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ShieldsUp

Version: 6.0.3.48

by: Phanx [More]

2016/07/29 — I do not plan to update ShieldsUp for Legion, as shaman shields no longer exist in a meaningful form in the game.

ShieldsUp monitors your Earth Shield, Water Shield, and Lightning Shield.

Easy-to-read plain text display
Shows your active shields, their remaining charges*, and the name of your Earth Shield target
Optional text and sound alerts when one of your shields expires or is removed
Condensed display while solo (or for shamans without Earth Shield)
Support for all colorblindness modes
Support for custom fonts and sounds via LibSharedMedia-3.0 media packs

* Note that Water Shield and Lightning Shield will display a "W" or "L", respectively, except for elemental shamans, who will see a number for Lightning Shield when they have at least one extra charge.

Type “/sup” for options, or browse to the ShieldsUp panel in the standard Interface Options window.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Why isn’t ShieldsUp monitoring my Earth Shield?

A: ShieldsUp only monitors Earth Shield when it’s cast on yourself, or on a player or pet in your party or raid group. There is no way for addons to reliably monitor buffs cast on units who are not in your group, so ShieldsUp doesn’t try.

Q: Why am I only seeing one charge counter?

A: ShieldsUp switches to a single-counter display when you are solo, or if you don’t have the Earth Shield talent, since in either situation it’s only possible for you to have one shield active on a target ShieldsUp can monitor.

Feedback

Post a ticket on GitHub or post a comment on this page. If you are reporting a problem, please read this first. If you are requesting a feature, please note that I consider ShieldsUp to be complete, and will probably not add any new features.

Language Support

Works in all languages. Translated into English, Deutsch, Español, Français, Italiano (partial), Português, Русский, 한국어 (partial), 简体中文, and 繁體中文. You can add or update translations for any language on the CurseForge project page.

Credits

ShieldsUp was originally based on Infineon’s beSch.

Version 6.0.3.48

Removed Earth Shield overwrite detection, since a target can now have more than one Earth Shield on them at a time

Version 6.0.3.190

Updated for WoW 6.0
Updated Português translations from Tercioo

Version 5.4.8.186

Updated Русский translations from Yafis

Version 5.4.8.184

Better handling of visibility for low-level characters
Fix for missing labels on dropdowns in options panel

Version 5.4.7.181

Fixed inactive counter appearing in single (solo) mode
Added previews to the sound selection dropdowns
Display is now always hidden for shamans below level 9

Version 5.4.7.173

Fixed playing alert sounds
Added option to suppress alerts while hidden

Version 5.4.1.167

Updated for WoW 5.4
Updated French, German, and Portuguese translations

Version 5.3.0.163

Fixed several issues related to hiding unlimited shields

Version 5.3.0.162

Updated for WoW 5.3
Added an option to hide active shields that don't have limited charges (Water Shield, non-Elemental Lightning Shield)
Changed how visibility settings are stored -- you will need to reconfigure your hide/show settings
Minor efficiency improvements

Version 5.2.0.158

Minor changes to the Alerts options layout

Version 5.2.0.157

Fixed localization. Translators, please review the options panel, and add missing translations.

Version 5.2.0.156

Simplified the Visibility options by combining the group type and zone type filters.

Version 5.1.0.147

Fixed a minor cosmetic issue with the Text Output dropdown in the Alerts option panel.

Version 5.0.5.146

Now hidden in pet battles.

Version 5.0.4.144

Updated Traditional Chinese translations from awaited on CurseForge.

Version 5.0.4.142

Elemental shamans will now see a number instead of an "L" for Lightning Shield when it has at least one extra charge (2+ total charges).

Version 5.0.4.141

Updated for WoW 5.0.4
Updated Spanish, French, and Russian translations

Version 4.3.4.137

Compatible with both 4.3 live realms and Mists of Pandaria beta realms.
Use the “Load out of date addons” checkbox on beta realms — the TOC won’t be updated until Patch 5.0 goes live.
Added an option to color the target name by class when Earth Shield is active and not overwritten.

