UI Help Center - Page 16

Nisu · 12/12/07, 12:58 PM

I remember this coming up a while ago with no satisfactory answer, but has anyone found a good way to track HoT durations on raid frames? I'm using DoTimer right now, but it and its ilk (HoTCandy, NECB, etc, etc.) have the problem of having to look at the duration bar, then find the person on your raid frames, then cast, which costs time and is terrible for keeping Lifebloom stacked. I've had the thought of using Pitbull's raid frames with large buff icons and buff filtering set up for Lifebloom only, but I rather like Grid. Is there a Grid module I'm overlooking/using incorrectly for tracking HoT durations directly on the frame? Thanks.

Feist-Mok · 12/12/07, 1:05 PM

So, I just switched from Grid to Pitbull for raidframes, trying to lighten my UI load somewhat, and I'm happy with the result, more or less, save for 2 things.

1) I'm using ORA2 for maintank frames in addition to my raid frames - I know I can use pitbull for these, and thats nice and all, but it doesn't really solve my real problem, which is that I want Main Tank Target frames, lined up with the main tanks frames, without having the tanks healthbars on my screen twice. I'm melee dps if the tank is dead, I see his body on the floor, but I like having the MT target frame for easy assisting on add fights, etc. Is this possible? or am I going to have to resign myself to having some peoples names all over my screen?

2) Is there any good way to see at a glance who is in groups 6, 7, and 8 for things like targetting for summons etc. without calling up the blizzard raid UI if I only have 1-5 turned on in pitbull?

Ajuga · 12/12/07, 4:53 PM

I've seen a couple of UIs with changed graphics; like new borders, frames etc. How is it done exactly? I noticed some .blp files in ie. Interface/Minimap (of an UI pack), but where do I find the original blp and how do I convert it to an editable file format? And back?

Don't suggest eePanels. It's not what I'm looking for

Thanks!

Fulnir · 12/13/07, 6:38 AM

Originally Posted by Nisu

I remember this coming up a while ago with no satisfactory answer, but has anyone found a good way to track HoT durations on raid frames? I'm using DoTimer right now, but it and its ilk (HoTCandy, NECB, etc, etc.) have the problem of having to look at the duration bar, then find the person on your raid frames, then cast, which costs time and is terrible for keeping Lifebloom stacked. I've had the thought of using Pitbull's raid frames with large buff icons and buff filtering set up for Lifebloom only, but I rather like Grid. Is there a Grid module I'm overlooking/using incorrectly for tracking HoT durations directly on the frame? Thanks.

Don't know what your looking for, but what about using the center text 3 for lifebloom? I saw a comment from some druid on wowace forums where he replied to the extra modules being made availible for grid and he used this:
1. Center Text: Name
2. Center Text: Missing Health
3. Center Text: Lifebloomstatus

Since I don't have a druid I don't really know if this is what your looking for, but try downloading Gridindicatortext3 and GridStatusLifebloom and play with it. It might show up working xD

EDIT: Just tried it with my own renew and it works like a charm

Just set Lifebloom active at text frame 3 and voila. It will only show the text (time left) and no icon, but that's isn't really necessary. You could though install the extra icons and put it in one of those if you want.
Hope it helps.

chrull · 12/13/07, 9:57 AM

Originally Posted by Fulnir

Don't know what your looking for, but what about using the center text 3 for lifebloom? I saw a comment from some druid on wowace forums where he replied to the extra modules being made availible for grid and he used this:
1. Center Text: Name
2. Center Text: Missing Health
3. Center Text: Lifebloomstatus

Since I don't have a druid I don't really know if this is what your looking for, but try downloading Gridindicatortext3 and GridStatusLifebloom and play with it. It might show up working xD

EDIT: Just tried it with my own renew and it works like a charm

Just set Lifebloom active at text frame 3 and voila. It will only show the text (time left) and no icon, but that's isn't really necessary. You could though install the extra icons and put it in one of those if you want.
Hope it helps.

Just to be sure, you use GridStatusLifebloom for renew aswell? Or did you use some other addon for that?

Sichosis · 12/13/07, 1:18 PM

SLTimex keeps dissapearing. I changed the anchoring to UIParent, but when I logout or switch characters it dissapears. Can anyone help me?

Imbar · 12/13/07, 3:48 PM

Originally Posted by Sichosis

SLTimex keeps dissapearing.

Mine as well. I kept getting an error popup from the BlizzUI so I disabled it. If I get time I'll post the error here.

Deci · 12/13/07, 4:12 PM

Anybody know how to make Pitbull display buffs/debuffs on the target - my own debuffs works just fine (Sunder/Thunderclap etc.).
Also does Pitbull have any kind of cooldown monitor? I got some CD bars poping up over my Unitframe - and I'm a bit unsure how to get rid of it. Pretty new to Pitbull and would appreciate any help.
Cheers.

