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Last Update:	Nov. 16, 2007 (7 months ago)
Category:	Unit Frames
Tags:	cosmos, frames, and unit
Project Manager:	KarlKFI
Website:	visit
Current Version:	Archaeologist 4.0 (for World of Warcraft 2.3.0)
Downloads Today:	45
Downloads Total:	243,213
Favorites:	841
Comments:	437

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Created On:	Oct. 23, 2006

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KarlKFI

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About Archaeologist

Universal UnitFrame enhancement. Buffs, Health, Mana, Class, Player Status. Archaeologist: Unearthing Health and Mana values at a unit frame near you. Plus a few more treasures.

See http://www.wowwiki.com/Archaeologist for More details and Slash Command Help.
Change Log: http://www.wowwiki.com/Archaeologist_ChangeLog

Features:
-6 value/percentage display presets (Preset1-6)
-3 display prefix presets (PrefixOn, PrefixOff, PrefixDefault)
-Adds HP/MP Text Overlays to all unit frame status bars
-Adds Secondary Overlays Next to all unit frame status bars
-Adds Dead/Offline/Ghost/Wisp/Feign Death text to all unit frames
-Changes health bar color as it decreases.
-Status bar prefix is optional.
-All status text can be shown as percent or real value (except target HP which is percent from server on non-party).
-Added visibility for 16 Buffs and 16 Debuffs for all party members and pet.
-Added visibility for 16 Buffs and 16 Debuffs for the target.
-Party/Pet/Target Positive Buff borders green for easier identifying. Debuffs are still red.
-Show anywhere between 0 and 16 Buffs or Debuffs; always or only on mousover
-Alternate party debuff locations (below buffs or to the right of the party frame)
-Optional target buff Right to Left display (so that extra buffs don't overlap the portrait)
-Alternate HP/MP text location (swaps primary and secondary displays)
-Status Text is resizable from 6-20. (Default is 14)
-Optional use of the MobHealth2 or MobInfo2 addon for Target Health if you are using it.
-Options to show only castable buffs or dispellable debuffs on party/partypet
-Adds options to customize your Reputation and XP bars
-Allows you to choose inverting of any percent or value option
-Allows you to enable/disable Hits Indicators for the Player, Party and Target frames

This version is now in cosmos.

Slash Commands (For those of you not using the Khaos/Cosmos Options Menu):
/arch - Archaeologist Help (Opens MCom slash command frame with details on all slash commands.

Note: Dead/Offline/Ghost enabled by default.

1 Installation Guide
2 Translations
3 TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)
4 Mac Support
5 Directory Structure

Installation Guide

Exit "World of Warcraft" completely
Download the mod you want to install
- Make a folder on your desktop called "My Mods"
- Save the .zip/.rar files to this folder.
- If, when you try to download the file, it automatically "opens" it... you need to RIGHT click on the link and "save as..." or "Save Target As".
Extract the file - commonly known as 'unzipping'
Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!
- Windows
  - Windows XP a built in ZIP extractor. Double click on the file to open it, inside should be the file or folders needed. Copy these outside to the "My Mods" folder.
  - WinRAR: Right click the file, select "Extract Here"
  - WinZip: You MUST make sure the option to "Use Folder Names" is CHECKED or it will just extract the files and not make the proper folders how the Authors designed
- Mac Users
  - StuffitExpander: Double click the archive to extract it to a folder in the current directory.
Verify your WoW Installation Path
That is where you are running WoW from and THAT is where you need to install your mods.
Move to the Addon folder
- Open your World of Warcraft folder. (default is C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\)
- Go into the "Interface" folder.
- Go into the "AddOns" folder.
- In a new window, open the "My Mods" folder.
- The "My Mods" folder should have the "Addonname" folder in it.
- Move the "Addonname" folder into the "AddOns" folder
Start World of Warcraft
Make sure AddOns are installed
- Log in
- At the Character Select screen, look in lower left corner for the "addons" button.
- If button is there: make sure all the mods you installed are listed and make sure "load out of date addons" is checked.
- If the button is NOT there: means you did not install the addons properly. Look at the above screenshots. Try repeating the steps or getting someone who knows more about computers than you do to help.

Translations

When you download a mod, please be sure that the mod is compatible with your translation of wow. Some mods only work on the US versions, while some only work on some of the various European versions. These variations are called "Localizations".

TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)

When Blizzard patches WoW, they change the Interface number. This means that all mods will be "out of date" unless or until the author releases a new version for that interface. Some people go into the .toc files and update the numbers themselves, but this is STRONGLY advised against as it will cause problems locating possible incompatibilities addons. When you log into WoW after a patch, you DO NOT have to delete your interface directory. All you have to do is simply tell WoW to ignore the interface numbers and load all the mods anyway. All you have to do is, while at the "character select" screen, look in the lower left corner and click on the "addons" button. A window will pop up listing all your installed mods.

If you look in the upper left corner of that window there should be a box that says "Load Out of Date AddOns". You want to CHECK this box. Now simply go into WoW normally and all your mods should load. As of the 1.9 patch, you will have to do this after EVERY patch/update that Blizzard posts! If you encounter any problems with a mod after a patch, please be sure to let the author of the mod know so they can fix it.

Mac Support

WoW addons are not platformed based. As such, they can be used on either Mac or PC. You can extract both .zip and .rar files on a Mac using StuffitExpander.

Directory Structure

World of Warcraft
    |_ Interface
        |_AddOns
            |_*AddonName*
                |_ *AddonName*.toc
                |_ *AddonName*.xml
                |_ *AddonName*.lua
                |_ (possibly others as well)...

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smitty_the_smith said
April 14, 2008, 04:11AM (2 months, 3 weeks ago)
We love you Archaeologist! Please be 2.4 compatible soon.

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WYCKED said
April 6, 2008, 09:06PM (3 months ago)
Any 2.4 update planned?

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Xenosmerf said
Feb. 18, 2008, 11:13PM (4 months, 3 weeks ago)
To get Archaeologist to work you need:
MCom

Just throw it into the AddOns folder.
You can find MCom under individual AddOns at ComsomUI (http://www.cosmosui.org/addons.php).

Happy gaming :o)

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Zerestra said
Dec. 4, 2007, 05:44AM (7 months, 1 week ago)
I'm having a problem with this addon...XP isn't showing correctly. All the HP/MP percentages and numbers show correctly, but the xp one never updates. I have to turn off Archaeologist then back on, then it shows the correct number/percent.

Really love this addon, can anyone help me fix this? I have the most updated version.

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jemiller226 said
Dec. 18, 2007, 04:16PM (6 months, 3 weeks ago)
You don't have to turn Archaeologist off and back on, just uncheck any box in the Archaeologist options that relates to the XP bar display. I know that's not much (if any) better, but it works.

Now if there were only an actual fix, eh? I've programmed before, but never in whatever language WoW uses for addons, so I'm of little or no help there.

EDIT: Apparently the going fix right now is to enable the XP prefix for the XP bar (i.e., instead of it showing, say, "10/100 (10%)" on the bar, it shows "XP: 10/100 (10%)"). People say after doing that, the bar updates the way one would expect and it doesn't pop up the "concatenate field 'prefix'" error it was kicking out before.

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Zerestra said
Dec. 22, 2007, 05:02PM (6 months, 2 weeks ago)
Well, that worked...Thanks!

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Zerestra said
Dec. 12, 2007, 01:11AM (7 months ago)
I really don't want to be a pest...but I'd like for my XP bar to work properly, and don't want to have to disable Archaeologist.

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bb612 said
Dec. 9, 2007, 12:02AM (7 months ago)
ditto.

doesn't ever update on it's own. the blue/purple bar goes up. text remains the same. it's correct when you /rl or start the game, or when you go into the options and modify any of the settings related to the xp bar (hide/show prefix, hide/show pct, etc)

please oh great creator of greatness!!!! won't you fix us!???

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Zerestra said
Dec. 8, 2007, 04:14AM (7 months ago)
Anyone? Any ideas please...?

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inkysan said
Nov. 25, 2007, 11:27AM (7 months, 2 weeks ago)
Thank Cloud2x

it really works.

since this page haven't been updated yet.
i zipped a well-function version and uploaded for those who love this UI

filename as Archaeologist_4.0_fixed . zip and the link is below

http://tinyurl.com/26vkxa

click the green botton on the left side and starts to download

enjoy

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Clouds2x said
Nov. 22, 2007, 08:17AM (7 months, 2 weeks ago)
Hmm now i found this addon pack "Xinoras Mod Pack" and it uses archaeologist, and surprisingly it has some different version which displays hp/mp and % correctly! gasp! why it wasnt updated here dunno, but the one from Xinoras Mod Pack is working w/o having % and number on top of eachother :)

just make Archaeologist folder in ur Addons and copy those from Xinoras Mod Pack:

Archaeologist files
MCom into Arch folder
SeaHooks into Arch folder from Sea\Libs
SeaString into Arch folder from Sea\Libs

and now in Archaeologis.xml u ll have to change libs patch from
<Include file="Libs\SeaHooks\SeaHooks.xml"/>
<Include file="Libs\SeaString\SeaString.xml"/>
<Include file="Libs\MCom\MCom.xml"/>

to:

