Beginning Lua with World of Warcraft Add-ons

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使用Lua语言开发魔兽世界插件 清晰非扫描版。 国内现在有中文版销售，大家可以对比阅读。 ps：搬运的，不好意思要分。
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TO All World of Warcraft Players Contents at a glance About the author Acknowledgments XXI Introduction XXl CHAPTER 1 Getting Started ChaPTeR 2 ua basics CHAPTER 3 Using the Wow aPI to create a"Hello, World"Mod 57 CHAPTER 4 Working with Game Events 69 CHAPTER 5 Using XMl and frames CHAPTER 6 Advanced lua 151 CHAPTER 7 Using Advanced Lua to Extend the texas holdem poker addon 195 CHAPTER 8 Building a poker Game Client with Addon communication...227 CHAPTER 9 Using the Combat Log to build a Cooldown Monitor 241 CHAPTER 10 Using Libraries 275 CHAPTER 11 Working with Secure Templates CHAPTER 12 Macros 339 CHAPTER 13 Tips, TrickS, and optimization 361 CHAPTER 14 Other Uses for lua ...393 APPendiXa Frame Reference 405 APPENDIX B Combat Log and Unit reference .455 INDEX 465 Contents About the author Acknowledgments XXI Introduction XXIll CHAPTER 1 Getting Started What is lua What are wow addons Useful Programs Tools, and Web Sites Web si In-Game Tools Programs IDES CHAPTER 2 Lua basics Using lua 13 Basic Variables and Data Types Data Types 17 Dynamic Typing 25 Expressions 26 Arithmetic Operators 26 Relational Operators 27 Logical Operations Precedence Tables and Functions as Expressions Statements 31 Function calls Control structures 33 break return Assignments ...37 vIll CONTENTS Local variables Variable Arguments 41 Lua standard libraries 43 The Math Library 43 String Library Basics The Table Library ..53 The Debug library The Operating System Library 54 Summary CHAPTER 3 Using the Wow aPI to Create a"Hello, World"Mod...57 Running a“ Hello, World” in wow 57 Our first wow addon Folder structure The toc file format Using the WoW APl 62 Creating Slash Commands Persistence Extracting the Default UI Summary 67 CHAPTER 4 Working with Game Events Using frames as event Listeners Creating chatlinkTooltips 71 Chat Frames and Their Script handlers Item Links Using Toolti 73 OnEvent 74 Event Handler Basics Event Handlers for Multiple Events Using OnUpdate to Build a Timing Library ..77 The scheduler The Unscheduled OnUpdate and performance Using the Timing Library for a DKP Mod 81 Variables and Options .81 ocal Functions and Their Scope 2 Starting Auctions 83 CONTENTS X Ending auctions ..84 Placing bids Creating Slash Commands ..87 Canceling Auctions 89 Remote control Hiding Chat Messages 91 Summary ..92 CHAPTEr 5 Using XMl and Frames XML Basics 94 XML Terminology 94 Elements in world of warcraft xm 94 Validating and Debugging XML ValidatingⅩ ML in Scite Debugging 97 Frame basics Making It visible ayers and Textures .103 Movable frames Inheritance 107 The Frame Type Button 107 Buttons in xml 107 Using a Button Template Designing the Table Browser 110 Simple buttons 110 Building a List Element 111 Creating a Border 111 Creating a Template for the headers 112 Using the template A Short overview of our Xn Creating a Template for the entries Creating the Buttons 118 Sorting the list 121 Selecting Elements in the List 122 Scroll frames for lists More Buttons and Static Popup Dialogs .128 More buttons Static Popup Dialogs 130 CONTENTS More frame Types Another normal frame Edit boxes .138 Sliders 140 Check Buttons 143 oK and cancel buttons .145 An Overview of the whole XMl file 146 Summary 149 chaPter 6 Advanced lua 151 More about functions .151 Static Scoping 151 Closures 152 Recursion Part 1: Tail calls 154 Recursion part 2: recursive table functions 155 Hookin 157 More about the generic for loop 159 Using tables to Build Data Structures .160 Arrays 160 Stacks 161 Doubly Linked Lists 161 graph Metatables and Metamethods 169 Overloading Operators 169 Available metamethods ...........,,,,,,,,,171 ect Orientation 171 The colon operato 172 The index metamethod and constructors 172 Inheritance .175 Multiple Inheritance 177 Object Orientation and Data structures 180 Handling errors 181 Catching errors 181 Throwing Errors 182 The environment 184 The Garbage collector The old Lua 5.0 Garbage collector 87 Incremental Garbage collection 188 CONTENTS Weak References 188 Controlling the garbage collector Testing the Garbage Collector .188 More about lua libraries The bit Library The String Library: Part 2 .191 Summary .193 CHAPTEr 7 Using Advanced lua to Extend the texas holdem poker addon 195 Building Auxiliary Functions 195 Creating Cards 196 Getting Cards 197 EXtracting and Rating the best hand 199 Calculating a Rating 200 Finding and Rating the Hand 202 Building the ser 208 Creating a Player object 208 Creating a server object 209 Finite-State Machines .210 Joining a game 211 Starting Betting Rounds Shuffling and Drawing Cards................215 Player Cards and Community Cards Moving the Dealer Button The showdown 217 Waiting for bets Simple Timing Library 2.0 .220 Object-Oriented Timing Library 220 Supporting the Old Timing Library Using Another Data Structure? 222 Saved variables and metatables The Problem: Saving Tables 223 The solution Metatables 224 Summ 226 【实例截图】
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