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Old 10/09/08, 2:36 AM   #1
Celillenna
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TinyTip Replacement?

I'd be interested in something like TinyTip that was maintained a bit more regularly. I have the old version of TinyTip, but it conflicts with other mods that add things to tooltips (for example, Altaholic's additional tooltip info on items gets gobbled). Anything that could be recommended?

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Old 10/09/08, 2:43 AM   #2
seminarca
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I switched over to CowTip when TinyTip borked on me a few months ago, and found it to be more than a suitable replacement. I used to grab it off WoWAce, you might be able to find it on wowinterface or Curse I assume (I haven't dug into where I'll be grabbing my mods from now that WoWAce is dead).

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Old 10/09/08, 3:11 AM   #3
 Intermission
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I've found TipTac to be great. Better than TinyTip, even. The setup is very easy to navigate. It takes no more than a couple minutes to setup the:
- Anchor (static, or bound to mouse, with alternate anchor points and offsets)
- Background/border colouring based on hostility/class/item
- Fonts, textures, gradients, gloss, etc.
- Target of the unit, with a nice <<YOU>> option.
- Health/mana bars
- Buff/debuff (with/without filtering)
- Talent specs
- and all the usual stuff you'd expect a tooltip mod to do.

It works in 3.0 too.

Link: TipTac : WoWInterface Downloads : ToolTip

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Old 10/09/08, 3:17 AM   #4
Celillenna
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Originally Posted by Intermission View Post
I've found TipTac to be great. Better than TinyTip, even. The setup is very easy to navigate. It takes no more than a couple minutes to setup the:
- Anchor (static, or bound to mouse, with alternate anchor points and offsets)
- Background/border colouring based on hostility/class/item
- Fonts, textures, gradients, gloss, etc.
- Target of the unit, with a nice <<YOU>> option.
- Health/mana bars
- Buff/debuff (with/without filtering)
- Talent specs
- and all the usual stuff you'd expect a tooltip mod to do.

It works in 3.0 too.

Link: TipTac : WoWInterface Downloads : ToolTip
Giving this a try, thanks.

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Old 10/09/08, 4:38 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by seminarca View Post
I switched over to CowTip when TinyTip borked on me a few months ago, and found it to be more than a suitable replacement. I used to grab it off WoWAce, you might be able to find it on wowinterface or Curse I assume (I haven't dug into where I'll be grabbing my mods from now that WoWAce is dead).
I found that Cowtip had a nasty memory leak which would cause my interface to eventually crash. As much as I love the mod this was too big of an issue for me to handle.

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Old 10/09/08, 11:24 AM   #6
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TipTop is fine. WotLK version available at WoWInterface

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Old 10/09/08, 7:41 PM   #7
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Using lolTip here, hacked it a bit to change the border and background setup to fit my UI style better.
Extremely minimal, love it for that.

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Old 10/09/08, 8:27 PM   #8
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CowTip was my last holdout when I was trying to move away from Rock-based mods. I switched to TipTac and it's been just fine.

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Old 10/10/08, 11:20 PM   #9
Celillenna
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TipTac's configuration window is showing all panes as totally blank blue. Is this a known bug, should I try to fix it, or should I grab a different mod?

Last edited by Celillenna : 10/11/08 at 5:12 PM. Reason: TipTac is not TipTop

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Old 10/12/08, 10:43 AM   #10
Opioid
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Originally Posted by tsigo View Post
CowTip was my last holdout when I was trying to move away from Rock-based mods. I switched to TipTac and it's been just fine.
What happened with Rock? (not trying to start a fight I'm just genuinely ignorant as I've been away from WoW for many months and don't know if Rock will be completely broke for Wrath or whatever?)

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Old 10/12/08, 2:41 PM   #11
Duncan
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There's nothing wrong with it, it's just up to personal taste.

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Old 10/13/08, 3:58 AM   #12
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Originally Posted by Opioid View Post
What happened with Rock? (not trying to start a fight I'm just genuinely ignorant as I've been away from WoW for many months and don't know if Rock will be completely broke for Wrath or whatever?)
Yeah, nothing. I just slowly replaced all of my Rock addons with simpler alternatives (Chinchilla to simpleMinimap, PitBull to custom oUF frames, etc.) and once I got down to CowTip, I didn't see the point of having all the overhead of all the Rock libs, plus DogTag just for a tooltip frame.

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Old 10/13/08, 11:08 AM   #13
Parbag
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I still use a 6 month old version of TinyTip, just because I need the RaidIcons shown in the tooltip on mouseover.

There is still no tooltip addon which is capable doing this. Or am I wrong?

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Old 10/13/08, 11:51 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by Parbag View Post
I still use a 6 month old version of TinyTip, just because I need the RaidIcons shown in the tooltip on mouseover.

There is still no tooltip addon which is capable doing this. Or am I wrong?
CowTip does that for me;


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Old 10/13/08, 1:03 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by Parbag View Post
I still use a 6 month old version of TinyTip, just because I need the RaidIcons shown in the tooltip on mouseover.

There is still no tooltip addon which is capable doing this. Or am I wrong?
TipTop, mentioned upthread, does that also.

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Old 10/14/08, 12:10 AM   #16
Althor
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I tried out TipTac on beta last night.

The version from wowinterface is somewhat old and it looks like it doesn't make any use of the exact mob health stuff that is no available in 3.0.2. So it'll show health for other friendly players, but not for anything else.

Also the fading stuff seems a touch broken. Setting the fade times to 0, it will still take a while to fade away when I move the mouse off all targets.

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Old 10/22/08, 12:38 PM   #17
Radoznali
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any one knows how can you make Tiptac tooltip and auctioneer tooltip be in 1 tooltip?

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Old 11/06/08, 1:32 PM   #18
darf
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You can try Tipsy, its the continuation of LitheTooltipDoctor, very simple and easy to use.

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Old 11/06/08, 5:16 PM   #19
Draegan
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I use CowTip and it works well. TipTac broke certain times for me. Didn't like it much.

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Old 11/09/08, 6:42 PM   #20
Garf
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I'm going with TipTac now, but I was an avid fan of CowTip - thanks to DogTags, it is a lot more powerful.

However, as many others, I started getting the "memalloc: block too big" errors which generally result in a complete UI and then a hard WoW crash. For me (again, as many others - check out the wowace threads about this topic), this was fixed by disabling CowTip, though from what I read, it's not directly a bug in CowTip, but one in Blizzard's code that is triggered by some inefficient code in there.

Just throwing this here in case anyone encounters these crashes to spare them the search.

And to finish off - does anyone know of a tooltip mod comparatively powerful to Cowtip or TinyTip (with modules) that is actively maintained? All of the mods mentioned here lack a thing or two that I'd like from a tooltip mod.

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Old 11/09/08, 9:07 PM   #21
Ragnor
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These two are fairly new options

lolTip : WoWInterface Downloads : ToolTip
TipTop : WoWInterface Downloads : ToolTip

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