Earth AddOn

[cnewman]

I've been a lot time supporter of custom addOns. Started with Cosmos, ventured to Gypsy and then played with the Cosmos knock off... UUI. And in the process have learned a great deal about creating AddOns and being able to modify exsiting ones to further tailor them for my needs or fixing the bugs made by these developers.

In this journey, I have found my self coming back to the sea,sky,chronos and Earth Addons. I really like the idea of have a library of functions availible...really makes programming more organized and saves in development time.

My question is: What is the purpose of the earth addon? It looks to me as a library of xml templates to aid UI developers by making default xml templates to use for display of data. If this is the cause, is there a document of examples of how to use each of the templates?

[cnewman]

98 Reads and no one knows the answer. :(

[dsdranor]

From what I can tell, yes Earth is XML template library, it also allows the creation of menus for right click etc. Meteorologist uses Earth as does PartyQuests, looking in those addons would be a good place to see some of how to use it. wowwiki seems to be down atm but you could try http://www.wowwiki.com/Earth (Not sure theres anything there or not atm)

[Vynn]

Well dsdranor hit it on the head for what exactly earth IS... currently it is stull in development however and as such, I don't know if alex has finished the documentation for it - when it is finished, the wiki will be agood place to find the relevent information.