Eyrika

You should be able to achieve this by editing the lua file. I used to use Grid and found you can make your own layouts for it that way. It's not too complicated either. I would search for the sort by class layout in the lua and just move things around until the classes are in the order you want.

If you search this thread ([GRID] Addons and Functionality) you can find some more information that might help you.

 

Evictoray

Hello,

I've worn google out the last 2 days and this is my last resort.

I'm running Ulduar as affliction for the 5% raid wide crit debuff, and I'm looking for a more "heads up" UI. I'm currently using Forte Xorcist/Quartz/Drain Soul Timer to monitor spells. This combination is also effective running destruction.

It occurred to me that a "raid warning" style notification would be ideal when a spell expired. Similar to the way that MSBT announces the CD's on conflagrate and choas bolt. In addition to that, an OmniCC style DoT timer would add a little redundancy to know what spells were missing at a glance.

In my mind, this would be a very clean, uncluttered, heads up UI for spell casters, affliction locks especially.

Anyway, after a day and a half of searching, it appears easy to trigger a notification for a buff/debuff, damage in/out or expired cold down. However, it also appears to be impossible to trigger a notification for an expired spell.

I've come to understand that addons use combat log entries as triggers. So with that in mind, I assume that a spell writes an entry as it ticks, but not as it expires. Is that correct?

Excuse my ignorance, but in the past I just used a bar style DoT timer and was happy. But with all the action in Ulduar, and the need to provide the raid buff, I've been sparked to find a way to make affliction more competitive, and I'm looking for a way to achieve this style of UI.

Thank you in advance for tips and or suggestions.

 

• Asphyxialol

Classtimer and TellMeWhen are both great at showing time left on your dots (and you can configure either to have an icon with a timer on [TellMeWhen] or next to it [Classtimer]). TellMeWhen is configurable so that your debuff on the mob shows it as larger icon you can put anywhere on your screen with timer text like OmniCC (although I am not aware if it tracks other warlock's dots as well). It won't print a notification, but it will give you the time in seconds until expiration similar to OmniCC on a button.

I have not been able to find a mod similar to what you want, but I will keep looking and let you know if I find one.

 

Evictoray

Nice! I'm out of town, messing around on my laptop, but I downloaded both TellMeWhen and Class Timer. Between the two I should have my "OmniCC style" timer for backup monitoring of spells. That's half the battle.

Thank You Asphyxialol!

 

Lutfisk

Anyone know what font this is?
http://static.mmo-champion.com/mmoc/...ragon_yogg.jpg

edit: Nevermind, found it. It's "Enigma" from shared media.

 

Evictoray

@Asphyxialol

TellMeWhen was exactly what I was looking for.

I'll let you know if I get MSBT, or similar addons to issue a text alert as well!

Thanks

 

Fenix500

I recently downloaded Malev UI from WowInterface. After resizing it to fit 1440x900, I've run into one final issue: Grid doesn't seem to respond at all when I mouseover or click on players. In other words, I can't target anything with Grid, nor does it recognize that I'm mousing over character X. I've check Grid and this thread for a solution but I'm clearly missing it, so any help would be appreciated.

Edit: Facepalm moment...when I resized everything I had a portion of omen (clear) covering Grid.

 

Obolisk

Hm, this isn't exactly a ui question but it is an addon question that I need help with, so I figure this is the best place to go. Shrug.

I am simply looking for an addon that will keep track of a list of items, glyphs specifically, and tell me whether I have them posted at the moment or not. This would make restocking glyphs after I sell them much easier, as I seem to lose track of which glyphs I need to put up and which I don't very easily. I could do this with a piece of paper of course, but that wouldn't be anywhere near as convenient. Plus it would require lots of paper.

 

Eikichi

Try Quick Auctions, if I remember well it should help you with what you want.

 

Fabinas

Totem Timers has, as default 3 buttons placed under the character : Stormstrike, Earth Shock and Lava Lash. Anyone knows any mod or TT version that also adds 2 more buttons, one for Lightning Bolt and one for Lightning Chain?

