The word "Cooldowns" in your screenshot is the name of the anchor. All you have to do is tell DoTimer to hide the anchor name - there is no need to edit the addon's files.

Go here:
Interface Options->Addons->DoTimer Anchors->Cooldowns Anchor

Now look in the configuration pane to the right for GROUP NAMES in white text. In that section you will find an option to enable or disable DISPLAY NAMES.

Un-check the box to the left of the words DISPLAY NAMES.

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I suggest you save your current profile, then make a new profile to use for testing purposes. You'll be amazed at all the things you can do with DoTimer - it can take the place of 10 other addons. But there are SO many options that the only way to learn to use them all is to experiment with the addon and play with the various options.

This is something you should take up with Asheyla when he returns from his hiatus, because what you are experiencing is due to the way DoTimer attempts to prevent "spamming" your interface with undesirable or unneeded timers.

As you noted, if you select a unit as your target, or as your focus, or if you mouseover that unit; DoTimer will track your DoTs on that unit by putting up a timer for each one.

Units that are not your target or focus or mouseover yet happen to become affected by one of your DoTs - such as when a Death Knight spreads his diseases to a group via Pestilence - will generally not produce a timer unless you happen to mouse over that unit, or that unit is in direct combat with you.

In my opinion - and it's only my opinion - I think that it's better for DoTimer to behave in this way, as it prevents the screen from being filled with a huge number of timers in most AoE situations. It can STILL fill your screen in certain AoE situations if you don't explicitly set a limit on the number of timers that can be displayed at one time; but thanks to the built-in filtering, it doesn't happen very often.

Sorry, coani. I don't know how that didn't make it in. I've got it in the file inside my own WTF folder - I must have somehow neglected to package and zip the right file.

I'll fix that right away. Thanks for pointing out my error.

Thanks, Farmbuyer. I'll test it thoroughly and then incorporate it into a new download package here if it works for me and my testing doesn't discover any new issues generated by the fix.

I really appreciate the time and effort you spent to investigate, create, and post your patches.

You're confused? The issue is obvious?

I have never experienced this issue myself. If you can track it down and suggest what code needs to be adjusted, I'll be happy to test it and incorporate it into this project. But if I can't experience the issue, I can't do anything about it unless you provide the needed changes.

It's also possible that you have the Party Buffs option set up in a way that is causing this issue. Try experimenting with those settings. Go to Interface Options->Addons->DoTimer->DoTimer and check your settings for Party Buffs and Others' Timers.

I have a feeling this is more about how you have configured (or failed to configure) DoTimer than it is a bug in the addon.


Again, I have never experienced this problem. Disable all addons except DoTimer and see if that resolves the issue. If it does, it's not a problem with DoTimer. If it does not, please tell me exactly what I can do to replicate the problem. You could also put more effort into it and suggest what part of the DoTimer code needs to be changed.


If I'm not experiencing an issue myself, the only way I can know to try to create or find a fix for such a hypothetical issue is if it's described to me. Furthermore, I'm much more interested in reports from people who know something about the addon and can suggest potential fixes for the problems they report than people who just want to complain that a problem they have experienced has not yet been addressed by this project.

It's important to note that I am not "taking over" DoTimer. I'm just making a version available with fixes that Asheyla has not yet applied himself - this project is going to disappear as soon as Asheyla returns and posts an update to his project. That means I'm not going to add new features, and I'm unlikely to try to create or find a repair for every little problem.

That said, I'll respond better to, "Do you think you could incorporate a fix for this issue that I will now describe in detail and then suggest code for a specific file edit?" than to, "Hey, monkeyboy, you fixed stuff I don't care about. How could you miss this obvious problem?"

Interestingly, I have the exact same Notification for my Druid - except I move it to a custom anchor where I display short-duration buffs and procs and important (and short) cooldowns.

And you're right: It uses the generic "lightning bolt" symbol. I honestly had never noticed it before I went in-game to check it after reading your message. I guess that in live play my attention was never drawn to it, instead focusing on the text in the timer bar and the remaining duration.

As far as I was able to determine, there is no way to change the icon using the current version of DoTimer. So this would be a great new feature to suggest to Asheyla.

As I state in the description, "I did not generate any of the fixes for DoTimer. All three fixes were made by other people. I just applied all the fixes, tested them to be sure they work and do not cause problems of their own, and then packaged them for upload here."

I plan to perform bug fixes and changes required for compatibility with future World of Warcraft patches. I do not plan to add any features or make any substantial changes. The only thing on the "to-do" list for this project is to keep the addon working, to document the changes made, and to update the .toc file. I don't want a separate addon project that will run in parallel with DoTimer; this project is just to hold over DoTimer users until Asheyla gets back to work and posts an update.

The feature you want sounds like a useful one to add. I suggest you request it on the DoTimer project page so that Asheyla will see it. You might also send a private message to Asheyla so that your suggestion doesn't get lost on that page.


edit: Are you sure you're setting up your Notifications correctly? I use several custom timers with the Notifications module myself, and they display using the unique icons, not the generic "lightning bolt" icons that appear with the preview/test timers.

Give me an example: Describe, as thoroughly as you can, one of the custom timers you have created. Let me see if I can duplicate the issue, or if I can guide you through the process of setting it up so that the unique icon is displayed instead.