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Old 01/21/08, 3:27 AM   #616
Decius
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Originally Posted by Madrugan View Post
Heya Folks. I am outreaching you with the hope you'll be able to clue me in in a couple of areas.

First thing would be moving the chatwindow down. Get a mod (Prat, ChatMOD), that allows you to move the input bar of the chat above the chatwindow itself for this.

You display your buffs on three different locations (center-low and top-right). One should be easily enough (ideally outside of your focus if you don't need to check them the whole time).

Your unit frames don't display your target's name? Or is this only because you targeted yourself?

Questtracker should of course not overlay your buttons

You have many icons of add-ons in your Fubar - how often do you really access them for configuration? If not more than once a week I would rather use the commandline or Rock for configuration and remove them from the Fubar.

Things like Smelting, Track Nodes, PoF, PoSP are things you don't usually need quick access to during the fight. Personally I use Geist to hide them (I still can access them with one keypress, but they aren't cluttering my UI). Same with your keyring - you don't access it that often, do you? Add-ons like Bagnon give you the option to access your whole inventory with one button (including keys).

There is a hole in the middle of the lower row of your buttons, which is more or less wasted space.

I would remove the background frame of your combat text mod, without it it will look much smaller. Same with Grid.

The trinket bar should be moved down to the unused space next to your button bar - or ideally somehow integrated into your button layout. I would also remove buttons which you have hotkeyed already (I know it is hard, I'm guilty of this myself).

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Old 01/21/08, 3:43 AM   #617
Ajuga
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@Madrugan

Ever heard of "UI scale"? Your UI elements are HUGE! Find UI scale in ESC > Video Settings (I think) and slide it all the way down to .64. I'm not sure it'll effect the actionbars, unitframes (elements made by addons), but it'll make your Chat and Minimap smaller. Go ahead and scale the rest down, so you can fit dmg meter, Grid and Eavesdrop in the bottom next to your minimap or chat.

This should free up enough space for you to experiment.

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Old 01/21/08, 6:22 AM   #618
Midnight
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#show itemslot possible?

Not exactly an AddOn but a Macro question:
I´ve got two diffrent idols for my druid I want to be able to switch between them easily. To do this I came up with the macro /castsequence Idol1, Idol2 which works just fine. I would like the button to show the item I´m currently wearing instead of the one I´m going to switch to if I press the button though. So the question is, is there some #show option that let´s you show the item you´re wearing in a certain itemslot (e.g. #show itemslot:18 or something).

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Old 01/21/08, 9:43 AM   #619
Madrugan
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Thanks Decius and Ajuga. I am currently adjusting these, taking a look at some of the clutter options I have, and I'll repost for your perusal tonight!

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Old 01/21/08, 1:08 PM   #620
 Adoriele
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Originally Posted by Midnight View Post
Not exactly an AddOn but a Macro question:
I´ve got two diffrent idols for my druid I want to be able to switch between them easily. To do this I came up with the macro /castsequence Idol1, Idol2 which works just fine. I would like the button to show the item I´m currently wearing instead of the one I´m going to switch to if I press the button though. So the question is, is there some #show option that let´s you show the item you´re wearing in a certain itemslot (e.g. #show itemslot:18 or something).
Assuming you'd also like to see the tooltip text instead of the macro name,
#showtooltip [equipped:idol1]idol1; idol2
should work. Basically, any modifier which applies to /cast, etc. can be applied to #show or #showtooltip as well. You can also use
/equip [noequipped:idolX] idolX
/cast spellwhichusesidolX
as your casting macro to alleviate the need to switch idols explicitly. The idol will affect the spell you cast (always for non-instants, most of the time for instants), but will incur a GCD, such that if you cancel a spell with a cast time, you'll have to wait for the GCD to finish. This obviously only applies if you actually equip the idol (i.e. you're switching spells from one that used a different idol).

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Old 01/21/08, 2:56 PM   #621
Midnight
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Originally Posted by Adoriele View Post
Assuming you'd also like to see the tooltip text instead of the macro name,
#showtooltip [equipped:idol1]idol1; idol2
should work. Basically, any modifier which applies to /cast, etc. can be applied to #show or #showtooltip as well. You can also use
/equip [noequipped:idolX] idolX
/cast spellwhichusesidolX
as your casting macro to alleviate the need to switch idols explicitly. The idol will affect the spell you cast (always for non-instants, most of the time for instants), but will incur a GCD, such that if you cancel a spell with a cast time, you'll have to wait for the GCD to finish. This obviously only applies if you actually equip the idol (i.e. you're switching spells from one that used a different idol).
This has been my first idea too, but unfortunatly the equipped condition doesn´t check for specific items only if there´s something in this slot in general.

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Old 01/21/08, 3:12 PM   #622
 Adoriele
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Originally Posted by Midnight View Post
This has been my first idea too, but unfortunatly the equipped condition doesn´t check for specific items only if there´s something in this slot in general.
Um, since I'm using this code in particular, pretty sure it works.
/equip [noequipped:Idol of the Avenger]Idol of the Avenger
/cast Wrath
You should be able to do the same for #showtooltip, I.E.
#showtooltip [equipped:Idol of the Avian Heart] Idol of the Avian Heart; Idol of the Emerald Queen
/equip [noequipped:Idol of the Avian Heart] Idol of the Avian Heart; Idol of the Emerald Queen
When you have IotAH equipped, this will: Show IotAH, equip IotEQ.
When you have IotEQ equipped, this will: Show IotEQ, equip IotAH.

