There are also many convenience features, like highlighting new items, colored spotlighting, and purchase bank bags without having to unload the addon. A visual edit mode allows you to rearrange categories to your taste, and an advanced customization window enables you to completely configure every aspect of TBag.
Getting Started
TBag can only "see" something you've seen, so for every character:
1) Open your bags
2) Go to the bank
3) Check your mail
4) View your body
5) Open all your trade windows
This allows you to view the bag and bank contents of your characters at any time (sorted according to their trade skills) by clicking the name dropdown in the upper right. It also enables you to do a full item search from the search textbox just to the left of the name dropdown.
Fixed the infamous line 3469 bug... really!
Fixed a problem with the seventh bank bag.
Added some more sorting for the Outlands... more as I learn what items go with each faction.
Installation Guide
- Exit "World of Warcraft" completely
- Download the mod you want to install
- Make a folder on your desktop called "My Mods"
- Save the .zip/.rar files to this folder.
- If, when you try to download the file, it automatically "opens" it... you need to RIGHT click on the link and "save as..." or "Save Target As".
- Extract the file - commonly known as 'unzipping'
Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!
- Windows
- Windows XP a built in ZIP extractor. Double click on the file to open it, inside should be the file or folders needed. Copy these outside to the "My Mods" folder.
- WinRAR: Right click the file, select "Extract Here"
- WinZip: You MUST make sure the option to "Use Folder Names" is CHECKED or it will just extract the files and not make the proper folders how the Authors designed
- Mac Users
- StuffitExpander: Double click the archive to extract it to a folder in the current directory.
- Verify your WoW Installation Path
That is where you are running WoW from and THAT is where you need to install your mods.
- Move to the Addon folder
- Open your World of Warcraft folder. (default is C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\)
- Go into the "Interface" folder.
- Go into the "AddOns" folder.
- In a new window, open the "My Mods" folder.
- The "My Mods" folder should have the "Addonname" folder in it.
- Move the "Addonname" folder into the "AddOns" folder
- Start World of Warcraft
- Make sure AddOns are installed
- Log in
- At the Character Select screen, look in lower left corner for the "addons" button.
- If button is there: make sure all the mods you installed are listed and make sure "load out of date addons" is checked.
- If the button is NOT there: means you did not install the addons properly. Look at the above screenshots. Try repeating the steps or getting someone who knows more about computers than you do to help.
Translations
When you download a mod, please be sure that the mod is compatible with your translation of wow. Some mods only work on the US versions, while some only work on some of the various European versions. These variations are called "Localizations".
TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)
When Blizzard patches WoW, they change the Interface number. This means that all mods will be "out of date" unless or until the author releases a new version for that interface. Some people go into the .toc files and update the numbers themselves, but this is STRONGLY advised against as it will cause problems locating possible incompatibilities addons. When you log into WoW after a patch, you DO NOT have to delete your interface directory. All you have to do is simply tell WoW to ignore the interface numbers and load all the mods anyway. All you have to do is, while at the "character select" screen, look in the lower left corner and click on the "addons" button. A window will pop up listing all your installed mods.
If you look in the upper left corner of that window there should be a box that says "Load Out of Date AddOns". You want to CHECK this box. Now simply go into WoW normally and all your mods should load. As of the 1.9 patch, you will have to do this after EVERY patch/update that Blizzard posts! If you encounter any problems with a mod after a patch, please be sure to let the author of the mod know so they can fix it.
See also: About "Out Of Date AddOns"
Mac Support
WoW addons are not platformed based. As such, they can be used on either Mac or PC. You can extract both .zip and .rar files on a Mac using StuffitExpander.
Directory Structure
World of Warcraft
|_ Interface
|_AddOns
|_*AddonName*
|_ *AddonName*.toc
|_ *AddonName*.xml
|_ *AddonName*.lua
|_ (possibly others as well)...
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seaquake saidthere is the new update version for patch 2.2 on: http://www.curse.com/downloads/details/8064/
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arkonrubik saidIs it just me or did the order of the button at the top of the window changed order...
In my case, they seem to be inverted...the X to close is at the leftmost end...which is...really confusing!!
Am I the only one dealing with this issue? Or is there an easy fix for it?
Thanks!
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Shefki saidI've collected a lot of fixes and some new features and posted an updated version of TBag. You can find it here on this site:
http://wow-en.curse-gaming.com/downloads/details/8064/
Changelog from the 070123 release here follows:
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irdamajere saidI truly hope that either the original creator continues this mod, or that someone else picks it up because I don't think I could play my game without it. D:
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kdjameson said@slickwalker: I'm having no problems with Tbag locking up. Maybe the conflict is with another addon? So many things changed with 2.1.
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jpx saidAbove ALL, this is the best bag mod I've found so far; but it greatly disappoints me to NO END that Talos has forgotten about it.
Is there a way of contacting him? :-P
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Rogakk saidmight want to try ark inventory as an alternative, as this appears to be somewhat dead
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slickwalker saidlockups when accessing bank
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obscurescience saidany chance of a 2.1 update?
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aagren saidThe new "equip compare" built-in patch 2.1.0 doesn't seem to work with TBag. With ordinary bags you mouse over an item og hold down shift. This doesn't work with Tbag.
