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Thank you for downloading this addon.

This addon allows you to browse your client's internal item database in order to eg. look at the tooltips or dress up.
It will also keep a list of items seen this session in order to link them (unforunatly the internal databes is not linksafe).
Be warned that I don't have control over the database so any item pruning is done by the client and is outside of my reach.
For now patching to a new version of WoW will prune all items in cache but your client will rebuild a cache of over 1k items very quick.

FuBar_ItemDBFu, a FuBar plugin for quick access, can be found at http://www.wowace.com/files/FuBar_ItemDBFu/

WARNING: Make sure you have fixed the cache folder bug (created a folder like Cache\WDB\enUS\ in your WoW folder).

FEATURES:
- searchable list of all items known to your client
- auction house style interface with dressup frame
- lists stack size in the item's icon
- list of linkable items
- item's vendor value is shown, too (atm only supporting KC_Items, SellValue, ColaLight and an unreleased addon I wrote, sorry :( )
- only tracking base items; you won't find eg any "... of the ape" stuff in it
- using DistChat to propagate valid items between clients (thx to Iriel for talking with me about this :) )

PLANS FOR THE FUTURE:
- maybe even better tracking of linkable items
- support for more addons that return an item's vendor value

WARNINGS:
- DistChat will block afk, dnd and ignore messages from players it's interacting with for 15 seconds in order to not spam the user

USAGE:
/itemdb -> will open the interface. You use it as you would use the auction house interface.
/itemdb status -> shows some statistics
/itemdb join -> joins DistChat (if it doesn't join on its own)
/itemdb hop -> leaves DistChat in order to rejoin later
/itemdb leave -> leaves DistChat for this session
shift-clicking on the search button will force a rescan of the internal database, which is also done when you open the window the first
time during a session and then at most once every 5min when hitting the search button.

DISCLAIMER:
THIS ADDON COMES WITH ABSOLUTLY NO WARRENTY! I'M NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY PROBLEMS IT MAY CAUSE!

If you find any bugs feel free to tell me about them using my author portal at http://elkano.wowinterface.com/

So long
Elkano

CHANGES:
2006/12/20 - 1.1
- updated for WoW2.0 API
- added support for ColaLight

2006/06/21 - 1.0h
- updated for WoW 1.11
- added support for SellValues (untested)

2006/05/10 - 1.0g
- the frame should now also be fixed for showing while dead ^^'
- updated API calls for KC_Items 0.94+
- added ItemDBFu (a FuBar 1.0 plugin)

2006/03/25 - 1.0f
- warning popup should now also show when dead
- added traditonal chinese (zhCN) lcalization; thx to q09q09 @ curse-gaming
- change: /itemdb leave will now part DistChat for the whole session; /itemdb hop has the old behaviour of /itemdb leave

2006/02/16 - 1.0e
- added more debug output
- disabled debug output by default
- autoinspects players on mouseover -> more linksafe items

2006/02/09 - 1.0d
- fixed encoding of German localization
- fixed clearing of AFK flag
- rewritten DistChat to improve performance and item migration

2006/02/05 - 1.0c
- fixed a missing 'then'

2006/02/05 - 1.0b
- made the frame moveable
- alt-clicking an item will open a static tooltip
- added Korean localization (provided by clarscent at wow.somegate.com)

2006/01/27 - 1.0a
- changed version style a bit since wowi only supports 15 chars of version
- altered some code so outdated custom FrameXML/Fonts.xml won't lead to disconnects

2006/01/22 - 1.0.0 - first public release
- should now also block the messages that there is no player named 'x' when he went offline but still had a request pending
- will now write a message when a client with a newer version of the addon is active

2006/01/21
- some settings for DistChat changed
- fixed merchant scan (only scaned first page)
- added scanning of trade skill and craft frame

2006/01/05
- fixed a small bug in the last upload
- improved DistChat throughput a bit

2006/01/04
- added chaching from charcters, bags, bank, merchant and auction house
- added support for KC_Items (untested)
- changed memory usage a bit
- added DistChat, a system to propagate linkable items between clients
- fixes for 1.9
- added item's textures

2005/12/18
- added keybindings
- you may now link from the first list, too, but only after you clicked away the warning if the item is possibly not safe for linking

2005/12/17
- initial beta release
