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Do you get confused about which target you are supposed to be assisting on, especially when you are supposed to be one of the tanks, or a puller to a tank, or a mage sheeping, or a warlock banishing? Or do you have the responsibility for making sure that everyone has their correct targets before calling the attack, and never quite know if they do?
Targetz was written to try and help out with these problems. It adds a couple of lines of text to the bottom of your tooltip when you mouse over a potential target, showing who else in your party or raid is currently targetting that mob. Raid members who are setup as MTs (main tanks) or MAs (main assists) in CT_RaidAssist, oRA2 (if you have either of those installed) or in the default Blizzard raid interface are shown in blue text by default, while other raid and party members are shown in their class colors.
Targetz should work with many popular tooltip addons, such as Mousetip, TipBuddy (although not when the tooltip is in compact mode), TinyTip, AF_Tooltip, MobInfo-2, and others.
To avoid huge tooltips in larger raids where nearly everyone might be targeting a boss mob, Targetz provides the feature (on by default) to only show the MTs in the tooltip when you are in a raid. You can toggle whether Targetz only shows MTs, or shows both MTs and everyone else (or selected classes) using the Targetz options window via the /targetz show slash command.
Some examples of using Targetz
/targetz help shows these options.
/targetz toggles the Targetz options window.
/targetz show shows the Targetz options window.
/targetz hide hides the Targetz options window.
/targetz on enables Targetz (default unless you change it).
/targetz off disables Targetz for this character, and it will remain off until you turn it back on again.
/targetz target unlock allows you to unlock the target tooltip so you can left-click and drag it to where you'd like it to be.
/targetz target lock locks the target tooltip again so it can't be clicked on accidentally.
/targetz target reset resets the target tooltip back to its default position and scaling.
/targetz target scale <scalevalue> allows you to change the size of the target tooltip. Default is 1.0 (unless it has been changed by another addon like Mousetip).
/targetz target width <maxwidth> allows you to change the maximum width of the target tooltip.
/targetz focus <command> works the same as [b]/targetz target <command>[b] as described above, but for the focus tooltip instead./targetz reset resets all the targetz options to their default.
/targetz status shows the status of Targetz.
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11-11-08, 08:31 AM | ||
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I'll send Seerah a PM with the details
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10-14-08, 06:48 PM | |
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Thanks Cirk for getting this back up and running! Can't imagine running instances and raids without this anymore.
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10-13-08, 11:16 AM | |
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Targetz 3.0.0 available
Ready for the 3.0.2 patch - note that this will not work with 2.4.3 or earlier!
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12-01-07, 07:30 AM | |
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Some very strange stuff was happening with Targetz 2.30 last night during a Kara raid. So strange that this has become unreliable for usage.
Have been using 2.3 for a while without problems. But targeting an enemy last night, it stopped showing other player names in the second tooltip and the main tooltip. Instead if showed...the last item in my packs I was looking at and/or picked up in dark blue capitalized text. As in "SOUL ESSENCE" or a green BOP item or so on. Both main tanks (of which I was one) were using ORA2 (latest version off the SVN). No changes I made to the options helped. Originally had the tooltips showing all targeters and had all the class names unchecked. Switched it to main tanks only, no change (still showed the last item seen). Checked all the class names, no change. Turned on and off the second tooltip, no change. Uncheck friendly targets, no change. And so on. Hope you can fix the problem. |
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11-16-07, 06:10 PM | ||
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In the meantime, until I make such a change, you might want to try just reducing the width of all Targetz' tooltip lines by changing the value of TARGETZ_MAX_PLAYER_LINE_WIDTH on line 196 of Targetz.lua from 320 to (say) 140, or whatever is a good size for your setup. Cheers -- Cirk
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11-16-07, 01:00 PM | |
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Gave the XML changes a try. Yep, the text is now smaller. But...
