[AddOn] Aux - Enhanced Auction House Interface

[Bit]

The new UI is complete!

Well, actually, only the search and post panels are (former buy and sell), but for bids and auctions you can just use the default UI for now.

These are the changes:

• New UI independent of the default blizzard one - no more compatibility issues with Auctioneer et al.
• The only thing left of Aux in the default UI is the Aux button in the top right which now toggles the new UI instead of the options
• Big change of the post panel (former sell), the alt-click shortcut is gone (now used for the search shortcut instead of ctrl-click), instead aux now automatically detects the auctionable items in your inventory and lists them in its panel where you can click them to select them (this solves all compatibility issues with inventory addons and also looks pretty neat)
• Big improvements for the logging (more detailed, more consistent ...)

And here's what it looks like:


http://i.imgur.com/vYeDEUX.png


http://i.imgur.com/UoDRBeX.png


edit: you may get some errors in the post panel because of your old persisted data but simply hitting the refresh button should fix it

[BoxerBriefly]

Looks sharp, going to try it out tommorow.

[Humble Kagu]

I see there is a scan tab. Is it just a placeholder for now? Or am I missing how to activate it?

[Bit]

I see there is a scan tab. Is it just a placeholder for now? Or am I missing how to activate it?

Yes, it's a placeholder, as are the auctions and bids tabs. They should be available within a week or so.

[Thankyaw]

This new interface is good af, but how can i off that old(classic) auction tab?

[Cruzix]

I really miss to be able to see the sellers name and maybe put "available" and "quantity" beside eachother - I personally already made 1 mistake cuz i didnt pay enough attention and thought i was buying 1x 1 but i was buying 1x 20

Edit: Also miss being able to link items from AH alot!

[NIPP135]

Gotta agree with the new interface being great, but I'm seriously missing the ability to see and sort by bid prices.
Would it be possible to have the settings panel for enabling disabling those kinds of things if you're going to be modifying what we can see by default?

[Bit]

This new interface is good af, but how can i off that old(classic) auction tab?

At the moment you can't but as soon as I'm done with the scan and auction/bid tabs I'll make it hidden by default and toggleable either by a button or an options setting.

I really miss to be able to see the sellers name and maybe put "available" and "quantity" beside eachother - I personally already made 1 mistake cuz i didnt pay enough attention and thought i was buying 1x 1 but i was buying 1x 20

Edit: Also miss being able to link items from AH alot!

The linking will be easy to add but I wanna finish some other things first.

You can see the seller in full mode (usually). You should know though that the seller isn't considered anyway when aux tries to find a matching auction to buy. Also a problem with sellers is that they're the only part of the auction data that's often loaded with delay and waiting until they're complete (currently disabled) can significantly slow down the scanning. I'm planning on making an option for it eventually so you can choose yourself if you prefer complete data or fast scans.

As for the availability column, the reason I put it where it is is really only that I was desperate to find something to put left of the item name column because I think it looks kinda weird when the icon is all the way on the left. In any case, the layout isn't final by any means. For one thing the scanning update will bring at least one more column (market price percentage) and also - well, I'll need a new paragraph for this:

I've always wanted to take a more item based approach to the browse tab. The selling and scanning are naturally item-based, so it would be more consistent, and I would like to implement item-lists like in retail TSM which wouldn't fit the current browse tab very well.

Other issues with filters are that there are many others (or existing ones with more detail) which would potentially be useful and it's not clear where to draw the line and that there's an inconsistency between filters in that some of them are supported by blizzard and can reduce the scan load and some cannot because they have to be applied after the scanning.

Overall a filter based approach is just much less elegant than an item based one.

What's been holding me back is that sometimes filters really are useful, when trying to find lowlevel gear for alts, when trying to find gear with a specific stat, when trying to find items that are comparable within a category (bags for example) etc. and I would like to offer a complete AH solution where you never need to go back to the default UI unless you want compatibility with a specific addon or something.


So, yeah, should I drop the level/category (default item-lists could sort of compensate for that, might even be more useful if done well)/tooltip filters for simplicity's sake and optimize for the common case of searching for specific items with convenient item-lists? I'm not sure.

[meateor]

It's been a long time since I fiddled with addons, so bear with me. I have auctioneer installed alongside Aux, though perhaps not correctly. I may also not be using either properly. Anyhow, I scan in Aux then try to use the Search Auctions feature in Auctioneer. Whenever I click on an item in the Auctioneer window, I get the following error:

"Interface\Addons\Aux-Addon\buy.lua:590:
attempt to index a local 'entry' (a nil value)"

Again, I could be screwing something up, but I'd like to know what it is if I am

[Bit]

Do you have the newest version? If yes then it's a bug and I'll try and fix it tonight, if not then you should simply upgrade.


edit: Some thoughts on scanning:

I'll probably give up on the scan tab and just add some sort of data export functionality to csv or something so people who care can calculate what they need using excel or whatever.

I've been back and forth a lot and looked at many variants, looked at the code of various retail auction addons and vanilla auctioneer and it seems the histories are either too simplistic to be useful (vanilla auctioneer), practically non existent (retail auctionator) or would require an insane amount of work (retail auctioneer)

You might be surprised how little historical data vanilla auctioneer actually keeps. I've heard people brag about their hundreds of auctioneer scans but if I understand it correctly most of the time (when there is insufficient data some alternative calculations are made) the market value calculation is based on the median of a balanced list with only 35 entries per item which can very easily be completely replaced by a single scan.