SurgeonGeneral is an addon designed to simplify healing assignments in a raid situation. It's easy to use interface allows you to give all your healers assignments and then report those assignments to /raid and/or the custom channel of your choosing. It supports multiple phases for complex fights.
Reporting is done in the following format:
Healing Assignments: Boss Name
Healer: Phase1 ~ Phase2 ~ Phase3 ...
CharName1: Assignment
CharName2: Assignment
CharName3: Assignment
...
CharName10: Assignment
Boss Name will only be displayed if there is an entry in this text field.
Healer: Phase1 ~ Phase2 ... will only be displayed if the fight is set use more than 1 phase, and will use the phase names supplied by the user.
Slash Commands
- /sg
- Opens the configuration screen and allows you to enter in your player names/assignments
- Auto Fill
- Scans your raid for healers and populates the addon with their names. If a player it out of inspection range, you will be notified.
- Report to Raid
- Allows the reporting of assignments to /raid when the Report button it clicked.
- Report to Custom Channel
- Allows the reporting of assignments to a custom chat channel when the Report button is clicked. Enter your channel name in the box below.
- Raid Name
- Use this dropdown to select a raid instance.
- Boss Name
- Use this dropdown to select a specific boss within a raid instance.
- Copy/Paste/Save
- Copy will copy the current assignments, phase names, and phase enable checkboxes.
- Paste will paste the copied information into the boxes for the selected boss encounter. This information is not permanent, yet...
- Save will save the current assignments, phase names, and phase enable checkboxes permanently. ''Healer names are not saved as they would mostly vary too much to be worth saving.''
- Class Icons
- Class icons will be displayed to the left of a healer's name. These class icons will only show if the healer is in your party or raid group. You can click and drag the class icon to swap healer names or healer assignments (depending on your selection of Swap Behavior under Interface Options). Holding Shift while dragging will always swap healer names.
Support for Main Tanks
Starting with version 1.4 you may use substitutions for MainTank assignments configured in CTRaid/oRA2. To use these substitutions, enter %MT# in any of the assignment fields, where x is the Main Tank number.
Example: %MT3 for Main Tank 3
You may also you the scroll wheel on your mouse while over any of the assignment fields to increment/decrement the Main Tank target.
Example: Field contains %MT2, scroll up and %MT2 becomes %MT3, scroll down and it becomes %MT1.
Interface Options
- Verbose
- Displays extra information during certain actions, used mainly for debugging purposes.
- Condense
- Condenses the reporting of assignments so that two players with the same assignment will be shown on a single line in the format:
<pre>
CharName1, CharName2: Assignment
</pre>
- Reset
- Resets the configuration window to be centered on the screen. Useful in case you dragged it off screen and can't see it anymore.
- Tooltip Scale (Added in 1.6.0)
- This slider adjusts the scale (size) of the tooltip provided when mousing over the LibDataBroker widget.
- Swap Sytle (Added in 1.6.5)
- Swap Names: When dragging class icons, healer names will be swapped, assignments will not change.
- Swap Assignments: When dragging class icons, healer names will not be adjusted. The healers' assignments will be swapped.
Minimap Support
Minimap icon/launcher support is not planned. However, keep reading.
LibDataBroker Support
There is support for a LibDataBroker object/launcher. You will need to use an addon such as Fortress to enable it.
- Left Click
- Opens/Closes the main configuration screen.
- Right Click
- Reports the current assignments to the designated raid/custom channel. This is very useful for spamming assignments mid-encounter.
Donations
Your positive feedback and appreciation really make my day. However, if you just can't express yourself in words, you're welcome to make a small donation.
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r72 | Brimmstone | 2009-06-11 14:01:20 +0000 (Thu, 11 Jun 2009) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/SurgeonGeneral.lua
Holding Shift key will always swap healers while dragging. (Drycoded, needs testing.)
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r71 | Brimmstone | 2009-06-11 03:34:50 +0000 (Thu, 11 Jun 2009) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/SurgeonGeneral.lua
Added preference for "Swap Style" when dragging class icons.
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r69 | Brimmstone | 2009-05-28 18:50:12 +0000 (Thu, 28 May 2009) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/SurgeonGeneral.lua
Attempt to fix bad talent reads. Essentially drycoded.
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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)...
