target of mouseover and show/hide cloak/helm

[ironfang]

As the Title suggests I am looking for 2 things

#1 A mod that puts the options to show/hide my cloak and helm on the character screen

#2 A tooltip addon that will show the target of my mouseover without drastically overhauling the default blizzard tooltip
(I prefer it to be shown in a secondary bubble that's attached to the parent tooltip)

I previously used
Ani's Helm'n'Cloak toggle by Ani (aka Sirocco from Blackrock (EU))
and
Simple Mouseover's Target by Brodrick (aka Kirov)

[Waky]

For the cloak/helm addon I've used Mad Hatter before. It is a Databroker Addon though, so make sure you have a Databroker display to show it.

I'm not sure about the second addon that doesn't change the tooltip drastically.

[Taryble]

For Cloak/Helm, I'm a fan of Tekkub's HatTrick. This puts a checkbox in the character screen next to the helm and cloak slots to turn on/off display of them.

[ricks322]

Call me a purist, but why use an addon (using up memory and processor), why can't you just use the options build into the UI, or a macro to due this?

[Phanx]

Have you actually looked at HatTrick? It uses zero CPU time (unless you're clicking the checkboxes, in which case it actually uses less CPU time than clicking the checkboxes in the default Interface Options window), zero increasing memory, and very little (~2 KiB) static memory. To complain about that "using up memory and processor" is beyond pedantic, and is very misleading when you're telling it to people who do not have a technical understanding of addon resource usage and performance. No computer capable of running WoW, even at the absolute lowest settings, will be impacted in the slightest by the addon in question.

[ironfang]

Originally Posted by ricks322 Call me a purist, but why use an addon (using up memory and processor), why can't you just use the options build into the UI, or a macro to due this?

Convenience which is the same reason I use 90% of the mods I have.

And to be honest if your computer has a dual core processor with 2gigs of ram or better the only impact of using a ton of mods is the loading screen takes longer when you first login to the game world

[AnrDaemon]

Originally Posted by ironfang Convenience which is the same reason I use 90% of the mods I have. And to be honest if your computer has a dual core processor with 2gigs of ram or better the only impact of using a ton of mods is the loading screen takes longer when you first login to the game world

Yeah.
You tanking in raid, you get disconnected, you login back... 5 minutes loading screen...

[SDPhantom]

Originally Posted by AnrDaemon Yeah. You tanking in raid, you get disconnected, you login back... 5 minutes loading screen...

5 minutes at a loading screen is a server issue and not your addons. It's more common on instance servers which have a much larger connection load than world servers.

[NitraMo]

I use the following macro to toggle showing of hat, you should be able to use something similar for cloak.

#show 1
/use [btn:2] 1
/stopmacro [btn:2]
/run ShowHelm(not ShowingHelm())

[R3clu5e]

this works just fine for both cloak and helm in one macro.

/click [nomod] InterfaceOptionsDisplayPanelShowCloak
/click [mod] InterfaceOptionsDisplayPanelShowHelm

[nin]

Originally Posted by ironfang #1 A mod that puts the options to show/hide my cloak and helm on the character screen

Try Quickie.

[Ketho]

Originally Posted by R3clu5e this works just fine for both cloak and helm in one macro. /click [nomod] InterfaceOptionsDisplayPanelShowCloak /click [mod] InterfaceOptionsDisplayPanelShowHelm

nice macro!