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Sat, Apr 18 2009

Supports Game Version:

3.1.0

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Miscellaneous

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unit, tooltip, talents, tip, tiptac, and wotlk [Edit Tags]

Project Manager:

Aezay

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Current Version:

09.04.17

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About TipTacTalents

TipTacTalents + TipTac

TipTacTalents - Show Player Talents in Tooltips

An addon to show the talents of players in the tooltip. A cache up to 25 is stored for the last players, so you quickly can see their talents again without having to wait for talents to load.

Despite its name, this addon works completely independent of TipTac. But for further tooltip customisation and enchancements, try out TipTac, which also carries this addon as part of the package.

There is no command line switch or configureable options for TipTacTalents.

Inspect Problems

If you have ever run into a problem where you could not get item tips to show when inspecting, the problem may be this addon. I have never been able to reproduce this, but do try and disable TipTacTalents to see if that eliminates it.

Created On:	Mon, Mar 24 2008
Localized:

TipTacTalents Changes | 2009 Apr 17
- Changed the TOC version to 30100 for the 3.1 patch.
- Will now show the proper spec, for people using their secondary spec.
- The tooltip line added will now be localised.
- Optimised the code a bit.

TipTacTalents Changes | 2009 Mar 28
- The tooltip line added will now be localised.
- Optimised the code a bit.

TipTacTalents Changes | 2009 Mar 26
- It is now possible to configure TipTacTalents through the TipTac Options dialog.

TipTacTalents Changes | 2009 Mar 19
- Will no longer try and update the tip, if it does not show a unit anymore.

TipTacTalents Changes | 2009 Mar 17
- Can now obtain talents even if the tip shown is from a concated unit frame such as "targettarget".

TipTacTalents Changes | 2009 Mar 13
- Occasionally the TipTac fadeout could get halted because of an update from TipTacTalents, I've fixed this by not allowing TipTacTalents to call "GTT:Show()" to resize the tip during fadeout.

TipTacTalents Changes | 2009 Mar 12
- After some more testing with adjusting the trottle time, it seems that compeltely removing it, that is setting it to zero, actually seems like the best solution, at least this is where I found the least mixed talents. Please let me know if you're still seeing wrong specs in the tips.
- Made some minor code changes.

TipTacTalents Changes | 2008 Nov 05
- Increased the throttle time for talent queries from 0.25 to 0.75 sec, hopefully that fixes some more of the problems with wrong talents listed on tips. But they will still occur with rapid mouse moving.

TipTacTalents Changes | 2008 Oct 22
- TipTacTalents will no longer request talents when the default inspect window is open, just like it already does when the Examiner addon is open.

TipTacTalents Changes | 2008 Oct 16
- Changed the TOC version to 30000 for the Wrath of the Lich King patch.
- When Examiner is installed, and opened, TipTacTalents will not request talent info, as this would cause problems in Examiner's talent tab.
- If the player has no talents, it will no longer state the name of the first talent tab and (0/0/0), but instead: "No Talents".
- Changed the default cache size up to 25.

TipTacTalents Changes | 2008 Jun 11
- Changed the default cache size up to 15.
- Player inspection has been throttled, hopefully that fixes some problem with talents showing up on the wrong player.

1 Installation Guide
2 Translations
3 TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)
4 Mac Support
5 Directory Structure

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.

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)...

Downloads (5)

	File Name	Release Type	Game Version	Downloads	Date
	Addon Curse.com	Beta	2.3.3	0	9/29/2008

File Name	Release Type	Game Version	Downloads	Date
TipTacTalents 09.04.17	Release	3.1.0	9,519	4/18/2009
TipTacTalents 09.03.28	Release	3.0.9	1,399	3/28/2009
TipTacTalents 08.10.22	Release	3.0.2	2,733	10/22/2008
TipTacTalents 08.04.06	Release	2.4.0	673	4/6/2008
TipTacTalents 08.03.24	Release	2.3.3	29	3/24/2008

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break19 said

Occasionally, TTTalents shows incorrect specs for hover'ed targets.

Ex. a friend of mine is a Warrior, yet TTT shows his spec as "Talents: Holy (17/54/0)" clearly.. he's not holy..... it happens randomly.. but once it shows an incorrect "class" in the spec line, there doesnt seem to be a way to make it right for the whole session..

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ElrickEnonimis said

That happens when you moused over the priest that was holy, and TTT thought it was the warrior right next to him, due to the slight delay in the process.

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mortaldemon said

fantastic add on, one of my favorites, keep up the great job m8

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BeCKhAm_SeXy said

this addon is good work ;]

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Aezay said

[ElrickEnonimis], that really isn't a job for this addon.

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ElrickEnonimis said

Well one thing this addon could use, if you deem it worthy, is use of the rockcom lib to show talents when you arent within inspect range of the person you're mousing over. Such as party members. EnhancedLFG still does that properly, so that code could be canabalized perhaps?

