Hi guys,

Forgive me for asking for such a petty small thing, but i was wondering if i was able to go into the .lua to change what is written on screen (in raid chat and raid warning) when asking people to roll on an item.

So rather than what is there now, i'd have something simple such as:

[Item of Goodnesspewpew]. Recording Rolls.

then

Rolling ended on [Item of Goodnesspewpew]. No more will be recorded.

Would i just need to change something in the .lua file? And is this allowed?

Absolutely. You can tweak the GuildRaidSnapShot.lua file all you want, but be aware that the auto-updater will overwrite your changes when they happen.

Chops, is there a particular program to open and save the file correctly? I have edited in WordPad but when I try to save the file, it jumbles up and then won't work. I have successfully done this in the past, but I can't recall what I did differently that made the difference.

Notepad is the simplest option.

You could also look into other Text Editors which might make editing a little easier for you.

I typically use PFE (Programmer's File Editor) for editing code. It leaves zero footprint on the file.

What do you mean by "footprint on the file"? I'm not familiar with that term.

Some software, Word Pad for example, adds stuff to the file leaving a 'footprint' so to speak. PFE doesn't do that.

Ahh, I see. Yeah, pure text editors should never do that. Any of the text editors I would have mentioned in my link wouldn't do that.

Wordpad is more of a super simple word processor.

In my opinion, when you're dealing with code particularly, there are few things more helpful than syntax highlighting. The editor I use exclusively (both windows and unix/linux), vim, has a bit of a learning curve (an editor with a learning curve? really?), but I love it to death. And it has syntax highlighting for just about any language you can think of right out of the box.

Here's it on lua:

My personal favorite that I use on a daily basis is Notepad++. It has syntax highlighting, built-in file comparison, and a heck of a lot more.