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Power Alert

Version: 20090205

by: kjkrum [More]

Power Alert flashes power and health warnings using "crit" style floating combat text. It increases your situational awareness without blocking your view and clicks the way a HUD often does.

Version 20090205 moves the configuration options into Blizzard's interface options panel and adds an option to disable audio alerts. The code is also fully localized. See the development notes below for more details.

Displays alerts for:
- High rage
- High energy
- High runic power
- Low mana
- Low health
- Full power and health

Settings are saved on a per-character basis. Access the GUI configuration options by typing /poweralert or /pa.

Power Alert uses Blizzard's floating combat text functions. If you get an error about CombatText_AddMessage being nil, enable floating combat text in your UI options.

Development notes - feedback requested

The way Power Alert provides audio cues was the product of much experimentation. I feel it's the optimal combination of attention-grabbing feedback when you need it, and minimal annoyance when you don't. If you feel otherwise, please let me know.

Power Alert is fully localized. However, the only translation in Localization.lua is English. I will credit anyone who submits translations for other locales. I would also welcome screenshots from other locales for use on this page.

Version 20090205:
- Moved config options to the Blizzard interface options panel
- Added a checkbox to turn off audio cues
- Fully localized (but still needs translations!)

Version 20081114:
- Added audio cues for low health and mana

Version 20081018:
- Fixed energy alert spam in 3.0

Version 20081005:
- Updated for 3.0 and recent beta builds
- Added GUI configuration via /poweralert or /pa
- Configuration settings are saved per-character
- Druids receive mana and energy alerts in all forms
- Changed color of Runic Power alerts to light blue

Version 20080903:
- Removed debugging messages

Version 20080818 beta:
- Localized alerts (except percent formats)
- Added alerts for high Runic Power
- Minimized global namespace clutter
- Changed rage and energy alerts to points instead of percents
- Fixed spurious 100% health alert when shifting to bear form
- Various minor bugfixes

Version 20080812:
- Tracks health as well as power
- Displays current percents instead of threshold values
- Minor bug fixes related to druid shapeshifting

Version 20080808:
- Initial release

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10-05-10, 07:17 PM

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A Fallenroot Satyr

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Seems great, but I just tried it and whenever my Runic Power hit's the 40 mark I get this error...

Code:

Date: 2010-10-05 21:13:44
ID: 1
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ..\AddOns\PowerAlert\PowerAlert.lua line 123:
   attempt to call global 'CombatText_AddMessage' (a nil value)
Debug:
   [C]: CombatText_AddMessage()
   PowerAlert\PowerAlert.lua:123: PowerAlert_Notify()
   PowerAlert\PowerAlert.lua:95: PowerAlert_OnEvent()
   [string "*:OnEvent"]:1:
      [string "*:OnEvent"]:1
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Hope you can fix it... looks like a great help!

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05-18-09, 10:48 PM
kjkrum A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 15 Uploads: 3	I had a strange problem starting around game version 3.1. I haven't received any bug reports about it, so maybe it was just a freak thing. But just in case: PA stopped saving the settings for my characters, and kept reverting to 0 for all the option values. Fixing it was a matter of deleting the saved variables file and letting it create a new one. If this happens to you, go to your character's SavedVariables folder, e.g.: C:\Program Files\Blizzard\Burning Crusade\WTF\Account\ACCOUNT\Server\Character\SavedVariables ..and delete PowerAlert.lua and PowerAlert.lua.bak.

02-05-09, 09:33 PM
Mor A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 1 Uploads: 0	Thanks! Thanks for this addon...it's awesome

11-16-08, 06:37 AM
kjkrum A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 15 Uploads: 3	I'll take that into consideration.

08-20-08, 09:33 AM
acapela A Cobalt Mageweaver Forum posts: 241 File comments: 1313 Uploads: 5	IMO, this is the way to do this sort of thing. simple, as you say... but use LibSInk. http://www.wowinterface.com/download...o.php?id=10485 just my $0.02.

08-12-08, 10:05 PM
kjkrum A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 15 Uploads: 3	Hmmm... sorry. I write software for myself and share it with others if I think they would find it useful. Integrating LibSink would be far more work than I'm interested in doing.

08-12-08, 10:11 AM
acapela A Cobalt Mageweaver Forum posts: 241 File comments: 1313 Uploads: 5	feature request: incorporate LibSink, so that various combat text systems are available for use.

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