Substitute your idols as necessary.

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Old 01/21/08, 4:38 PM   #623
Midnight
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I literally copied the macro and replaced every instances of Idol of the Avian Heart with my Idol of Terror and Idol of the Emerald Queen with Everbloom Idol (I even used shift+click to make sure there´re no typos) - it didn´t even work for switch the idols let alone showing the correct icon.

edit:
It seems like [noequipped:Idol of the Avian Heart] always evalutes to true, as there simply is no slot named "Idol of the Avian Heart" that could be equipped. My bet is your line
/equip [noequipped:Idol of the Avenger]Idol of the Avenger
behaves exactly as a simple
/equip Idol of the Avenger
would. The condition does nothing really.

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Old 01/21/08, 4:51 PM   #624
 Adoriele
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Originally Posted by Midnight View Post
I literally copied the macro and replaced every instances of Idol of the Avian Heart with my Idol of Terror and Idol of the Emerald Queen with Everbloom Idol (I even used shift+click to make sure there´re no typos) - it didn´t even work for switch the idols let alone showing the correct icon.
Odd. I'll check syntax as soon as I get home to make sure I'm copying my macro right, and see if I can come up with one that does what you need. You don't have any macro-affecting mods, do you?

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So I've played around with these a bit, and I can't get a macro to work like this either. For one,
#showtooltip [equipped:Idol of the Avenger] Idol of the Avenger
shows nothing. If I change it to
#showtooltip [equipped:Idol of the Avenger] Idol of the Avenger; Idol of the Ivory Moongoddess
it always shows the second idol, saying that the first idol evaluates to false, even when equipped.

Second, a similar problem shows up when trying
/equip [noequipped:Idol of the Avenger] Idol of the Avenger; Idol of the Ivory Moongoddess
It will hang at the Avenger. Which is odd, given that the macro I posted before only equips Avenger if it's not equipped already, though it's also not trying to equip another idol. I'm going to post this in the UI forums on the official site to get some feedback, as this kind of ability seems like something they'd be okay with.

Last edited by Adoriele : 01/21/08 at 10:06 PM.

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Old 01/21/08, 10:05 PM   #625
Dollar
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For anyone that uses Dash and RDX is there a way to add the main RDX frame to the Dash? When I try to use /dash addmouse I get this error: "This frame has no global name, and cannot be added via the mouse". My lua knowledge is pretty rudimentary so I haven't had any luck by going into the lua and trying to find the name of the frame, if anybody can help me out that would be cool.

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Old 01/22/08, 2:16 AM   #626
deemor
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i`ve got a small question.
is there possibility to save 2 or more different ui-settings, not only for one addon.
thx 4 help

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Old 01/22/08, 4:48 AM   #627
Ajuga
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@ Midnight / Adoriele:

Tried /equip item:12345 ?

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Old 01/22/08, 6:30 AM   #628
Midnight
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Originally Posted by Ajuga View Post
@ Midnight / Adoriele:

Tried /equip item:12345 ?
Equipping stuff isn´t the issue - /equip itemname works perfectly fine. The condition to check wether a certain item is equipped or not is the problem. The [equipped:X] condition only works for whole slots/item types (eg. Idols, Shields etc) not for specific items. My question is if there´s a way to force showing the exact item worn in a certain slot in a macro.

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Old 01/22/08, 6:40 AM   #629
Midnight
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Originally Posted by Adoriele View Post
So I've played around with these a bit, and I can't get a macro to work like this either. For one,
#showtooltip [equipped:Idol of the Avenger] Idol of the Avenger
shows nothing. If I change it to
#showtooltip [equipped:Idol of the Avenger] Idol of the Avenger; Idol of the Ivory Moongoddess
it always shows the second idol, saying that the first idol evaluates to false, even when equipped.
This is exactly the kind of behavior I´d have predicted after my latest tests. [equipped:itemname] always evaluates to false because there is no slot/itemtype which matches the name of your Idol. My bet is if you´d replace Idol of the Avanager with just Idol it´d always show the first one (unless you don´t have anything equipped in that slot).
Originally Posted by Adoriele View Post
Second, a similar problem shows up when trying
/equip [noequipped:Idol of the Avenger] Idol of the Avenger; Idol of the Ivory Moongoddess
It will hang at the Avenger. Which is odd, given that the macro I posted before only equips Avenger if it's not equipped already, though it's also not trying to equip another idol. I'm going to post this in the UI forums on the official site to get some feedback, as this kind of ability seems like something they'd be okay with.
This is also expected behavior assuming equipped only checks for slot/type. Only diffrence to the first one is as this one is negated it always evaluates to true. It should work exactly like a simple /equip Idol of the Avenger without any conditions.

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Old 01/22/08, 2:08 PM   #630
wyldbill
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Originally Posted by Imbar View Post
There used to be a macro:
/print GetMouseFocus():GetName()
that would get the name of the frame your mouse was mousing over. I'm not sure if it still works, I think the "/print" part might have changed, but I know that used to work, and I remember seeing a macro that did the same thing in one of the UI forums on EJ, but searching hasn't turned it up yet. Try this one, and I'll keep looking (can't get into WoW seeing as all the realms are down right now).
The last time I saw that macro (this morning) it was /echo rather than /print.

The rest is the same.

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