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| Created On: | Aug. 4, 2007 |
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TipTac - A Tooltip Addon
TipTac is a tooltip enchancement addon, it allows you to configure various things such as changing the tip anchor, the font, the scale of tips, plus a lot more. It can also show a special tip window for units instead of the normal one, which allows for extra customization, such as having it show buffs, debuffs, health and mana bar, this can of course be disabled if you prefer the normal tip.
To open the option dialog, just use "/tip" without any parameters. Use "/tip anchor" to show the anchor frame and position it as you want.
Current Features
- Based on the default mode in TipBuddy, but can be configured in appearance in many ways.
- Shows the buffs and debuffs of the target with cooldown models. Has option to make it only show castable buffs and removable debuffs.
- When in a raid or party, it has an option to show who is targeting the unit.
- Vast anchoring options allows you to change between Normal, Mouse and Smart Anchor, this is configurable for both unit and non-unit tips.
- Anchoring frame lets you decide where exactly you want tips with the normal anchoring option anchored.
- Able to change the font face and size for all tips in the User Interface. Uses "LibSharedMedia" if installed.
- Can show a Health and Mana, Energy, Rage or Focus bar inside the tip, which can be enabled or disabled as you prefer.
- Tips are getting updated at a customizable interval to display changes.
- Unit tip fades out of display when no longer valid, fade time can be configured.
- Allows for you to change the background and border color of the TipTacTip and any of the modified tip.
Layout Templates
Currently TipTac comes with a few presets, these are a collection of preset settings. You can find the presets in the options.
I plan to work on layout option so you can eventually save and load personal layouts. But for now I am looking for more layout presets to include in future releases of TipTac.
Special Tip Modification
TipTac does not only configure the tip for units, you can also use TipTac to modify other tips in the WoW Interface. The way they are getting modified are both in scale and appearance. The border and background of the modified tips can be changed to colors of your desire. You can disable this appearance change by disabling the option "Hook Special Tips" under the General tab of the options dialog. Currently these tips are getting modified: GameTooltip, ShoppingTooltip1, ShoppingTooltip2, ItemRefTooltip, WorldMapTooltip and AtlasLootTooltip. You can add more if you wish by editing the "TipTac.lua" file.
TipTac & MobInfo2
Since the 08.01.17 release, this should no longer be a problem since I renamed the config variable.
Apparently, without even letting me know, the author of MobInfo2 has made it so that when the option "Hide the other Tooltip" is enabled, it will disable the TipTac unit tip. To get TipTac to show this again, you just have to disable this option in MobInfo2.
Would have been nice if the author would have told me or at least write something in the MobInfo2 documentation. Because people are blaming my mod for not working due to this.
Saving Settings Per Character
If you prefer to have TipTac have individual settings for each your characters, you will have to manually edit the TipTac.toc file and change the line:
## SavedVariables: TipTac_Config
Into the following line:
## SavedVariablesPerCharacter: TipTac_Config
Lacking Features, Ideas & Problems
- Anchoring the tip depending on what content is shown, it being a unit or not, can be hard to determine as the call to GameTooltip_SetDefaultAnchor() is called before the GTT content is set, any solution? Due to this, some anchoring combinations might not work well if showing the TipTacTip is diabled.
- Scrab the entire TipTacTip and just modify the GTT. Although this could pose a problem to other mods which rely on scanning the GTT for info?
- The tooltip always fades for mailboxs, braziers, signs, etc, not sure how this could be worked around, any help on this issue is appreciated. This issue has been resolved somewhat, but I've not yet found out how to do it when those tip show on items which doesn't change the cursor.
- Cast Bar in addition to the already existing health and power bar.
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Miranda saidWoops... sorry, I was not in game when I was posting this so I had the option name wrong. :) I guess the way that it is worded made it seem like it would hide the tips for me when I moused over people. Sorry!
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Aezay saidMiranda, the option is actually called "Hide Tips for Unit Frames in Combat" and does just that, it doesn't hide any tips from non unit frames.
gaibban, are you sure that error isn't because of "FuBar_QuestsFu" and not TipTac.
damnation, this should have been fixed in 08.04.06, but if you still get it with the newest release, then I am at a lost at how to fix it.
