What is DispelBorder?
This addon places a highlighted border around various buffs and debuffs on the target frame that your class is able to dispel.
What does it look like?
For buffs, it uses the same border that is used by the default UI to show which spells a mage can spellsteal.
For debuffs, it uses the standard debuff border that is used by the default UI to show a specific color border for different types of debuffs. This does not stand out as much as the spellstealable border, but it fits in much better with this addon's design of utilizing the standard UI elements.
Please look at the screenshots below for a better idea.
What features does it have?
There are separate options for:
- showing borders around dispellable buffs on enemies
- enlarging these dispellable buffs on enemies (this is disabled by default)
- showing borders around dispellable debuffs on friendly targets (this is disabled by default)
- enlarging these dispellable debuffs on friends
- choosing the border color for these dispellable debuffs on friends (this is white by default)
- enlarging spellstealable buffs on enemies (this is disabled by default)
What classes can dispel what?
- Priests, shamans, warriors, warlocks, and hunters can dispel magic buffs from enemies.
- Hunters and rogues can dispel enrage buffs from enemies.
- Paladins, priests, and warlocks can dispel magic debuffs from friends.
- Paladins, shamans, and druids can dispel poison debuffs from friends.
- Paladins, priests, and shamans can dispel disease debuffs from friends.
- Druids, mages, and talented shamans¹ can dispel curse debuffs from friends.
- Mages can spellsteal most, but not all, magic buffs from enemies. Their ability to remove magic buffs from enemies is ignored in DispelBorder as the border functionality for spellstealing already exists (which is the basis of DispelBorder).
¹ Restoration shamans can talent into "Cleanse Spirit" which attempts to remove 1 poison effect, 1 disease effect, and 1 curse effect from a friendly target. DispelBorder checks to see if a shaman has this talent when considering what debuffs to highlight.
Support for unitframe addons (like X-Perl, as opposed to the default UI):
- If the unitframe addon denotes spellstealable buffs somehow, it should do the same for all dispellable enemy buffs.
- If the unitframe addon differentiates between spells cast by you and others, it should show "enlarged buffs/debuffs" as being cast by you.
- If the unitframe addon has its own features to display dispellable friendly debuffs on your current target, it is strongly suggested that you disable that feature of DispelBorder as it is likely to break the functionality of the unitframe addon. If the unitframe addon does not have this feature, but does not use the standard UI's colored debuff border, then DispelBorder will simply do nothing. In this case, it is also suggested that you disable that feature of DispelBorder as it may improve efficiency.
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r16 | cybermind | 2009-11-11 21:54:47 +0000 (Wed, 11 Nov 2009) | 1 line
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A /tags/v1.3.2 (from /trunk:15)
Tagging as v1.3.2
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r15 | cybermind | 2009-11-11 21:54:21 +0000 (Wed, 11 Nov 2009) | 1 line
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M /trunk/DispelBorder.toc
Fixed bug with missing nil check in DispelBorder_UnitAura
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r13 | cybermind | 2009-11-10 07:00:22 +0000 (Tue, 10 Nov 2009) | 1 line
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M /trunk/DispelBorder.toc
version 1.3.1, see changelog in lua
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r11 | cybermind | 2009-11-08 23:26:35 +0000 (Sun, 08 Nov 2009) | 1 line
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M /trunk/DispelBorder.toc
v1.2 see changelog in lua
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r9 | cybermind | 2009-11-07 07:47:27 +0000 (Sat, 07 Nov 2009) | 1 line
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M /trunk/DispelBorder.toc
1.2 (see changelog at top of lua)
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r7 | cybermind | 2009-11-05 16:48:41 +0000 (Thu, 05 Nov 2009) | 1 line
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updated to 1.1
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r6 | cybermind | 2009-11-05 16:48:00 +0000 (Thu, 05 Nov 2009) | 1 line
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fixed bug with debuff borders staying visible
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A /trunk/Libs/AceConfig-3.0
A /trunk/Libs/AceConfig-3.0/AceConfig-3.0.lua
A /trunk/Libs/AceConfig-3.0/AceConfig-3.0.xml
A /trunk/Libs/AceConfig-3.0/AceConfigCmd-3.0
A /trunk/Libs/AceConfig-3.0/AceConfigCmd-3.0/AceConfigCmd-3.0.lua
A /trunk/Libs/AceConfig-3.0/AceConfigCmd-3.0/AceConfigCmd-3.0.xml
A /trunk/Libs/AceConfig-3.0/AceConfigDialog-3.0
A /trunk/Libs/AceConfig-3.0/AceConfigDialog-3.0/AceConfigDialog-3.0.lua
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A /trunk/Libs/AceConfig-3.0/AceConfigRegistry-3.0/AceConfigRegistry-3.0.xml
A /trunk/Libs/AceDB-3.0
A /trunk/Libs/AceDB-3.0/AceDB-3.0.lua
A /trunk/Libs/AceDB-3.0/AceDB-3.0.xml
A /trunk/Libs/AceDBOptions-3.0
A /trunk/Libs/AceDBOptions-3.0/AceDBOptions-3.0.lua
A /trunk/Libs/AceDBOptions-3.0/AceDBOptions-3.0.xml
M /trunk/embeds.xml
added ace3 config/db support, option to show border around debuffs on friendly targets that you can dispel (still target frame only)
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r2 | cybermind | 2009-10-26 03:13:05 +0000 (Mon, 26 Oct 2009) | 1 line
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A /trunk/DispelBorder.toc
A /trunk/Libs
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A /trunk/Libs/AceAddon-3.0/AceAddon-3.0.lua
A /trunk/Libs/AceAddon-3.0/AceAddon-3.0.xml
A /trunk/Libs/AceConsole-3.0
A /trunk/Libs/AceConsole-3.0/AceConsole-3.0.lua
A /trunk/Libs/AceConsole-3.0/AceConsole-3.0.xml
A /trunk/Libs/LibStub
A /trunk/Libs/LibStub/LibStub.lua
A /trunk/Libs/LibStub/LibStub.toc
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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)...
