AutoDing by Thorin of Ravencrest

What:
Automatically announces level-up's to specified channel(s).

Why:
This is mostly for lazy fun. I found myself typing in the same thing every time I Dinged so I looked for an AutoDing mod. I found AutoDing by Unique. It would let you type in a message that was the same for all toons every time you Dinged unless you happened to have changed the message between Dings.
Not good enough for me, and he wasn't taking requests at the time. I used Unique's code as a foundation for my own mod that saved the variables out for each toon to allow a different message for each. For example my Tauren Druid could say, "DING $L! MOOOHOOO!" Where as my Human Rogue could say, "Ding $L, aaahhh that felt good." Or whatever I chose to make them say. ($L = new level when posted in game)
That still wasn't good enough. I then got the idea to pull from a list of messages. Well, to give credit where credit is due, my friend Baarwar of Ravencrest came up with the idea. What started as a round-robin of 5 messages turned into a round-robin of 24 possible messages; 10 general and 10 Race-specific. Plus a few 'special' messages for those all important level 30, 60, 65, and 70 Dings.
What, 10 general and 10 Race-specific, means is; When you Ding there are 10 messages that will post no matter what you are. But, there are 10 different messages that will post that do depend on what you are. For example: A Troll might say, "Don't be jealous mon, but juss Dinged again, $L!", or a Gnome might say, "Dynamite does come in small packages! Ding $L!"
Of course you can still type in your own "static" Ding message for each toon, but what's the fun in that?

FYI: The list can be found in localization.lua if you wish to change it. (Admittedly, some of the message are quite lame)

When/Where:
When one Dings, if enabled the mod reads the DingString setting for that toon; if it simply says "list" (default) it uses a message from the round-robin list of messages provided. If it says anything other than "list" that text will be used. Remember to use $L to post the correct level each time without having to edit the message.
Next it checks to see which channel it should post to. Your options are Guild, Say, Yell, Party, Raid and any custom channel name you provide. There is another setting that tells it, if enabled, to post to the Party channel as well as the channel specified.
If AlwaysDing is enabled and Guild (default) or Raid is chosen it will check to see if you are in a Guild/Raid before attempting to Ding to that channel. If you are not in a Guild/Raid and not in a party, or have the Party Ding disabled, it will Ding to the Say Channel. At first it was not posting anywhere because I wasn’t in a Guild/Raid or Party, and that kills the whole point of the mod. This way it is going to post SOMEWHERE every time.
Finally, it posts your message to the appropriate channel(s) based on your settings.

FYI: The variable that keeps track of which message to pull from the list is initialized with a random number 1-10. This way there is a better chance of different toons posting different Ding messages at different levels. My friend and I started a couple of toons together and were Dinging within seconds of each other saying the same thing and it got annoying (and looked stupid). This helps to avoid this, but isn’t 100%. It is random after all.

How:
/ad - Opens up a Config Window where you can set everything up.
/ad status - displays the current settings information

*/autoding also works*

Patch notes for AutoDing: 2.4.X
v2.4.1
Code correction: The order in which it was replacing some of my markers with the lvl was causing it to post the lvl wrong at times.

v2.4.0
Added lvl 80 max
Updated some msgs
Added UI for editing, skipping over messages, and adding to the short listed Max lvl Ding and AutoReplies (global save)

v2.3.9
Patch 3.0.2 friendly
Updated some of the older msgs
Added 5 additional racial msgs for each race
Combined date/time format window with main config window
Added ability to reply to multiple dings at one time (had a guildy using RAF (multiboxing) dinging two toons within a second or two and was only replying to the first ding msg)
Cleaned up misc code (makes my life easier)

v2.3.8
Added ability to format the date/time in dings from the UI.

v2.3.7
Modified the ding list to allow for lvl 30 mount changes

v2.3.6
Added "Time played since last ding: " info to ding

v2.3.5
Code fix: PARTY ding was getting stuck, spamming the ding message until the player logged off or reloaded their UI. (/console reloadui)

v2.3.4
Updated interface version for 2.4
Added an AutoReply feature. When enabled, if someone else dings to GUILD PARTY RAID or WHISPER using AutoDing (current or future releases) you will auto-reply to their ding msg randomly using 1 of 5 msgs.

v2.3.3
Fixed code for PARTY ding. It was giving an error.
Per user request, added checks to not post if the message is blank. It was posting a blank line messing up the screeny, now it doesn't post at all.

v2.3.2
No longer a chance of posting to Raid and Party for the same ding (previously would ding to Raid and Party with the right combo of settings)
Added option to NOT ding to Say if can't/won't ding anywhere else (previously no way to disable this)
Removed RequestTimePlayed() from every ding because it shows time played at the new level, not the old level. Does still do this when a screen is taken

v2.3.1
Updated interface version to 20100

v2.3
Fixed Checkbox for PartyDing enable/disable
Moved the saved variables to SavedVariablesPerCharacter
Eliminated command list so /ad opens the config screen and all configs are done via the UI
Changed a few ding strings so they aren't QUITE as stupid as before
Interval default is now 1, or every level. (was set for every 5th) Lots of requests for this

v2.2
Updated interface version to 20003
Set lvl max to 70, AutoDing is now ready for BC

v2.1
Fixed issue where it wasn't saving config

v2.0
Update 2.0 friendly
Added 5 new general posts
Now supports user created channels.
Code added for future use of:
Posts for Draenei and Blood Elf races
Allowing for max lvl change to 70

AutoDing 2.X, archived on 27/03/08
AutoDing 2.X, archived on 27/03/08
AutoDing 2.X, archived on 04/06/08
AutoDing 2.X, archived on 25/07/08
AutoDing 2.X, archived on 08/09/08
AutoDing 2.X, archived on 08/09/08
AutoDing 2.X, archived on 10/09/08
AutoDing 2.X, archived on 13/09/08
AutoDing 2.X, archived on 30/10/08
AutoDing: BC, archived on 13/11/08