Version 4.3.4.134

Compatible with both 4.3 live realms and Mists of Pandaria beta realms.
Use the “Load out of date addons” checkbox on beta realms — the TOC won’t be updated until Patch 5.0 goes live.
Fixed several issues with group detection on live servers.
Fixed an issue with Water/Lightning Shield detection at login on beta servers.
Fixed an issue where Earth Shield would not be detected if you cast it on someone outside your group and then joined a group with that player.
Added support for all colorblind modes, not just mode #1 (which is the only one the default UI exposes as an option).
Improved support for LibSharedMedia fonts at login.

Version 4.3.4.132

Compatible with both 4.3 live realms and Mists of Pandaria beta realms.
Use the “Load out of date addons” checkbox on beta realms — the TOC won’t be updated until Patch 5.0 goes live.
Updated for MoP changes: Water Shield and Lightning Shield no longer have charges, and will show a "W" or "L" instead of the number of charges.
Lots of cleanups to options and translations.
Added partial koKR localization from moom21 on CurseForge.
Updated deDE localization from Estadon on CurseForge.
Added itIT (partial) and ptBR translations.

Version 4.3.0.122

Updated for WoW 4.3
Translations needed for Português (ptBR) and 한국어 (koKR). If you can help translate ShieldsUp for either of these languages, please send me a PM. Thanks!

Version 4.2.0.120

Updated for WoW 4.2

Version 4.1.0.119

Added an option for moving the Earth Shield target name to the bottom of the display, or hiding it. It’s not exposed in the options panel yet, but you can change it by typing “ /run ShieldsUpDB.namePosition = "BOTTOM"; ShieldsUp:ApplySettings() ”. The value can be "BOTTOM", "TOP", or "NONE".
Removed support for WoW 3.2, since China has finally updated to 3.3+
Updated localization

Version 4.0.3.105

Fixed a number of minor bugs
Added backwards compatibility for WoW China
Added TOC metadata for the Curse Client
Updated Spanish localization

Version 3.3.5.97

Added an option to tell you who overwrites your Earth Shield
Removed the Colorblind Mode option; ShieldsUp now respects the default UI's Colorblind Mode setting
Updated for changes in config libs

Version 3.3.2.93

Wintergrasp and other (future) outdoor PvP zones are now treated as battlegrounds for the purposes of visibility options
Fixed possible errors when no alert sound is selected
Improved text alert options
Added LibAboutPanel to optional dependencies for standalone library users

Version 3.3.0.85

Fixed failure to monitor Earth Shield on battleground allies from other servers
Fixed failure to detect active shields on login
Fixed alerts triggering while you are dead or operating a vehicle
Fixed alerts triggering while the display is hidden
Fixed alerts triggering when you remove Earth Shield on one target by casting it on another target
Fixed alerts triggering when you remove Earth Shield on yourself by casting Water Shield or Lightning Shield, and vice versa
Added French translations from krukniak on Curse
Added very rough Spanish translations - corrections welcome

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12-07-10, 02:38 AM
Phanx Cat. Forum posts: 5617 File comments: 2321 Uploads: 54	Okay, the problem is that NeedjaTracker is overwriting the Blizzard API function "IsInInstance" with a custom function of the same name in the global namespace. I've notified the addon's author, but beyond that, there's nothing I can do in my own addon to fix or work around the problem.

12-03-10, 06:53 PM

reale

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haha

Originally posted by Phanx
Well, after glancing at that addon's code, I need some of this:

...but I'll keep reading and see if I can figure out what the problem is. From the addon's changelog, though, it looks like it's still under heavy development, with tons of bugfix commits.

haha you rock, that's the voice of a guy who's been writing WoW mods for years

GreedBeacon works the same and feels a bit "lighter" so no worries.

Last edited by reale : 12-03-10 at 06:54 PM.

12-03-10, 05:02 PM
Phanx Cat. Forum posts: 5617 File comments: 2321 Uploads: 54	Well, after glancing at that addon's code, I need some of this: ...but I'll keep reading and see if I can figure out what the problem is. From the addon's changelog, though, it looks like it's still under heavy development, with tons of bugfix commits.

12-03-10, 01:34 AM

reale

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Re: Re: Alone

Originally posted by Phanx
The ShieldsUp frame is not attached to anything, so it's unlikely another addon is hiding it by accident. Either it's intentionally hiding it (though I don't know why it would do that) or it's breaking some part of the WoW addon API (the set of functions addons use to create themselves and interact with the game). You'll have to enable your other addons one by one to figure out which one is causing the problem. Let me know which one it is, too, so I can try to see what it's actually doing wrong.

