A much enchanced version of Nymbia's Perl UnitFrames, and a complete replacement for Blizzard's default unit frames, including raid frames and raid tools, with many additions and improvements over the original Nymbia code.
Range Finder (combined with optional health check) for all frames based on spell or item range test.
HoT Monitor will highlight units clearly that have your own active Heal over Time spells.
Debuff Highlights in standard debuff colours on all friendly frames. Priority given to show debuffs that YOU can cure first.
Raid Frames, buff icons, MT list units and some other portions or X-Perl are Created on demand. Saving a lot of time and memory at system startup. Defering the creation of many parts of X-Perl to when they are actually required. And of course, most often outside of raids they are never required and are never created.
Raid Target icon support for Target, Target's Target, MT Targets.
Raid tooltip will show combat rezzers available (druids with Rebirth ready (or very soon available) and any normal rezzers out of combat) if you bring up tooltip of a dead person.
'In-combat' indicators for Pet, Target, Target's Target, Party, Party pets, Raid, MT Targets.
3D Portraits for player, pet, target, focus, party. Optional. Of course this may degrade your framerate somewhat because you are displaying more 3D character models that without this option. But some like it pretty, and it does look cool.
Red and Green combat flashes for frames when player, pet, target, party, partypets, raid take damage/heals. Useful indication of things happening.
Added time left on party member/target buffs/debuffs when in a raid, these depend somewhat on CTRA/oRA/oRA2 sending appropriate information over the addon channel, although some of it can be determined at run time by X-Perl, when a player gets a buff for example, we know how long it should last, and therefor when it should expire.
Totally new options window including all X-Perl options and access via minimap icon.
Configurable colours for borders and backgrounds. Including class coloured names, and configurable reaction colours.
Much care has been taken with code size, memory load, memory usage per cycle and so on. LuaProfiler/OnEvent mods used extensively and regularly to ensure that X-Perl does not do more work than is absolutely necessary.
With that in mind, the event system was totally re-written, and is as kind to system performance as possible. The majority of events are disabled while zoning to alleviate any event backlog issues. And where most addons use 1 event handler per unit frame, which although standard, the alternative has improved X-Perl's performance. By using single main event handlers, we can route the events to appropriate units. So, for example, when a single UNIT_HEALTH update is fired, then just a single raid frame or party frame etc. gets the event, rather than 40 raid frame's handlers, 4 party and so on. Nymbia's Perl used to do a lot of crazy full frame udpates all over the place, eating away at CPU cycles. This was all fixed to only update what was necessary based on events.
Liberal usage of local functions to cut down compiled code size, and increase speed since functions are called directly rather than by name. Every time you have a global function, you have a global string name associated with it, so size in the global environment saved where possible.
XPerl_RaidHelper sub-addon Assists View
Will show anyone from raid assising you with your target, and can also show healers or all plus known enemies targetting you.
Tooltips for the same also available (on player and target frames) if you prefer to not use the main window.
MT Targets
Replaces CTRA/oRA2 MT Targets window, and doubles as a replacement for the Perl RaidFrames warrior targets.
Indicator shows which target you are on.
Frames will be coloured to show if tanks have duplicate targets.
XPerl_RaidMonitor sub-addon (WORK IN PROGRESS) Casting Monitor
Shows selected classes (defaults to healer classes) in a list (much like the MT List), but with some differences.
Shows mana bars and cast bars on left. Their targets on right. Health bar as normal, but a secondary small red bar on targets which shows the maximum single hit this unit has received since entering combat. The secondary bar will extend downwards from their current HP level down to as far as zero.
A green name on the targets indicates this is the same target that you have.
You can click on casters or their targets as expected.
For druids, right clicking on a caster will cast Innervate on them.
For shamans, right clicking on a caster will cast Mana Tide Totem. Check the * indicator to see if they're in your group.
All bars can be re-sized in X-Perl main options (Monitor section).
Totals can be toggled (from the 'T' minibutton at top of frame) which gives overview of raid mana status.
XPerl_RaidAdmin sub-addon (WORK IN PROGRESS) Raid Admin
Save/Load raid roster setups
Only does direct save and load for the moment, but more to come (templates and such).
Item Check
Replacement for /raitem /radur /raresist /rareg. Use the old commands before, or drop items in the left item list.
