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Dorje's Healing Bars  Popular! (More than 5000 hits)

Version: 0.5.1.0
by: Dorje [More]

The concept is pretty simple. Show the casting bars of other healers in raid healing you, your target or your focus target.

The mod is based on Ace2, so it's very lightweight and pleasant to the eye. You have a lot of ways to adjust the bars themselves and their behavior like bar and text size, bar texture, growing upwards, downwards, and toggling the bars themselves. You even get an option to have the bars stay on your screen even after you have changed your target. You will no longer have to wonder whether other healers actually did cast a heal on your previous target. With the introduction of focus targets, it's even better. You will always be able to see if the focus is being healed.


Version history:
V0.5.1.0
- Finally managed to replicate PaintChips bug. Fixed
- Added option to hide icons
- Temporarily removed Forecast compatibility (total addon recode coming for 2.4 will have it back)

v0.5.0.4 - three cheers for being blind like a bat and not noticing 2.2 SetPoint changes. Anchors fixed now.

v.0.5.0.3 - anchoring fix

v.0.5.0.2 - 2.2 bug fixes.

v.0.5.0.1 - minor bug fixes

v.0.5.0.0 beta - loads of fixes and changes
* OnMouseOver support for click casters
* Temp fix for the NPC casting errors
* Support for SharedMediaLib - loads of new bar textures :P Font support to come at a later date.

v.0.4.0.1 - bug fix: nerf haste (line 578 error fix)

v.0.4.0.0 - bug fixes... i seem to get a lot of them... anyways:
* fixed Theorycraft2 bug
* fixed many smaller bugs
+ DorjeHealingBars now works with Grid and any other addons using CastCommLib

v.0.3.0.3 - bug fixes - Theorycraft2 still causes problems. I will fix that in the new recode that will be released soon.

v.0.3.0.1 - mostly bug fix release. Also, as requested, I've included an option to disable casting on and by enemy units. This should improve the general performance for people with weaker machines. Rechecked the resurrections not showing. Shaman issues not resolved yet.

v0.3.0.0 - very experimental release. I've changed the way the addon works now. Other healers in your raid do not need to have this mod for you to see their casting. Please let me know how this works

v0.2.0.4
- ForeCast support - very simple, but it works If the mod detects Forecast in your raid/party, it will automatically start parsing messages from it and it will also broadcast messages in the ForeCast format
- Party support - DHB now automatically detects if you are in a party or raid and will broadcast using the appropriate channel.
- Introduced a block for older versions of DHB - this is to prevent the "attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'fifthMarker' (a nil value)" bug

v0.2.0.3a
- Small bug fix - sometimes you get errors when casting spells on unfriendly targets. Should be fixed now.

v0.2.0.3
- Added TheoryCraft2 support - the caster must have this addon in order for the code to work. The idea is to show others in your raid how much roughly your average spell heals for.
- Reworked the way text is displayed on the bars - you get to chose exactly how text is displayed on each of the bars.
- Fixed a couple minor errors

v0.2.0.2a
- Fixed a small bug with nuby ol' me Thanks to Slade8 and an ever watchful guildie for noticing it ;D

v0.2.0.2
- Adjusted lag compensation settings a tad and changed the way bars notify you of a cancelled spells - for now, you only get a message saying "STOPPED!". Next release will allow you set the text yourself.
- You can now change the way text is displayed on bars yourself.
- You can now change the scale of each of the bar groups.

v0.2.0.1
- Added rank to the information. At the moment, it's down to the caster whether they want to show others the rank of their spells or not.
- This is my first attempt at lag compensation. Please let me know what you think.

v0.2.0.0
- First public release

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Unread 12-21-06, 04:23 AM  
Slade8
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Glad someone is working on a replacement to forecast. I do like all the options you have with being able to change the bars and show things being cast on your focus target.