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ElrickEnonimis said

the only thing I'd like this addon to do is show player's spec in Who and LFG like EnhancedLFG used to before it got broken. Sure it could only show talent spec for players using the RockCom lib but alot of ppl use it through Cartographer or Fubar anyways. EnhancedLFG is here: http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/enhanced-lfg.aspx

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Aezay said

This project haven't been updated in a long time here on Curse, I've kinda neglected it. So I just put the latest version, which is actually newer than the one included with TipTac.

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Aezay said

[roy7], sometimes this will happen if the mouse is moved over people fast.

[Maziel], how exactly does MyRolePlay work, does it have its own tooltip? TipTacTalents just adds an extra line to the tooltip, it should work no matter what really. But if you're using TipTac as well, then there might be a problem. It would be nice if you could post a screenshot of the problem, how it should look vs how it does look.

[FattysXP], what inspect addon are you using? Because TipTacTalents are not allowed to show any talents if the default inspect window or Examiner is open.

[Araldwenn], TipTac actually has a newer version TipTacTalents than the one here, but what exactly is not working? And what versions are you using?

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Araldwenn said

Seems like it's not working anymore since last TipTac update

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FattysXP said

I'm not positive, but it would seem that this is the addon causing my issue. Whenever I go to inspect someone, if I mouse over anyone else on the way to look at their items, no tooltips will come up for the items. Probably has to do with this addon inspecting people for talents? Not sure how this addon works but that explains the issue. I've tested a few times with mousing over, and not mousing over, other players than I am targeting. Same results everytime.

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Maziel said

Any chance you can get this to show up on MyRolePlay mod tooltip?

Other tooltip mods like the QuestGuru quest information have been able to make their mob info etc show up on MyRolePlay mod, not sure how hard it is to do.

I'd love to be able to use both your mod and keep the formatting of the tooltip from MyRoleplay.

Thanks.

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roy7 said

Looking at a hunter with 54/0/7 spec, it said "Balance".

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Aezay said

joech26, You cannot see the talents of yourself because of a bug in Patch 2.4, and no I cannot make the range longer, it is 30 yards.

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joech26 said

can it see the people's talent under pvp situation?
if it can...it didnt work for me...

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picachu said

Dunno really what causes this error or when exactly it happens and i haven't noticed anything not working, but Baud Error Frame still catches this error from the 08.03.26 version of TipTacTalents:

Interface\AddOns\TipTacTalents\TipTacTalents.lua:25: attempt to index a nil value
Count: 7

Call Stack:
[C]: ?
Interface\AddOns\TipTacTalents\TipTacTalents.lua:25: in function <Interface\AddOns\TipTacTalents\TipTacTalents.lua:11>

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Aezay said

picachu, guess I just didn't expect for this to happen as I never saw this error myself, anyways I fixed it, thanks.

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morbandit said

Would be nice to only disable the talent check if we're looking at an opposing faction character, instead of just blocking all PvP targets. Also, should be checking the cache before it checks range, in case we already have the talents for the unit we're viewing.

Would also be nice if you added a few formatting options (such as allowing us to change the wording - for example I changed mine to say "T" instead of "Talents").

Cheers for the great addons though - just switched from TinyTip and loving it :)

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morbandit said

Alright, I've rewritten the inspect function - feel free to use it if you think it works.

It will now check if a player is friendly (rather than not pvp flagged), and will check the cache before it checks range - that way if you've already inspected someone's talents, you can still see them in the tooltip no matter how far away from you they are.


-- HOOK: OnTooltipSetUnit
GameTooltip:HookScript("OnTooltipSetUnit",
function(self,...)
uToken = select(2,self:GetUnit());

if (UnitIsPlayer(uToken)) and (UnitLevel(uToken) > 9 or UnitLevel(uToken) == -1) and ((GetBuildInfo() == "2.3.3" and UnitIsVisible(uToken)) or (UnitIsFriend("player",uToken))) then
cache.name = UnitName(uToken);
cache.a, cache.b, cache.c = nil, nil, nil;
for i = 1, #cache do
if (cache.name == cache.name) then
self:AddLine("Spec:|cffffffff "..cache.talents);
cache.a, cache.b, cache.c = cache.talents:match("(%d+)/(%d+)/(%d+)");
return;
end
end
 if (CheckInteractDistance(uToken,1)) then
f:RegisterEvent("INSPECT_TALENT_READY");
NotifyInspect(uToken);
self:AddLine("Spec:|cffffffff Loading...");
end
end
end

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Aezay said

morbandit, thanks for the posts, for some reason I never thought about having the code load cached players currently out of range, doh! I've added that now, plus a few more changes.

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Translations

TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)

Mac Support

Directory Structure

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