ColorBlindpkg WoW addon

The ColorBlindpkg World-of-Warcraft (WoW) addon is a UI Enhancement package of multiple addon funtionality to assist color-blind players. The WoW UI is modified to add or replace the colored money coins with text letters (G,S,C), changes the redish combo points to white, appends multiple '+' characters to each quest log entry to indicate its difficulty, appends recommended quest levels, adds item rarity text to item popup window, and appends multiple '+' characters to each professions craft or skill entry to indicate how likelihood of skilling up.



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ColorBlindpkg's official distribution site is here.

Features

The colored money coin icons can be changed to 'G', 'S', and 'C' characters.
The colored money coin icons can add have G', 'S', and 'C' characters put on top.
The behavior of the displayed money characters is configurable.
Besides the coin modification of the standard WoW system coins, coins displayed using the EnhTooltip addon (which auctioneer and many others use) are also modified.
Attack combo points are displayed as white dots instead of a redish color.
The recommended questing level can be pre-appended to each quest in the log.
The quest difficulty indicator is appended to each quest in the log.
The quest level pre-appended is configurable.
The possible skilling up indicator is appended to each craft and trade known.
The popup item info window is appended with the rarity text for the item.
The popup item info window is configurable is be after the item's title or appended to the end of the information text or either the right or left.
This addon has been coded so that each included addon can be extracted and used as its own standlone addon. This allows someone to customize the desired functionality.


						Chat Slash Commands

						

						/colorblingpkg ( or /cb ) <command> <argument>

						

						  commands and optional arguments are:  

						  (note no argument will usually toggle command)

						  

							^ showCoins [yes | no]- 'Displays the coin icons'

							^ showLetters [yes | no]- 'Displays the G,S, and C letter for the coins'

							^ inTitle [yes | no]- 'Displays the rarity text in the item's tip title'

							^ atEnd [yes | no]- 'Displays the rarity text at the bottom of item's tip'

							^ endSide [left | right]- 'Sets which side the rarity text at the bottom is displayed'

							^ questLvls [yes | no]- 'Displays the suggested level for quests in the quest log'

							^ questDiff [yes | no]- 'Displays how difficult the quest will be to complete'

Feedback

Private feedback can be sent to me directly through any of the RealisticSoftware contact pages. Or public comments can be posted on wow.curse.com.

       "Thank you so much for this! ..."         "Kudos to you"
       "OMG you rock. I love your mod! ..."
       "I love this mod, thank you SO much for helping out us poor colorblind people :)" <-- to posts

Downloads

ColorBlindpkg version 1.061 [obsolete with WoW 3.1 and ColorBlindExtras addon]
- 2009.03.22

Support

	There are different ways to support this addon. One of the easiest ways is to publicly post how you like the addon and what you would like the addon to include in the future. Code fixes and quality testing are also appricated. And financial support is greatly appricated. I ask you to consider what you regularly tip for services (waiter or hairstylist) and send a similar tip.

Tip the Engineer

Caveats, Known Bugs, Etc.

English is only supported. Please contact me if you would like to become involved with supporting other languages.
Text is still needed on a selected target to indicate their threat level to you.

History

Version 1.060, released on 10.19.2008
- Fixes to support the released 3.0.2 WoW interfaces
- supported on WoW 3.0.2
Version 1.050, released on 10.12.2008
- Code improvements in Rarity and ComboPoints modules
- Updated to support the upcoming WoW 3.0 interface changes
- supported on WoW 2.4 & 3.0
Version 1.040, released on 08.11.2008
- Added support for ItemRefTooltip & ShoppingTooltip
- Fixed color on rarity text at the end of tip
- Fixed the bug where rarity text would be repeatly added to the end when the same chat link was clicked on
- Fixed tip for multiple mail items attachments. This fixes the info displayed for multi item mail attachments. The bug was that every item attached showed the info for the first
- Fixed the comparison item rarity tips displayed
- Code clean up and improvements
- supported on WoW 2.4
Version 1.030, released on 03.26.2008
- updated for WoW 2.4
- supported on WoW 2.4
Version 1.020, released on 01.06.2008
- added the QuestXPLvlText module to display quest levels and difficulty indicators
- improvements in MoneyCoinText module
- supported on WoW 2.3
Version 1.010, released on 12.06.2007
- added the TradeCraftSkillText module to display the skillup indicators
- code maintenance
- supported on WoW 2.3
Version 1.000, released on 12.03.2007
- first release
- supported on WoW 2.3

Note: The addons in this addon package completely replace my prior support work on cb_MonoCombo, MonoCombo, and cbTooltipRarity addons.