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Enhancement Request: Please add support for Blizzard Addons Compartment

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2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
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52/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
lua
Domain
game-dev

Research direction

Start with Interface/AddOns/HandyNotes/HandyNotes.lua and compare the proposed AddonCompartmentFrame:RegisterAddon call with the Blizzard Addon Compartment documentation. Test the entry in World of Warcraft and verify that selecting it opens the HandyNotes AceConfig options without relying on the minimap or slash commands.

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Description

same as https://legacy.curseforge.com/wow/addons/handynotes/issues/197

I was wondering if we could get a way to access options that doesn't clutter the minimap and i wont have to come searching for slash commands. figured this area of the blizz ui would work. more details: https://warcraft.wiki.gg/wiki/Addon_compartment

hope this helps. please ask if there's any clarity needed.

Unfortunately i haven't really worked with LUA.
(i have PowerShell, Perl, Python, Bash, Java, C, and LISP, experience.)
Maybe if i look and things i can propose changes that help?

An attempt with manual registration style from https://warcraft.wiki.gg/wiki/Addon_compartment
I did a test with it at the end of the "Interface/AddOns/HandyNotes/HandyNotes.lua" file and it appears to work. Hope This Helps!

AddonCompartmentFrame:RegisterAddon({
	text = "Handy Notes",
	icon = "Interface/Icons/inv_misc_notescript1c.blp",
	notCheckable = true,
	func = function(button, menuInputData, menu)
		-- local buttonName = menuInputData.buttonName;  -- debugging check line
		-- print("Hello from the addon compartment! You clicked " .. buttonName .. "!")  -- debugging check line
		LibStub("AceConfigDialog-3.0"):Open("HandyNotes")
	end,
	funcOnEnter = function(button)
		MenuUtil.ShowTooltip(button, function(tooltip)
			tooltip:SetText("Handy Notes")
		end)
	end,
	funcOnLeave = function(button)
		MenuUtil.HideTooltip(button)
	end,
})

will make a fork and PR to help.

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