I am at work right now so I cannot directly test them but this sounds like it could work. Can you display Elk's as icons without the name? I am trying to limit some of the space usage and I don't really care about the duration or name I just want to know when they have the buff/debuff.

@Tecknologik

Using code similar to this should work for what you're trying to do...

(if (HasAura("Divine Shield") then
"DS":Yellow
end) (if (HasAura("Divine Illumination") then
"DI":Green
end) (if (HasAura("Innervate") then
"In":Blue

end) (if (HasAura("insertbuffhere") or HasAura("otherbuffhere")) then
".":Yellow << would be for like motw and gotw

The "DS", "DI" and color after it could be dots, *'s, whatever you want to use for a symbol or placeholder. It should only show up if they have it, and in the color denoted.

If you go to page 1 in this thread, the first post, it has this setup for their buffs, so you can see what it looks like with .'s as placeholders. You can go as far as writing out the word. If there is more than 1 it should just expand. Those buffs don't last very long and are situational, so it could be helpful. Depends really on how and why you're doing it.

You should be able to do it with the icons... i'm just not entirely sure how. If you got that part figured out, you should be able to string them along like above.

Thanks, when I read the first post again and the few after it, it makes more sense to me now.

The reason I want to set this up on my focus is for a purge focus macro or rapid target change to my focus without re-targeting it to find out what it has. Most of the buff/debuffs they can have I don't care about except ones that help with mana or allow them to become invulnerable to damage ex. Ice Block and Divine Shield. Forbearance/Hypothermia prevent those from being applied again for their duration.

I also would use it for my focus shock macro specifically on paladins so I know when they have activated divine shield and are immune to earth shock.

You can, it's how I have it set up right now. The only problem might be that I'm not sure if it inherently can access your focus, though it wouldn't be too hard to hack in if I'm not mistaken. I worked with the code a while back to add in the ability to display cooldown spirals, and it was fairly easy to read through.

Ya using that code, and just replacing the symbol/placeholder/word, for the actual icon code you had originally, I don't see why it wouldn't work fine.

Just make sure you have

end) before you start the next (if

I think I have it, just not positive about syntax. Do I need to have end specified on the next line before the next buff/debuff, or can it be on the same line? Also is there actually returns in the code or could/would it just be one big line? This is what I have right now, syntaxed so its easier to read:

[(if HasAura("Divine Shield") then "Interface/Icons/Spell_Holy_DivineIntervention":Icon end)
(if HasAura("Divine Illumination") then "Interface/Icons/Spell_Holy_DivineIllumination":Icon end)
(if HasAura("Power Infusion") then "Interface/Icons/Spell_Holy_PowerInfusion":Icon end)
(if HasAura("Innervate") then "Interface/Icons/Spell_Nature_Lightning":Icon end)]

[(if HasAura("Forbearance") then "Interface/Icons/Spell_Holy_RemoveCurse":Icon end)
(if HasAura("Hypothermia") then "Interface/Icons/Spell_Fire_BlueImmolation":Icon end)]

EDIT for clarification of position:

I want to put the buff frame icons above the focus frame on the left side expanding right and put the debuff frame icons on the right hand side expanding left. Probably need to add some left/right commands into it to specify this but I can deal with that when the time comes.

I knew I needed to change it to hasdebuff but totally forgot lol. Thank you for the syntax fix.

Ya, you can do it no problem with the buffs on the right and the debuffs on the left or vice versa, just make 2 separate code entries and align them as needed.

I currently have icon's setup like that and they appear to work. The icon code listing is a little strange and hard to interpret since the syntax appears to work in two different forms.

The one above says it should be like "Icon(*path*, size=X)" but below it has "*path*:icon". Little bit hazzy on which is the "proper" form and where you adjust size of the icon in the ladder syntax line.

Ex. Both of these appear to work to show icons:

if HasAura("Polymorph") then
"Interface/Icons/Spell_Nature_Polymorph":Icon

if AuraDuration("Hamstring", unit="target") >= 11 then
Icon("Interface/Icons/Ability_Shockwave", size=20)

That came from the dogtag wiki page, which is sometimes as hard as reading greek without being fluent.

LibDogTag-3.0 - WowAce Wiki

Sorry to confuse you but ya I just looked at that again myself and thought, well I think what I typed was wrong.

As long as it's working I wouldn't worry too much about it.

