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Author:	Eidolarr [more]
Version:	1.9
Date:	04-25-2009 12:44 PM
Size:	135.26 Kb
Downloads:	2,628
Favorites:	73
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BigRed

BigRed is a tiny addon that lets you customize your game error messages. Not Lua errors, mind you, but game errors - things like "out of range" and "not enough energy." It offers the following features:

- choose your font!
- move the messages
- adjust the maximum number of messages to show
- adjust the time it takes for the messages to fade out
- adjust the amount of that time they spend fading
- throttle the messages
- set the justification
- adjust the text color color

Finally, clean up those hideous big red lines of text from the middle of your UI!

If you have any suggestions, leave 'em here, but I do not intend to expand the pleasantly limited scope of the addon significantly. Please leave questions, comments, etc. as well.

AUTHORS: The API is now exposed and specified. See spec.html or BigRed.pod for details.

Change Log - BigRed

see spec.html

Optional Files - BigRed

Sorry, there are currently no optional files available.

Archived Versions - BigRed

File Name	Version	Size	Author	Date
BigRed	1.8b	121kB	Eidolarr	03-01-2009 12:08 AM

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07-27-2009, 06:41 PM
xtoq A Fallenroot Satyr Forum posts: 24 File comments: 493 Uploads: 1	No answer to either of my PMs, my ticket, or the ticket posted after mine at wowace. There was an update (small one, TOC or some such) on the 26th of June, but no reply from the author. Someone has posted a "working" version on WoWI, but since I never had a problem with it working (I suspect I had the libraries it was probably missing installed already), there's no change for me (and there doesn't seem to be a change in the code itself that I can see). __________________ There is absolutely no evidence to support the theory that life is serious.

07-24-2009, 09:48 AM

xtoq

A Fallenroot Satyr

Forum posts: 24

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Uploads: 1

Quote:

Originally posted by Eidolarr
I'll dig around this weekend and see where the author's gone; if he's still around, I'd ask him for permission to modify it, or find out why he removed the filtering feature. In the worst case, I can write a very basic version of it from scratch.

Let me know if you catch up with him.

Ok I'll send him a PM and see if it gets me anywhere. Still no answer on my - or someone else's - ticket. Although he posted an update the other day, the changelog doesn't say anything about filtering, and it still does not filter. And the author is Rabbit, I am sure he's still around, since he's a manager of BigWigs. But it seems like this was simply something removed without telling users and since all the help and descriptions still say that it is available it all points to being a mistake in my eyes. Dropping him a PM here and at wowace.

__________________
There is absolutely no evidence to support the theory that life is serious.

Last edited by xtoq : 07-24-2009 at 09:52 AM.

07-15-2009, 11:03 PM

Eidolarr

An Aku'mai Servant

Forum posts: 34

File comments: 28

Uploads: 4

Quote:

Originally posted by xtoq
I've posted a comment on the addon's page here at WoWI and a ticket on Curseforge.com, but the author hasn't answered any comments regarding the filtering issue on Curse or WoWI. Should I send him a PM? I just don't want to bug someone unnecessarily. It states everywhere - on the descriptions on both Curse and WoWI and in the options in-game - that you can filter, but there are no options for it. Reading back through comments on one of the sites seems to indicate that one or two updates ago filtering was removed, but there's no indication in the change log that this was done intentionally, and like I said, no comment from the author regarding this. Suggestion? I understand your hesitation, and clearly there is no reason to reinvent the wheel obviously, so I'm open to whatever you can suggest. I've looked through the code and there doesn't even seem to be functionality in place for filtering. I did not look through past releases for the filtering functions however. Thanks for your time.

I'll dig around this weekend and see where the author's gone; if he's still around, I'd ask him for permission to modify it, or find out why he removed the filtering feature. In the worst case, I can write a very basic version of it from scratch.

Let me know if you catch up with him.

