Digits 1.0.3 - 27 March 2009
Digits is a numeric head-up display of health and power (mana/rage/energy/runic). When you enter combat it will appear, and when you leave combat it will hide.
If you want to contact me about Digits
Comments, feature suggestions, and bug reports are very welcome! Based on experience over the past year, I just don't check comments here at Curse, though. You can conact me:
- By email: satrina@evilempireguild.org
- By leaving a comment at the wowinterface project for Digits
Version 1.0.3
- Just a really small update for Digits. I have confirmed that you do get better accuracy in combat if an update is forced rapidly, rather than waiting for events to fire saying that health/power are updated. So, Digits now updates every 0.25 seconds while in combat.
Configuration:
- Open up the Interface panel, it's in the AddOns list (/digits is a shortcut)
- Press buttons, slide sliders.
- While the interface frame is open, the digits displays get pushed to the top of the UI frame order and are draggable to wherever you want them to be.
Q&A
- Q: Can you put a bar in?
- A: Say it with me: "numeric head-up display"
Q: Can I make the font bigger than 35?
A: Sadly, no. That seems to be a hard limit. Even increasing the scale doesn't work.
Q: How do I get more fonts to choose from?
A: Digits uses the SharedMedia library, so the fonts you get from whatever other addons you have that use it will all be available.
Q: Why not bars anyway?
A: I am one of those (apparently very rare) people who get no useful information in any way from a status bar that is used to show a quantity. On the other hand, I can observe a number in my peripheral vision and parse it without having to pay full attention to it. So, I make things without bars. It doesn't cost me anything to make the addon publicly available, so if other people who also like not-bar displays find my stuff useful, then I'm glad I can help.
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r13 | satrina | 2009-03-27 21:38:28 +0000 (Fri, 27 Mar 2009) | 1 line
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Tagging as 1.0.3
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A /trunk/Libs/LibColourFrame-1.0/LibColourFrame-1.0.lua
A /trunk/Libs/LibColourFrame-1.0/LibColourFrame-1.0.toc
A /trunk/Libs/LibScrollingDropDown-1.0
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1.0.3 import
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r11 | satrina | 2009-03-27 21:37:27 +0000 (Fri, 27 Mar 2009) | 1 line
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r9 | satrina | 2008-11-19 22:28:34 +0000 (Wed, 19 Nov 2008) | 3 lines
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A /trunk/license.txt
- Add CallbackHandler-1.0 dependency
- Fix runic power update for Deathknight
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A /trunk/Libs/LibColourFrame-1.0/LibColourFrame-1.0.lua
A /trunk/Libs/LibColourFrame-1.0/LibColourFrame-1.0.toc
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A /trunk/Libs/LibScrollingDropDown-1.0/LibScrollingDropDown-1.0.lua
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A /trunk/license.txt
- Add CallbackHandler-1.0 dependency
- Fix runic power update for Deathknight
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A /trunk/Libs/LibColourFrame-1.0/LibColourFrame-1.0.toc
A /trunk/Libs/LibScrollingDropDown-1.0
A /trunk/Libs/LibScrollingDropDown-1.0/LibScrollingDropDown-1.0.lua
A /trunk/Libs/LibScrollingDropDown-1.0/LibScrollingDropDown-1.0.toc
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"digits/mainline: Initial Import"
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Installation Guide
- Exit "World of Warcraft" completely
- Download the mod you want to install
- Make a folder on your desktop called "My Mods"
- Save the .zip/.rar files to this folder.
- If, when you try to download the file, it automatically "opens" it... you need to RIGHT click on the link and "save as..." or "Save Target As".
- Extract the file - commonly known as 'unzipping'
Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!
- Windows
- Windows XP has a built in ZIP extractor. Double click on the file to open it, inside should be the file or folders needed. Copy these outside to the "My Mods" folder.
- WinRAR: Right click the file, select "Extract Here"
- WinZip: You MUST make sure the option to "Use Folder Names" is CHECKED or it will just extract the files and not make the proper folders how the Authors designed
- Mac Users
- StuffitExpander: Double click the archive to extract it to a folder in the current directory.
- Verify your WoW Installation Path
That is where you are running WoW from and THAT is where you need to install your mods.
- Move to the Addon folder
- Open your World of Warcraft folder. (default is C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\)
- Go into the "Interface" folder.
- Go into the "AddOns" folder.
- In a new window, open the "My Mods" folder.
- The "My Mods" folder should have the "Addonname" folder in it.
- Move the "Addonname" folder into the "AddOns" folder
- Start World of Warcraft
- Make sure AddOns are installed
- Log in
- At the Character Select screen, look in lower left corner for the "addons" button.
- If button is there: make sure all the mods you installed are listed and make sure "load out of date addons" is checked.
- If the button is NOT there: means you did not install the addons properly. Look at the above screenshots. Try repeating the steps or getting someone who knows more about computers than you do to help.
Translations
When you download a mod, please be sure that the mod is compatible with your translation of wow. Some mods only work on the US versions, while some only work on some of the various European versions. These variations are called "Localizations".
TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)
When Blizzard patches WoW, they change the Interface number. This means that all mods will be "out of date" unless or until the author releases a new version for that interface. Some people go into the .toc files and update the numbers themselves, but this is STRONGLY advised against as it will cause problems locating possible incompatibilities addons. When you log into WoW after a patch, you DO NOT have to delete your interface directory. All you have to do is simply tell WoW to ignore the interface numbers and load all the mods anyway. All you have to do is, while at the "character select" screen, look in the lower left corner and click on the "addons" button. A window will pop up listing all your installed mods.
If you look in the upper left corner of that window there should be a box that says "Load Out of Date AddOns". You want to CHECK this box. Now simply go into WoW normally and all your mods should load. As of the 1.9 patch, you will have to do this after EVERY patch/update that Blizzard posts! If you encounter any problems with a mod after a patch, please be sure to let the author of the mod know so they can fix it.
See also: About "Out Of Date AddOns"
Mac Support
WoW addons are not platformed based. As such, they can be used on either Mac or PC. You can extract both .zip and .rar files on a Mac using StuffitExpander.
Directory Structure
World of Warcraft
|_ Interface
|_AddOns
|_*AddonName*
|_ *AddonName*.toc
|_ *AddonName*.xml
|_ *AddonName*.lua
|_ (possibly others as well)...
