Quest-Addon - Does it exist?

WoW Classic Cataclysm Classic Discussion
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In classic Era and TBCC when you had a Quest with multiple objectives. Like …
Killing Spree

  • Noobs 0/5
  • Idiots 4/5
  • Hero 0/1

If you tracked them, the text would remain in the rigth hand side of the screen, only the ones you had killed now Bold, and the unfinished greyer.
Killing Spree:

  • Noobs 4/5
  • Idiots 5/5
  • Hero 0/1

In Wrath the finished objectives disappear fron the log.

Killing Spree:

  • Noobs 4/5
  • Hero 0/1

Is there a way to make them stay?

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I am 99% sure this is made only by Lua so if we compare Blizzard’s UI code from Classic Era and Wrath, specifically if we identify the files that show the quest objectives in the UI, it should be possible to revert that making an addon that replaces the functions that make this in Wrath with Classic Era code.

PD: It seems Blizzard totally remade the code about quest objectives. That code is in WatchFrame in Classic WOTLK in the function WatchFrame_DisplayTrackedQuests in this part

					if ( not finished and text) then
						text = WatchFrame_ReverseQuestObjective(text);
						line = WatchFrame_GetQuestLine();
						WatchFrame_SetLine(line, lastLine, WATCHFRAMELINES_FONTSPACING, not IS_HEADER, text, DASH_SHOW, item);
						lastLine = line;
					end

I suppose it will be enough with removing not finished but I don’t know how to specify in WatchFrame_SetLine to color the line in bold text if finished is true

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Doesn’t questie do that?

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Questie is your friend

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questie can do that. for classic (vanilla) i used “monkeyquest” for that. a bit better costumization and the like, in my opinion. sadly it was never updated for TBC, there i used “kaliel’s tracker” - its been a little slow with update for WotLK so havent tested it there yet.
the standart quest tracker UI is S**t tbh.

these addons (questies tracker included) also allows you to essentially track the entire quest log. color gradient based on progress, and stuff like that

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Wow, I’ll have to call my code savy son to help me here, but it seems you are onto something. I copy pasted this and will aks him.

Thanks a lot.
@Dottie & Rubinhealz
And … I might try Questie. Mostly such ‘big’ addons have a sad tendency of delivering a lot of QoL which I do not need or want, but I hope.

@Dofmage
I really like the Classic / Vanilla interface - I know I’m the odd one :wink:
So I figth the changes, I do not like in Wrath.

Thanks fotr helping.-

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ahh but all of them can be changed via interface to look like standart UI. but all addons offer more features and flexibility.

the “S**t” part is not so much how it looks. everyone has their own preference. but more what it offers

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I find it more s**t now in Wrath, but, as you say it’s a question of taste, and I just happen to like Vanilla :wink:

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