07-14-2009, 03:00 PM
xtoq A Fallenroot Satyr Forum posts: 24 File comments: 493 Uploads: 1	I've posted a comment on the addon's page here at WoWI and a ticket on Curseforge.com, but the author hasn't answered any comments regarding the filtering issue on Curse or WoWI. Should I send him a PM? I just don't want to bug someone unnecessarily. It states everywhere - on the descriptions on both Curse and WoWI and in the options in-game - that you can filter, but there are no options for it. Reading back through comments on one of the sites seems to indicate that one or two updates ago filtering was removed, but there's no indication in the change log that this was done intentionally, and like I said, no comment from the author regarding this. Suggestion? I understand your hesitation, and clearly there is no reason to reinvent the wheel obviously, so I'm open to whatever you can suggest. I've looked through the code and there doesn't even seem to be functionality in place for filtering. I did not look through past releases for the filtering functions however. Thanks for your time. __________________ There is absolutely no evidence to support the theory that life is serious.

07-12-2009, 05:24 PM

Eidolarr

An Aku'mai Servant

Forum posts: 34

File comments: 28

Uploads: 4

Quote:

Originally posted by xtoq
pError only eats errors, not redirect them. I'm wanting a mix of pError and Errormonster. The filter option of ErrorMonster hasn't been working since the last update or that would be the best. I don't care about errors like "Can't do that while moving" and "You can't mount here" but I do care about errors like "Target must be in front of you" and I want those errors to show up in the default place. Other errors like "Not enough mana/runic power/energy" I don't want to suppress, I only want them to be redirected to my chat frame. So, ideally, this is the feature set I want:

- The ability to redirect particular errors to different sinks, like the chat frame.
- The ability to suppress certain errors.
- The ability to do nothing to certain errors (keep them in the default UIErrorsFrame).

I can see what you're saying, but I'm hesitant. BigRed isn't meant to be an all-purpose error handling addon. Rather, it's supposed to do a very specific task - namely, organize and throttle errors. When building it, I figured that if users wanted ErrorMonster functionality, they would use ErrorMonster instead.

That said, if ErrorMonster isn't functioning, the whole "users use ErrorMonster if they want ErrorMonster" becomes rather hollow.

Have you tried contacting the author? If he's missing, I can take a look at the code myself. It seems to me like what you really want is ErrorMonster; if this is the case, I would rather get ErrorMonster running than embed inseparably it within BigRed.

07-12-2009, 04:56 PM
xtoq A Fallenroot Satyr Forum posts: 24 File comments: 493 Uploads: 1	pError only eats errors, not redirect them. I'm wanting a mix of pError and Errormonster. The filter option of ErrorMonster hasn't been working since the last update or that would be the best. I don't care about errors like "Can't do that while moving" and "You can't mount here" but I do care about errors like "Target must be in front of you" and I want those errors to show up in the default place. Other errors like "Not enough mana/runic power/energy" I don't want to suppress, I only want them to be redirected to my chat frame. So, ideally, this is the feature set I want: - The ability to redirect particular errors to different sinks, like the chat frame. - The ability to suppress certain errors. - The ability to do nothing to certain errors (keep them in the default UIErrorsFrame). __________________ There is absolutely no evidence to support the theory that life is serious.

07-12-2009, 04:11 PM

Eidolarr

An Aku'mai Servant

Forum posts: 34

File comments: 28

Uploads: 4

Quote:

Originally posted by xtoq
Any plans on allowing redirects to other sinks?

What did you have in mind? The pulsing and throttling part requires fairly direct control over the frame.

If you just want to redirect error messages to, say, your chat frame, you might try pError.

07-12-2009, 02:48 PM
xtoq A Fallenroot Satyr Forum posts: 24 File comments: 493 Uploads: 1	Any plans on allowing redirects to other sinks? __________________ There is absolutely no evidence to support the theory that life is serious.

06-16-2009, 02:20 AM

Eidolarr

An Aku'mai Servant

Forum posts: 34

File comments: 28

Uploads: 4

Quote:

Originally posted by gatorvalle
/bigred command

^^is this the command needed to get to change the functions.

there is no minimap button, and not found in my interface add'on's list, as i am using own unpublished UI/HUD

/help

/bigred opens the configuration GUI. I've been meaning to add a blizzard interface options entry, as I'm pretty sure it's a one line change.

