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Ellipsis (Multi-Target DoT Timers)   Popular! (More than 5000 hits)
Ellipsis (indicating omission)
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Ellipsis is an addon that features multi-target DoT and HoT tracking for spells that you cast on other people. It has support for all classes and can additionally be configured to track Cooldowns as well. Access the GUI by typing '/ellipsis' or by going to the WoW Main Menu, then Interface, then the Addons tab and selected Ellipsis from the AddOn list on the left; contained here are a rather large number of options to configure pretty much all aspects of the display (and a few functionality based options as well).

DoT's & HoT's
Ellipsis scans your target and focus for spells you can cast (as well as your pet's target and your group mates targets should you have either); and once found, it makes a timer for it. Timers are seperated onto their respective targets using the GUID identification system to provide full accuracy in determination of what goes where. Ellipsis additionally tracks your pets spells when cast on targets, tracks 'multi-target' spells like AoE's, and if your a shaman provides tracking of totem durations as well. You can also setup notifications (both audio and visual) for when your dots fade or are broken ahead of time.

Totems
Ellipsis also features a fairly minimal totem tracking ability. It will track totem durations no matter what happens to them when replaced, or destroyed early and you have a built-in option to ctrl click on a timer to cancel the associated timer as well.

Cooldowns
Ellipsis can also create cooldown timers on a single exponentially growing bar for spells, pet abilities and item (including worn equipment) usage. The maximum cooldown duration to track can be set as well as the ability to block certain timers from appearing and the bar itself can be set to show varying sizes of timescale. In regards to its exponential nature, this means that a timer will countdown quicker the nearer it gets to the '0' end of the scale (eg, it will cover the same distance between 0-10 seconds as it will between 11-60 seconds on the base timer display).

Installation
There are two 'mods' included with Ellipsis, the main mod itself (folder: Ellipsis) and the congfiguration options (folder: Ellipsis_Options). Only the first is required to use the mod, though you will not be able to change options without the latter; Ellipsis_Options is also Load on Demand and thus won't use up any resources until you begin changing options (which is also why its a seperate folder/addon).

Notes
On first install (or a new character/profile), the 'anchors' for both Targets and Prominent Targets (text on a light blue background) will be visible. After you move them to their desired locations, you need to enter the mod options and "Lock" the interface elements to hide these anchors otherwise there will be some overlap with the actual mod targets.

To Do - Hopefully within the next month or so if free time allows.
- Add a method of showing non "owned" buffs for things like Winter's Chill, etc.
- Add a way to show multiple 'stacked' timers on the cooldown bar.
  Change Log - Ellipsis (Multi-Target DoT Timers)
-- 1.3a --
- Corrected some missing translations in the zhTW Options locale.

-- 1.3 --
- Actually removed the Poison Cleansing Totem entry instead of just claming to.

-- 1.2 --
- Made the following changes to ClassData (internal spell ID references):
- - Divine Hymn: changed ID
- - Disease Cleansing Totem: replaced by Cleansing Totem
- - Poison Cleansing Totem: removed
- - Polymorph: added serpent, cat, rabbit and turkey

-- 1.1 --
- Made compatible with 3.1 LUA changes.

-- 1.0 --
- Full release.

-- 0.78 RC2 --
- Updated totem durations to new values.
- Added Feral Spirit to 'aoe' timer tracking.

-- 0.77 RC1 --
- Missing translations fixed.
- You can now add 'Do Not Track' entries by drag-n-drop on spell and item icons and all non-needed information should be stripped to ensure the setting works correctly
- You can now Ctrl+Right-Click on totem timers to destroy that particular totem.
- Shifted check for mage talents in regards to water elemental. Talent data was loading 'after' my check initially. Mages should get an accurate timers for water elemental now if they have the appropriate talents.

-- 0.76 --
- I'm an idiot and left debugging code in the WOTLK version, its gone now.

-- 0.75 --
- Will now track timers on target dummies.
- Cooldowns will now be announced to raid when in a raid group, and not party
- Rewrote notification system to handle locales better.
- Translations added for German (by Eltorrato@Kil'jaeden) and French (by Markam@Chants éternels).

-- 0.74 --
- Changed a Blizzard function call after its name was changed in a recent build to allow options to work properly again via /ellipsis
Note: The next version will most likely be 0.75 for both WOTLK and LIVE when required, as 0.74 is a WOTLK-only update.

