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TipTac

 

Project Updated:
Files Updated: Thu, Aug 27 2009
Supports Game Version: 3.2.0
Category: Tooltip
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Project Manager: Aezay
Additional Authors: No additional authors
Current Version: 09.08.27
License: All Rights Reserved
Development Site: CurseForge
Avg Daily DL (last 30 days): 491
Downloads Total: 366,147
Favorites: 1,402
Comments: 590
  • About TipTac
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TipTac - An Advanced Tooltip Addon


TipTac is a tooltip enchancement addon, it allows you to configure various aspects of the tooltip, such as moving where it's shown, the font, the scale of tips, plus a lot more.

To open the option dialog, just use "/tip" without any parameters. Use "/tip anchor" to show the anchor frame and position it as you want.

You can always get the latest release of this addon on WoWInterface.com. Please post your comments, questions and suggestions for this addon there.

Current Features


  • Shows the buffs and debuffs of the target with cooldown models. Has options to make it only show the ones you cast.
  • When in a raid or party, there is an option to show who from the group is targeting the unit.
  • Vast anchoring options allows you to change between Normal, Mouse and Parent anchor, this is configurable for both unit and non-unit tips on a frame or non-frames.
  • Anchoring frame lets you decide exactly where you want tips with the normal anchoring option.
  • Able to change the font face and size for all tips in the User Interface. Uses "LibSharedMedia" if installed.
  • Can show a Health, Mana, Energy, Rage, Runic Power or Focus bar inside the tip, which can be enabled or disabled as you prefer.
  • Tips are getting updated at a customizable interval to display changes.
  • Configurable fading options, both a prefade and fadeout time can be set. They can also be set to zero if you prefer the tips to just hide instantly.
  • Allows for you to change the background and border color of the TipTacTip and any of the modified tip.

Layout Templates


Currently TipTac comes with a few presets, these are a collection of preset settings. You can find the presets in the options. I am looking for more layout presets to include in future releases of TipTac. So feel free to post your saved settings.

Special Tip Modification


TipTac does not only configure the tip for units, you can also use TipTac to modify other tips in the WoW Interface. The way they are getting modified are both in scale and appearance. The border and background of the modified tips can be changed to colors of your desire. You can disable this appearance change by disabling the option "Hook Special Tips" under the General tab of the options dialog. Currently these tips are getting modified, but you can add more if you wish by editing the "TipTac\core.lua" file. GameTooltip, ShoppingTooltip1, ShoppingTooltip2, ShoppingTooltip3, ItemRefTooltip, WorldMapTooltip, AtlasLootTooltip and QuestHelperTooltip.

Other TipTac Addons


There are two other addons, included in the TipTac package, which improves tip functionality in WoW. First one is "TipTacTalents", which will show player talents in the tip. The second addon is "TipTacItemRef", which improves the look of the ItemRefTooltip, which is the one shown when clicking on an item, spell or achievement link in the chat. Please refer to each addon's readme.txt file for more information regarding their functionality.

Saving Settings Per Character


If you prefer to have TipTac configured differently on each of your characters, you will have to manually edit the "TipTac.toc" file. In this file, you will have to locate "SavedVariables", and change it into "SavedVariablesPerCharacter". You must restart WoW for it to take effect, and it will reset your current settings.

Lacking Features, Ideas & Problems


  • Currently doesn't work well with the Russian client, because it is unable to find the level line using the "TT_LevelMatch" pattern.
  • Sometimes tips may not fade for a mage's mirror images. This happens because GTT:GetUnit() does not return a unit token when you mouse over them.
  • Even with the option "Instantly Hide World Frame Tips", some tips still fades out, this is because TipTac uses a "mouse cursor change" event to find out when to instantly hide world tips. But since not all world objects change the mouse cursor, you wont see tips fading out instantly for them.
  • Adding a castbar in addition to the already existing health and power bar.
  • Downloads (7)
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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  
  TipTac 09.08.27 Release 3.2.0 68,115 8/27/2009
  TipTac 09.08.26 Release 3.2.0 11,413 8/26/2009
  TipTac 09.08.14 Release 3.2.0 34,293 8/14/2009
  TipTac 09.08.13 Release 3.2.0 12,407 8/13/2009
  TipTac 09.05.26 Release 3.1.0 65,357 5/26/2009
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  • Eirelle said 

    I was getting this exact same problem... I kept having to change around and "reset" some setttings in TipTac for it to stop.

