#99 Stand alone Guild Forums

[Anonymous]

Hi, I tried to get my guild to use GA, but for many it was too complicated or slowed their computers down too much. I really wanted to use the guild Forums part, is there a way to have it as a stand-alone? Can the code be extracted to make a "lite" version or something?

Thanks so much!!

[Bernhard Ege]

Yes, this should be possible although I haven't tried such a thing. Basically you can remove datatypes you do not want to share, but _EVERYONE_ must delete them or there will be constant communication on the channel. You must change the prefix in network\GuildAdsComm.lua:

GUILDADS_VERSION_PROTOCOL = "6";
GUILDADS_MSG_PREFIX_NOVERSION = "GA";
GUILDADS_MSG_PREFIX_REGEX = "^GA(.*)\t";

Change GA to something else (no longer than 2 chars) and change 6 to e.g. 1 for first release. This way, if someone does install the normal GuildAds, he wont "see" your GuildAds (and vica versa).

The files that should be removed (just edit GuildAds.toc to prevent the files from being loaded):

data\datatypes\GuildAdsSkillData.lua
data\datatypes\GuildAdsFactionData.lua
data\datatypes\GuildAdsTradeNeedData.lua
data\datatypes\GuildAdsTradeOfferData.lua
data\datatypes\GuildAdsInventoryData.lua
data\datatypes\GuildAdsTradeSkillData.lua
data\datatypes\GuildAdsTalentData.lua
data\datatypes\GuildAdsTalentRankData.lua
data\datatypes\GuildAdsQuestData.lua
ui\trade\GuildAdsTradeFrame.xml
ui\trade\GuildAdsTradeOptionsFrame.xml
ui\trade\GuildAdsShiftClick.xml
ui\tradeCraft\GuildAdsCraftFrame.xml
ui\tradeTooltip\GuildAdsTooltip.xml
ui\tradeTooltip\GuildAdsTooltipOptionsFrame.xml
ui\skill\GuildAdsSkillFrame.xml
ui\faction\GuildAdsFactionFrame.xml
ui\inventory\GuildAdsInventoryFrame.xml
ui\GEM\GuildAdsGEMEventFrame.xml
ui\talent\GuildAds_TalentUI.xml
ui\quest\GuildAdsQuestFrame.xml

Simply put a # in front of the line to remove makes wow take it as a comment. This makes it easy for you to revert the change if you want.

But GuildAds really shouldn't make any computer slow by being loaded, but it may delay the login/logout process slightly due to the data needed to be loaded/saved. I have never experienced any slowdowns while playing caused by GuildAds. I am interested in knowing more about your experiences in that regard. Please elaborate. :)

[Calayna]

I'd also enjoy just the guild forum portion of this addon. Dont get me wrong its a great addon and does it's job wonderfully but as of now GuildAds is the only one with a working forum/bulletin board type addon that works. I know our officers would benefit from something like this and would just like to 2nd this suggestion.

Also i appreciate galmok giving that wonderful comment on how it could be done however I am no coder nor really understand it. I'll leave that up to you geniuses who know what they're doing. =)

Thanks so much for all the hard work!