Found it

That is tough with tons of mods installed.

http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-a...a-tracker.aspx

0.2 beta hides the frame, bummer, I really like that mod.

12-03-10, 01:02 AM
Phanx Cat. Forum posts: 5617 File comments: 2321 Uploads: 54	Re: Alone The ShieldsUp frame is not attached to anything, so it's unlikely another addon is hiding it by accident. Either it's intentionally hiding it (though I don't know why it would do that) or it's breaking some part of the WoW addon API (the set of functions addons use to create themselves and interact with the game). You'll have to enable your other addons one by one to figure out which one is causing the problem. Let me know which one it is, too, so I can try to see what it's actually doing wrong.

12-02-10, 11:10 PM

reale

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Alone

Originally posted by Phanx
Try logging in with all addons disabled except for ShieldsUp. I'm not sure how another addon could be hiding the display unless that addon was explicitly written to hide the ShieldsUp frame, though.

When I load only ShieldsUp! it shows, when I enable all my other addons it's hidden. A mod would specifically have to hide that frame or is it considered part of another UI element? I'm not using default action bars, unit frames or totem frame.

Thanks

12-02-10, 10:09 PM
Phanx Cat. Forum posts: 5617 File comments: 2321 Uploads: 54	Try logging in with all addons disabled except for ShieldsUp. I'm not sure how another addon could be hiding the display unless that addon was explicitly written to hide the ShieldsUp frame, though.

12-02-10, 09:19 PM
reale A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 1 File comments: 164 Uploads: 0	Yes Yes, I double checked every setting and reset to defaults. Played with all the sliders to see if I could get it on screen and hid every other element incase it was behind them. Something is hiding it.

12-02-10, 07:38 PM
Phanx Cat. Forum posts: 5617 File comments: 2321 Uploads: 54	Versions other than the current one are not supported, and are likely to not work. They were superceded by newer versions for a reason. Anyway, did check your visibility settings as I suggested? If you're standing in town and have "Hide when resting" checked, or aren't in a group and have "Hide when solo" checked, for example, then the display being hidden is expected and correct behavior.

12-02-10, 06:27 PM

reale

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Hmm

Originally posted by Phanx
No, but you can type "/run ShieldsUpDB = nil; ReloadUI()" to reset your ShieldsUp settings. Check your visibility settings first, though. Most likely you're in town (resting) and have "Hide when resting" checked, or something like that.

Did the reset and even set it to Hor/Ver 0,0 and nothing shows, hmm.

Tried the Archived version and it gives a lua error, I'm stumped.

Last edited by reale : 12-02-10 at 06:29 PM.

12-02-10, 04:07 AM
Phanx Cat. Forum posts: 5617 File comments: 2321 Uploads: 54	No, but you can type "/run ShieldsUpDB = nil; ReloadUI()" to reset your ShieldsUp settings. Check your visibility settings first, though. Most likely you're in town (resting) and have "Hide when resting" checked, or something like that.

12-01-10, 09:05 PM
reale A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 1 File comments: 164 Uploads: 0	Hidden? I can't get the text to show no matter how I position it. Is there a reset button? Last edited by reale : 12-02-10 at 02:04 PM.

11-03-10, 02:15 AM
Rixxon A Fallenroot Satyr Forum posts: 28 File comments: 17 Uploads: 4	if its possible to make a selection to "invert" the addon ? something like an icon if no earth shield is castet or is missing or <2 or an icon for "water shield is missing" ? its nice to see how mutch earth shield is left but in a different fight where chaos everywhere , an icon with an sound is a little better.

10-26-10, 02:58 PM
Phanx Cat. Forum posts: 5617 File comments: 2321 Uploads: 54	Altering the TOC number is strongly discouraged, for a number of reasons, not least that it makes it much more difficult to track down problems caused by addons that haven't been updated in a few patches. Blizzard put the checkbox into the game on purpose; there's no reason not to use it.

10-26-10, 12:41 PM

eq2imora

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Originally posted by Phanx
I don't believe in wasting my bandwidth, your bandwidth, and WoWI's bandwidth by posting "updates" that do nothing but change 2 digits in the TOC. No code changes are required for this addon to work with the current version of WoW. Blizzard put the "Load out of date addons" box in the game for a reason. Use it.

They could also manually update the toc file.

Probably beyond them.

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