[AddOn] Aux - Enhanced Auction House Interface

[MearFreak]

Version 2.4.9
Errors out at the opening of the auction

https://forum.nostalrius.org/viewtopic. ... 80#p238109

ok, thanks

[Bit]

Added a new option to the post tab: post all.

This feature became kind of necessary with the last update because aux now remembers your stack size for an item. Earlier versions used to simply initialize the stack size to the max possible with what you have in your inventory but that's no longer practical as it would forcefully change your stack size setting.

The post all option solves this problem by letting you leave your stack size unmodified and posting a partial stack anyway (with price multiplied by the appropriate factor).

When post all is checked the stack count slider isn't even shown and the post button will post as many stacks of the specified size as possible and the rest as a smaller stack if needed.




by the way, after so many changes to the post tab you probably wanna double check your auctions for a while after posted.

[Patchett]

Bit, excellent work on the most recent version. I saw someone a few pages back talking about the "times seen at auction." Definitely leave that the way it is. It is very useful to know how many times you have seen an item.

I also saw someone talking about having a price per unit option (rather than price per stack) in the post tab. I would love to see something like this. I also play on a TBC private server, and that version of auctioneer allows you to price items per unit, which is basically all I use. Below is a screenshot of what I am talking about.



A checkbox that would allow us to switch it between price per stack and price per unit would be great. Or just make it price per unit by default.

[Bit]

Bit, excellent work on the most recent version. I saw someone a few pages back talking about the "times seen at auction." Definitely leave that the way it is. It is very useful to know how many times you have seen an item.

I also saw someone talking about having a price per unit option (rather than price per stack) in the post tab. I would love to see something like this. I also play on a TBC private server, and that version of auctioneer allows you to price items per unit, which is basically all I use. Below is a screenshot of what I am talking about.

A checkbox that would allow us to switch it between price per stack and price per unit would be great. Or just make it price per unit by default.

Thanks.

You've probably noticed Auctioneer's appraiser is where I got the inspiration for the new post tab xD (as opposed to search which is very much TSM inspired)

As I've already told someone else, I'll add price per unit input. Just have to think a bit on how I can fit it into the GUI (button, dropdown, checkbox ... where to put it etc.) and how to deal with rounding (undercutting by 1c will be problematic but using a different value from the exact one displayed would be unintuitive. edit: I really would love to just make it always unit price. But not being able to undercut stacks by 1c really kinda sucks. I mean, you see the problem, right? If I have the auto suggester make an undercut by 1c and then convert it to a unit price and round it to 1c the undercut may become larger than 1c when I convert it back to a stack price for posting, I think auctioneer just does undercut by 5% instead of 1c but that's really a cop out, isn't it).

edit: alright, it's done, the post tab is using unit prices now. I've solved the undercutting issue simply by allowing fractions up to 1/1000 (nothing stacks higher than 1000, right?)


By the way, mind telling me what the checkbox in front of "only" does in your picture? Been wondering about that and don't have a more recent WoW installed to check it out.


N.B. I've added a massive wall of text about market values/aux' market value to the main post. Check it out if you're interested: http://forum.nostalrius.org/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=21102

[JeffT]

Looks like a cool addon but I can't get it to work

I download the zip file from github and renamed the folder to Aux-Addon. I disabled other addons and I get errors when I load and the auction menu is blank. Did I miss a step?

[hoseinstyx]

I face lots of errors when i just enter the game and I dont know where should I edit or do sth related to this : ??
/run aux_recent_searches, aux_favorite_searches = {}, {}

[Bit]

I face lots of errors when i just enter the game and I dont know where should I edit or do sth related to this : ??
/run aux_recent_searches, aux_favorite_searches = {}, {}

Try the newest version, there was a buggy one up today for a while, maybe you caught that.

[Bit]

Looks like a cool addon but I can't get it to work

I download the zip file from github and renamed the folder to Aux-Addon. I disabled other addons and I get errors when I load and the auction menu is blank. Did I miss a step?

Version 2.4.16?

[Patchett]

Bit, excellent work on the most recent version. I saw someone a few pages back talking about the "times seen at auction." Definitely leave that the way it is. It is very useful to know how many times you have seen an item.

I also saw someone talking about having a price per unit option (rather than price per stack) in the post tab. I would love to see something like this. I also play on a TBC private server, and that version of auctioneer allows you to price items per unit, which is basically all I use. Below is a screenshot of what I am talking about.

A checkbox that would allow us to switch it between price per stack and price per unit would be great. Or just make it price per unit by default.

Thanks.

You've probably noticed Auctioneer's appraiser is where I got the inspiration for the new post tab xD (as opposed to search which is very much TSM inspired)

As I've already told someone else, I'll add price per unit input. Just have to think a bit on how I can fit it into the GUI (button, dropdown, checkbox ... where to put it etc.) and how to deal with rounding (undercutting by 1c will be problematic but using a different value from the exact one displayed would be unintuitive. edit: I really would love to just make it always unit price. But not being able to undercut stacks by 1c really kinda sucks. I mean, you see the problem, right? If I have the auto suggester make an undercut by 1c and then convert it to a unit price and round it to 1c the undercut may become larger than 1c when I convert it back to a stack price for posting, I think auctioneer just does undercut by 5% instead of 1c but that's really a cop out, isn't it).

edit: alright, it's done, the post tab is using unit prices now. I've solved the undercutting issue simply by allowing fractions up to 1/1000 (nothing stacks higher than 1000, right?)


By the way, mind telling me what the checkbox in front of "only" does in your picture? Been wondering about that and don't have a more recent WoW installed to check it out.


N.B. I've added a massive wall of text about market values/aux' market value to the main post. Check it out if you're interested: http://forum.nostalrius.org/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=21102

I just cloned the new update with the price per unit. Looks great, thanks Bit. I never thought about the tradeoffs with undercutting by one copper. But it is a very interesting point. The only potential problem with the current system is that it sometimes creates huge ugly decimals. Example is below



That said, I think this is probably the best system. It is the most accurate and allows for the best of both worlds. So IMO it's just right.

As for the checkbox in front of "only," I actually have no idea what that does. I never use it. The tooltip on it says "Restrict active auctions to the 'number' value." Not sure what it means. If you are really curious, you could just download Auctioneer 5.0 (the version I am using in the screenshot) and do a recursive search on the folder for the tooltip string. Perhaps that would point you in the right direction.

And yes, I did notice that you modeled it off of the Appraiser tab
IMO this was the best design choice because I do almost everything right from that tab. One thing you could add to yours is "Buy" and "Bid" buttons at the bottom which would allow us to make purchases from right within the post tab like in my screenshot.

I read your wall of text. It looks great. You have really put some thought into how you calculate market prices. Auctioneer 5.0 definitely leaves a lot to be desired.

On a side note, one thing that I have been looking for since I got to Nostalrius is a realtime search or BottomScanner. Something that will continuously scan new auctions and alert me when there underpriced items come up. I have this as part of Auctioneer on my TBC server, and really miss it on Nost because I have made insane amounts of money with it. Note that it is not actually buying auctions for me, all it does it put the underpriced auctions into a little window for me and I then have to manually buy them. Below is a screenshot



Does anyone know where I can find something like this for Vanilla?

Thanks again Bit! Keep up the good work.

[Patchett]

Also, one thing that I think could make a big difference for new users is adding a "Search" button somewhere. There is plenty of space on the edges for such a button, and it doesn't even have to do anything special. It could just put "discard" into the search box and start the search. This would make it more user friendly, and doesn't seem as though it would be too hard to add.