SanityBags Beta 2 Release

View blog reactions Written on May 3, 2007 by Chris Heald

I got my latest commit of SanityBags into SVN last night (at about…oh, 1:30 AM). It’s a massive overhaul of the whole system, and much more closely obeys the MVC design objectives now.

SanityBags is a virtual bags AddOn for World of Warcraft interfaces. I started writing it…oh, 5 months ago, and then got busy and never actually finished it. It’s still unfinished, but it’s a lot further along now.

What makes SanityBags unique is how you set up bags: Each bag has a filter that it uses to determine its contents dynamically. You may invert matches, and combine multiple statements for logical AND and OR.

• bag: - matches all items in a given bag. “bag:1″ would match all items in your backpack, for example.
• name: - matches all items whose name matches a given string. “name:poison” matches all items with “poison” in their name.
• quality:[trash,common,uncommon,rare,epic,artifact] - matches items of a given quality
• tag: - matches all items that have a given Sanity2 tag.
• (cat|category|type): - matches all items that match a given Sanity2 custom category or default Blizzard categorization.
• soulbound:(true|false) - matches items that are or are not soulbound
• tooltip:string - matches all items with a given string in their tooltip.

You can combine terms to create complex queries. For example:

“name:potion quality:common, name:elixir, bandage” is equivalent to (name CONTAINS “potion” AND quality IS “common) OR (name CONTAINS “elixir”) OR (ANYTHING CONTAINS “bandage”).

A bag with no filter is a “catch-all” bag - anything that isn’t handled by another bag will show up there. The backpack bag, by default, serves this purpose. Items may be matched by any number of bags, but an item that is matched by a filter will not show in the catch-all bag(s).

Sanity is no longer a dependency. Instead, there is a new item called SanityItemCache that provides the model to Sanity and SanityBags’ views. It is the new dependency, but is far more lightweight.

• The biggest of the memory leaks has been fixed.
• Lots of bugfixes have gone into the bags
• There’s been an UI overhaul
• Bags are now bindable with single keys now.
• Each bag has an optional “search” field now that lets you search within the bag’s defined contents.
• A new filter “*” is available, which just shows everything without claiming ownership of it. The concept is still ill-defined, but it’s a part of larger workings.

*** If you just want the whole package, grab this: http://wow.tachyonsix.com/sanitybags/Sanity2CompleteBeta2.zip ***

To get the newest individual versions, grab:

http://www.wowace.com/files/SanityBags/SanityBags.zip http://www.wowace.com/files/SanityItemCache/SanityItemCache.zip

Or, check out from SVN:

http://svn.wowace.com/wowace/trunk/SanityBags/ http://svn.wowace.com/wowace/trunk/SanityItemCache/

Please note: Prior versions of Sanity are not compatible with these changes. If you want to run Sanity with these mods, you will need to use my development branch, which may be checked out here:

http://svn.wowace.com/wowace/branches/Sanity2/SplitCache/

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