WoW:Viewing Blizzard's WoW user interface code
Extracting FrameXML and other files locally
- Download Blizzard's UI AddOn Kit
- Technical Support Tools at the Blizzard WoW support site (US).
- Go to the download page: Download the World of Warcraft Interface AddOn Kit
- Download the appropriate ZIP files:
- Art Work (350+ MB): http://us.media.blizzard.com/wow/interface/WoW_Interface_art.zip
- US - English (< 2 MB): http://us.media.blizzard.com/wow/interface/WoW_Interface_enUS.zip
- US - Spanish: http://us.media.blizzard.com/wow/interface/WoW_Interface_esMX.zip
- EU - English: http://us.media.blizzard.com/wow/interface/WoW_Interface_enGB.zip
- EU - Spanish: http://us.media.blizzard.com/wow/interface/WoW_Interface_esES.zip
- EU - French: http://us.media.blizzard.com/wow/interface/WoW_Interface_frFR.zip
- EU - Russian: http://us.media.blizzard.com/wow/interface/WoW_Interface_ruRU.zip
- Korean: http://us.media.blizzard.com/wow/interface/WoW_Interface_koKR.zip
- Taiwanese: http://us.media.blizzard.com/wow/interface/WoW_Interface_zhTW.zip
- Make sure you have a Blizzard Interface Data/ folder in your World of Warcraft/ folder (Blizzard Interface Data (enGB)/ for EU English client). You may have to create it.
- Unzip WoW_Interface_art.zip and move/copy Interface/ to Blizzard Interface Data/
- If you've also extracted the graphics, you'll want to know that textures are <tt>.blp</tt> files. Google for 'blp warcraft' to get an idea of what this means
- Unzip WoW_Interface_code.zip and move/copy AddOns/ and FrameXML/ to Blizzard Interface Data/
Viewing FrameXML on the web
- The site wow.go-hero.net keeps a database of all versions of FrameXML online. You can compare different versions to each other, view the contents of specific files (in a specific interface version), or just download the entire interface as it looked for a given version. Even test server versions are available.