Query button will perform /raitem on all ticked items (query always includes dur and resists) and you can then view and review all the results whenever, without having to re-query each item.
Includes everyone in raid, so you don't have to work out who doesn't have items, it'll list them with 0 instead of no entry.
Active Scanner to check raid member's equipment for the item selected. So you can be sure that people actually have the item worn (Onyxia Cloak for example), without having to go round single target inspecting everyone who 'forgot' to install CTRA for the 50th raid in a row.
Supported Addons
CT_RaidAssist, oRA2. Shows tooltip info and player status, replaces MT Targets List, improves raid frames, shows player status, resurrection monitor, buff timers aware.
MobInfo-2 / MobHealth3 - Shows target health from MobHealth database.
DruidBar - Shows druid mana bar from DruidBar when shapeshifted.
Clique compatible. And any other click cast addon that uses the same communication method. (see below)
Change Log - X-Perl UnitFrames
3.0.6 (proper)
Actually change version number..
3.0.6
New: LibHealComm-4.0 Support. Will try to use LHC4 first, if it fails will look for LHC3.
New: Option to show XP deficit in player frame.
Fixed: Issue with occasional error in party pets.
Fixed: Should no longer error on PTR with GetFrameType (untested).
Fixed: LibStub error when it's not present.
3.0.5g
New: Option for Runic Energy colour.
Fixed: Default item selection for range finder.
Fixed: Option for not showing raid frames in battlegrounds.
Fixed: XPerl_DurabilityCheck error when no oRA/CTRA installed.
Changed: Won't show hit indicator on player for heals if at full health.
Changed: Shows one decimal place on health % when under 10%.
3.0.5f
Fixed: Unit menu positions for large frame scales.
Fixed: Protected frame movement error for druids when shifting in combat.
Fixed: AFK/DND timers being whacky on occasion (I think).
Fixed: Invalid capture error on german client when oRA or CTRA not installed.
Fixed: Aggro warning will no longer show for an opposite faction player who can't attack you (Either one not PVP flagged).
Fixed: Talent info should show correct talent set now.
3.0.5e
Fixed: Only use curable filter with debuffs for friendly targets. Otherwise castable.
Fixed: Removed Sanity from Yogg-Saron custom highlights. You'll either need to delete it from your config in options, or reload the new defaults in same place.
Fixed: Anchoring issue with totem button frame.
3.0.5d
Fixed: Shouldn't forget range finder spell repeatadle now.
Fixed: Won't try to announce version to party in a pvp instance.
3.0.5c
Fixed: Error in XPerl_Unit_ThreatStatus.
3.0.5b
Fixed: Party Pet errors.
3.0.5a
Fixed: PlayerBuffs error.
Fixed: action blocked on target frame when in options.
3.0.5
New: Added debuff highlighting option for focus frame.
Changed: Added Wild Growth to hot highlighting.
Changed: Added Revive to rez watching on raid frames.
Changed: HoT Counter on frames will show green if you have an active hot on the unit, red otherwise.
Fixed: Prayer of Healing should highlight the correct group now.
Fixed: SetFocus menu problem. Thanks for someone for finding a solution to that.
Fixed: Extended Portrait height for druids showing multiple power bars.
Fixed: Bar textures popup when LibSharedMedia not available.
Fixed: Custom Highlight now works for all locales (you'll need to reload the defaults) and a lot more spells in the defaults (thanks SkyerRu)
Registered to post this comment. Long time Xperl user, love the addon it sets up just how I want it.
I've finally run into my first bug, however. I was previously using an older (unsure of exact version) of Xperl, I was not using a very dated version though. Anyway I uninstalled, redownloaded and updated all of my addons today to work with 3.2.2. However I just cannot get the "Agro" warning to shut up. I've disabled it in Raid Helper, I've done every possible step I can think of to make it be quiet but nothing has worked. I've Installed the older, archived version of Xperl from WoW Interface (3.0.5f) and tried disabling it in Raid Helper then, but nothing is working.
Has there been other reports of this recently? My Xperl experience was flawless up until this point in time. It's a shame that I just cannot -stand- the voice or the warning (I'm a tank, I know I have agro).
Any ideas/suggestions to clear up this issue so I can continue to enjoy your fantastic addon in peace?
When casting a standard spell like frostbolt.. if I happen to hit the spell again while it's already casting, it says "Failed" and no longer shows the cast progress.. This is a bit troublesome when I'm trying to time my casts to go off ASAP..
