Ace3 – Writing A Simple WoW Addon
This guide provides a reference that will help you to write a simple working WoW addon using the Ace3 framework libraries. With the foundations properly in place, you will then be able to extend your addon in all kinds of ways, subject only to your own imagination and ideas. For the purposes of this guide, we’re going to create an addon called “DemoAddon” which will simply print the message “Hello World!” in the chat window whenever we first login to the game or reload the user interface thereafter. To create any addon, we need to first put all the key elements in place that WoW requires so that our code will be understood by the game as an addon and loaded when the game loads. At its simplest level, this means we need a folder for...