The DogTags 3.0 Thread - Page 5

◊ Malan · 04/06/08, 11:40 AM

I apologize for what is probably a repetition but know that *somewhere* in the UI forum someone posted the dogtag method for shortening [Name] so that long target names would only appear to be X characters wide. I can't find it here and I can't locate it in the dogtag help file either. Anyone able to help me out?

Eucharion · 04/06/08, 11:57 AM

Malan, it's :Truncate(x) where x is the number of characters.

Malag · 04/06/08, 12:02 PM

Malan: [Name:Truncate(15, nil)] (DogTag 3.0)

nil is for removing the "..." which normally gets appended.

Could I ask people who post more advanced dogtags to actually check them for errors, and when/if errors get pointed out at a later time, please go back and fix them? It's not that I'm not capable of finding them myself, but often they've been corrected in later posts already.

And a question of my own: I'd like to shorten my hp deficit values to the format "-6.8k" rather than having it read "-6843", but :Short doesn't seem to do it on values below 10,000 and :VeryShort doesn't put decimals in at all. Which silly little thing am I missing here?

Btw Zerchi - Love the icons, definitly going to be using those.

Gearknight · 04/06/08, 2:07 PM

Originally Posted by Malag

And a question of my own: I'd like to shorten my hp deficit values to the format "-6.8k" rather than having it read "-6843", but :Short doesn't seem to do it on values below 10,000 and :VeryShort doesn't put decimals in at all. Which silly little thing am I missing here?

Not really a solution, but here's a workaround for you:

-[(MissingHP > 999) ? "%.1f%s":Format(MissingHP / 1000, 'k') ! MissingHP]

◊ Malan · 04/06/08, 2:26 PM

Originally Posted by Eucharion

Malan, it's :Truncate(x) where x is the number of characters.

Ah! Truncate! No wonder, I kept searching for Concatenate for some reason.

Ferous · 04/06/08, 7:51 PM

My codes don't work with the new DogTags, and was wondering if anyone could give me a hand and help me figure out the code for these. They are durations on my LB, Rejuv, and Regrowth within my Pitbull.

The code right now that I have for it is:

[Outline][ [Class#player = Text(Druid)] ? HasAura(Regrowth) ? AuraTimeLeft(Regrowth):Floor:Color(99dd99):Bracket][ [Class#player = Text(Druid)] ? HasAura(Rejuvenation) ? AuraTimeLeft(Rejuvenation):Floor:Color(00bbff):Bracket][ [Class#player = Text(Druid)] ? HasAura(Lifebloom) ? AuraTimeLeft(Lifebloom):Floor:Append([Text(*):Rep([NumAura(Lifebloom)])]):Green:Bracket]

Margot · 04/06/08, 9:22 PM

All strings have to be explicitly escaped in version 3.

That means all your colors, all your spell names, and all texts must be in quotes.

[Class#player = Text("Druid")] and so on.

Ferous · 04/06/08, 10:56 PM

Oh ok. Thank you very much! That will help me out a great deal.

EDIT: Ok, I tried out the quotations, but I couldn't get them to work. If anyone can give me pointers on how to get them working again, I would be much appreciated. I am still trying right now to figure it out, and thank you again for the quick response.

cs-cam · 04/07/08, 10:55 AM

Originally Posted by Ferous

Oh ok. Thank you very much! That will help me out a great deal.

EDIT: Ok, I tried out the quotations, but I couldn't get them to work. If anyone can give me pointers on how to get them working again, I would be much appreciated. I am still trying right now to figure it out, and thank you again for the quick response.

Maybe post what you've got at the moment? Could be something as simple as a single missing quotation somewhere and posting your current work will give you another few sets of eyes to check it over.

