Maintainers:
Up to 5.8.3 was AnduinLothar
Up to version 5.0.0 was Dandelion
Summary:
DamageMeters monitors damage and healing done by and to yourself and other nearby players. It keeps a running total for each player and displays the information as a bars chart in a frame on the screen. It is perfect for real-time comparison of the various members of your party or raid. At any time the text results can be output as "says", to raid or party chat, or whispered to another player. Many console commands exist for customizing the meters: type "/dm help" for a listing.
FAQ:
Q: Why the "-AL"? A: Dandelion, the orig author, has retired from WoW. AnduinLothar (me) modified v5.0.0 from Cosmos because that version works with English, German and French clients. AnduinLothar has no long term plans to enhance functionality and would gladly hand over maintenance to someone else, but decided DamageMeters had a large enough user base that it deserved to be updated to use the 1.12 addon communication API.
Q: MY DM WINDOW DISSAPPEARED! A: Use "/dm resetpos". This should make the DM frame visible and put it against the right side of the screen.
Q: What happened to the "Reset Each Combat" option? A: It was made irrelevant. DamageMeters now keeps in essence two full sets of information: one normal, and one set that applies only to the latest fight. This second set, the Fight set, is what provides the information for the DPS, HPS, DTPS, and HTPS quantities. Those quantities are basically the normal quantities but divided by the duration of the fight. If you turn off the "Visible Quantity\Show Fight Data As Per/Second" option you have what is in essence the same thing as what you had before with the "Reset Each Combat" option.
Q: Why can't DM just automatically sync? A: v5.1.0 has a BETA auto-sync option. This will sync when you lave combat once every three (3) minutes. In previous versions this was left out for the following reasons: Primarily because sync'ing takes a long time. There is just a lot of data to transmit, and since WoW likes to boot clients that send data too quickly DM transmits it slowly. If you are having problems with frame lag or being disconnected randomly you should disable auto-sync and do it manually after boss fights.
Change Log - DamageMeters
Version History
(See Readme.rtf in the download for a full history)
5.8.2 - 2-3-08
*Fixed some tainting issues
*Cleaned up some globals
*Changed the default tooltip to be based on the currently visible values. Added customizability in the Event Data menu.
*Changed the default settings to be more appropriate to the raid setting:
*Changed the default display and text settings to show a little more information.
5.8.1 - 12-22-07
*Should no longer freeze when entering a battleground.
5.8.0 - 12-18-07
*"Only Monitor Group Members" now includes group pets.
*"Treat Pet Data As Your Data" now also works for group member's pets. (See the Players section of the read me for more information: Known Group Pet Exception Cases)
*Fixed a bug when Chronos wasn't installed.
5.7.1 - 10-25-07
*Bypasses guild and channel spam restrictions if Chronos is installed
*Fixed /dm setrange [#]
*Updated toc metadata
5.7.0b - 10-1-07
*Fixed Dependancy
5.7.0 - 10-1-07
*Updated Toc to 20200
*Fixed heal tracking (left over bug from removing Dragon's Breath and Julie's Blessing regex)
*Renamed Quantity Filters to Quantity Cycling for more clarity
*Added a cycle button for manual cycling, same as the binding. Specify quantities in the Quantity Cycling menu. This made the top bar a little wider.
*Added X-Localizations and X-CompatibleLocales toc entries
Might be considered quaint, but it does the job quite well. Props to Kthana (and everyone involved) for keeping DamageMeters alive. I looked around (recount, recap, swstats) but it never quite performed as well as DM.
Originally posted by incith There's this problem where.. if you are dragging the frame, and you right click while dragging, it stays locked as moving.. and no matter if you keep clicking or right clicking the frame keeps moving with the cursor. You can do a '/dm lockpos' to lock it back down but it's still a bit of a hassle, especially since I just right click for no reason a lot haha.
Also, it seems like most settings are saved globally, except for the position of the frame? O_o
i have the same problem but its when i left click to drag it and also its not recording anything at all.....when installing it says theres folders with the same name as the Libs, TitanDamageMeters, ChatThrottleLib, and Skin folders.
Anyone else getting this issue? The meter works fine for my main character, but it will only record self data for my alts. Tried working every setting short of wiping and reloading the mod to get this to resolve.
The setting for displaying tooltip events summary, related to the the current bar display and all category of event doesn't seem to be saved accross sessions. It always goes to the default (ctrl for summary, alt for all events). I like the old behavior of always showing all events.
There's this problem where.. if you are dragging the frame, and you right click while dragging, it stays locked as moving.. and no matter if you keep clicking or right clicking the frame keeps moving with the cursor. You can do a '/dm lockpos' to lock it back down but it's still a bit of a hassle, especially since I just right click for no reason a lot haha.
Also, it seems like most settings are saved globally, except for the position of the frame? O_o
I cant even use it. I log in, the window is there. But it does nothing. I right click, i see a list of arrows with no text by them, no /dm commands work, they wont even let me press enter. not sure if this has anything to do with it but when i try to put it in my addons it says "cannot find specified file" even tho the folder is copied over.
Last edited by Duskwood0585 : 01-02-2008 at 10:47 PM.
Extraction of this newest ver into addons generates an error. "Files not found in specified location" or somesuch and there's nothing in the Libfolder.
Originally posted by Kolakhan D/L This morning and got hung going into Bg's. Had to reset computer multiple times to get out. Eliminated damagemeters and all is ok. A real problem here.
+1 same story.
Between if i use 5.8.0 version from cosmosui site which requires ChatThrottleLib to be installed, then it works perfect without any freezes.
Originally posted by Kolakhan D/L This morning and got hung going into Bg's. Had to reset computer multiple times to get out. Eliminated damagemeters and all is ok. A real problem here.
I'm having the exact same problem as Kolakhan. Downloaded the new version and now I freeze up after zoning into a BG. Turning DM off solved the problem.