<Include file="SeaHooks\SeaHooks.xml"/>
<Include file="SeaString\SeaString.xml"/>
<Include file="MCom\MCom.xml"/>

---------workin great for me ^_^
just inside archaeologist folder it should look like this
(4 folders , 8 files)
MCom
SeaHooks
SeaString
Skin
Archaeologist.lau
Archaeologist.toc
Archaeologist.xml
localization.de
localization.en
localization.fr
localization.kr
readme
-------------------------

Hope it ll work for everyone w/o any problems :) always loved this addon <3

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Clouds2x said
Nov. 22, 2007, 06:17AM (7 months, 2 weeks ago)
*cough* you can change font size ~_~

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Kalyke said
Nov. 21, 2007, 08:58PM (7 months, 2 weeks ago)
I am fine with the health/mana bar text display provided by default in WoW. All I want is the feature to show class icon on your target display. Is there a way to configure Archaeologist to function like this or another, more simple mod that only has a class indicator on your target pane?

I tried turning off all the health/mana bar text in Archaeologist and that works but I cannot enable the default WoW health/mana text then. The reason I was trying to use the default bar text rather than that provided by Arch is that when I enable the text for Arch it's too large for the bars. I think this started happening after Blizzard added the UI scaling feature.

Any ideas or suggestions are appreciated, thanks!

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Clouds2x said
Nov. 18, 2007, 05:21PM (7 months, 3 weeks ago)
well till its fixed the only thing i manage to do is move HP / MP more to the left, % still on the bar, couldnt find a way to move it.

<Frame name="TargetFrameHPTextTemplate" virtual="true">
<Size>
<AbsDimension x="119" y="12"/>

<Frame name="TargetFrameMPTextTemplate" virtual="true">
<Size>
<AbsDimension x="119" y="12"/>

change X to like 169~ and it wont be that bad. its in Archaeologist .XML file

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JamusPsi said
Nov. 19, 2007, 05:45AM (7 months, 3 weeks ago)
I'm not an expert.

It appears that the problem is the block beginning at line 47 of Archaeologist.xml:

<Layer level="OVERLAY">
<FontString name="$parentString" inherits="TextStatusBarText" setAllPoints="true" />
<FontString name="$parentString2" inherits="LargeTextStatusBarText" justifyH="RIGHT">
<Anchors>
<Anchor point="RIGHT" relativeTo="$parent" relativePoint="LEFT" />
</Anchors>
</FontString>
</Layer>

The secondary text fontstring looks correct- it anchors its right hand edge to the lefthand edge of the health/mana bar. However, as of 2.3, it appears that this is no longer functioning correctly- the right edge is instead attaching to about 50 units into the bar (somewhere around the middle). Someone more familiar with the intricacies of the ui might be able to explain why.

To fix it, we can add an offset to the anchor to move it to the left. I found that about 50 units was perfect for putting it back to where it should be. Change the above block to:

<Layer level="OVERLAY">
<FontString name="$parentString" inherits="TextStatusBarText" setAllPoints="true" />
<FontString name="$parentString2" inherits="LargeTextStatusBarText" justifyH="RIGHT">
<Anchors>
<Anchor point="RIGHT" relativeTo="$parent" relativePoint="LEFT">
<Offset>
<AbsDimension x="-50" y="0"/>
</Offset>
</Anchor>

</Anchors>
</FontString>
</Layer>

Having made this change I don't see any errors, when the values are swapped (% for value) or when the frame is scaled. Still, the author may be able to shed more light on it. I can be reached at jamus (at) psinfinity dot net.

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jemiller226 said
Nov. 18, 2007, 03:59PM (7 months, 3 weeks ago)
After the most recent patch, it seems that the XP bar text doesn't update itself unless you play with the checkboxes in the Khaos Configure screen or log out and back in.

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SilencerFA said
Nov. 17, 2007, 03:09PM (7 months, 3 weeks ago)
It works (but "out of date") but the secondary mana/health in % isn't fixed yet :(

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KarlKFI said
Nov. 17, 2007, 11:45PM (7 months, 3 weeks ago)
The alt text positioning is something I already explicitly fixed. Try deleting your layout-chache.txt
And try it with only arch running.

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a121 said
Nov. 17, 2007, 12:50AM (7 months, 3 weeks ago)
doesn't work and is shown as out of date. Please fix

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DelawareHunter said
Nov. 16, 2007, 09:22PM (7 months, 3 weeks ago)
This still shows as Out of Date after installing it...

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