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Beckenbauer saidNice job Aezay. 10/10 points from Germany xD
English:
Delete TipBuddy and use the similar addon TipTac. It´s easy to change options with the command: /tiptac
German:
Einfach TipBuddy löschen und ab sofort TipTac nutzen. Viele Einstellungen möglich unter dem Befehl: /tiptac
Thank you so much Aezay for this great addon.
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Miranda saidI'm having some trouble with "Hide Unit Tooltips in Combat". I have it checked but every time I mouse over a mob or a person/pet/totem during combat, the tooltip still pops up.
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damnation saidEvery now and again I get an error when mousing over a player of the opposite faction, something to do with checking if a player is dead. I don;t have the exact error (Will make a note of it when it happens again) I just click ok and it goes away with no ill effect. Just thought I would mention it.
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Strawb saidZomg, guess I never really understood how that anchorpoint worked. Thank you, Aezay!
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Aezay saidStrawb, you can change the anchor point which is relative to the TipTacAnchor, that way you can choose exactly in which direction the tip sizes.
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Strawb saidIs there a way to set the Tiptac-tooltip to only expand in one direction? I have to constantly move my anchor around, because it blocks some of my actionbars when I hover over other players. It's usually not a problem for me, but for some reason, this issue just popped up a few days ago.
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Michirure saidAlright, sounds good. :D
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Aezay saidCUDiLLA, I'll try and see in what way that addon doesn't work with TipTac. Edit: I just tried this out and it works just fine with TipTac as far as I can see, I got the line added to the tip as I assume is what it is supposed to do?
raisers, I don't think I will add this option, not really sure of any easy way to do it so it looks nice.
CthulhuDragon, make sure the anchor point is set correctly. If that is setup correctly, you might have another addon which modifies the default tooltip position.
Michirure, I might add that at some point, if I get the time.
GIDustin, I have no idea why HUD addons do this, so I cannot fix it.
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GIDustin saidI also had the problem that Maischter stated earlier, about the menu being all blue with no actual options. I do NOT have MetaHUD, but I do have DHud. Disabling DHud allowed me to see the options on the menu.
Any clue for a less intrusive fix?
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Michirure saidHi there,
Long time user of TipBuddy and it's good to see you branching off in your own direction.
However, in TipBuddy there was once an option to color the border of the tooltip according to the mob's/npc's level to you. So, for example, if a mob was level 63 in comparison to my level 70, it would color the border as green, and so on in that usual fashion. Is this at all possible with TipTac?
I have pictures available to clarify what I mean, if needed.
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CthulhuDragon saidI finally switched over from TipBuddy after using that for a long time. Everything seems fine except for the tooltip for some consumables (bandages, potions, elixirs), the tooltip for these items is shifted down and to the right of all the other tool tips. Like it's got an offset from the actualy anchor? Is there a way to adjust these?
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raisers saidHow to make fixed max width of tiptac tooltip?
If i have lots of mob notes tiptac will show it all in one line across whole screen blocking other parts of screen to see so not good. Tinytip had fixed max width after which it would cut mob notes into multiple lines and that worked well like that.
If there is no option could you please add it to this awesome addon?
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CUDiLLA saidI have a problem concerning TipTac and the addon QuestGuru. QuestGuru has a feature to show text in item and mob tooltip (if you have to kill a special ammount of mobs and you hover over one of those it would show "Mob XYZ x/7"). Since I'm using TipTac this line doesn't show up in the item-tooltip nor in the mob-tooltip. With TipBuddy it worked well, just to have mentioned it. ^^
Do you have an idea what is causing this?
Greetz & many thanks, CUDiLLA!
PS:
I have also posted this kind of problem to the QuestGuru-Author. :)
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Randomx saidOpium user
you have problem with opium
install: TooltipOnMouse + TipTac
Nice addon Aezay
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aaltoha saidNp, its not a big deal, since its only the partyframe.
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Aezay saidaaltoha, I don't know how to fix it, sorry. I looked into this a long time ago, back when I was maintaining TipBuddy, because the same thing happened to TipBuddy, but I never found out why Perl Classic did this.
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aaltoha saidAezay, when Ayo asked about the 2 tooltips problem, you asked him if he has perl classic. I have the same problrms and I have perl classic (when I mouse over my group members I get a second tooltip for a couple seconds). How do I fix this?