[GRID] Addons and Functionality - Page 5

Ambika · 09/06/07, 2:52 PM

Originally Posted by Irise

GRID freezes and frequently crashes for me when I join a raid (especially in BGs and 40 mans). I have perused through this thread as well as the FAQ/forums on the WoWAce website for a solution but haven't found one which works. I did read that deleting the GRID associated files in saved variables folder should fix it but it only proved to be temporary. A few days after I deleted the files I again started to freeze and crash when joining raids. Any help would be much appreciated.

I think it might be someone else is spamming your AceComm channel with garbage causing it to crash and burn. I had to tell people to update their ancient mods as it was causing rampant havok on my system with old code.

Irise · 09/06/07, 5:48 PM

Originally Posted by Ambika

I think it might be someone else is spamming your AceComm channel with garbage causing it to crash and burn. I had to tell people to update their ancient mods as it was causing rampant havok on my system with old code.

Everything works fine as long as I don't use GRID and it happens in all the BGs and almost every raid group I join. I have kept GRID as up to date as possible.

aadric · 09/07/07, 10:34 PM

I used to have a problem like that and assumed it was related to my unit frames. It turned out the problem was an addon that was putting unit buttons next to each unit frame (the now defunct GroupButtons). This probably doesn't help if you're still getting the error when disabling all other add-ons.

I'd suggest completely wiping your add-on data directory. Its a pain, but that has fixed a few problems for me in the past.

Irise · 09/09/07, 12:40 AM

Originally Posted by aadric

I used to have a problem like that and assumed it was related to my unit frames. It turned out the problem was an addon that was putting unit buttons next to each unit frame (the now defunct GroupButtons). This probably doesn't help if you're still getting the error when disabling all other add-ons.

I'd suggest completely wiping your add-on data directory. Its a pain, but that has fixed a few problems for me in the past.

Would you also suggest wiping the Saved Variables directory or just the addon?

Edit: Also anyone what files are created by GRID outside the Addon directory when you install it for the first time?

whuz · 09/09/07, 1:56 AM

Originally Posted by Irise

Would you also suggest wiping the Saved Variables directory or just the addon?

Edit: Also anyone what files are created by GRID outside the Addon directory when you install it for the first time?

You should remove all your saved variables as well.

If you use the default profile:
<WoW Path>\WTF\Account\<Account Name>\SavedVariables\Grid.lua

If you use per character profile:
<WoW Path>\WTF\Account\<Account Name>\<Server Name>\<Character Name>\Grid.lua

Taryenne · 09/09/07, 4:37 AM

This doesn't truly pertain just to Grid so if its off topic apologies in advance

Recently trying Grid+Clique and /stopcasting macro's as an alternative to RDX, I found I couldn't guarantee continual precasting or interruption of a spell and casting of another
Sometimes I get 'That spell is not ready yet' and then a forced GCD
Its definitely tied to either Grid or Clique and shouldn't be occuring, a /stopcast is what it says, thus Grid or Clique is reading the macro as one spell trying to be cast over the previous without taking /stopcasting into account

Does anyone else have this happen or is there some parameter I've missed in my macro?
A typical macro being

/stopcasting
/cast [target=mouseover] Healing Wave

The annoying part is that it doesn't happen every time..

Karmen · 09/09/07, 1:05 PM

Anybody know how I would get a vertical layout for Grid along the lines of Perfect Raid or some of the modified Pitbull raid frames? I like the look those give but the options are either lacking or for Pitbull lag inducing.

Aranan · 09/09/07, 5:25 PM

A vertical layout would be wonderful. I made a post about it in the Wowace forum in the Grid thread; basically, you'd have to come up with your own layout. GridLayoutLayouts.lua was suggested to be used as a base and the wiki has some coding stuff I don't really understand.

I've messed with it a little bit but haven't managed to make anything that works. This is my first time trying to do anything with the LUA code. If anyone else already made a layout like this, it'd be appreciated if you would share it

Zenedra · 09/09/07, 9:59 PM

Here's my version so far with Grid:

I'm using standard Grid and Grid manabars.

The thing I love the most about Grid, is the option to add custom debuffs and then add them to the Center Icon. It's just... awsome! Being able to see parasites on illidan and water tombs on morogrim etc etc is just the perfect raidframes imo. I'm using Clique along with Grid btw.

domlebo70 · 09/09/07, 10:13 PM

I figured out how to do this last night - download the GridHorizontalLayout mod, and use it. Then you just untick the option "Horizontal Groups" in the Layout menu.

Looks good, up the side of my screen.

Karmen · 09/09/07, 10:31 PM

Will try this out, thanks.

feiyin · 09/10/07, 3:12 AM

Originally Posted by Taryenne

Recently trying Grid+Clique and /stopcasting macro's as an alternative to RDX, I found I couldn't guarantee continual precasting or interruption of a spell and casting of another
Sometimes I get 'That spell is not ready yet' and then a forced GCD
Its definitely tied to either Grid or Clique and shouldn't be occuring, a /stopcast is what it says, thus Grid or Clique is reading the macro as one spell trying to be cast over the previous without taking /stopcasting into account

You'll find that if you make that macro and just stick it on your action bar and use it, the same thing will happen, so it's not tied to clique or grid. It's just something within the game. You can't really use stopcasting macros correctly with heals. So if you want to stop casting without moving, you need to make a macro that just says

/stopcasting

Though there can still be issues with it, so moving is just your best route.

Taryenne · 09/10/07, 6:33 AM

Thats just the deal, its not an ingame flaw

Stopcast healing with RDX worked flawlessly, and never once in months of using it ever threw me 'That spell is not ready yet' and a forced GCD
Normal stopcasting or chain precasting were all fine, using keybinds/mousebinds made no difference whatsoever

Theres definitely an issue with Clique and stopcast macro's and/or its interaction with Grid

Cyn · 09/10/07, 6:38 AM

This is probably a very simple problem, but for the life of me i cant work out how to do it.

