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For Windows 7 and Windows Vista or Windows 10, 8. At that point you should see a pinned shortcut icon on either and you are done. And when you release the mouse button, select "create shortcut". And you are done :. I see all the little windows and toolbars in the app, but absolutely no intuitive anything showing what I should be doing, other than the old-school File menu.

For those who are Legally minded, or are otherwise concerned or interested. Reading the AddOn Policy below is strongly suggested for everyone. One of the benefits of a "Portable Install" type, is the ability to run from a thumb-drive or pen-drive or USB-drive , or from a network. This allows you to run AddOn Studio on any machine you like, 'at will'. You will still need to make sure the prerequisites are installed, those are however rolled up into the 'ISO Shell' in step 1.

If you remove the drive after AddOn Studio is fully loaded and running it will appear to still work, however it is strongly advised that you close AddOn Studio before removing the drive. For those with 32 GB of a portable media drive, you may also be able to make an all-in-one 'portable AddOn development environment' on a drive.

You can then tell AddOn Studio where to find WoW or the ToolKit in settings, which are saved with the 'per user' settings on that machine, and which you wont have to do again unless the drive-letter changes for the portable media. Technically the Trial version of the WoW files are different, and show up on Blizzard servers differently. That being said, however, the specific actual resource and content files are the same.

For those who have to deal with multiple language versions of WoW, you can strip down the installs making one set of manageable content for development. A starting from nothing 'complete and proper' way to do this is to either 1 obtain each language ToolKit and manually merge, or 2 obtain multiple language WoW installs.

One way to obtain the multiple language installs, in addition to the WoW languages you already have in your own WoW install, is to go and download additional trial versions in other languages. This is important for testing with the two non-western sets of languages: character based like Asian languages, and right-to-left languages like Arabic. With the Panda versions of WoW this for many will start becoming a support issue. Getting there is way harder than it should be, and how to get there goes like this Old Russian Tutorial.

AddOn Studio Wiki Explore. Well, some of the tedium has been taken out of addon writing with the help of Microsoft. Yep, you read that right. Microsoft loves WoW , too. The download contains everything you need to create addons, so don't worry if you aren't the owner of Visual Studio already. So what does this mean exactly? The project team has converted the addon writing process from text and code to drag and drop.

You get the look and feel of common programs like Visual Basic but with the command structure of WoW. By having the process be graphic, you just pick and choose what you want from the list. Therefore, you may want to disable this extension when working on non-WoW Lua projects. Warning With WoW 7. Features Full I hope WoW 8. Changes worth noticing are: OO-style string functions support, ie. Should you whish to disable this feature, set the following setting into VS Code settings: "editor.

Known Issues These are the currently known issues with wow-bundle. Because Blizzard's FrameXML code exposes hundreds of global functions, objects and variables, it is impossible to support them all.

Therefore, only a selection of the most frequently used identifiers is supported.