Dashboard request: please!

Relic61 · 04-01-09, 02:10 PM

I love love love your suite! I need one thing and I can not do this on my own. In the dashboard where the unit frames are placed and the location bar and focus etc. I need this area to be selectivity emptied via the selection button.

I made this to show you what I'm talking about. Thank you so much for making this. I'm just now finding out about eh newsletter, which I am heading over to subscribe.

Petrah · 04-01-09, 02:37 PM

Why would you want to do that?

spiritwulf · 04-01-09, 02:50 PM

I imagine they might want that so that they could more easily and efectively place something like Healbot there for large raids.
Rather interesting idea really.

Relic61 · 04-01-09, 02:51 PM

Originally Posted by Silenia

Why would you want to do that?

My main is a healer that uses bars that I have used for many years and also have been in this location. The default bars are great and all, but end game raid healers sometimes need minimal design with certain notifications. think grid/healbot.

I know there are info bar plugins that will add these, I want them in the dashboard. The other reason is that all my characters use Nui and for example when I play my death knight I want to use the regular default unit frames. When I jump on one of my characters all I have to do is hit the selector button and bam.

Petrah · 04-01-09, 03:24 PM

Ah, I see

I never thought about that.

Xrystal · 04-01-09, 04:16 PM

Rofl come to think of it I always end up dragging out healbot from the info panel when Im on a raid as healer anyway, to make things central to the process.

Of course the new heally unit frame buttons Scott's working on would be great but this idea would be a nice alternative.

todd3835 · 04-01-09, 04:34 PM

This would in some ways be nice for me also. I was using a set of raid frames before, which weren't really anything special, but the current design of placing toons wherever in the raid frames that blizzard feels like (according to Scott) just doesn't work for me. I'd prefer that it be setup by class, or group, something organized. I love Scott's joke about CDO, but I have OCD and I tell you every time I'm in a raid, it drives me absolutely nuts to see the raid members names so disorganized. I've thought about diving into the code myself, but there's so many files for nui, it's just not going to be easy. But, not using the built in raid frames would improve my sanity a bit also.....

Zordral · 04-12-09, 11:15 AM

I'm just trying out nUI for the first time. My plan for healing is to use mouseover macros for all of my healing spells and use the raid unit frames as is.

So I'll have an action bar just with mouseover macros with key bindings for 1-9, 0, '-', and '='. I'll mouse over the raid icon to be healed or cleansed and press the right keyboard button. The default layout(s) for the raid unit frames looks like they will be tight enough that grid and decursive won't be needed.

At least that's the plan for now for raid healing. I'm still working on how I plan to do 5-man healing or backup healing. I have been using Benecaster to attach spell buttons to a given unit frame but that will not work with nUI.

-Z

Vis · 04-12-09, 12:07 PM

Zordral, have you thought of using click to cast addons? The one that springs to mind for me is Clique by Cladhaire. It makes healing on my Paladin for groups and raids oh so easy and I dont have to clutter my bars

http://www.wowinterface.com/download...08-Clique.html

Zordral · 04-12-09, 06:21 PM

I do use Clique in a limited fashion but my memory is just not that good to assign anything more complex than 'set focus' and 'clear focus'. To be honest I play too many toons. I need the visual reminder that unit frame buttons gives me.

In lieu of unit frame buttons I might just come up with a set of macros that do one thing if my target cons [help] and another if my target cons [harm].

Still pondering the alternatives,

-Z