Inno · 04/07/08, 1:55 PM

I've been trying to get the

"IsLeader(unit="player")"

tag to work but as of yet I cant get it to appear properly. No matter how I try to get it working it just doesn't. It'll either display nothing or say that everyone in the group/bg/raid is the leader.

help :-(

◊ Zerchi · 04/07/08, 2:02 PM

Originally Posted by Inno

I've been trying to get the

"IsLeader(unit="player")"

tag to work but as of yet I cant get it to appear properly. No matter how I try to get it working it just doesn't. It'll either display nothing or say that everyone in the group/bg/raid is the leader.

help :-(

I think the unit="player" part means it's checking if YOU are the leader or not which might explain why it's all or nothing. So all you want is [IsLeader] since the unitframe or tooltip will handle the targeting business.

Inno · 04/07/08, 2:36 PM

Yeah I tried it as IsLeader by itself as well. that gave everyone the mark as well

◊ Zerchi · 04/07/08, 2:47 PM

Originally Posted by Inno

Yeah I tried it as IsLeader by itself as well. that gave everyone the mark as well

It's possible there's a dogtag bug then but something like [if IsLeader then "L"] theoretically should do the trick.

SOOPRcow · 04/07/08, 4:40 PM

Okay, This is my sexy little "Need Innervate" dogtag for my raid frames and party. I use it before the "Name" tag on my frames. This will put an Innervate icon before the name of anyone in the raid or party who is bellow 20% mana and is a Druid or a Priest.

[(if (IsMana and (PercentMP < 20) and ~HasAura("Innervate") and ((Class = "Druid") or (Class = "Priest"))) then
    "Interface\Icons\Spell_Nature_Lightning":Icon(12)
end) Name]

Anyway, Have fun with it

Malag · 04/07/08, 5:08 PM

Is it just me, or does your Pitbull Raid-frames seem to get very laggy when you start putting in a lot of DogTag checks as well?

Would be nice to maybe have the DogTag texts only be enabled at all when certain criterias are met (like BigWig modules?).

Now, I haven't tried this one out yet, but I don't see a problem with it this far. Basically, after a night of messing around with this boss, seems to me that the duration of the Burn debuff on Brutallus has a lot to say for your decisionmaking:

Nevermind :)

I'll get back to this post later and edit it if it doesn't work ingame.

It's a perfect example of a DogTag I'd really like to not have active on any other fight.

spiderella · 04/07/08, 5:16 PM

Tracking Burn time on a Pitbull unit frame will not work for the same reason tracking Kalecgos curse doesn't. (The DogTags 3.0 Thread)

There's an RDX package (Brethren UF) that puts a timer bar on units for curses and burn. I hate RDX for all of its complexities but am glad our guild's healers are using it . . . Ace is so much more elegant when it's capable /shrug.

Malag · 04/07/08, 6:50 PM

Originally Posted by spiderella

Tracking Burn time on a Pitbull unit frame will not work for the same reason tracking Kalecgos curse doesn't. (The DogTags 3.0 Thread)

There's an RDX package (Brethren UF) that puts a timer bar on units for curses and burn. I hate RDX for all of its complexities but am glad our guild's healers are using it . . . Ace is so much more elegant when it's capable /shrug.

Ah thanks for clearing that up. I must've missed/misunderstood that. Guess I'll look for another way to handle it.

Covet · 04/07/08, 10:26 PM

Originally Posted by Sethik

Had a few requests for updated tags for my CowTip styles:

LEFT:

[Level:White] [NameRealm:ClassColor] [Classification:Paren]
[if Guild then Guild:Angle:Green " " GuildRank:Paren:Color("caf6c8") else " " end]
[(if IsPlayer and IsFriend then (if TalentSpec then TalentTree " " TalentSpec:Paren:Gray else "Loading..." end) end) (if IsUnit("pet") then HappyText end)]
[Zone]
[if IsUnit("player", Target) then Red "Targeting << You >>" elseif Target:NameRealm then "Targeting <" Target:NameRealm:ClassColor(Target) ">" end]

RIGHT:

[Faction or SmartRace]
[if Faction then SmartRace end]
[if IsPlayerOrPet then PercentHP:Percent:HPColor elseif InCombat then PercentHP:Percent:HPColor end]

I'm trying this now, I have the LibDogTag-3.0 and LibDogTag-Unit-3.0, but am having issues with the health percentage display. Everything looks perfect if it's a player or NPC target. If it's a player's pet, the HP percent is nudged up against the race.