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axawin saidHello,
What an amazing addon.. I love it ! But as I am using a french version of WOW, sorting is not really...mmmmh... accurate ;-P
Is there any french localization available ? If not, I will spend some time to do it (if you give me instrustion what exactly has to be adapted - an LUA file I guess)
See ya ^^
Axawin Hold The Line | Kael'Thas | Horde
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GamerMonkey said@Shefki
Thanks for the character removal instructions. I did what you said and didn't have any problems.
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kdjameson saidI'm experiencing a bug that I've isolated to Tbag. This bug happens even when Tbag is the only add-on loaded. If this has been reported already, I apologize ... didn't see anything when I checked.
If I have standard World Map opened when a mob attacks my toon, my entire UI goes away until after combat is over. (Of course, this usually means after my toon has died, because I have no interface to use for attacking.) After combat, I reload World Map (M key) and UI comes back.
Has anyone else seen this? Can anyone else replicate this? I wiped out my WTF directory, thinking maybe some option was conflicting, but it didn't seem to make a differnce.
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GuardianElm saidI've noticed that Tbag seems to use serious amounts of memory while you mouse over any object in the bag. I'm talking memory usage going from around 70mb to 128mb until garbage collection takes it back to around 70.
Other inventory mods I use that may be causing the bug: Baggins CharacterInfoStorage KCItems BagSync
Various Ace and Ace2 mods are also installed. If I don't run TBag, I don't get nearly as much memory usage.
Ideas? I'm thinking that any LUA code that uses lots of ".." operations is likely to increase memory usage.
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Shefki saidPatch to add support for random enchant caching and searching below...
Hopefully, the board doesn't butcher it too much.
--- TBag.lua~ 2007-01-17 19:02:02.000000000 -0800 +++ TBag.lua 2007-04-28 11:13:42.000000000 -0700 @@ -1709,10 +1709,10 @@
- _, _, a,b,c,d = string.find(link, "item:(%d+):(%d+):(%d+):(%d+)");
+ _, _, a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h = string.find(link, "item:(%d+):(%d+):(%d+):(%d+):(%d+):(%d+):(%-?%d+):(%-?%d+)");
- itemlink = "item:"..a..":"..b..":"..c..":"..d
+ itemlink = "item:"..a..":"..b..":"..c..":"..d..":"..e..":"..f..":"..g..":"..h
@@ -1805,7 +1805,7 @@
- TBag_AddSearchResult(itm[TBAG_I_ITEMID], playername, place, itm[TBAG_I_COUNT]);
+ TBag_AddSearchResult(itm[TBAG_I_ITEMLINK], playername, place, itm[TBAG_I_COUNT]);
@@ -1824,9 +1824,9 @@
-function TBag_DisplaySearchResult(aResult, itemid)
+function TBag_DisplaySearchResult(aResult, itemlink)
- local hyperlink = TBag_MakeHyperlink("item:"..itemid..":0:0:0");
+ local hyperlink = TBag_MakeHyperlink(itemlink);
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- for itemid, aResult in pairs(TBag_SrchResults) do
+ for itemlink, aResult in pairs(TBag_SrchResults) do
- TBag_DisplaySearchResult(aResult, itemid);
+ TBag_DisplaySearchResult(aResult, itemlink);
@@ -2487,7 +2487,8 @@
- local _, _, id = strfind(GetInventoryItemLink("player", ContainerIDToInventoryID(bag)) or "", "item:(%d+)");
+ local _, _, itemlink = strfind(GetInventoryItemLink("player", ContainerIDToInventoryID(bag)) or "", "^|%x+|H(.+)|h%[.+%]");
+ local id, itemlink = TBag_GetItemID(itemlink);
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- TBag_SetPlayerBagCfg(playerid, bag, TBAG_I_ITEMLINK, "item:"..id..":0:0:0");
+ TBag_SetPlayerBagCfg(playerid, bag, TBAG_I_ITEMLINK, itemstring);
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vithos saidUnfortunately, for random enchantment items, the cache does not store which enchantment the item has. Remotely viewing the bank with an item such as [Skettis Legguards of Frost Protections] will only show it as [Skettis Legguards] and with no stats in the tooltip. This also affects the search feature, even when you're at the bank.
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evielwine saidYeah I would like to see some documentation too on how to configure in advance mode? I tried putting "Mote of %D+" and "Primal %D+" but it doesn't seem to sort the bag and group these items together.
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Shefki saidThe reason "Mote of %D+" and "Primal %D+" didn't work was because it wasn't the correct pattern.
You probably want "Mote of %a+" and "Primal %a+".
The format for this is the lua pattern match language. You can find some documentation on the WoWWiki at http://www.wowwiki.com/HOWTO:_Use_Pattern_Matching
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malkovich saidis there a tutorial or documentation for some of the more advanced features? i play a shaman and would like to be able to sort my gear based on whether it is for healing, melee, or spell damage.
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semi saidIs there any easy way to sort from bag to bank? I know I mentioned this before, but I stopped following devel for a while so things might have changed.
basically I just want a button so that if i have 3 mote of lifes in my bank and 5 mote of lifes in the bag, i should be able to hit a button and then have 8 mote of lifes in bank.
Makes it a lot easier to deal with storage of farmed stuff.