-- 0.73 --
- Rewrote totem destruction handling to use a new event-based system (via an event I never previously knew existed), totems timers should now properly update when destroyed whether its manually, via Totemic Call or by going out of range.
Important: Needs testing on WOTLK servers as i'm unable to do it myself (no Shaman :<)

-- 0.72 --
- Added the option to colour target identifiers based on the class of the target.
- Cleared player, pet and aoe timers appropriately on death.
- Default location for the Prominent Targets anchor shifted slightly so it does not overlap the Targets anchor.
- Fixed an error that was causing announcements to goto party chat instead of raid chat when in a raid.

-- 0.71 --
- If you cast a totem of one type while another totem of the same type is active, the timer should be destroyed as appropriate.
- AoE list updated for WOTLK version undoing a mistake made when 0.70 went live that prevented tracking of all 'wotlk only' aoe and unique spells.

-- 0.70 --
New Features:
- Prominence: You can now make No Target (AoE), Player and Pet timers promienent, that is, attach them to a seperate anchor from the rest of your aura targets.
- Cooldown Offsets: You can now offset cooldown timers (icons) from the main bar, either with or without a 'tag' linking them back to their position on the bar.
- Transparency: You can now make certain gui elements transparent via their colour pickers, these include most of the cooldown bar elements and the background for aura timers.
- Pet Tracking: You can now track buffs you cast on your pet (used to be a package deal with player tracking).
- Profiles: Profiling options for settings have been included, if you are updating from a version of Ellipsis prior to 0.7, then the default profile for everyone is "Default", for new users, an individual profile will be generated for each player. In either case, you will need to change settings if you wish the alternative behaviour.
- LibSink: Ellipsis now uses LibSink for visual notification output for expired and broken timers, this includes options to output to all main Blizzard locations (raid warning, error frame, chat etc) as well as Channel, SCT and MikSBT options.

Fixes:
- Redone the options panel to be more informative and to better group option categories.
- Aura scanning re-written to more accurately track the status of player, pet, target, and focus timers. Please give this extra attention when testing.
- Aura Target Layout re-written to fix a few glitches and to improve performance, please give this extra attention (mainly the Configure Target Display and Max Targets options, please try as many combinations as you are willing).
- Fixed many other glitches and errors (hopefully all now, but I doubt it )

Known Bugs:
- When using offset tags for cooldown timers, the tag will bulge slightly while in motion, this is an artifact of how WoW renders the textures and there is no fix I know of for the time being. It is less prominent the further a timer moves, so the larger your bar and the shorter the timescale, the less pronounced it will be.

-- 0.68 --
- Fixed bug in Secondary Scanning which was causing lua errors (and for it not to work).
- Fixed a few spelling errors in the options.

-- 0.67 --
- Added the option to show raid icons on timer targets (needs additional testing that it accurately updates timers when icons change mid-combat)
- Fixed a few bugs introduced by the 'show stack in text' option.
- Moved cooldown icons 'behind' the timescale text to allow for reading the times.
- Fixed config updates to recognise the 'trackPlayers' setting properly.

-- 0.66 --
- Fixed a glitch where stacks weren't showing up properly for stackable spells (eg, Lifebloom)
- Hopefully fixed a glitch with cooldowns for some spells not showing up.
- Added an option to display spell stacks as part of the name display on the timer (this option will result in no stack being shown if your using icon mode as it has no spell text).
- Fixed a glitch where the secondary scan was picking up debuffs regardless of your options.

NOTE: For additional testing of the cooldowns on spells, added a debug option which will give you internal feedback about what the mod is up to. To activate it, type "/run Ellipsis.db.profile.debug = true" (without quotes) and to disable, the same but substitute 'true' for 'false'. If your not getting spell cooldowns showing up, please enable this and see if a) the spell missing is listed as being tracked and b) that its picked up when a cooldown event happens (obviously one of the above is failing).

-- 0.65 --
- Fixed a small glitch which was preventing some timers showing up.