I had forgotten exactly what the problem with the separate target tooltip was in my last post. Basically because as soon as I ran into the issue with v2.2, I disabled the target tooltip and used the TargetCheck mod instead for that tooltip. So the memories in that post were somewhat foggy . It wasn't just the font being large (which was a problem for both myself and other people I heard from in guild), it was--and is--the names in the tooltip extending horizontally in the tooltip box instead of stacking vertically (as TargetCheck does it). As I prefer to have this target tooltip to the right side of the target frame, the wide horizontal tooltip tends to overlap things. If the names could be stacked vertically in the tooltip, there would be no problem with overlap. Yes, I know it can be moved, but I have no place to move it to. Positioning it underneath the target frame (I use PitBull for unit frames) doesn't work because I have the Decursive mini-unitframe (MUF) boxes underneath the target frame (and immediately under the buff/debuff icons) extending to the left, taking up the space. Immediately below the Decursive MUFs are the party/raid frames. Above the target I have the target-of-target frame. And to the left is my own (player) frame. Positioning it at the bottom of the UI defeats the purpose of the target tooltip; instead I can just look at the Targetz names in the regular tooltip. So an option to stack the target tooltip names vertically instead of horizontally--as well as the selectable font sizing I brought up before--would make the target tooltip usable here. Thanks a bunch for your reply; look forward to seeing your mods progress (a big fan of your LootCounter mod ).
Last edited by Zidomo : 11-16-07 at 01:02 PM.
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11-13-07, 02:46 PM | ||
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I'll add some sort of scaling control in the next version, but in the meantime, if you'd like to change your own version to make it smaller, just edit the Targetz.xml file (with notepad ot equivalent) and change the 6 occurrences of "GameTooltipText" to "GameTooltipTextSmall" and see if that solves it for you. Also, don't forget you can also move the target tooltip to wherever you'd like so it doesn't overlap anything. -- Cirk
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11-13-07, 01:28 PM | |
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Been using this for a while, always very handy. Initially was pleased with v2.2.0 adding the new additional target tooltip. Would enable me to stop using the TargetCheck mod, which provides similar functionality.
One major problem with the target tooltip, though. The font is too large, at least for me and several other people In my guild I've recommended this mod to. As in the target tooltip box takes up more space than it needs to; overlaps the raid warning frame among other things (even when I limit the number of targeters in options). As a result, I disabled the new Targetz target tooltip and continued to use TargetCheck. Target Check's font size is pretty much perfect. With patch 2.3 now in place, I'd like to give Targetz's target tooltip another try (in case 2.3 presents issues with TargetCheck). So any chance of giving us changeable icon sizes for the Targetz target tooltip and/or the main tooltip? |
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11-04-07, 06:03 AM | |
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looks like it wont work with cowtip for me anyway and tiptac made my wow crash when i moved mouse over netherweave cloth
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10-01-07, 01:41 AM | ||
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09-30-07, 11:19 PM | |
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This mod works fine with TipTac, the new reincarnation of TipBuddy. However, TipBuddy is still working so far with 2.2. TipTac isn't quite up to speed in comparison with the features TipBuddy still has to offer. Targetz isn't working with TipBuddy, though. Have any advice on why or how to get this to work?
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09-30-07, 06:51 PM | ||
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Re: Request
Unfortunately, the only way we have to "lock in" a mouseover target (or arbitrary mob) for the purpose of tracking information about them like Targetz does, is to either target it or focus it, since the WoW client APIs don't allow us to keep track of a mob through any other means. -- Cirk
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09-30-07, 06:03 PM | |
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Request
Not sure if this is possible, but would you be able to extend the new always-visible tooltip to show who's currently targetting not just your target, but focus, mouseover, and perhaps just an arbitrary mob? It would be quite handy (at least for me!). I'm asking for this because normally I don't have anything targetted - the extra UI frames get in the way, and I'm just healing so already have everyone's health bars up on the screen; but I would quite like to see who's currently targetting the boss, say, or the main tank for some fights, etc., so a tooltip somewhere that I could glance at without having to worry about targetting something specifically would be neat.
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09-30-07, 12:11 PM | |
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Cirk, you are as awesome as ever!
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