Ookie · 12/13/07, 4:54 PM

I want to duplicate my UI my for alts the same way I have my UI setup for my main. The mods are 98% Ace and everything was set up under default profile/settings. When I go into my alt the placement of everything is off. Can I just duplicate my main's folder in the WTF folder and remain it my alt's name and expect it to be identical (minus macros and the buttons on my bar) to my main or am I missing anything?

Anias · 12/13/07, 4:59 PM

For the most part that will work. Sadly, at some point someone thought it would be a good idea to include charactername in some of the ace addon's savedvariables. So you may have a few errors to sort out. The layout-cache file will make sure most of the frames are where you'd expect though.

Ookie · 12/13/07, 5:32 PM

Originally Posted by Anias

For the most part that will work. Sadly, at some point someone thought it would be a good idea to include charactername in some of the ace addon's savedvariables. So you may have a few errors to sort out. The layout-cache file will make sure most of the frames are where you'd expect though.

Maybe then I could just get away with copying the layout-cache file only?

Anias · 12/13/07, 6:06 PM

YMMV. Try it in pieces before you go completely crazy would be my recomendation. It's much much easier to _add_ missing data, than it is to determine what data is superfluous.

bimmian · 12/13/07, 7:04 PM

Originally Posted by Sichosis

SLTimex keeps dissapearing. I changed the anchoring to UIParent, but when I logout or switch characters it dissapears. Can anyone help me?

Mine is doing the same thing. Tried downloading the newest version again and deleting the saved vars with no avail. Tried creating a new profile for it and anchoring it however I could, no dice.

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Another thing I've been having issues with is that whenever I log in/out, the Blizzard combat text turns itself on. Any idea why it would do that?

Khory · 12/13/07, 7:27 PM

I hope this question is appropriate for this thread. I use pitbull and don't like that the class color and power color for rogues are close to the same. So I'm thinking of making the power bar the green color that is in the rogue symbol. Does anyone have an idea of what the RGB value is for that?

bimmian · 12/13/07, 7:58 PM

Originally Posted by Khory

I hope this question is appropriate for this thread. I use pitbull and don't like that the class color and power color for rogues are close to the same. So I'm thinking of making the power bar the green color that is in the rogue symbol. Does anyone have an idea of what the RGB value is for that?

Not sure if that color is specified in the color settings (Pitbull Global Settings -> Colors), only green I see in there is the pet happy color. If you have something like photoshop you can just take a screenshot and pull out the color code that way. If you don't though, you can take a screenshot and post it here or send it to me and I can get you the color code.

Fulnir · 12/14/07, 6:05 AM

Originally Posted by chrull

Just to be sure, you use GridStatusLifebloom for renew aswell? Or did you use some other addon for that?

No, I used Grid_hots (It can track my own renew on targets, no matter if there's other renews on there), but I figured they would work just as well with lifebloomstatus.

Aoife · 12/14/07, 6:56 AM

I'm trying to pare down my UI and get just the essentials showing while eliminating as much memory usage as I can since my computer isn't all that great.

Bigwigs is in the top left. I just switched to it to see if there was any performance difference from DBM, so it'll take a bit of getting used to if I keep it.

List of Addons enabled:

Acceptance
ag_UnitFrames
Bagnon
Bagnon Forever
Bagnon Options
Bagnon Tooltip
Big Brother
Bigwigs [Black Temple]
Bigwigs [Extras]
Bigwigs [Hyjal]
Bigwigs [Karazhan]
Bigwigs [Outland]
Bigwigs [Plugins]
Bigwigs [Serpenshrine Cavern]
Bigwigs [The Eye]
Bigwigs [Zul'Aman]
Bigwigs
Bigwigs +Common Aura
Bigwigs +Naj Assist
Bigwigs -Debugger
Bongos 2
Bongos 2 Action Bar
Bongos 2 Options
Boss Whisperer
Cartographer
Cartographer [Herbalism]
Cartographer [Mining]
Cartographer [Battlegrounds]
Cartographer [Coordinates]
Cartographer [Foglight]
Cartographer [Group Colors]
Cartographer [Guild Positions]
Cartographer [Instance Loot]
Cartographer [Instance Maps]
Cartographer [Look 'n' Feel]
Cartographer [Notes]
Cartographer [POI]
Cartographer [Professions]
Cartographer [Waypoints]
Cartographer [Zone Info]
Decursive
Elkano's BuffBars
Enchantrix
EnhTooltip
EPGP
Fishing Buddy
Fishing Buddy - Outfit Frame
Fishing Buddy - Tracking Frame
Fishing Buddy - Merge Databases
FuBar - BagFu
FuBar - ClockFu 3.0
FuBar - DurabilityFu
FuBar - Fishing BuddyFu
FuBar - LocationFu
FuBar - MoneyFu
FuBar - PerformanceFu
FuBar
Grid
Informant
It's Polyquip
Lib - Abacus-2.0
Lib - Ace2
Lib - Crayon-2.0
Lib - Dewdrop-2.0
Lib - FuBar Plugin-2.0
Lib - Tablet-2.0
Lib - TabletopLib
Lib - Threat 1.0
Mik's Scrolling Battle Text
MinimapButtonBag
MobHealth3
MSBT [Icons]
MSBT [Options]
Natur ECB
NECB [Debuffs]
NECB [Options]
NECB [PvP Modules]
NECB [PvE Modules]
Omen
OmniCC
Postal
Prat 2.0
Prat [Auto LoD]
Prat [Modules LoD Helper]
Prat [Modules]
Proximo
Quartz
Quartz Buff
Quartz Flight
Quartz Focus
Quartz GCD
Quartz Interrupt
Quartz Latency
Quartz Mirror
Quartz Player
Quartz Range
Quartz Swing
Quartz Target
Quartz Timer
Quartz Tradeskill
QuestLongList
SimpleCombatLog
simpleMinimap
Stubby
Swatter
Tinytip

