Grid

Lurpa · 07-28-09, 09:25 AM

Hello, I'v recently downloaded your Nui+ and I must say I like it so far. My concern is about grid. I have had GridBossDebuffs additon to it forever but when I use it with your nUI: Integration [Grid] I know longer see any of the boss debuffs on players. I disable your intergration and it works fine. Is anyone else having this issue?

spiel2001 · 07-28-09, 09:46 AM

I'm moving this questing into the plugin support forum... hopefully the author of that plugin or another user will respond. I don't use Grid myself, so I can't comment on it at all.

Xrystal · 07-28-09, 09:57 AM

A quick question.

Are you using Grid or Grid2? Based on a question on the grid infopanel page it looks like Grid is the one used with the infopanel. If the new feature didn't come with Grid then that could explain why it doesn't work.

But then again if you just switch off the plugin and it works I cannot fathom why the plugin would stop it as usually a plugin will just resize the frame and not change the functionality.

Edit: An on downloading the plugin and looking at the code I cannot see any command turning off functionality.

Lurpa · 07-28-09, 10:08 AM

Ya its the original Grid and not Grid2 (didnt even know there was one). Ive disable all other addons except Nui and grid with the extra modules and its still the same thing. Maybe I should just do a complete clean install of just nui and grid and see if that does it.

Lurpa · 07-29-09, 07:40 PM

So I did a clean install, just have omen, recount, nui+ and grid and now I see the boss debuffs on players just fine but not anything else IE I have things like Beacon of Light set on center icon, aggro on upper left, sacred shield lower right ect and nothing comes up except on the first player in group 1 slot 1. When I disable the nui grid it works fine. Any suggestions? Sucks cause I have to disable it and pull grid out and clutters up screen.

Xrystal · 07-29-09, 07:52 PM

Hmm, pity grid confuses the hell out of me or Ill test it out myself. I'll give it a go tomorrow though when Im not raiding and see what happens for me.

Xrystal · 07-29-09, 11:17 PM

Well installed the addon and set up a few buffs my lowbie priest on nesingwary has and they didn't appear on even my button but then again it could be because there is something else you need to do for it to work.

Also, I noticed there was nothing to set up which spells to cast to heal the recipient. Do I take it that you click to select then press a key or button to cast a spell on the newly refreshed target. If thats the case grid is definitely not for me

Healbot is much friendlier in that aspect.

I tried Power Word : Fortitude and Gift of the Naaru. Set them up as buffs and gave them a point on the grid box but no luck. Is there anything I am missing ?

Lurpa · 07-31-09, 03:26 PM

Sorry was gone for a day so I couldnt get back to you. First off, you have to use the mod Clique in conjuction with Grid. Once installed, there will be a new tab on your spell book and once that new tab is open you just go to the spell and click using the mouse button you want to bind what to.

As far as the Power Word: Fortitude, I hopped on my priest and added to Auras since it wasnt listed then went into Frame, Upper Right(can be wherever you want) and clicked Fortitude. It worked fine on me. However, I just confirmed that yet again, It only works on whoever is in Group 1 Slot 1. In a party or raid it shows on noone else. I converted group to raid and switched myself with another player to group 1 slot 1 and my icon went off and his came on so its definaltly is messed up somehow. Again, once I disable the additon to nui for grid it works perfectly.

Xrystal · 07-31-09, 04:23 PM

Ah gotcha. So healers either use healbot or clique with unit frames or clique with grid ?

And grid is useful due to the little dots that appear ( in my case I can't even see the dots cos my screen is so small :P and I have to set the icon size to almost the size of the button to see it

).

I've tried clique but it just doesn't seem right to me

I'll try and sneak a test with Earth Shield tonight to see if I can see what you mean.

If its just a grid plugin problem I should be able to simulate the effect by putting earth shield on someone and grid should register it somehow without the need for clique. And hopefully without setting up a raid but will test it later anyhow.

Xrystal · 07-31-09, 05:10 PM

Well, for some strange darn reason I can't even get the Earth Shield Icon to appear on the grid square instead of behind it. And that is just with me on the grid layout and no one else. So yep, only grid and no earth shield icon showing unless I resize it to about 20 and you can see it is positioned behind the grid box with the name on it. I am guessing that is not the way it is supposed to work.

Here's a screenshot to show you what I mean. Plus the same setup without the plugin. The plugin is definitely doing something but I can't see what it is. I'll try and spend some time on it tomorrow and see if I can see where the plugin creator has gone wrong somehow.