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  • Aezay said 

    [Wulfegang38]
    You most likely have another addon trying to change the font of the GameTooltip.

    [darkreign11]
    I'm guessing this is being caused by both the color blind mode adding one and TipTac the other, the solution would be to disable one of them.

    [ZorbaTHut]
    The GameTooltip of WoW is one of the most frustrating things to work with in the WoW Lua environment. I don't really see an easy solution to these problems, because when the GameTooltip resizes itself, it will redo all its anchors. And having two or more addons trying to change those anchors, making the original height of the tooltip invalid, it just causes a lot of problems.
    The ultimate reason this is happening, is due to how TipTac works, as it also changes the height of the tip, because it has to fit the healthbar inside the tip. So now two addons are trying to force change the height, and something breaks.
    As I said, I don't see an easy solution, it would be possible to disable the healthbars inside the tooltip in TipTac, but for both addons to work together would be difficult.

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  • Hey, QuestHelper author here. I recently did some grim stuff to make the tooltip slightly prettier in QH, and as a result I've broken Tiptac accidentally - http://www.stooorage.com/show/227/311907_wowscrnshot_102809_230624.jpg is the screenshot someone provided. The problem is that I'm manually increasing the spacing in the anchors for tooltip lines, and whatever mechanism Tiptac is using to calculate tooltip height isn't taking that into account. (It's worth mentioning that I need to do some horrible black magic to fake WoW out to compensate also, so this is not exactly surprising.)

    What's the easiest way for this to be dealt with? Can I provide some kind of a hook, or can you provide some kind of a hook, for me to notify TipTac about size differences? Or is there some other way I should be doing this? (I admit to not knowing a lot about GameTooltip.)

    The relevant code is in tooltip.lua in Questhelper if you want to see what I'm doing.

    Lemme know.

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  • Enabling Reaction coloring shows 2 sets of the reaction type. For example if the unit is friendly. It will show friendly in white, then another friendly in reaction color. It seems to properly display this for NPC's however. As only one set of text is displayed for them. However given other players it shows twice. A code fix to only showing this text once in the tip is needed.

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  • Great addon, have been using it for quite some time but I have found an issue I am not sure how to fix.

    I have changed the font for the tooltips and it looks perfect but if I logoff or reload the UI it goes back to the game font until I go back into TipTac options. After I go into options, it displays the font I have it set to. Any ideas or help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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  • Aezay said 

    [MrCo]
    Most likely you have another addong trying to move the tooltip as well.

    [aesbiorn]
    Not without manually editing the code.

    [fleelbe]
    I heard something about them changing their command to something else now, but not quite sure. To avoid conflicts though, I've added the slash command /tiptac for future releases.

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  • fleelbe said 

    Bigwigs stole the /tip command for a "tip" display.

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  • aesbiorn said 

    Is it possible for it to display character tooltips and nothing else?

    Great addon btw.

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  • Bellee said 

    I had the same issue as M1k3YYx & lucifa2 with tiptac stuck in bottom right corner no matter where I set the anchor.

    I found disabling HideBlizzard fixes it.

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  • a7xsfan said 

    Seems to have some Compatibility issues with Quest Helper

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  • MrCo said 

    my anchor doesnt seem to work at all - i used to have every tooltip on my anchor but now its always on my mouse
    and yes i changed the settings but no one of them really worked..

    any suggestions?

    by the way - i love your addon :)

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  • To the people having errors, recently SharedMedia was split it into two seperate folders, causing any addon that pointed to an existing font to be screwed up. Fonts have been moved to a seperate folder. This means you have to reset your font up for almost any addon. To quote the author, "Look under the "Font" and "Bars Look" category."

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  • Aezay said 

    [babycookie]
    TipTac already have an option to show the guild rank of people.

    [passionh]
    Cannot help with the UnitAura error, as it's not possible for me to reproduce it. It's most likely caused by an addon conflict.

    [Rovayne]
    You might want to turn off the option to show who is targeting the unit then?

    [M1k3YYx & lucifa2]
    You must have some conflicting addon, can you make this happen with all addons disabled except TipTac?

