SimpleCore

SimpleCore is a framework for creating World of Warcraft addons.

Feature Overview

• Slash commands
• Timers
• Modules
• Saved variable support(no profile management à la Ace3)
• Event Registration
• Custom message events
• Print and DebugPrint

Getting Started

1. Add SimpleCore.lua to your addon's toc file making sure it is at the top of the list.

2. Now we need to pull the Addon object so we can access all of SimpleCore's features. We'll do this by adding the following to MyAddon.lua:

   local AddonName, Addon = ...

3. It's time for "Hello World!":

   local AddonName, Addon = ...
   
   function Addon:OnSlashCommand(...)
       local msg = ...
   
   	self:Print(msg)
   end

4. Once you've added the above code SimpleCore will automatically create a slash command based on your addon's name. Give it a try: /myaddonname Hello World! If everything was copied correctly it should print the below message to your chat window:

   Hello World!

A Few Examples

A Simple Timer:

local AddonName, Addon = ...

function Addon:OnInitialize()
	self:StartTimer(60)
end

function Addon:OnTimer()
	self:DebugPrint("Hello again from OnTimer")
end

Events:

local AddonName, Addon = ...

function Addon:OnInitialize()
	self:RegisterEvent({"ZONE_CHANGED", "ZONE_CHANGED_NEW_AREA", "ZONE_CHANGED_INDOORS" }, "OnZoneChanged")
	self:RegisterEvent("PLAYER_TARGET_CHANGED")
	self:RegisterEvent("MINIMAP_PING", "OnMiniMapPing")
end

function Addon:OnZoneChanged(event)
	self:DebugPrint("Changed zone to: %s", GetZoneText())
end

function Addon:PLAYER_TARGET_CHANGED(event)
	self:DebugPrint(event)
end

function Addon:OnMiniMapPing(event, unit, x, y)
	self:DebugPrint("Your coordinates sir: Unit: %s X: %f Y: %f", unit, x, y)
end

More examples code can be found in Tests.lua.