Lurpa · 08-01-09, 04:42 PM

Ya, you can use clique with any raid frames I believe, most common is grid/clique but dont quote me. Still having the same issues, I cant figure it out.

Lemmie know what you find out, I just cant get it to work right and untill its figured out, Ill just have to pull it out for raids.

Xrystal · 08-01-09, 05:30 PM

Originally Posted by Lurpa

Ya, you can use clique with any raid frames I believe, most common is grid/clique but dont quote me. Still having the same issues, I cant figure it out.

Lemmie know what you find out, I just cant get it to work right and untill its figured out, Ill just have to pull it out for raids.

Hmm, you mean use it without the plugin addon installed or just drag it out from the info panel ? If the latter I do that with healbot as well because 25+ bars in that small info panel just doesn't fit. Rofl. If the former then it does seem like its some sort of depth problem.

Lurpa · 08-01-09, 09:25 PM

Id have to disable the plugin cause just pulling it out does the same thing. Ive played around some more with it and kinda weird. First thing I did was load up, make sure I have fort set up in upper right, buffed myself, and nothing happened. Then I just did a reload and it shows. I can cancel it, rebuff myself and boom, shows up. I havent tried a raid setting yet to see if everyones works after a reloadui, but im going to hop in a AV and see what happens. Also, I found http://www.wowinterface.com/forums/s...ad.php?t=21191 but my icons arent behind my frames like you say.

EDIT:
Yup just verfied in AV. When I first zone in, I buffed some random with Sacred Shield which is set up in upper right of screen. It doesnt show up. I do a reload before the buff wears off, and it shows up. I can recast it on that same person and it works fine, but when I cast it on another player it doesnt. I have to do a rl again and it only works for him. It appears that this is the case for anything set in any of the corners. I see everything I set up in the middle icon perfectly so far. Upper left I have aggro alert which is default, I went and attacked a ram, no corner popped up for aggro, I rl and sure enough its there. Im outta options here but to disable the plugin and well that blows.

Xrystal · 08-01-09, 11:31 PM

Hmm, very interesting. Also been seeing a similar scenario with healbot today.

Cast Earth Shield on tank 1. Someone joins the raid. Visually Earth Shield stays where it is but the person now underneath it on the healbot frame is someone different. So , to be on the safe side I recast it.

Maybe a timing problem where updating of the infopanel contents isn't happening as often as we're expecting.

Lurpa · 08-03-09, 11:06 AM

I know nothing about what I am saying so if its a nub question then ignore it. Is there a way to increase the refresh rate of the ui itself to fix that? Without actually hitting /rl every time? Again, ignore me if its a stupid question.

Xrystal · 08-03-09, 11:25 AM

I'm not sure if it's something that needs to be done in the nUI main code or in the individual infopanel plugins.

It also could be delay due to being in combat and not being able to update things straight away. I've not dealt with in combat scenarios before to know what the right and wrong way to go about it is however.

spiel2001 · 08-03-09, 12:28 PM

nUI isn't responsible for the updating of the contents of the mod that's inside the info panel... all nUI does is tell it where the "container" is that it lives in... the mod itself is responsible for determining what of its content needs updating when.

Xrystal · 08-03-09, 12:52 PM

Originally Posted by spiel2001

nUI isn't responsible for the updating of the contents of the mod that's inside the info panel... all nUI does is tell it where the "container" is that it lives in... the mod itself is responsible for determining what of its content needs updating when.

So, are you meaning, for this example, Grid or nUI_InfoPanel_Grid ?

I just took a look at your built in Omen Infopanel plugin and I cannot see any update routine in there so based on that I can only assume you mean the actual addon itself and not the plugin.

But if that is the case, why would this problem exist when used as a plugin but not as a standalone addon ?

spiel2001 · 08-03-09, 02:09 PM

If I had to guess (which is what I'm doing) I'm going to say that the reparenting of the addon's frame is somehow messing with the event/update script.

Xrystal · 08-03-09, 02:19 PM

Thanks Scott, hopefully Brillynt is browsing around here in silence somewhere, and can take a look see.

Otherwise, once I've got my own addon changes completed, I can take another look and see what else grid and healbot has in common. I feel they both need some work on them to have them fit into the info panel frames properly as they are simply not useable inside the framework in their default settings. But that's just my perfectionist side talking.