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    • CommentAuthorsomeonecool
    • CommentTimeMay 13th 2008 edited
     
    I'm using the latest Gatherer, and I find that it intermittently forgets to record treasure chests. This happens with the below chest types in Outland, and there may be a pattern though I cannot determine it:

    - Adamantite Bound Chest
    - Felsteel Chest
    - Fel Iron Chest

    There may be one or two other named chests I've forgotten to name. This is problematic for me because I farm treasure chests relentlessly. Thankfully, I have a good memory. I can find every chest spawn which Gatherer fails to record. This problem is chronic in Skettis and in Shadow Moon Valley, and it seems to recur with the same chest spawns. Gatherer successfully records 100% of mining nodes, however, and it gets most treasure chests.

    I know nothing about LUA, though I have a great deal of programming experience in C and PERL. If I can help contribute to this resolution, please let me know.

    Edit: This problem existed (for me) in Gatherer versions before WOW 2.4 and after WOW 2.4.
    • CommentAuthorEsamynn
    • CommentTimeMay 13th 2008
     
    Intermittent recording is a problem we've been having for a while. We really have no idea what causes it.

    With that said, there was a change made to the client in 2.4 that should make recording 100% reliable assuming you actually harvest/open the target. I just haven't had time to get the code to use it implemented and tested yet.
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    Thumbing through the LUA, I noticed that Gatherer has a method exposed so that other mods can use it. Is there by chance a macro I could make to manually record a gather? Better yet, do you have plans to incorporate manual input functionality? I went to the configuration menu hoping to find an interface for adding to the DB but found none. :(
    • CommentAuthorEsamynn
    • CommentTimeMay 13th 2008
     
    I hesitate to help you with such a macro, because it could seriously harm the integrity of your data. From the sounds of things, I'm going to have to do a patch release, to fix up a problem with Gatherer in 2.4.2. I'll try to get some of this stuff into that version as well.
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    I learned something about the problem, this morning. I found an Adamantite Bound Chest in one of the blood elf camps in Netherstorm. When opening (via right click), I noticed it didn't get added to Gatherer. I aborted the open and tried again, only to see it fail again. On the 3rd try, however, the addition appeared in my minimap and I could see the icon on my minimap before the opening completed. I don't know if this helps at all with pinpointing the root cause.

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