The DogTags 3.0 Thread
 

Since most of the DogTags in the thread are now defunct it's probably best to get a new thread going to avoid confusion. Here's updated version of the tags I posted.

Scorch stack display:

Display if a target is frozen:




Colored dots to display buffs:

Here's Calyonis's sheep code ported to the newer format:

Only problem with that, is that by default HasAura() uses oneself (player) as the object to look at. You'd need to modify it to HasAura("Polymorph", unit="focus") and AuraDuration("Polymorph", unit="focus") if you want it to work for your focus target.

HasAura defaults the unit frame that the DogTag is located on. If you put it in your Focus unit frame then it's fine. If you want the sheep text on another unit frame then you have to, but that's the same for any code.

My new CowTip tags:



Clockwise from top: players, mobs with <Fake Guild Names>, regular mobs, NPCs, pets.

What you can't see in the screenshots: druid forms and shadowform show up after Class for players, and AFK, Offline, Dead, etc show up to the right of player name. The word "Special" on mobs like Slaag is there because CowTip won't allocate any height to a row that only has a tag on the right side.

1L: [Namerealm:HostileColor]
1R: [Status]

2L: [IsPet ? Creature ! (GuildRank | Faction | (Guild ? 'Special'))]
2R: [(Guild='player':Guild ? Green) Guild:Angle]

3L: [ShortSex:Upper] [Race] [not IsPlayer ? CreatureType]
3R: [Classification] [Level:DifficultyColor] [IsPlayer ? (Class:ClassColor DruidForm (IsShadowForm ? 'Shadow'))]

4L: [Zone | (Exists(unit=Target) ? 'Target:')]
4R: [(Target:IsPlayer ? ClassColor(unit=Target) ! (not Target:IsPlayer & Target:IsEnemy) ? Color("dddddd")) (IsUnit('player', Target) ? ClassColor("") '<<You>>':white ! Target:NameRealm)]

5L: [TalentTree ' ' TalentSpec:Paren]

I would suggest adding the wowace.com/wiki/LibDogTag-3.0 wiki link to the original post for new reader's easy reference.

While trying to make an amateur DogTag for Pitbull, I seemed to encounter some sort of tag length restriction giving "syntax error" messages. Ended up breaking it into two working tags, one left justified, the other right justified:

"M: Timer" format for mangle followed by "R: Timer" format for rip/lacerate:
"F: Timer" format for Faerie Fire followed by "D: Timer" format for demoralizing roar:
The idea behind these is to emulate Xperl's feature where your debuffs appear larger than all the other debuffs ("Big Debuffs") so it's very easy to see when the ones you applied are going to wear off.

The Xperl feature mimicking would probably be better achieved by making a custom Pitbull layout, but I wouldn't know where to start with that. As it is, I'm not happy with the plain text look and will probably go back to Xperl until DogTags get access to textures/icons, but the apparent DogTag size limit is what dissuaded me from working on some other ideas.

While I don't know DogTags especially well, the "Frost" in TalentTree() in this one should be "Fire" since you're checking for Fire Vuln, shouldn't it?

Yeah woops.

Originally I had this as a request help post but did some looking around and figured out it isn't that hard at all, wanted to display different settings between targeting a NPC and a Player, this is what I use for my targets MP and HP now.

Updated the number of debuffs & curses tag for 3.0:

Example: 14 S E R

Modified the sheep macro posted above, a bit. First time using and coding Dogtags, so I bet the code I used is pretty excessive, but at least it works.

Similar to the above, I've modified my buff tracking tags to give a time-sense as well, i.e.
Posts M in green if Mark or Gift is active, yellow if active with less than 5 min (300s), and red if inactive.

Have you had any trouble with this tag working only infrequently? For some reason, only about 5% of the (non-PvP flagged) players I am clicking on in Shatt will show their Talent tree/spec in my PitBull window. I found an old DT2 thread about a similar problem, but don't know whether it's me now, since obviously things are different.

A bit off-topic, but where do I actually type those tags in to get them added to my frames like in the picture?

It took me a while to figure out that I can add them next to the "name" or "class" tag by clicking addon/pitbull/target (frame)/texts/name (or class), choosing custom style and then editing it.

I haven't found a way to put them into a new line/text are, like your "freeze" is in new line, or the "." tags are below the unit frame.
I suspect that the option addon/pitbull/target/texts/other => new might add a new line for that, but I can't seem to get to create one.

Any hints, or pointers where I could read that up would be really appreciated.


[Edit]
Thanks for the quick help! I tried that before and nothing happened. Tried again now, still nothing. Then disabled all mods except pitbull, and it worked. Enabled all other mods, still works. Odd. Thanks again! Time to kill another day with UI fiddling :o

To add a new dog tag to a frame in PitBull go to the frame settings, then Texts, then Other, then in the New Text box type a name for your new DogTag. It'll add a new entry under Texts for that frame. Then in the settings for the text you can set how do position it. You can either position it in reference to the frame with the dropdown next to Frame or you can position it in reference to any of the bars you have shown. For example, the Frozen text I have is Frame: Edge-Bottom.