I temporarily bandaged the issue by slapping my dominos casting bar (which I don't normally use) right on top of my xperl player name, right where the casting bar normally appears.
It may be in your best interest to take a look at dominos' coding, and see what they did differently with their casting bar, since it doesn't seem to have the same issue.
Last edited by twistdshade : 10-01-2009 at 04:54 AM.
Originally posted by PlayerLin That was fixed and it works fine with X-perl on 3.2.0, but it doesn't work after Patch 3.2.2 (or 3.2.2a)... maybe Blizzard "fixed" it again. :3
What ^^^ said...
Until about a week and a half ago I was able to set my focus thru the dropdown box that popped up on my target box when I r-clicked...now every time I try to set focus I get an error message that tells me I can "disable" or "ignore" and neither of the features work anymore. When this patch dropped, the "ignore" feature stopped letting me set focus frames (overriding the error) and the "disable" feature no longer disables the addon.
Making keybinds for focusing doesn't allow my /cast [target = focus] macros to work...never had a problem before now.
Can we PLEASE get an update on this before Christmas?
Last edited by LiquidOxygen : 09-30-2009 at 08:53 PM.
Originally posted by AnrDaemon Setting Focus through context menu was never ever working for any unitframes except native Blizzard ones.
Use keybindings (i.e. Alt+F)
That was fixed and it works fine with X-perl on 3.2.0, but it doesn't work after Patch 3.2.2 (or 3.2.2a)... maybe Blizzard "fixed" it again. :3
Last edited by PlayerLin : 09-29-2009 at 05:56 AM.
Originally posted by phardim Hi,
I seem to be having DC issues in the Trial of the Crusader. When I disable xperl, I experience no DCs. I am not sure where to find any diagnostic information. Appreciate any assist.
I seem to have a similar problem. I am not 100% sure though its only when x-perl is activated. Could it also be important whether x-perl is even in the addon folder or is it impossible that x-perl causes problems when its not activated for that char in the addon selection on the char selection screen?
I get this LUA error message for example:
Message: Interface\AddOns\XPerl\XPerl_Globals.lua:232: attempt to call field '?' (a nil value)
Time: 09/29/09 13:40:22
Count: 2
Stack: [string "Interface\FrameXML\BasicControls.xml:<Scrip..."]:18: in function <[string "Interface\FrameXML\BasicControls.xml:<Scrip..."]:4>
[C]: in function `?'
Interface\AddOns\XPerl\XPerl_Globals.lua:232: in function <Interface\AddOns\XPerl\XPerl_Globals.lua:224>
Interface\AddOns\XPerl\XPerl_Globals.lua:257: in function <Interface\AddOns\XPerl\XPerl_Globals.lua:256>
I've also been unable to set focus frames since the latest patch. I really REALLY love this mod but it seems like it doesn't update nearly enough. Is there anything that I can do to use focus frames again? It's really important to be able to use them for arena...at least for me
Originally posted by Oznak I love the Xperl raid frames, but i'm horrible at healing with just the party frame. Is there any way to show raid frames while in party mode?
What he said can we use raid frames when not in a raid?
Originally posted by phardim Hi,
I seem to be having DC issues in the Trial of the Crusader. When I disable xperl, I experience no DCs. I am not sure where to find any diagnostic information. Appreciate any assist.
Addon could cause disconnect in only one way - take a short loop and cause server abort connection due to client not responding to protocol pings.
I don't think it's an issue for you, else you'll be blaming it loudly
Hi,
I seem to be having DC issues in the Trial of the Crusader. When I disable xperl, I experience no DCs. I am not sure where to find any diagnostic information. Appreciate any assist.
Originally posted by 32103940 hello.. X-perl highlights guild members in the guild dialog box a reddish color. these people happen to be using x-perl as well from what i see on the tool tip. may i know where the option is to turn this off?
The funktion is somehow ~ X-Perl usage blabla, guess it's on the helper tab somewhere in the upper right portion of the window, right where you set if readycheck, faint death and consorts are or are not displayed.
Don't nail me down on it, servers are down so no way to look it up at the moment.
Are party debuffs working properly? All I see is stuff I can cure, and I *dont* have that checkbox checked. I've tried deleting my saved vars and reinstalling but no luck.
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