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Can you report Vanilla addon bugs?

PostPosted: Wed Sep 02, 2015 9:48 pm
by Jahirah
Since i began on Nost I've been haunted by a very persistant problem with my bartender / MoveAnything addon.
I gives me a Frame XML lua error roughly every 10 minutes which requires me to reload my UI. It's a simple procedure as I made a macro for it, but it is quite disruptive.
The main problem is that the error I am recieving is rather unspecific, and while i tried installing the Improved ErrorFrame addon it only made it worse.
To figure out where the problem was comming from I went through every possible addon to eliminate the non-problematic from the ones causing all the rockous.

I'm not really sure where to turn for answers, if there IS anywhere to turn. Any ideas?
Thanks for your time :)

Re: Can you report Vanilla addon bugs?

PostPosted: Wed Sep 02, 2015 10:09 pm
by Guybrush
lmao report to whom? To the guy that made them 10 years ago?

Did you get them from an addon pack? Those are usually broken, try getting them from the addon site.
Or just use Bongos instead, its better anyway.

Re: Can you report Vanilla addon bugs?

PostPosted: Wed Sep 02, 2015 10:55 pm
by AverageJoe
You can't really "report" addon bugs since most of the time they're developed by individuals unaffiliated with the server staff and, in the case of vanilla, are over ten years old. The developers will only verify and fix things bugged with the server itself, not addons.

If you're having trouble with a particular addon, you could try making a thread about it here in the addon forum; list the addon you're using, what you're trying to do with it, the error message you're receiving, and any important details like when it appears and ways you've noticed to reproduce it and maybe someone with a tech-savvy background could guide you through how to fix it or offer alternatives.

Re: Can you report Vanilla addon bugs?

PostPosted: Thu Sep 03, 2015 12:23 am
by zerf
You can just post exact error message you're getting, maybe we can figure it out.

Is error you're experiencing by any chance this one (only appears in Alterac Valley, note exact line number - 1373):
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Error: Interface/FrameXML/ChatFrame.lua:1373: bad argument #1 to 'strlen' (string expected, got nil)


It's server side problem, that has been reported & confirmed (http://report.nostalrius.org/plugins/tracker/?aid=1766). This one will break certain addons completely (I had issues with xperl).


You can also just download different versions of same addons from my site (link in signature), if there are any.

Re: Can you report Vanilla addon bugs?

PostPosted: Thu Sep 03, 2015 12:26 am
by Jahirah
I didn't get it from a pack persé...In fact i did but then again I didn't.... I downloaded a few multi-addon.zip files mentioned on the forums and picked out some individual addons from those packs that i wanted to integrate.
I've downloaded the Bartender addon from up to 5 diffrent sources thinking it might be an update miss somewhere but it just seems to be the actual release.

I didn't expect there to be anywhere to seek help in regards to bugs, but it couldn't hurt to ask either way.
I've switched from Bartender to Bongos now...

The error I am recieving now is as follows:
Interface\FrameXML\ContainerFrame.lua:505: attempt to compare nil with number