1. Posted by galvin on Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:08:32

    I been working on this addon for around three weeks. And came up with what I think is rather fancy way of doing things. This addon keeps a list of frames it creates from a static table or doesn't use the static table if its loaded from disk. What I'm asking is if was a good way before I go deeper into the coding. Instead of posting my whole addon i'll try to post the key parts to get my point accross.

    I been programming off and on sine 1984 in basic, then pascal, a tiny bit of C. So i'm not new to coding just to lua. Been studying lua all this year and 3 weeks ago felt I was ready to tackle a serious addon of my own.

    This addon unless someone tells me a much better way to do it I probably wont make any major changes to whats already coded and just add new stuff.

    http://pastey.net/140273-48bb

    What I'm looking for is the way I handled events and status checking and just updating. I put a lot of hardwork into finding a way that is straight forward and logical and clean.

    Reason for edit: using pastey.net for better feedback.

  2. Posted by jnwhiteh on Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:24:43

    I'm not really sure I understand what you're saying about a static table and being loaded from disk. That being said, the addon code you've posted is incredibly well documented and clear, so I don't see any issues with what you've been doing. It seems a really disciplined way of writing addons, but without going through line-by-line I can't provide much more critique than that. Very clear, however!

  3. Posted by galvin on Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:40:41

    Well I already added in ace3 DB, so I can use different profiles.

    I wrote the code from the ground up to keep all the settings in one table. So that one table could be written or loaded. Yeah I learned a long time ago if you dont document a lot you forget how your own stuff works one day. Ive seen some addons that are coded so bad makes me cringe.

  4. Posted by jnwhiteh on Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:38:21

    I'm guilty of that in quite a few of my addons. Unfortunately when you run out of time and have users to support, not everything can be done perfect. Alas =)