WoWBench/Getting started: Difference between revisions

= Starting WoWBench =

== Example startup ==

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Getting up and running with WoWBench is really only a matter of starting it, e.g.:

:{{Code|C:\wowbench>'''lua wowbench.lua -f'''}}

== Command line arguments ==

;Usage:{{code|lua50 wowbench.lua [<parameters>] addon1 [addon2 ...]}}

== Loading AddOns ==

:{{Code|lua50 wowbench.lua ct_raidassist ace archud}}

= The WoWBench prompt =

:: {{Code|MyAddOn_DoSomething("someParameter")}}

:: {{Code|say Alice Help! Help! The horrible Murloc Warrior is hitting me!}}

:: {{Code|fire DUEL_REQUESTED Charles}}

:: {{Code|/myaddon dosomething}}

:: {{Code|look MyAddOnMainFrame}}

:: {{Code|click MyAddOnMainFrameIWinButton}}

== How to interact with things ==

=== Looking at the world ===

=== Interacting with units and objects ===

This just a simple <tt>&lt;OnEnter&gt;</tt> trigger in world.xml, in {{code|&lt;Object name&#x3d;"Signpost"&gt;}}, which demonstrates that you can more or less define the world to behave exactly the way you like it to. A more meaningful implementation of OnEnter in objects is probably to trigger the GameTooltip object to show:

=== Looking at frames ===

To see ''everything'' on-screen (well, nearly), you can {{code|look UIParent}}, but ''that'' dump, we're not going to show here :-)

=== Summary of interaction commands ===

{{infobox|'''Behind the scenes:''' Internally to WoWBench, a game-world object is just another UI object with event handlers.

== More commands ==

=== Firing events ===

=== Logging in multiple players ===

= How to use the built-in debugger =

= More =