[AddOn] Aux - Enhanced Auction House Interface

[Bit]

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

Actually, if you have the newest version that would be a bug. I've limited it to 3 decimal points because that will be enough to always get the 1c undercut (as there are no stacks larger than 1000)

edit: yeah, I was able to reproduce it, should be fixed soon

edit: should be fixed now

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.

Oh, ok, thanks, I get it - it's a post cap - to prevent flooding the market.

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 might do that but it's not quite a trivial change and I have some other stuff on the todo list first.

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

I've made an addon for this, "snipe", it's on the forums somewhere. It actually does buy auctions for you though, and it's based on a fixed list of items with prices you have to set (takes some preconfiguration but in the end it's much more efficient/you get no false positives). I was thinking about also adding a sniping mode to Aux' search (which would be market price based and not buy automatically, just like auctioneer's).

BUT, the problem is, apparently the nost guys have messed with the auction sorting in some way, be it on purpose or not. It is currently not the case that the auctions are sorted globally across pages by the time they were put on as they should be. Without the newest auctions appearing on the last page and the ones about the expire being on the first page sniping like this is not really possible.

[Patchett]

I might do that but it's not quite a trivial change and I have some other stuff on the todo list first.

Yea no worries dude, was just a suggestion

I've made an addon for this, "snipe", it's on the forums somewhere.

Just found it. This is great, thanks so much. It's too bad the Nost guys changed the way the sorting is done. They probably did it to prevent sniping. Your Snipe addon is still great though, been looking for something like this for ages.

[Bit]

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.

I don't understand. Where do you want a search button? In the search tab there is a giant one in the top right.

[djmy]

I get a "interface/addons/aux-addon/persistence.lua:10: attempt to index gobal `aux_database' (a nil value) and a post_frame.lua:484:" error. Anyway to fix this? Sorry, if this was mentioned already. Couldn't find anything on "search"

-Thanks

[Bit]

I get a "interface/addons/aux-addon/persistence.lua:10: attempt to index gobal `aux_database' (a nil value) and a post_frame.lua:484:" error. Anyway to fix this? Sorry, if this was mentioned already. Couldn't find anything on "search"

-Thanks

try /aux clear and then /reload

[djmy]

I get a "interface/addons/aux-addon/persistence.lua:10: attempt to index gobal `aux_database' (a nil value) and a post_frame.lua:484:" error. Anyway to fix this? Sorry, if this was mentioned already. Couldn't find anything on "search"

-Thanks

try /aux clear and then /reload

Thanks! it worked.

[Patchett]

I don't understand. Where do you want a search button? In the search tab there is a giant one in the top right.

Lol sorry for the confusion. I meant a "Scan" button. I have a feeling there are a fair amount of people using the addon right now that probably dont even know that scanning is possible with Aux.

[monteo]

may be add icon or tooltips for item of Auction, Bids?

[Bit]

may be add icon or tooltips for item of Auction, Bids?

I will add tooltips but I'm still thinking about whether I should use the same table as for search or keep the plain ones. The problem is the search table that's taken from tsm has the layout hardcoded into it so it'd require a largeish refactoring.

Also currently busy working on a new history implementation on the dev branch, including an optional alternative market value based on the highest bids rather than the lowest buyouts which needs more scanning to be useful but you can be more confident that the items are really worth as much as it says (useful e.g. for sniping).

[Bit]

I don't understand. Where do you want a search button? In the search tab there is a giant one in the top right.

Lol sorry for the confusion. I meant a "Scan" button. I have a feeling there are a fair amount of people using the addon right now that probably dont even know that scanning is possible with Aux.

I agree that the discard is a bit cryptic. I think I'll remove it and simply limit the number of entries in the table to a thousand or something.