GearMenu aims to help the player switching between items in hectic situations by queueing items and doing the actual switch as soon as the player leaves combat
Note: With the release of World of Warcraft classic this addon is entering maintenance only mode. This means that no new features will be implemented and only the most important bugs are fixed. For the classic version of this addon see GearMenu-Classic.
WoW-Addons are installed directly in your WoW directory:
[WoW-installation-directory]\Interface\AddOns
Make sure to get the newest version of the Addon from the releases tab:
Note: If the Addon is not showing up in your ingame Addonlist make sure that the Addon is named
GearMenuin your Addons folder
GearMenu is based on the popular TrinketMenu Addon and its goal is to bring this functionality to other slots including trinkets. Its target is to assist the player in PvP but it has definitely some use in PvE as well.
Supported slots:
| Slotname | Description |
|---|---|
| HeadSlot | Head/Helmet slot |
| NeckSlot | Neck slot |
| ShoulderSlot | Shoulder slot |
| ChestSlot | Chest/Robe slot |
| WaistSlot | Waist/Belt slot |
| LegsSlot | Legs slot |
| FeetSlot | Feet/Boots slot |
| WristSlot | Wrist/Bracers slot |
| HandsSlot | Hands slot |
| Finger0Slot | First/Upper ring slot |
| Finger1Slot | Second/Upper ring slot |
| Trinket0Slot | First/Upper trinket slot |
| Trinket1Slot | Second/Lower trinket slot |
| BackSlot | Back/Cloak slot |
| MainhandSlot | Main-hand slot |
| SecondaryHandSlot | Secondary-hand/Off-hand slot |
| RangedSlot | Ranged slot |
With GearMenu it is easy to switch between items in supported slots. This is especially useful for engineering items that you wear for a certain amount of time and then switch back to your usual gear.
Remember the error message you get when you try to switch your one-handed weapon with a two-handed? GearMenu recognizes this and will automatically unequip your offhand weapon or shield as long as there is enough space in your bag to store both weapons. Thus, allowing to switch to a two-handed weapon with a single click.
Certain items cannot be switched while the player is in combat. Weapons will be switched immediately whether the player is in combat or not. Other items that cannot be switched in combat will be enqueued in the CombatQueue and switched as soon as possible. This is especially useful in PvP when you leave combat for a short time.
Quick Change consists of rules that apply when certain items are used. The player can define for items that have a usable effect what should happen after the items has been used. This means that an item is immediately switched after its used. If the user is in combat it will be moved to the combat queue instead.
In the optionsmenu you can define new rules based on the item type
Note: For items with a buff you will have to manually define a timeframe after which the item should be switched. If an item has a buff effect and you immediately change the item you will also lose its buff.
After adding such a rule you can try it out.
Note: It is also possible to add rules that don't make any sense. If you for example choose an item that has no onuse effect the item will be never switched.
GearMenu allows to keybind to every slot with a keybinding. Instead of having a keybind for every item that you have to remember you set it directly on the slot itself.
GearMenu allows to drag and drop items onto slots, remove from slots and slots can even be switched between.
GearMenu is configurable. Don't need a certain slot? You can hide it.
To show the configuration screen use /gm opt while ingame and /gm info for an overview of options.
Not interested to see items with a quality level below a certain level? Filter them out and only items that meet your set level will be considered to be displayed in GearMenu.
Make sure to recheck the installation part of this Readme and check that the Addon is placed inside [WoW-installation-directory]\Interface\AddOns and is correctly named as GearMenu.
This is what we call a Lua error and it usually happens because of an oversight or error by the developer (in this case me). Take a screenshot off the error and create a Github Issue with it and I will see if I can resolve it. It also helps if you can add any additional information of what you we're doing at the time and what other addons you have active. Also if you are able to reproduce the error make sure to check if it still happens if you disable all others addons.
Because of a bug versions before 1.2.0 saved the Addon options not only for the current character but also globally for the Addon. This was not intended and is fixed in the newest version. After updating to version 1.2.0 or newer make sure to delete the following files:
WTF\Account\ACCOUNTNAME\SavedVariables\GearMenu.lua
WTF\Account\ACCOUNTNAME\SavedVariables\GearMenu.lua.bak
When updating from an old version to a newer Addon options usually need to be migrated to the new version. While I intend to do this upgrading automatically there is a possibility that the upgrading didn't work as expected. In this case it usually is the easiest to delete locally stored configuration of GearMenu and start over. This means that your configuration is deleted and that you need to redo setting the options.
Delete the following files for all characters.
WTF\Account\ACCOUNTNAME\RealmName\CharacterName\SavedVariables\GearMenu.lua
WTF\Account\ACCOUNTNAME\RealmName\CharacterName\SavedVariables\GearMenu.lua.bak
Note: If those files do not exist skip the character. This means that you didn't login with that character while the Addon was active.
Switching between development and release can be achieved with maven.
mvn generate-resources -Dgenerate.sources.overwrite=true -P development
This generates and overwrites GM_Environment.lua and GearMenu.toc. You need to specifically specify that you want to overwrite to files to prevent data loss. It is also possible to omit the profile because development is the default profile that will be used.
Switching to release can be done as such:
mvn generate-resources -Dgenerate.sources.overwrite=true -P release
In this case it is mandatory to add the release profile.
Note: Switching environments has the effect changing certain files to match an expected value depending on the environment. To be more specific this means that as an example test and debug files are not included when switching to release. It also means that variables such as loglevel change to match the environment.
As to not change those files all the time the repository should always stay in the development environment. Do not commit GearMenu.toc and GM_Environment.lua in their release state. Changes to those files should always be done inside build-resources and their respective template files marked with .tpl.
To package the addon use the package phase.
mvn package -Dgenerate.sources.overwrite=true -P development
This generates an addon package for development. For generating a release package the release profile can be used.
mvn package -Dgenerate.sources.overwrite=true -P release
Note: This packaging and switching resources can also be done one after another.
# switch environment to release
mvn generate-resources -Dgenerate.sources.overwrite=true -P release
# package release
mvn package -P release
Before creating a new release update addon.tag.version in pom.xml. Afterwards to create a new release and deploy to GitHub the deploy profile has to be used.
# switch environment to release
mvn generate-resources -Dgenerate.sources.overwrite=true -P release
# deploy release to GitHub
mvn package -P deploy
For this to work an oauth token for GitHub is required and has to be configured in your .m2 settings file.
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Copyright (c) 2019 Michael Wiesendanger
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