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Old 11/12/08, 10:36 AM   #151
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No, I mean that it shows the Water Shield icon. Permanently, regardless of what shield I have on, or off.

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Old 11/19/08, 7:40 PM   #152
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Silly question: how hard would it be to put an Elemental mode on this?
Showing Flame Shock dot duration, Lava Burst/Chain Lightning cooldown/use buttons

I can get the same effect from combining NeetToKnow and CooldownButtons, but I figure that a better mod can be made for it

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Old 11/24/08, 7:43 AM   #153
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Originally Posted by Malan View Post
No, I mean that it shows the Water Shield icon. Permanently, regardless of what shield I have on, or off.
Hopefully fixed in v3.70.

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Silly question: how hard would it be to put an Elemental mode on this?
Showing Flame Shock dot duration, Lava Burst/Chain Lightning cooldown/use buttons

I can get the same effect from combining NeetToKnow and CooldownButtons, but I figure that a better mod can be made for it
Hmmm, testing & time are the issues. Once I calm down from the leveling period I can do a review of priorities for updating the addon.

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Old 11/25/08, 4:02 PM   #154
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SAA v3.71 (r103)

Export function creates a little mess on windows using the standard editor. There seems to be something wrong with CR/LF so there is no new line.
Using Notepad++ or pasting it in here produces completely normal output, I don't know if this is fixable or if this is a general problem with the windows edit, if it is, there could be a note somewhere telling the user to use a "better" editor.

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Old 11/26/08, 9:07 AM   #155
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Originally Posted by Mindrila View Post
SAA v3.71 (r103)

Export function creates a little mess on windows using the standard editor. There seems to be something wrong with CR/LF so there is no new line.
Using Notepad++ or pasting it in here produces completely normal output, I don't know if this is fixable or if this is a general problem with the windows edit, if it is, there could be a note somewhere telling the user to use a "better" editor.
There is a note already. The issue is entirely with notepad being a retarded text editor and not understanding standard line end characters. However the standard line end characters are what WoW produces so there is little control over that either. Solution is simple don't use Notepad. User's don't even have to use a special editor Windows comes with a proper editor called Wordpad that correctly understands standard line terminator characters.

I've researched this a lot and its for historic reasons that line end terminators were different on different operating systems. These days they are virtually interchangeable as all modern editors with the exception of Notepad understand the variety of possible new line characters.

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Old 11/28/08, 11:31 AM   #156
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SAA 3.71 (r106)

When I want to export something, all I get is:


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Edit:
Never mind, somehow the problem solved itself and it is working fine again.

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Old 11/28/08, 3:18 PM   #157
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Curious I had that at one point and repeated exports would give no further data. However it was late so I didn't look to see what was wrong - following day I couldn't replicate the issue.

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Old 11/28/08, 7:44 PM   #158
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Excellent add-on and it's working really well for me. I may be using it a little bit differently in that I'm finding the priority frame massively helpful and the timer bars are a bit too much on screen activity. Using that as my primary display I noticed a couple of things that may be potential improvements. I upgraded to 3.71 (most recent on curse) to check the behaviour still existed.

I don't seem to be able to globally switch the timer bars off like I can the uptime display. If I uncheck the individual timer bars then the priority frame itself doesn't display any icons. End result is that I have the timer bars active but minimized into a tiny little busily animated spec in the top corner.
The mw5 lightning bolt display doesn't seem to reflect global cooldown. I like how the other ability icons vanish during cooldown so I'm not hammering buttons uselessly.
It would be great to be able to put my shield (water / lightning) into the priority queue. I have text and audio set but sometimes I miss the notice or the re-application is blocked on GC and I miss that. It would also allow me to decide when I want to know my shield is down, I'd rather do a stormstrike than refresh shields but rather refresh shields than lava lash.

Thanks again for the mod, it's excellent.

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Old 11/29/08, 6:16 PM   #159
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I like the new Feral Spirit bar, but I'm wondering if I can't get a toggle for it to be like the Shield Bars, so that while its on cooldown I see nothing, but when its ready I get a bar? Perhaps even making the Feral Spirits bar elongated, for how long they're there?

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Old 11/30/08, 6:41 AM   #160
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Or better yet, split the functionality of the bar. I for one don't need to see the cooldown bar because I have the icon for the ability visible on a bar, but I *would* like to see the time remaining on the wolves summon. Doesn't need to be 2 different bars, but if you could add the ability to toggle one or the other (instead of both being on/off as it is now) that would be great.

