discord unit frames

if you need any help, like small things let me know. i have updated some addons for 4.0 and have some idea what to change and so...

Something has happened with the new 4.0.1 patch, the Discord Library is causing all sorts of lag within the game now.

oh this is awesome, have to try if my old layout still works
btw is the underworld forum down? havent been around for some time:O

I really appreciate the work you put into fixing many of the problems in the Discord Library. Because of your efforts, the always annoying bugs and errors in Discord Action Bars are now fixed. I don't know what you did, but thanks!

Yeah i cannot believe DUF is back , so great , impressions of classic_WoW .

Greets from Germany (maybe you can connect that with >Lena<)

Hey mikey2k,

Nice to see you uploading DUF to here, hopefully more people will be able to assist with testing/updating of this mod.

My offer still stands, to test anything new with DUF. Even if it is a pre-release version.

I keep back ups of all my addons, so would at least have a good working version to drop back to ^^

I realise it will take a long time to update, but it would be nice to see Discord back up there, with Pitbull and Xperl. I personally prefer DUF to all of these, Pitbull4 being my backup otption for 25 man raids.

I hope we can all contribute something to this, and get DUF back to it's former glory!

I would set priorities as follows:

Player + Target Info
Update every tick. These are the most watched things in combat to a player and should always be up to date.

Party/Raid:
Health
Most important for healer classes, so should be updated almost as often, if not just as often, as player/target info.

Debuffs
Decurse, Abolish Poisons, Dispell Magic, etc

Mana delay
Players mainly watch their own info and when a healer is running out of mana they usually announce it well before anyone would notice it on raid frames. Players won't notice a slight delay in the raid frames if this is throttled.

Buffs
Pretty much same as mana above. Buffs normally occur before combat and not paid much attention to while combat is going besides their own procs and such.

Other Info
Everything else in a raid doesn't really matter so delay them up, or even suspend updates on them until out of combat.

Also to note, things like status/pvp/group leader/etc. icons shouldn't even have OnUpdate scripts so a global f:SetScript("OnUpdate", func) on frame creations as a shortcut is a bad idea in this instance. I haven't looked at DUF in years, but I know a lot of authors will use a global function for default frame creation while just passing things like "name" and "inherit".

You have your work cut out for you. It took me nearly 5 months to rewrite DFM from the ground up and that was a pain. I can only imagine the head-to-wall smacks this will bring about.

As far as tracking performance issues, although spammy you could always do a simple print(f:GetName()) within a frame's OnUpdate (toggle on/off obviously) to see exactly how/when it's being updated, then decide whether it could be something that can be delayed or suspended in combat.

Good luck.

ChaosInc, hit it squarely, I think. DUF was always a resource hog, far beyond its massive overhead -- and to be that customizable, it needs the overhead so you have to make efficiencies wherever you can.

Event centralization is a biggie and so is modularization. It's been a while since I crawled around in DUF -- back when MazzleUI was the hot ticket and DUF had to be fixed every patch (and I'm the impatient type so I'd be bandaiding it every patchday) -- but a good perusal of, say, Pitbull or oUF, would give you some good infrastructure advice. Having written my own unit-frames I can tell you that you've got a heafty task ahead of you; and the best advice I can give you is this: read everything on code efficiency you can get our hands on, then bench-mark until you puke (not everything that's 'efficient on paper' is 'efficient in the field')

I wish you lots of luck. A resource-efficient DUF would be pretty nice to have in the UI community.

As far as the lag goes, check how many "OnUpdate" scripts are going off and how often. 25 people + mob info is quite a lot and if it's updating everything on every update tick without some sort of throttling it will cause performance issues.

Yet it still works... I'd welcome a fix to it... or perhaps one to oUF Metzerott that actually makes the Vehicle unitframe display my vehicle's health and not mine.

Not to play devil's advocate, but did you get permission from Loz to redistribute his work?

Asides for that, the main problem is that it was based of very old API and like the other Discord projects, should be scrapped and rewritten. Band-aid fixes just don't cut it anymore.