Any advice on what can go is much appreciated.

chrull · 12/14/07, 7:37 AM

Originally Posted by Fulnir

No, I used Grid_hots (It can track my own renew on targets, no matter if there's other renews on there), but I figured they would work just as well with lifebloomstatus.

I don't remember what Grid Hot addon i'm using right now, but i do remember I had to specify the lenght of my renew, is there any version/addon were I don't have to do that? I'd hate have to change renew lenght to get it right everytime i exchange some gear parts around.

cs-cam · 12/14/07, 7:55 AM

Originally Posted by Aoife

Any advice on what can go is much appreciated.

First ones that come to mind is Cartographer & Co, also FuBar & Co. I had all those installed up until a couple of months ago when I realised I didn't really need them. I've discovered all my maps so the see-all part of Cart isn't needed and Gatherer replaced the Herb/Mining modules. FuBar is great but since Rock appeared, I've disabled all my addon plugins so they don't clutter my minimap and just have the icon for Rock visible with two others.

It was a big change not having stuff as easily accessible as it was but really, how often do you use it all? Try disabling them temporarily and see how you fare, might be better than you think

Fulnir · 12/14/07, 8:12 AM

Originally Posted by chrull

I don't remember what Grid Hot addon i'm using right now, but i do remember I had to specify the lenght of my renew, is there any version/addon were I don't have to do that? I'd hate have to change renew lenght to get it right everytime i exchange some gear parts around.

I think we are using the same one, 'cause I have that option too. Don't know of a plugin/addon which auto checks for this.

Aoife · 12/14/07, 8:12 AM

Originally Posted by cs-cam

First ones that come to mind is Cartographer & Co, also FuBar & Co. I had all those installed up until a couple of months ago when I realised I didn't really need them. I've discovered all my maps so the see-all part of Cart isn't needed and Gatherer replaced the Herb/Mining modules. FuBar is great but since Rock appeared, I've disabled all my addon plugins so they don't clutter my minimap and just have the icon for Rock visible with two others.

It was a big change not having stuff as easily accessible as it was but really, how often do you use it all? Try disabling them temporarily and see how you fare, might be better than you think

Well for Fubar, the coords, durability, money and bagslots are things I'm almost always glancing at while farming/leveling. I don't really have too many of my addons on there, just the ones I want to get to really fast.

I'll try disabling most of Cartographer though and see if that helps.

cs-cam · 12/14/07, 9:30 AM

Originally Posted by Aoife

Well for Fubar, the coords, durability, money and bagslots are things I'm almost always glancing at while farming/leveling. I don't really have too many of my addons on there, just the ones I want to get to really fast.

I'll try disabling most of Cartographer though and see if that helps.

Fair enough. Just to help think outside the box though, I see you're using a minimap addon. Most of those have a coords display built in, does yours? If so enable it and there's that removed from Fubar, if not, you could lookat RicoMinimap or simpleMinimap, both Ace2 addons that will. Now we have durability, money and bagslots as things we need to see, SLStats will show you all that, take up bugger all room and while I can't verify, I'd imagine memory usage would be pretty minimal.

Not trying to push you away from Fubar by any means, just pointing out more minimal addons you may or may not have already been aware of.

fratelli · 12/14/07, 10:19 AM

I am a new user of quartz. I have a few question that maybe someone can help with.
Is there and easier way to move the castbars around other than the X and Y coords?
Also when moving bars I have to cast a spell so that i can see where its moving to(usually a long one like teleport), which gets to be a pain in the butt casting over and over again to see where to move it.
Yet another question, the mirror bar that shows breath and such has no font in it. I have adjusted the size and font style and nothing is showing up.
Also, is there a way to lock my target cast bar to my target unitframe so that if I reposition the frame I dont have to keep moving the target bar?
Sorry for the multitude just having trouble and I know that you guys have answers.

Kurani · 12/14/07, 2:54 PM

Pardon me if It's the wrong place to ask, but I searched and found nothing about it. So here it goes:
Is there any possibility to add a buff to ClassTimer AddOn? (i.e. Drums of Battle, Haste Potion) I mean by editing lua files and such.

Thanks in advance.

• alcaras · 12/14/07, 8:00 PM

I seek a non-buggy AutoBar replacement. Any suggestions?

AutoBar has a habit of not updating buttons properly, of forgetting settings, and the like :-/