Junkie: A DataBroker Plugin
Have you ever wanted an easy way to track the junk in your bag, and to be rid of it on demand? If so, then Junkie is for you. Take a look at the screenshots to see how it works.
To elaborate on what you're seeing there a little; Junkie basically seeks out the cheapest item in your bag and then displays that for you (along with the size of the item's stack and the overall price, taking the stack into account).
There are three options presented to you at this point...
Clicking temporarily ignores the item and moves onto the next cheapest.
Shift clicking clears the temporary ignore list.
Alt clicking drops the item.
Control clicking toggles the trash-only (considers only grey items) mode on/off.
The ignore list works a bit like an inverse shopping list, the idea is that once you've gotten rid of the items you want, you can just toss the list. What constitutes junk will actually change for you as time goes on, whether you've reached max level or not. So having a permanent list to deal with can be fiddly, Junkie is designed to get away from those headaches. In Junkie, you can scroll through your junk with shift-click, and get rid of the bits you don't want with alt-click. Once you're done with that, the list can be reset with control-click (and the list is never saved over sessions). That's why I consider it being like a shopping list and different to the junk-destroying mods which have come before.
Things to Consider
Junkie doesn't do everything under the sun, nor is it designed to. It's designed to handle destroying junk items in your bag when you need to. If you're curious about mods that sell junk, I've listed a few below.
If you want a mod to sell all your junk (grey items)...
Haggler: http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info10658-Haggler.html
If you want a mod to build your own sell-list of items...
SellOut: http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info9298-SellOut.html
What is DataBroker?
DataBroker is part of a system that's similar to FuBar and its plugins, what you have here is a plugin but you'll also need something to display the output of the plugin. You have many options for this, and I've listed a number of them below for your perusal, just pick the one that interests you the most.
- Fortress: http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info10401-Fortress.html
- ButtonBin: http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info10474-ButtonBin.html
- StatBlockCore: http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info9221-StatBlockCore.html
- MakeRocketGoNow: http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info9771-MakeRocketGoNow.html
- Carousel: http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info10295-Carousel.html
- Titan: http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info8092-TitanPanel.html
[ 2.4.3-1.3 ]
- Removed the auto-sell part and sectioned it off into its own mod (Haggler). It really was something that should've been considered as beyond the scope of Junkie, and I've been thinking about doing this for a while. If you liked the auto-sell functionality, snag Haggler (linked in the description).
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 has 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)...