Ok, so I got to test it. The buff frame works great but the debuff frame does not work. Not sure if I can make it work I can only find hasdebufftype friendly target actions, not hostile actions. Here is the Buff frame:

[(if HasAura("Divine Shield") then
Icon("Interface/Icons/Spell_Holy_DivineIntervention", size=40)
end)
(if HasAura("Divine Illumination") then
Icon("Interface/Icons/Spell_Holy_DivineIllumination", size=40)
end)
(if HasAura("Power Infusion") then
Icon("Interface/Icons/Spell_Holy_PowerInfusion", size=40)
end)
(if HasAura("Innervate") then
Icon("Interface/Icons/Spell_Nature_Lightning", size=40)
end)]

Here is what I have for the debuff frame:

[(if HasDebuffType("Forbearance") then
Icon("Interface/Icons/Spell_Holy_RemoveCurse", size=40)
end) (if HasDebuffType("Hypothermia") then
Icon("Interface/Icons/Spell_Fire_BlueImmolation", size=40)
end)]

Not sure what to do to fix the debuff frame. It has no errors I can see, it just doesn't do anything.

Here is the work around I came up with for the debuff frame. The if clause is a little fuzzy. I have a feeling the AuraDuration needs to be somewhere for this to work right.

[(if HasAura("Divine Shield") ((AuraDuration("Divine Shield") + 48) > 0) then
Icon("Interface/Icons/Spell_Holy_RemoveCurse", size=40)
end)
(if HasIceBlock ((AuraDuration("Ice Block") + 18) > 0) then
Icon("Interface/Icons/Spell_Fire_BlueImmolation", size=40)
end)]

Does the AuraDuration command kick in the instant the duration appears? If it does, then

if ((AuraDuration("Divine Shield") + 48) > 0)

would return true when the target gains divine shield. Then I don't need the HasAura(...) or HasIceBlock(...)

Actually thinking about it that way seems like its the only way AuraDuration could work. I am going to post this anyway in case I missed something.

You're going at this the wrong way. Tags are periodically refreshed, and when they are, the functions you place in them are called. So on refresh of a tag, you would call AuraDuration("Divine Shield"). If the target has Divine Shield, the function will return the duration in seconds. If not, it returns "nil". Any attempt to add "nil" to another number will throw an error, and even if it didn't, 0+48 is always greater than 0, so your tag would always show the icon. Unfortunately, there is no history involved with tags, so you'll never be able to use Divine Shield as a flag after it's gone.

Looking at your previous attempt, HasDebuffType("Forbearance") is not a useful tag. HasDebuffType() checks for a type of debuff, i.e. magic, curse, poison, etc. I could write and it would pop up the text if I had Curse of Tongues, Weakness, etc. on me (or whoever the target is). Using HasDebuffType("Forbearance") returns nothing because there is no debuff of the type Forbearance. You really do want HasAura("Forbearance") for that, and it should work as intended.

That makes sense. I apologize for giving the wrong information. It just made sense since Forbearance and Hypothermia were technically debuffs, they would use the debuff coding.

Its ok. Made sense to me too.

So it should be:

[(if HasAura("Forbearance") then
Icon("Interface/Icons/Spell_Holy_RemoveCurse", size=40)
end)
(if HasAura("Hypothermia") then
Icon("Interface/Icons/Spell_Fire_BlueImmolation", size=40)
end)]

Looking for a DogTag which makes the name on my CowTip show as class color if its a player, and colors npcs with hostility colors. Can't get it to work :/

Is there any way to add an empty line in cowtip on the left side and display a tag on the other side? If I leave it empty it just shows the tag in a "half" line. Tried adding a " " but it just doen't get displayed.

It's working perfectly! Thanks a lot!

Try putting:

[Alpha(0) "..."]

in the left column. That should make some invisible text.

I'm trying to use the Dogtag feature of StatBlocks to display my ranged attack speed (in a format like "Speed: 2.61") but only when in combat. The normal RangedStats feature can show the speed like this, but I can't seem to figure out how to make it only show it in combat.

Is there a dogtag code for ranged attack speed? If so I can't seem to figure it out.

Thanks.

There are no dogtags for character stats. I often wish there were, and it's probably possible to write a module that does it, but it hasn't been done.

Hey,

I'm quite new to the Dog Tag Feature. I use CowTip for some time. As a Paladin Tank I like the threat feature for Mouse Over Enemy Units. In AoE Situation this is helpful.

I changed the default threat value to: MissingThreat(unit="player") (found this in the online help for DogTags).

Problem 1 is: It shows 0 if I'm not in combat and for all units (NPC Merchants and so on..). Is it possible to hide this if I have 0 Threat against a unit?

Also If I'm the one with max threat on the target, is it possible to replace the 0 with: a green: MAX or so?

The Threat Page in the wikki is not that helpful unfortunatly

Thanks!