    [s-conley & skillosopher]
    Please read my response to this ticket:
    http://wow.curseforge.com/addons/tip-tac/tickets/13-have-tip-tac-move-bag-item-tooltips/

    [swerenfl & bloodycreate]
    "Font not set" quite literately means the font is not set, so make sure the fonts in the TipTac options are set correctly. Look under the "Font" and "Bars Look" category.

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  • I have a few TipTac errors atm.. I dont know if its for any use for you, but here they are:

    [2009/10/14 15:50:32-529-x136]: TipTac-09.08.27\core.lua:615: <unnamed>:SetFormattedText(): Font not set
    TipTac-09.08.27\core.lua:615: in function <Interface\AddOns\TipTac\core.lua:607>
    TipTac-09.08.27\core.lua:628: in function <Interface\AddOns\TipTac\core.lua:622>
    TipTac-09.08.27\core.lua:1124: in function <Interface\AddOns\TipTac\core.lua:1103>
    TipTac-09.08.27\core.lua:1178: in function `ApplyGeneralAppearance'
    TipTac-09.08.27\core.lua:924: in function <Interface\AddOns\TipTac\core.lua:895>
    <in C code>: ?
    <in C code>: ?
    Auc-Advanced-5.6.4424 (KangaII)\Libs\LibExtraTip\LibExtraTip.lua:279: in function `SetUnit'
    Interface\FrameXML\UnitFrame.lua:146: in function `UnitFrame_UpdateTooltip':
    Interface\FrameXML\UnitFrame.lua:133: in function `UnitFrame_OnEnter':
    <string>:"*:OnEnter":1: in function <[string "*:OnEnter"]:1>

    ---

    Also, remove the *Auctioneer* and forward part... For a exact same error but another..End:

    ''Interface\FrameXML\UnitFrame.lua:146: in function `UnitFrame_UpdateTooltip':
    Interface\FrameXML\UnitFrame.lua:133: in function <Interface\FrameXML\UnitFrame.lua:120>:
    ''

    And Interface\FrameXML\UnitFrame.lua:146: in function `UpdateTooltip':
    Interface\FrameXML\GameTooltip.lua:195: in function <Interface\FrameXML\GameTooltip.lua:185>:
    <in C code>: ?

    And like 10 more... :/://

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  • "Would it be possible to have TipTac move the anchor for the tool tips for bag items. I've seen that requested below.

    At present, I'm running a very old version of ToolTip Wrangler along with TipTac. ToolTip Wrangler moves all tooltips (and I mean all of them).

    I'd rather not have 2 addons fighting to see who can move tooltips.

    Other than that, I love this addon. The appearance of the info in the tooltip is very easy to read and well placed."



    bump?

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  • s-conley said 

    Can the TipTac lua file be changed so that it will move bag item tootips and other tooltips?
    I see the comment under Special Tip Modifiction but I don't know how to find the name of the tooltips for the standard Blizzard bag items and addons like Arkinventory.

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  • swerenfl said 

    New Error message now.

    [2009/10/12 13:00:55-5824-x1]: TipTac-09.08.27\core.lua:609: <unnamed>:SetText(): Font not set
    TipTac-09.08.27\core.lua:609: in function <Interface\AddOns\TipTac\core.lua:607>
    TipTac-09.08.27\core.lua:628: in function <Interface\AddOns\TipTac\core.lua:622>
    TipTac-09.08.27\core.lua:1124: in function <Interface\AddOns\TipTac\core.lua:1103>
    TipTac-09.08.27\core.lua:1178: in function `ApplyGeneralAppearance'
    TipTac-09.08.27\core.lua:924: in function <Interface\AddOns\TipTac\core.lua:895>
    <in C code>: ?

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  • s-conley said 

    Would it be possible to have TipTac move the anchor for the tool tips for bag items. I've seen that requested below.

    At present, I'm running a very old version of ToolTip Wrangler along with TipTac. ToolTip Wrangler moves all tooltips (and I mean all of them).

    I'd rather not have 2 addons fighting to see who can move tooltips.

    Other than that, I love this addon. The appearance of the info in the tooltip is very easy to read and well placed.

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  • M1k3YYx said 

    Addon is fantastic and looks great, except for one problem.

    No matter what i set all the anchor settings as, my unit frame tooltip bar is ALWAYS on the bottom right of the screen. I move the anchor around, i set it to be a mouse anchor, I change the position, but no matter what setting it is, this is always in the same place.

    Anyone know of any solutions to this?

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