World Of Warcraft

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You can find many of these addons at the site WoWInterface.com:

• http://www.wowinterface.com/

The actual base framework for World of Warcraft's interface is written in Lua, and can be extracted from the game's data files using a tool provided by Blizzard.

More information about WoW's use of Lua and the interface API can be found on WoWWiki.com:

• http://www.wowwiki.com/Lua
• http://www.wowwiki.com/World_of_Warcraft_API

There is a distribution of Lua available (created by cogwheel) that includes everything required to install Lua locally for addon development:

• http://sourceforge.net/projects/lua511wow/

This includes wowlib, luasocket, and the standard Lua 5.1.1 Win32 binaries.

There has also been a book written about writing addons for World of Warcraft, called "Hacking World of Warcraft" by Daniel Gilbert and James Whitehead. It is available through [Amazon.com].

Also see #wowace and #wowi-lounge on irc.freenode.net. Archives are available at the following URLs:

• http://purl.rikers.org/%23wowace/
• http://purl.rikers.org/%23wowi-lounge/