 

Mordekhuul

NeedToKnow and TellMeWhen:

I've been exploring these addons lately, and I love the simplicity and the idea of configuring to show just what I need to see.

One major issue I'm running into, however, is that there is no ability to store profiles to swap between when respec'ing or going from PVE to PVP mode.

Ideally, for me, would be a simple profile system where I could then plug in a mod like SetTheory (awesome mod) and have it swap profiles automatically when I have it swap between different sets of talents/gear/settings.

Are there other similarly simple addons that DO support profiles I should look at? I was hoping NTK and TMW would allow me to drop DoTimer in favor of showing just what I need/want to see.

Anything Ace might be an option, as I know SetTheory supports profile swapping for all Ace addons.

 

Rerolled

Recently I've become annoyed with DoTimer sometimes failing to show my dots when quickly switching targets. Are there any debuff addons that update from the combat log instead of from watching debuffs on your target/mouseover? Is such a thing even feasible in the context of a 25 man raid?

 

• Asphyxialol

As a DK I have never had any issues using Class Timers as my debuff monitor on multiple mobs, so I would give that a shot and see what you think.

 

Evictoray

Doesn't TellMeWhen have the ability to save several different bars?

 

gematt7

how do i put an outline on the damage font instead of the default blizzard shadow?
i use xDamageFont to change the font but i cant add an outline thru that.



also,
this piece of code in my oUF

if(unit=='player' or unit=='target' or unit=='pet'or unit == 'focus' or unit ==

'targettarget') then
self.Portrait = CreateFrame("PlayerModel", nil, self)
self.Portrait:SetPoint("TOPLEFT",self.Health,"TOPLEFT")
self.Portrait:SetPoint("BOTTOMRIGHT",self.Health,"BOTTOMRIGHT")
self.Portrait:SetFrameLevel(2)
self.Portrait:SetAlpha(.1)
end

basically adds 3d portraits to the unitframes, but i also want to do it on party frames.. i know all u do is add it to the first line but i dont know the name of the element.

 

Mordekhuul

It does, but only four maximum. SetTheory will let you configure it to turn them on or off depending on set. It is just a bit limited when you play a class that has two completely different roles you dual spec between and two different roles you PVP with on top (tank/ret PVE. ret/heal PVP).

I'll need to either live with only having a maximum of one bar per role or spend time configuring DoTimer to do the same things (if possible) and just hope that the hype about DoTimer doing a bunch of unnecessary raid communication is overblown.

 

Rerolled

Maybe I'm not configuring it correctly, but ClassTimer doesn't seem to be able to simultaneously show debuff durations on multiple mobs at all.

 

• Asphyxialol

Ah, you wanted one where all of your dots are shown on various different mobs? If that is the case, try looking into ForteXorcist, it has been a while since I have used it on my lock but last I remember it was very similar to DoTimer in that it could track multiple mobs and dots associated with them even if you didn't have them as your focus or targeted.

 

Rerolled

Thank you, this is a solution vastly superior to Dotimer.

 

crophonso

Hey all, I've got some specific questions about a few elements of my UI that I figured I'd ask here. Many of the mods I'm using can be a bit complex to set up properly and are not always documented as well as possible, so I'm grateful for a central place to go for help.

This is my first time seriously trying to get my UI to behave like I'd like it to so please forgive my freshness with some of the concepts.

Observe, my Paint skills:



As you can see, I've got a couple specific questions:

A. This is bugging the crap out of me. As a raid healer, the race (and level) of my target is usually not information that I need. I'm using Pitbull4 for my unit frames, and after messing around with it for over an hour I've still got no idea how to fix this. I think I've figured out the right direction, though. If I get into the Pitbull menu and work my way to the settings for my unitframes, I can edit the text that's shown anywhere on said frames. When trying to remove the level and class from my "Lua:Class" text, however, I've come up empty handed. Does anyone know how to do this? I'd just like a simple "Priest" instead of "80 Priest Undead". If I ever need to know the race of a character I can just mouse over it.

