BeneCaster

Ok, maybe someone better at this UI stuff than me can help.

From what I understand of the addon, when you log on, it scans your available spells, and lists them as possible buttons for you to click in benecaster. Where we run into problems is when you switch specs, it doesnt do a new scan, and you either get an error, your spell doesnt appear, or the spell you want to cast is a different spell cause the list order has changed

What I'm looking for is whatever " command " this addon uses to scan the spells. If we can find out that, we can add the same command to happen whenever talent specs are changed, which should help fix the problem.

I'm no programmer, but i thought of this myself a long time ago, I just had no clue how to do it. I just swapped specs and reloaded the ui and it sometimes worked, but i ended up just leaving ALL spells/skills off the benecaster bars that were learned from talents.

I kinda thought it had to be in Caster.lua or CasterOptions.lua
If you open them up it seems like they both are making a list of spells for the buttons. More Caster.lua than the other though.

If you can figure this out.... you'd make many people very happy!

I had it almost fixed here a while ago. You could change specs and it would scan for new spells, you could select and cast new spells, but there was no icon for them.

I spoke to a friend of mine that develops his own addons and had him take a look. He pointed out that benecaster is actually pretty poorly written. There are no notes pointing out what does what, and it still references old things like downranking and is raid interface that doesnt work. He said the best thing to do might be just to re-write it, and I have no experience in LUA programming at all, so its prob out of my reach.

I think the best thing might be to keep posting on the healium thread asking for changes till its an appropriate choice for us.

Benecaster (Benecast) has been around since Pre-BC times.
It kept being upgraded and modified over the years by different people. then Combined with Caster, and then abandoned yet again..

So yeah, old code is 99% of the problem.
I checked out Healium, I dont like it..
I use Benecaster for more than just healing, so healium just don't work for me. I'll keep checking this addon, but will end up just modifying it to work for me.

If i were to write my own addon similar to Benecaster, I'd keep the same idea of benecaster. All spells that the class can cast on self or others are able to be put on the bar. able to move the bars for each pary member like it is now, and target/focus as well.

Grid/Clique work and i guess Healium if all you want it to do is cast heals.. But when you have more than a few things to cast, all the modifiers take quite a bit of time to remember. I like the point and click type to benecaster, keeps it simple and no guess work or trying to remember which modifier to use to get the right spell.

for 5 man stuff, I'm a lot faster with benecaster than grid/clique.
I just cant put any talent spell on the bars. which most times works just fine.

It appears something has changed with the default blizz unitframe for target of target, which this version of benecaster will no longer properly reference.

I have posted on the UI board asking if they know if its just a simple naming problem, or something else.

Either way, If i find the problem and am able to figure out how to fix, I will post how I did it here.

Found and have it fixed

Open CasterLockToFrame.lua

Very close to the top, should have a line of something similar to
["CasterTargetofTargetBar"] = "TargetOfTargetFrame";

rename it to

["CasterTargetofTargetBar"] = "TargetFrameToT";

and save

Tested and worked so far for me :)

Tried you fix and it didn't work for me :(
i got this ...

Date: 2009-12-09 12:38:50
ID: 1
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ..\AddOns\BeneCaster\Caster.lua line 426:
CasterPlayerBar_CasterButton12:SetPoint(): trying to anchor to itself
Debug:
(tail call): ?
[C]: ?
[C]: SetPoint()
BeneCaster\Caster.lua:426: Caster_ShowSpells()
BeneCaster\CasterBar.lua:42: Caster_CreateBars()
BeneCaster\Caster.lua:235: Caster_Initialize()
BeneCaster\Caster.lua:155: Caster_OnEvent()
[string "*:OnEvent"]:1:
[string "*:OnEvent"]:1

can you copy and post the first like 10 lines of yourCasterLockToFrame.lua please

Sure can Lilcalis, and thanks for taking the time to try and help me
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Caster_LockToFramesAvail = {"Default","X-Perl","Perl","Discord","AG_UnitFrames","PitBull" }

Caster_RaidLockToFramesAvail = {"None","Default","X-Perl","sRaidFrame","CTRaid"}

Caster_LockToFrames = {
["Default"] = {
["CasterPlayerBar"] = "PlayerFrame";
["CasterPetBar"] = "PetFrame";
["CasterTargetofTargetBar"] = "TargetFrameToT";
["CasterTargetBar"] = "TargetFrame";
["CasterPartyBar"] = "PartyMemberFrame";
["CasterPartyPetBar1"] = "PartyMemberFrame1PetFrame";
["CasterPartyPetBar2"] = "PartyMemberFrame2PetFrame";
["CasterPartyPetBar3"] = "PartyMemberFrame3PetFrame";
["CasterPartyPetBar4"] = "PartyMemberFrame4PetFrame";
};

Cant edit my post so ill have to make another to add a few facts
i was slow responding cos my laptop blew up and ive had to buy a new laptop on the day i was due to visit my family in England so ive had to instal WoW and download the patches at my fathers house and only just got everything going again but with benecaster giving me the same fault on the new laptop as the old,i can see the spells but for me its offering Penance twice but not for the party which is working fine

Im pretty sure I posted a pennance fix a while ago on here, just scroll down and I think its here. Try fixing that first and see if it clears up your problem, cause your above file looks good to me.

What I might eventually do is put my benecaster up for download, and then you can see if downloading and using that fixes it for you. Try the above first though please :)

One more thing to mention, this fix is ONLY for the default UI. Dunno if anything has changed for Perl, Pitbull, Etc

Thanks Lilcalis your fixes worked and i can now do the new random daily with my priest.
Your'e a legend !

If someone can give me a list of things wrong / broken I will attempt to fix it upon release of 3.3 when they add back in down ranking.

I need this list first before I attempt

Buttons attach to people in raid on Xperl but not pets

BTW for a new version of this you have my undying admiration !

The only real problem I have encountered is with my Paladin when switching between dual-specs.

When changing from Prot to Holy, spells will go missing from my Benecaster bar, and the Benecaster Option page will go blank apart from the boxes. When changing back to Prot again, the problem will still persist. The only way I have managed to resolve this is by deleting my cache, etc, the reinstalling the add-on.

Best to say at the moment I just don't leave Prot spec. From looking around the forums, it appears Shammy's get this some problem. Apparently /reload ui will help for most classes, but I haven't found that to be the case with a Prot/Holy dual-spec.

its pretty much ALL dual spec if you have Benecast put a Talent spell on the bar.
At least for me, if i do NOT put any spell on the Benecast bar that is a talent spell. all works fine between switching. Its when you have a Talent spell on the bar, and you switch to a spec that does not have that spell.. benecast screws up. It was never programed to deal with dual spec.

@Gamer 1224.
If you scroll through the comments here, you can see my fixes (page 2)and a few others. (lilcalis has a lot of fixes)
If all of those are added to this build, benecast works fine. Except dual spec of course..

I have been able to get the buttons to work fine for myself and a 5 man group, but not in raid, it gives me all kinds of lua error messages if I try to run it in raid. and this addon is hands down the best for my healer. Having the buttons right next to every party member and adjusting the size and what goes in the buttons for spells, makes all the difference for fast heals etc..

Hope that helps

anyone have a fixed or fan update maybe? i love this addon and i have tred a few others but nothing is liek benecaster. if someone out there has a fan up date can you post a link to were we can get it or drop me a mdg on here please

FYI for other Benecast/Bencaster fans. I found a new addon for healers that sort of works like this. It is called Healium. You can find it here. http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/healium.aspx