Have a fun/safe trip!!

Hi Ketho =D

• I actually tweaked the chat formatting myself in order to output it in a more visually pleasing way Although the coding is a bit sloppy, it does the job. Just wanted to also mention that the feasts announce wasn't working since you had it under SPELL_CAST_SUCCESS when it should be listed under SPELL_CAST_START.
  
  
• No that isn't me on the PTR. None of my toons are named Linguini. This is just some random name I chose for this forum
  
  
• The reason why I initially suggested the health indicator thing for determining who is a tank in the raid (for MDs and tricks of the trade) is that not all guilds do a regular "role check" in their raids. Although your method of filtering out tanks via the role check is a great idea, it really isn't ideal and using player health is a more secure and stable method of filtering out the tanks.
  
  
• As for my reformatting, I managed to change a little bit of the coding. I have zero experience in coding, however I managed to figure some parts out myself. Here are samples of what I came up with:

textChat = ChatFilter("Dispel") and sourceUnitChat.." "..dispelString.." "..destUnitChat.."'s "..extraSpellLinkChat

textChat = ChatFilter("Dispel") and sourceUnitChat.." "..ACTION_SPELL_STOLEN.." "..destUnitChat.."'s "..extraSpellLinkChat

textChat = ChatFilter("Resurrection") and sourceUnitChat.."'s "..spellLinkChat.." "..ACTION_SPELL_RESURRECT.." "..destUnitChat

textChat = ChatFilter("Interrupt") and sourceUnitChat.." "..ACTION_SPELL_INTERRUPT.." "..destUnitChat.."'s "..extraSpellLinkChat

textChat = profile.SpellChat and sourceUnitChat.." casts "..spellLinkChat.." on "..destUnitChat

Hello.

Here's to hoping you're still around to code a bit more! i just have a few requests, hopefully none of these aren't major.

I'm noticing a lot of chat announces being in ugly formats. For example, things like Name[Dispel Magic] dispelled Enemyname[Power Word: Fortitude] which I've gone into the .lua directly and changing the code there to make it output into chat as "Name dispelled Enemyname's Power Word: Fortitude"

I know it's no big deal, but simple things like that could use some improvements. Another example would be for feasts. Feasts and cauldrons should be announcing (for chat outputs only) as "Name has prepared a Seafood Magnifique Feast" or "Name has prepared a Big Cauldron of Battle"

Here is a list of chat formattings that I think should be edited:

• feasts: Ketho has prepared a Seafood Magnifique Feast.
• cauldons: Ketho has prepared a Big Cauldron of Battle.
• dispels: Ketho has dispelled Enemy's [Focus Magic].
• spellsteal: Ketho has stolen Enemy's [Focus Magic].
• interrupts: Ketho has interrupted Enemey's [Fireball].
• deaths: Ketho has died to Deathwing's 190,203 Melee.
• deaths: Ketho has died to environmental damage 40,291 Lava.
• tricks: Ketho cast Tricks of the Trade on Maintank.
• MDs: Ketho cast Misdirection on Offtank.
• spells: Ketho has cast Time Warp.
• toys: Ketho is [Using Direbrew's Remote].

Again, these are changes I think should only be implemented for chat output only.

REALLY, REALLY good addon. VERY configurable, and if implemented right can have multiple awesome effects.

Everything from a Kick announcer to a full battle relay on a separate MSBT window.

Seriously great job man, excellent addon ^^

If I can find time, I'll try to dig through it to see if I can understand how it works. I am *not* a good coder, but if I'm lucky I can cobble things together.

I don't know if others are following this, but are there any suggestions for a decent LibSink display thingie? My searchfu has not been able to find one. (Scrolling text is not useful because it's gone and doesn't let me analyze it later).

Right now I'm redirecting things to a chat window, but... I need more space! (or to delegate someone in the raid to watch that for me, I guess.

Thanks for your efforts, and enjoy your break.

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Theondry of Perenolde

I've noticed that output to a chat channel retains the links, it's the output to the chat frame that does not.

EDIT:
I figured it out. There are no Braces around the chat frame output. Very disconcerting.


I'd like to second a request to be able to shape output. I've been using a modified version of Raksh's Interrupt addon (I've had to fix it a few times, and stopped checking to see if he's been updating it) and it has a very clean output for interrupts such that I've been using your addon for self-information and his to output to chat, but i'd like to cut down on how much stuff I have loaded.

One last request (perhaps very much out of the scope of the addon)... a dedicated display panel. I'm having problems finding a decent place to keep the spam this generates during hectic fights visible.

Damnit, I *need* all that information!

I haven't looked at your code, but if you're using a generic format for output (as opposed to separate chat output for each type of notification), it seems like it should be fairly easy to have users edit the code if they want some customization.

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Theondry of Perenolde

Links seem totally disabled in the chat panes. (currently output to a different-than-default panel)

(edit: deleted the first part... confused an error with another addon.)

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Theondry of Perenolde

maybe just a few more requests! XD

• add "Big Cauldron of Battle" to feasts/bots

• add "Cauldron of Battle" to feasts/bots

• separate resurrections into two options:
  battle res (rebirth, raise ally, shaman ankh) and regular out-of-combat res

• only announce tricks of the trade and misdirections to players over 170,000 health (tanks)

• add a limit to amount of death announces
  example: only announce the first 10 deaths in a 25 man raid

• when casting a spell on self, announce self's name as well. example:
  instead of "Linguini Slow Fall" it should say "Linguini Slow Fall Linguini"

• option to show/hide failed interrupts (immune)

you are simply the best