All i want to do is take the current health deficit text, and change it to how much health they actually have left. I cannot find an option for it anywhere

(Currently only using base Grid mod, with no extras)

aadric · 09/10/07, 10:31 AM

Clique has never worked with macros for me in any context. For stop casting and things of that nature I use Spell Binder. Works well with Grid so far.

Kirion · 09/10/07, 10:33 AM

Originally Posted by aadric

Clique has never worked with macros for me in any context. For stop casting and things of that nature I use Spell Binder. Works well with Grid so far.

Works for me perfectly, never had problem described above.

Karmen · 09/10/07, 2:37 PM

The horizontal grouping mod does make it possible to make a vertical group ala perfect raid. Thank you very much for the suggestion.

Votary · 09/11/07, 8:33 PM

I haven't seen an answer to what seems simple enough, so I suppose I'll just ask..

I've fiddled with creating my own buffs, in particular Prayer of Fortitude and set it to display only when missing, but I cannot figure out how to cause it to display only when out of combat. I've seen people reference having these types of buffs set to display only when OOC, what allows this?

Theros · 09/12/07, 3:39 AM

Votary:
GridStatusMissingBuffs does that

Beska · 09/12/07, 4:24 AM

I'm having a weird problem with grid. I don't know how to best explain this, but basically the problem is that some of the square borders are distorted and pixelated, while others are perfectly fine. I've tried shifting the scale and every other option around and all it does is shift the distortion from, for example, one of the bottom frames to one of the top frames. It's really annoying and not very pretty.

This is a problem with graphics somewhere, but how do I resolve it?

Emynwen · 09/12/07, 3:11 PM

Originally Posted by domlebo70

download the GridHorizontalLayout mod

Edit: Question withdrawn; I located it on curse.com.

Liryn · 09/12/07, 6:19 PM

This idea was mentioned briefly much earlier in this thread, but I wanted to get some more input and advice. I was wondering if anyone (healers especially) uses Grid as their only unit frames, for every size of group from a 2-man arena team to a 10 man Kara group to 40 AFK'ers in AV.

I am trying to simplify the appearance of my UI and reduce the number of addons I use while still keeping it functioning well. Using Grid alone would help with that, but I wonder if it's really feasible to be switching between various profiles and settings all the time. The other part of this plan I'm not sure will work well is the issue of how much screen space Grid takes up for each size group; my monitor is annoyingly small and so I tend to have everything squished together pretty tightly. I could see that being fine for 25 people or less, but what about 40? It's unlikely I'd just be able to stick the extra 15 bars on the side somewhere, since it would almost certainly start overlapping other aspects of my UI, but I'd love to have my UI change as little as possible as I move between raids/arenas/BGs/other settings.

Any ideas or advice would be welcome (as long as it's more than "go buy a bigger monitor"!).

Cyn · 09/13/07, 6:49 AM

Originally Posted by Cyn

This is probably a very simple problem, but for the life of me i cant work out how to do it.

All i want to do is take the current health deficit text, and change it to how much health they actually have left. I cannot find an option for it anywhere

(Currently only using base Grid mod, with no extras)

I'm really surprised no-one seems to have an answer to this, i would have thought it would've been a commonly sought option.

Caryna · 09/13/07, 8:41 AM

Originally Posted by Liryn

This idea was mentioned briefly much earlier in this thread, but I wanted to get some more input and advice. I was wondering if anyone (healers especially) uses Grid as their only unit frames, for every size of group from a 2-man arena team to a 10 man Kara group to 40 AFK'ers in AV.

Well, I am using Grid as the only unit frames on my mage and my priest in all situations (solo, party, raid). In addition to that I am using IceHUD for all the info I need about myself, my target, my pet (if I have any) and my targets target. For my focus (and focus' target) I am using ag_UF frames (is there any mod that ONLY handles a configurable focus and focus' target frame?).

Basically I am using the same UI on both characters and it works fine for me. The only thing I have to change when switching characters is the center icon display (curse for mage and magic/disease for priest). For dispelling I use Clique.

So yeah, it's very feasible to use Grid as your only unit frames.

Sarutobi · 09/13/07, 12:02 PM

Originally Posted by Liryn

This idea was mentioned briefly much earlier in this thread, but I wanted to get some more input and advice. I was wondering if anyone (healers especially) uses Grid as their only unit frames, for every size of group from a 2-man arena team to a 10 man Kara group to 40 AFK'ers in AV.

I am trying to simplify the appearance of my UI and reduce the number of addons I use while still keeping it functioning well. Using Grid alone would help with that, but I wonder if it's really feasible to be switching between various profiles and settings all the time. The other part of this plan I'm not sure will work well is the issue of how much screen space Grid takes up for each size group; my monitor is annoyingly small and so I tend to have everything squished together pretty tightly. I could see that being fine for 25 people or less, but what about 40? It's unlikely I'd just be able to stick the extra 15 bars on the side somewhere, since it would almost certainly start overlapping other aspects of my UI, but I'd love to have my UI change as little as possible as I move between raids/arenas/BGs/other settings.

Any ideas or advice would be welcome (as long as it's more than "go buy a bigger monitor"!).

I used to, but I recently switched back to using Pitbull for anything that isn't a raid. When in a raid Pitbull hides itself (party frames) and Grid occupies the location where Pitbull used to be. I typically just keep Gris in the 40-man raid profile with the background hidden so that it can grow/shrink as necessary and it's not (visually) taking up space it's not currently using.