Player Target

Pet Target (yeah, this is a player SS, but the pet frame does the same thing)

CowTip - Edit Lines

Gearknight · 04/08/08, 1:18 AM

Originally Posted by Covet

I'm trying this now, I have the LibDogTag-3.0 and LibDogTag-Unit-3.0, but am having issues with the health percentage display. Everything looks perfect if it's a player or NPC target. If it's a player's pet, the HP percent is nudged up against the race.

CowTip does this if there's a tag on the right side but nothing on the left - it fails to allocate height for that line of text. I worked around it in my tags by making sure that something will always display on the left side if there's stuff on the right.

Covet · 04/08/08, 12:58 PM

Originally Posted by Gearknight

CowTip does this if there's a tag on the right side but nothing on the left - it fails to allocate height for that line of text. I worked around it in my tags by making sure that something will always display on the left side if there's stuff on the right.

Thank you! That makes sense because it was happening with Alliance (non-friendly targets) when their spec wasn't displaying. I ended up switching things up anyway just for personal preference.

One more question... I used the following text in my lines

[Faction or SmartRace]
[if Faction then SmartRace end]

and I love it, but I want to pare it down a bit more. For example, if I'm targeting a player or their pet I only want to know the [SmartRace]. If I'm targeting a non-player (creature, NPC, etc), I want to see the [Faction] and [SmartRace]. Would something like this work?

[if IsPlayerOrPet then SmartRace elseif IsUnit then Faction]
[if Faction then SmartRace end]

Sethik · 04/08/08, 1:54 PM

Originally Posted by Covet

I'm trying this now, I have the LibDogTag-3.0 and LibDogTag-Unit-3.0, but am having issues with the health percentage display. Everything looks perfect if it's a player or NPC target. If it's a player's pet, the HP percent is nudged up against the race.

Player Target

Pet Target (yeah, this is a player SS, but the pet frame does the same thing)

Yeah, I have the same problem. It's a bug with CowTip.

As Contrail/Grey said, if you make sure there's something on the left, it'll fix it. That's why my guild line has [else " "]. You can do the same thing with the other lines if you like, but I was hoping it'd be fixed.

Originally Posted by Covet

Thank you! That makes sense because it was happening with Alliance (non-friendly targets) when their spec wasn't displaying. I ended up switching things up anyway because some of my

One more question... I used the following text in my lines

[Faction or SmartRace]
[if Faction then SmartRace end]

and I love it, but I want to pare it down a bit more. For example, if I'm targeting a player or their pet I only want to know the [SmartRace]. If I'm targeting a non-player (creature, NPC, etc), I want to see the [Faction] and [SmartRace]. Would something like this work?

[if IsPlayerOrPet then SmartRace elseif IsUnit then Faction]
[if Faction then SmartRace end]

This:

[if IsPlayerOrPet then SmartRace else Faction end]
[if not IsPlayerOrPet then SmartRace end]

Dinnu · 04/08/08, 3:09 PM

<edit> Duh check the wiki.

Migzankpoofa · 04/08/08, 8:42 PM

Originally Posted by Ferous

My codes don't work with the new DogTags, and was wondering if anyone could give me a hand and help me figure out the code for these. They are durations on my LB, Rejuv, and Regrowth within my Pitbull.

The code right now that I have for it is:

[Outline][ [Class#player = Text(Druid)] ? HasAura(Regrowth) ? AuraTimeLeft(Regrowth):Floor:Color(99dd99):Bracket][ [Class#player = Text(Druid)] ? HasAura(Rejuvenation) ? AuraTimeLeft(Rejuvenation):Floor:Color(00bbff):Bracket][ [Class#player = Text(Dr