A fairly large community of addon programmers exists with several web sites devoted to the management of addons and these web sites provide a rich source of source code and ideas for the addon builder. Much of the user interface provided by Blizzard Entertainment is written in Lua and an addon extending, enhancing, or replacing the existing client functionality must also be written in Lua. auction house addon to help players with auctions). Some are intended to replace much of the standard user interface components to provide a leaner and more compact set of controls or to replace some of the standard user interface components to provide a richer environment for some activities (e.g. Most addons are created to add to the standard user interface in order to provide additional information. World of Warcraft provides a mechanism for people to add their own components, addons, to the game client. Some information is presented in the rendering of the three dimensional world in which the player's avatar or toon is located and some information is presented n the form of text and/or graphical messages that are displayed in various ways providing status information to the player. The client functionality involves the user interface for the player, the presentation of messages from the server, and the sending of messages of player actions to the server. Most of the server functionality involves the game environment that is shared by other players. World of Warcraft is a server client application with some of the game functionality residing on a server and other game functionality residing on the client.
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