Buffwatch++

Aye I know exactly what you mean, and it's one of the things I've wanted to sort out for a while, to quote from a recent comment I made on the buffwatch page on wowi :

'One thing I would like to do in the future is to create a template manager, so you can quickly load in a preset set of buffs for any player on your list. However, I can't see that being a quick change to do, and I don't have the time at present.. but hopefully something I can add in one day.'

Not sure yet when I'll make a start on this, but hopefully soon.

Hi, thanks for the comments.

Currently I use OmniCC, and once I added the cooldown spirals to the mod, that was automatically adding timers on the buff buttons. Personally I didn't like it as i felt it made it look too cluttered and difficult to read the icons so I added some code in to hide the OmniCC timers. However, there is already some of the code in place, to allow you to show these timers if you have OmniCC, but they didnt make it into the last release in time, so hopefully the next one.

I am planning to add another option for the spirals, so you can choose to only start the spiral for the last 1/2/5/etc mins of each buff rather than the whole thing, which I'm hoping will be a bit more useful.


As for a key bind, this wouldn't be able to work while in combat where it would probably be the most useful, and would probably require significant changes to the code to handle it all.. and at the moment with the amount of time I have to spend on the mod, I'm just doing 'quick wins' really.

New version has been uploaded for 3.1, there are planned changes to improve the addon.. but have been very busy raiding with a new guild ;)

Yeh, I have had the occasional error too. Got one about 15 mins into a battleground today.. but I haven't been able to reproduce them or spot what is causing it so far.

And yeh.. I'm playing.. probably too much :)


Hey munk btw :p

Yep, I've had a quick look. As mentioned I originally omitted this feature for 2.0, because you could end up going into combat with the window minimised, and it would effectively be stuck shut. Obviously Buffwatch was designed so that you could always replenish a buff with ease at any time, especially if a buff was lost or dispelled mid-fight.

However, I know that you added this feature back for your Revived version, so I am looking to add it back in with the caveat that people understand the problem with it. I have added it back on my test version, but since I added the combat icon it now fights with that for real estate, so I need to tweak it some more :)

I have been looking over the documentation for the new SecureHandler code in 3.0, and it may give a solution to enabling this feature even in combat. However it's all a matter of figuring it out, and finding time for it all.

Hi, if I understand you correctly (you only want it to show yourself, even when in a group) there's a couple of ways you can do that.

Without changing the lua code : Lock all the players and hide the buffs for everyone but you, then select 'Hide Unmonitored' from the drop down menu (right click the header).

By changing the lua code : edit Buffwatch.lua and change the Buffwatch_Set_UNIT_IDs(...) function to -

function Buffwatch_Set_UNIT_IDs(forced)

grouptype = "party";
UNIT_IDs[1] = "player";
if BuffwatchConfig.ShowPets == true then
UNIT_IDs[2] = "pet";
end

Buffwatch_GetPlayerInfo();

end

If you dont want to show your pet, then you can remove the following bit from the above :

if BuffwatchConfig.ShowPets == true then
UNIT_IDs[2] = "pet";
end

"Does this work with totem buffs? So that you can tell if people are within range of the totem buffs?"

Yep, it will work for anything that places a buff on a player.

I used to use it for basically the same thing, with Paladin Auras.

As much as I wanted to put the minimise feature back in, the addon changes that came with TBC have prevented me from doing so, because you wouldnt be able to minimise/maximise while in combat.

The original idea was so that you could minimise the window, the header text would turn read if someones buff expires, and you could quickly maximise it and recast the buff, but having the window stuck shut while in combat would be too problematic for me to put that feature back in.

Have uploaded 2.0 as a final version. I haven't really done a whole lot with the mod for a while now, although there were a number of things I had planned to do, and i'm fairly sure this will be the last version that I release.

Thanks for all the comments and suggestions made, maybe someone with a much better understanding of mod development and more time than me comes along and continues with it. :)