If that's something you end up doing, could you additionally make the feral spirit bar movable separate from the other bars? I'd like to have it sit in my UI over near my pet bar.

Minor bug - the alert sounds don't respect the Sound Off settings in the interface menu, so if I turn off sound momentarily for a phone call, I still get MW or Shield warning sounds played.

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Old 12/01/08, 2:50 PM   #161
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Originally Posted by Hiiru View Post
I may be using it a little bit differently in that I'm finding the priority frame massively helpful and the timer bars are a bit too much on screen activity.
I felt the exact same way at first and was trying to find any way I could to hide the timer bars. After I convinced myself it wasn't possible, I just made the best of them and put them front and center. They have started to help me better anticipate my next keypress and find a natural rhythm, and I feel more proactive than reactive due to that. Very glad I didn't have the opportunity to turn them off now!

This mod has become invaluable to me, and I thank you for its creation and continued development.

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Old 12/04/08, 5:39 PM   #162
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I've observed some strangeness lately where SAA will keep telling me that my weapon buffs have expired even though they have plenty of time left (as in, 20+ minutes). Its happened a few times for no reason as far as I can tell, and another time I saw it while I was using Shatter Void (enchanting). Every time I cast the Shatter Void, SAA would trigger that my weapon buffs had expired.

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Old 12/04/08, 8:04 PM   #163
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Ok major bug, I finally found that "hidden frame" I couldn't click through - it is the Warning Text frame from SAA. If I put my mouse over that frame (while its not in the movement mode) I can't use any buttons from my mouse to interact with the game.

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Old 12/05/08, 3:56 AM   #164
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Originally Posted by Malan View Post
I've observed some strangeness lately where SAA will keep telling me that my weapon buffs have expired even though they have plenty of time left (as in, 20+ minutes).
I'll confirm the existence of this bug. I've noted the same effect, though as with Malan I can't identify a cause. I've seen it happen when I was flying from Dalaran to do a JC daily, though, so I can only guess it's not action related.

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Old 12/05/08, 5:50 AM   #165
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Thanks for the feedback guys. I've seen the Weapon buffs expiring issue too.

I'll work on that and the other issues noted here this weekend. I've finally had some time and got some leveling done and currently 15% into 79. So I should hit 80 this weekend and thus be more inclined to actually fix bugs rather than live with them whilst I get that extra quest or five done.

Apologies for the break in service and the long period between updates lately, normal service ought to be resumed shortly.

PS. Its strange what leveling does to you. I've been leveling with my mates, we are leveling two chars each to 80 alternating them so we max rested XP and can breeze through content. One of the issues we had was never finding quest items in our bags and one guy in particular was always taking additional time finding stuff. He then lamented the fact that he couldn't find a simple addon that took all of his quest items and displayed them in a separate bag. Such a simple idea and so Quest Item was born. It's up on Curse.com at Quest Item - Addons - Curse

So I spent a little time fiddling with that addon and the net result was a far faster questing experience we went from 225K/hr to over 300K/hr because he could find stuff.

Originally Posted by Malan View Post
I've observed some strangeness lately where SAA will keep telling me that my weapon buffs have expired even though they have plenty of time left (as in, 20+ minutes). Its happened a few times for no reason as far as I can tell, and another time I saw it while I was using Shatter Void (enchanting). Every time I cast the Shatter Void, SAA would trigger that my weapon buffs had expired.
Useful to have a specific it always happens when I do this, my Shammy is not an enchanter however so I can't test that, does anyone else have specific "it always heppens when I ..." things I can test to see what the bug is.


Edit: Update - I've dry coded some changes which should eliminate the window frame not clickable bug, I'll release the version once I've tested it in game this evening.

Edit2: I also think I've solved the weapon enchant warning bug. Again I'll need to test it in game to be sure. It looks like Blizzard are firing spurious Enchant_Removed events. It might be that it was someone close to you had buffs expire. That would account for the seemingly random nature of the event. Or it might be as Malan discovered that the event is firing when he disenchants something. ie: A Blizzard bug as there is no reason whatsoever for the API to fire a Weapon Enchant Removed event when you disenchant something.

So I've added explicit checks when the event fires to check the status of your weapon buffs, so it will double check when the event fires that it is YOUR weapon buffs that have expired.

Last edited by Levva : 12/05/08 at 10:32 AM.

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