One thing, I was just testing it on myself to see how it looked. And when I cast spells on myself sometimes the bar won't finish it's cast. It will stop with like .2 or .1 seconds left. It's basically acting like the heal was interrupted but it wasn't. It was late at night though so I didn't get a chance to test it with other people.
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Unread 12-21-06, 06:20 AM  
Dorje
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Ahh yes, it's latency related. I am still trying to find the best way to overcome this. Should be fixed soon.
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Unread 12-21-06, 08:56 AM  
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Oh one suggestion that I forgot to mention, it would be nice if it showed the rank of the spell that is being cast (with the option to turn it on and off if possible).
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Unread 12-21-06, 12:51 PM  
Dorje
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Yep. The code for that is already set in for the newest version. I'll try to fix the latency problem before I release it tho. Should happen this weekend after I'm done with cooking and baking and other pleasantries
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Unread 12-23-06, 09:19 AM  
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If a spell is at .9 seconds left or less if I interrupt it the spell will still act like it got completely cast. Any interruption before that seems to show up fine. One thing that was also nice about forecast is on a spell cancel the bar would do like a flash while also turning red. Just something minor to draw attention to a canceled spell. I thought it helped.

My other suggestion would be to list the spell name and rank first then the player name. Reading from left to right I would rather see the spell first as thats more important to me than who is casting it.

Keep up the good work, already made this a required mod for my guild. Despite a working version of forecast being released, I think your mod is much nicer.
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Unread 12-23-06, 12:12 PM  
Dorje
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^^ Thanks for the kind words. I just noticed Forecast got released. It's a minor setback, but also a very good motivator The flashing and cancel messages will be introduced. I am trying to work out how to compensate for the lag. For example, for me, the canceling works perfectly fine. But I know that you are not the only one getting this effect. I'll keep working on it

Changing the order of things displayed on the bars is also another thing that will come in the next release. The user will be able to decide form himself what is going to be shown and how (besides the timer, as that is a CandyBar option). I am coding in my spare time, so updates might not be released daily, but this is my main project at the moment.

I still have some good ideas, that I hope will make a lot of people happy
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Unread 12-25-06, 09:17 AM  
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I get an error when clicking "Moveable Bars" with 0.2.0.2. I'm using the latest libraries off of wowace.com.
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Unread 12-25-06, 01:04 PM  
Dorje
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EDIT: A guildie just let me know they also have it. I'll upload a fix in a sec.
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Unread 12-26-06, 10:07 AM  
Slade8
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In 0.2.0.3 I get the following error. Seems to pop up at random times. First noticed it when I was in a BG.

Error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'fifthMarker' (a nil value)
AddOn: DorjeHealingBars
File: DorjeHealingBars.lua
Line: 590
Count: 3
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Unread 12-26-06, 10:17 AM  
Dorje
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Note to self. Write code when awake
I thought I fixed it. Can you tell me roughly what was happening exactly when you were getting this error? It will help me recreate it.


EDIT: Found it. You need to have everyone upgrade their version of DHB to the newest version. The bug is caused by people having older versions. I forgot to mention that in the description that everyone needs to upgrade, since I've added support for ranks.
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Unread 12-27-06, 07:20 PM  
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First off thanks for making a working addon that will properly track heals. This one has and will remain in my comp. pack. Question for ya, since this is an Ace addon do you plan on submitting it to the SVN there for ease of updating via wowace updater?
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Unread 12-28-06, 03:37 AM  
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Yes. I've already applied for access to SVN. Just waiting for access now
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Just a small update for those of you who do like the mod :P

I'm currently alpha testing a new version that will not need others in raid/party to have the mod for you to be able to see their healing.

There are some minor issues I am trying to fix before releasing the mod. Should be sometime this weekend if everything goes as planned
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Unread 01-04-07, 09:29 PM  
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Other healers

One thing that has been noticed on raids, since all the healers are running this mod, classes are only seeing heals from the same class that they are. Our shaman heal a lot and none of the priests see them casting heals and the shaman only see other shaman heals. I did ask them and we all have the same version (0.2.0.4)

Also res spells aren't being transmitted.
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Unread 01-04-07, 09:32 PM  
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Thanks for the update. I play alliance so I didn't get a chance to check it on horde. That's only for the shamen. We use it in my guild and we can see all our heals, be it pallies, druids or priests.

The shaman issue should be fixed in the next version as well as the res stuff, etc.

Any other bugs you guys noticed?
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