AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft for example can optionally use the ToolKit files, as an alternative to loading from the game files for addon development. Some tools and utilities can also use the kit itself as a data source for developemnt.
This is also the only Blizzard suppled method for being able to see the artwork outside the game. There are many reasons for wanting a discrete kit, and is the basis for making comparisons between versions, and being able load resources in other AddOn development tools. Moving the files out of the blizzard install while working with them, is also probably best practice and a good safe way to go in general anyway.
At this point the set could be zipped or 7z for archiving or just used 'as is'.
Should end up with a folder structure that looks like:ĥ. Copy the the contents under of both of the extracted folders below into the new folder from above:Ĥ. Make a new folder somewhere away from the wow install folders like:ģ. Follow Extracting WoW user interface files for code, or both code and art.Ģ. The important part is to use the 'Interface' folder as a combined root so that they look like they would if they were under the real game root, but separately away from the WoW install so that the WoW install is not polluted.ġ. However Blizzard had maintained a new Interface AddOn Kit and support page for every major version of WoW up until and including the release of the base patch 4.0 for Cataclysm.Ĭurrently, if you need a single separated bundle of interface files for AddOn development, you can make one by extracting the interface files and coping the result to a 'kit' folder. Just as there is no official Blizzard support for WoW AddOn development, there is no official support for the AddOn Toolkit either. Blizzard provides ways to get these game interface files separately, as a convenience for AddOn developers and the community in general. zip files holding many real files, but are not normally easily accessible to use for reference. Most files used by WoW, including the UI files, are found inside the WoW game data files, like the MPQ archive files. These files are used as a basis for knowing how to use the WoW UI APIs and write useful AddOns. They bundled separately so that WoW AddOn developers can actually look at, and reference, FrameXML files, Lua files, and other art and resources found in the game itself. These files are extracted versions of interface files from the actual WoW data files found in the WoW install. The Blizzard AddOn Interface ToolKit provides extra files and resources to aid WoW AddOn development.
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