-- 0.64 --
- There are now two versions of the mod, one for LIVE servers and the other for the WOTLK beta, please download the appropriate one for your game installation.
- Cooldown functionality now implemented.
- Can toggle ability to track auras (buffs) on player.
- Moved the 'lock' button for gui movement to a more prominant place.
- Numerous other tweaks and fixes.
  Archived Versions - Ellipsis (Multi-Target DoT Timers)
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1.2
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Kith
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1.1
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Kith
04-16-2009 08:07 PM
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Old 04-17-2009, 05:21 AM  
Midreian
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Can't figure out how to hide/disable the cooldown bar. I dont need it. Is there any option to hide/disable it? Everything else is working great.
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Old 04-17-2009, 01:43 AM  
Neuraxis
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On my druid for some reason it isn't tracking savage roar anymore. I have "Track Player Buffs" checked is there something else I'm missing?
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Old 04-16-2009, 11:09 PM  
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Seems to be working. Thanks for the update!
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Old 04-16-2009, 08:09 PM  
Kith
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I've made the suggested update to get the mod functional again with 3.1 (hopefully), please let me know if thats actually the case as I don't have an active account to check myself at the moment.
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Old 04-16-2009, 04:40 PM  
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Kith,

Would you mind someone taking over the addon? This is a "best of breed" addon for what I need and I'd love to try hacking it apart if you don't mind giving me the rights to.

It might take me a little while to learn what I'm doing, but I'm a developer and highly interested.

Please, let me know.
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Old 04-15-2009, 08:03 PM  
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First replacing all instances of "isMine" in AuraHandler.lua with "caster" and then changing line 103 to

if (caster == "player" and duration <= maxDur and not dntList[name]) then -- this is one of our buffs we want to track, do so


seems to work fine for me.

(Although renaming isMine probably shouldn't be neccessary anyway ;D )

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Old 04-07-2009, 05:41 AM  
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Originally posted by Kith
...if someone would be kind enough to post the API changes for UnitAura (or link me to the notes)
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...=1&pageNo=3#53
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Old 04-04-2009, 07:34 PM  
Kith
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Sorry to have been so long between posting/updates but i'm afraid live has got the better of me and I simply didn't have any time remaining for WoW so my accoutn was cancelled a little over a month ago and (as you've seen) I didn't have enough time to make changes to Ellipsis either.

However, although I can't really make any big changes now I can still try and keep the mod functional through patches so if someone would be kind enough to post the API changes for UnitAura (or link me to the notes), i'll make the changes needed to keep the mod useable at the moment for everyone. I'll also try and check back now and then to make further changes if nessecary for those who decide to stick with it.
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Old 03-26-2009, 05:00 AM  
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Originally posted by T3nchu
All I did is go into AuraHandler.lua with text editor and change all isMine to caster and save the file. The only thing is you have to check Buff option and change the time of buff track to less then 2 mins to avoid displaying the long buffs. For me I play a druid so I like to keep track of my HoTs.
Actually the correct change would be to simply change line 103 to read:

if (isMine == "player" and duration <= maxDur and not dntList[name]) then -- this is one of our buffs we want to track, do so

I'm not really sure what you did and worked for you, but simply replacing all instances of one string with the other, shouldn't fix anything, since these strings are essentially variables that hold return values from the UnitAura function. It's how you use them that matters. The fact that Blizzy is wording the return value differently is simply an example to emphasize its meaning.
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Old 03-21-2009, 11:29 AM  
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Thanks. I must've backspaced over something when I was trying the first time.
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Old 03-19-2009, 06:28 PM  
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Mind posting what you changed? I tried and managed to mess it up pretty badly...>_>
All I did is go into AuraHandler.lua with text editor and change all isMine to caster and save the file. The only thing is you have to check Buff option and change the time of buff track to less then 2 mins to avoid displaying the long buffs. For me I play a druid so I like to keep track of my HoTs.

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Old 03-19-2009, 12:22 PM  
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Mind posting what you changed? I tried and managed to mess it up pretty badly...>_>
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Old 03-18-2009, 03:11 PM  
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It worked

Thanks for the pointer.
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Old 03-18-2009, 09:31 AM  
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It's also broke with 3.1 PTR

Going to try DoTimer.
Reason it's "broken" is because Blizzard changed the return arguments for UnitAura(), as follows:

From :

name, rank, icon, count, debuffType, duration, expirationTime, isMine, isStealable = UnitAura("unit", index or ["name", "rank"][, "filter"])

To :

name, rank, icon, count, debuffType, duration, expirationTime, caster, isStealable = UnitAura("unit", index or ["name", "rank"][, "filter"])


Basically isMine (which is the same return argument as 'caster') is not a boolean anymore but should be the unit token of the unit that applied the aura. Theoretically modifying the relevant check for isMine in the AuraHandler.lua file, should fix the problem for Ellipsis (haven't tested it).
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Old 03-02-2009, 11:08 PM  
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It's also broke with 3.1 PTR

Going to try DoTimer.

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