Other than that, I'm not sure what you're asking. If you look at spec.html, you'll find the specifications for functions modifying BigRed's settings. It shouldn't be hard to write some simple options into your UI, if you're asking about integrating it in some overarching options menu.

06-16-2009, 01:53 AM
gatorvalle A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 10 Uploads: 0	/bigred command ^^is this the command needed to get to change the functions. there is no minimap button, and not found in my interface add'on's list, as i am using own unpublished UI/HUD /help

02-28-2009, 11:46 PM
Eidolarr An Aku'mai Servant Forum posts: 34 File comments: 28 Uploads: 4	Re: Not working /w Macaroon? I've been extremely busy, but that was quite a helpful post. It suggests to me it's a library bug. I'll play around with it and let you know! [e] I'm unable to reproduce either of those issues. Can you guys please 1) zip up your WTF and Addons folders 2) email them to me at eidolarr at gmail ? You can change the account name stuff to gibberish if you'd like. I fixed a seemingly unrelated bug with the libraries tonight with 1.8b - try it out and let me know if that solves the problem (I don't expect it to). Last edited by Eidolarr : 03-01-2009 at 12:07 AM.

02-28-2009, 07:11 PM
xnn A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 1 File comments: 3 Uploads: 0	Not working /w Macaroon? I love this addon, tyvm for making it. I do have one issue though... EDIT: I've been messing with it a bit... Basically, the problem is not getting BigRed to work with Macaroon, it is that it seems to ONLY work when I have Bartender4 enabled. If not, I see a black box, no error text appears whatsoever, and I cannot use the /bigred command. I have even tried changing the settings with bartender4 enabled, and then switching it back off. Still nothing. Can't figure it out to save my life. Anyone have any insight on the matter? Last edited by xnn : 02-28-2009 at 08:23 PM.

02-17-2009, 03:13 AM
Kamicane A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 7 Uploads: 0	Thank you very much for this cool addon, I really like it! At a moment I found a strange behaviour from BigRed: Whenever I set the option in Omen3 to put the threatwarning in Parrot, BigRed stops working.... completely. When I leave this option it starts working again. For me its reproduceble with all my alts on various servers. I don't know if its really a problem with BigRed, but all other addons works fine during this "problem". Sorry for my bad english, hope I could describe my issue in an understandable way.

02-14-2009, 02:25 PM

Eidolarr

An Aku'mai Servant

Forum posts: 34

File comments: 28

Uploads: 4

Quote:

Originally posted by vpr
Basically I'm looking for a replacement for ErrorMonster since it appears to be broken (can't configure it anymore) after a patch.

This is not a replacement for ErrorMonster, but rather an alternative. We use different approaches to solve the same problem.

If you can clearly specify the behavior of ErrorMonster before and after the patch (in a PM, please), I can take a look at it and see what's causing the problem, but I'm not going to graft its features onto BigRed.

02-10-2009, 12:23 PM

vpr

A Theradrim Guardian

Forum posts: 62

File comments: 271

Uploads: 0

Quote:

Originally posted by Eidolarr
I can check, but I'm not certain the tools are available in either of those addons to check if a message is already listed and flash it again. If you're asking for an addon that simply forwards errors to MSBT, I can write it, but I'm not sure BigRed's functionality can be sent through those frames.

Again, I'll take a look when I get a chance.

Basically I'm looking for a replacement for ErrorMonster since it appears to be broken (can't configure it anymore) after a patch.

Quote:

Not only does it come with a significant set of default filters, you can of course add and remove filters at will. Filtering does not necessarily mean that the errors are eaten; they can also be redirected to a sink, such as ChatFrame1-7, BigWigs, SCT (+Message), MSBT or Blizzards own FCT, of course, since I implemented sinks, I had to implement general error throttling as well.

You can tell it to also aggro on system and information messages, like quest updates ("1/5 wild boars slain!"), and flush those out the sink as well. And it features a berserk option that will unconditionally flush anything down the sink.

Last edited by vpr : 02-10-2009 at 12:24 PM.

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