BB Trader

BBTrader

BBTrader creates a list of your trade skills that you can post to an Itemstats-enabled phpBB forum. This allows you and your guildmates to shop around for what each other can make. Itemstats causes your browser to display a World of Warcraft-like tooltip over each link.

• Download and install the BBTrader addon as you would any other WoW addon. The source is also available on Google code.
• Download and install the Lua interpreter. Precompiled packages are available. Either Lua version 5.0 or 5.1 should be fine.
• Once in the game, open up all of your trade skill windows at least once. The window opening is what triggers the addon to scan your recipes/patterns. If you learn new recipes/patterns, remember to open your trade skill window.
• Either log out, exit the game, or reload the UI (/script ReloadUI()) to trigger a write to your <WoW Root>/WTF/Account/<Your Account>/SavedVariables/BBTrader.lua file.
• In a command prompt/Terminal window:
  cd <WoW Root>/Interface/Addons/BBTrader
  lua dumpBBCode.lua ../../../WTF/Account/<Your Account>/SavedVariables/BBTrader.lua > foo
• It will dump a bunch of BBCode to the file foo.
• Open it in Notepad and copy/paste the relevant sections (by trade skill) into the appropriate sticky thread on your phpBB site.
• Your first submit may take several minutes to return as itemstats retrieves the information from Allakhazam and caches it.
• Keep your information up to date by periodically running the dumpBBCode.lua script and editing your post.
• BBTrader ("bulletin board trader") is beta. If you find bugs, let me know.

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