B. The space under my left chatbox really bugs me as well. I've got two chatboxes, as you can see. One is for Raid/Party talk and the other for more social elements, trade, etc. I like the dual setup and would prefer to keep it. However, in trying to save as much space as possible, I've got the "main" chatbox in the bottom left-hand corner of the screen, and it has to be raised a bit to allow for the "Text Entering" box to appear when I type something out. So, my question is, does anyone know of a way to put some blank black space under that chat box? Essentially I'd like to black the whole thing out so that I couldn't see through it, but would still be able to see text as I type it. I'm considering doing the same to my raidframes as I think it might help me pick out pertinent information in a hurry easier.

For my last question(s), I've got a new screenshot for you all to enjoy:



As you can see, this is basically my UI with all information possible displayed: if every member of my raid where there with a ton of debuffs, etc, that's what it would all look like. It's a bit cluttered but I think configuration screenshots usually look a bit messy. Anyway, it might be a little hard to see in that shot but I've got Pitbull set to show only the debuffs of raid members. As a whole I'm unsure of my whole debuff/buff setup, so if anyone has any suggestions, I'd really appreciate it. Right now, there are two rows of debuffs on each raid frame, one that's got a couple debuffs going along the bottom of the frame and another under that with only one buff. Any idea why this is/how I can make that extra debuff play nice and go along with the others above it? And like I said, any idea how I should handle the whole buff/debuff/dispelling issue? For me and my target I had a different idea, giving us both two SBF frames, one with our buffs/debuffs with less than 4 minute durations and one with buffs/debuffs with a longer duration than that. The idea is that I'll be able to concentrate on the buffs/debuffs with a shorter timer as they'll tend to be more relevant to combat (PoM, PW:S, WS, Renew, Etc.) So yeah, any suggestions at all on how I can handle raid debuffs/buffs/dispelling or even the buffs/debuffs for me and my target would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for all the help, I realize it's a large post but I hope I didn't ramble on too much.

 

Bambislayer

i use chatter addon and as i recall you are able to move the frame for typing in to the top of the chat window instead of the bottom. this would enable you to stretch your chat window all the way down.

WoW AddOns - Chatter - WowAce.com

 

harrellj

For the black box, you could probably do something with either eepanels, eepanels2, or kgpanels. Sunn Viewport Art might be the easier solution as a backdrop as well. All of these have the added benefit of also allowing you to have a backdrop for your raid frames as well.

I can't help with the Pitbull stuff, as I use X-Perl personally. One question though, are you a raid healer or just DPS priest, or in other words, do you REALLY need to have debuffs on your raid frames other than a few specific ones? If you're just trying to monitor who has your PoM for instance, I've seen an addon that will monitor just that. Or you could go grid and have one corner be yellow for the PoM, as an example. In the middle of a boss fight, would you be able to see those debuff icons on your current raid frame and be able to make the decisions you need, or you using them for monitoring? Basically, how much information do you need to come from your raid frames and is Pitbull the right option for your playstyle or would something like Grid, Vuhdo, etc fit better). I'm melee DPS, so for me, no buffs/debuffs on my raid frame since I only care about whether we're 3-manning a boss or whether only one person has died and we just don't have enough DPS to down the boss we're fighting.

 

Enkore

I am curious to how you would be able to get Buttonfacade to work with ForteXorcist, on the cool down bar, any help is greatly appreciated.

 

Noraj

I'm looking for a way to use a panel mod like eePanels or kgPanels to create a panel behind my buffs that will change size depending on the number of buffs I currently have so that I don't just have a large empty box on my screen with only a handful of buffs up while I"m soloing.

If that's not possible (I don't know what the in-combat rules are in relation to the lua scripting required), please recommend any buff mod which would achieve a similar effect using any of the built in / SharedMedia borders for the frame.

"The question is not how far we are going to take it... the question is, do you possess the constitution to go as far as needed?" - Il Duce

 

kgrf

This is impossible as far as I know; the furthest you can customize the buttons is the border color.