Tallymaster

A World of Warcraft (Midnight) addon that keeps a live, on-screen list of items, currencies and collectibles — icon, name and a running count — grouped by category, much like Blizzard's Track Recipe feature.

Folder name and in-game title are both Tallymaster.

Features

• Live tracker — on-screen list, counts update in real time from bags, bank, equipped slots and mail. Grouped by category; groups fold. Sort alphabetically or by count. Position and shown/hidden state survive a reload or relog.
• Add by name or ID — slash command, minimap button, or keybind opens an input box. Ambiguous IDs (item vs currency) prompt you to choose. Tracks items, currencies, mounts, battle pets, transmog (knowledge is stubbed).
• Persistent storage — shift-click a tracked row to hide it (kept in storage). A searchable/filterable Known items window lists everything stored: shift-click a row to paste it into the add box.
• Scope toggle — counts per character (default) or summed account-wide.
• ElvUI-skinnable — registers an ElvUI plugin skin, gated behind a toggle.
• No Ace3 — addon lifecycle, events, slash commands, saved variables, localization, the options panel and the Known items window all run directly on the Blizzard API. Only LibStub, CallbackHandler-1.0, LibDataBroker-1.1 and LibDBIcon-1.0 are embedded, and only for the minimap button.

Usage

• /tally — open the add box
• /tally known — open the storage browser
• /tally show — toggle the on-screen tracker
• /tally config — open options (Game Menu → Options → AddOns → Tallymaster)
• Keybinds for all three under Key Bindings → Tallymaster.

Status

1.0.1. See design/DESIGN.md for the full spec.

Installing

make install (or Makefile install on Windows) copies the addon into the live client. Point it at the AddOns folder with WOW_RETAIL_ADDON_FOLDER:

export WOW_RETAIL_ADDON_FOLDER="/path/to/World of Warcraft/_retail_/Interface/AddOns"
make install

Without it, the Makefile falls back to WOW_DIR and then to auto-detection. WOW_RETAIL_ADDON_FOLDER only applies to retail — a FLAVOR override ignores it.

Before first run

1. Populate Libs/ (see Libs/README.md).
2. The addon icon ships as Media/Satchel.tga (see Media/README.md).
3. Confirm the ## Interface: number in the .toc matches the live Midnight build.

Building and installing

Makefile (GNU make) and Makefile.bat (plain Windows batch, no make/zip needed) expose the same targets. The WoW folder is auto-detected; override it with WOW_DIR, and pick another client with FLAVOR=_classic_era_.

target	what it does
check	syntax-check every Lua file (luac, lua, or Python + lupa)
libs	report which libraries embeds.xml expects but Libs/ lacks
install	copy the addon into the live client; keeps the libraries already installed there and reports ones embeds.xml no longer lists
uninstall	remove the addon; SavedVariables are kept
prune-libs	delete those stale libraries from the installed copy
dist	build dist/Tallymaster-<version>.zip
clean / distclean	drop build output / also empty Libs/
purge	uninstall and delete SavedVariables; needs CONFIRM=yes

make install                 # or:  Makefile install
make dist                    #      Makefile dist
make purge CONFIRM=yes       #      set "CONFIRM=yes" && Makefile purge

Source layout

Core/      Addon (lifecycle/events/slash), Database, Core (init/minimap),
           Categories, Resolve, Counting
UI/        Tracker (on-screen list), AddInput, KnownList, Options
Skin/      ElvUI integration
Locales/   Locale (runtime), enUS, deDE
design/    spec, name candidates, icon SVGs (not shipped)