Developing addons for 1.12

[AurorLock 0]

Was trying to learn the Ace library, but not even a boilerplate addon loads. Is there a good place to start for development?

 

AuroraLib = AceLibrary("AceAddon-2.0"):new("AceConsole-2.0")
 
function AuroraLib:OnInitialize()
    -- Called when the addon is loaded
    DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("AuroraLib: Loaded")
end
 
function AuroraLib:OnEnable()
    -- Called when the addon is enabled
    DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("AuroraLib: Loaded")
end
 
function AuroraLib:OnDisable()
    -- Called when the addon is disabled
end

[Ike 20]

I've also found out that the old Ace2 documentation is pretty much hit and miss back when I was playing around with it. Your best bet is to look at how other Addons do it whenever you get stuck.

 

Alternatively, you could give the Ace3 backport a shot. I haven't been able to toy around with it yet, but it looks very promising! And since it is a direct backport of the current Ace3 library, you should be able to use the Ace3 documentation just fine. But again, I haven't tried it at all, so I can't guarantee anything.

[AurorLock 0]

Problem was I didn't load the lua file from the .toc file xD.

 

So I'm trying to create an addon that will dynamically track a pet's happiness. I'm not sure if there are any events that I can use to monitor the pet's happiness, so I'll probably need to make a timer. I couldn't figure out how BigWig's does their timers, as I'd just plan on showing a frame and updating it on screen like a larger buff icon. Otherwise if you know which event and how to properly register it, that'd be a big step forward for me.

[Rhena 30]

UNIT_HAPPINESS

 

Is the event you are looking for.

AuroraLib = AceLibrary("AceAddon-2.0"):new("AceConsole-2.0","AceEvent-2.0")
 
function AuroraLib:OnInitialize()
    -- Called when the addon is loaded
    DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("AuroraLib: Loaded")
    self:RegisterEvent("UNIT_HAPPINESS")
end
 
function AuroraLib:UNIT_HAPPINESS()
     DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("AuroraLib: Happiness changed")
end

function AuroraLib:OnEnable()
    -- Called when the addon is enabled
    DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("AuroraLib: Loaded")
end
 
function AuroraLib:OnDisable()
    -- Called when the addon is disabled
end

[AurorLock 0]

Was just gonna say the same thing