eXtreme Unit Buttons 

This add on looks like is what i need, since groupbuttons is not alive anymore. but i dont know if it is just me or this add on is very difficult to set up. I just need some buttons near my blizzard raid frames so i can heal a raid eficiently. I'd apreciate some help with this mod pls

TY

In your profile specification, you say something like:

The HEAL group is for friendly targets, attack and shock are for hostiles. CR is literally a Carriage Return, which forces the buttons to start on the next line. You can use CR as often as you want and have 10 rows if you think that will help.

I use the WOW API to test to see whether a given button (spell or use) can be cast/used against the unit the button is assigned to. Buttons appear for friendly targets and disappear when they are hostile. Similarly, different buttons appear for hostile targets and disappear when they are friendly.



Also, getting more complicated, it's possible to put buttons that affect, for example, the player on the button bar for the target. I use this on my mage. Here is a GROUP specification:

When I assign this group to a "target", it allows me roll move my mouse left to right clicking the 6 buttons:

• click the Frostbolt to initiate the initial attack (target walks slowly toward me for 8 seconds)
• Arcane Missiles for that initial attack (for 5 seconds; now around 550 damage; level 39)
• Then I start backing up, and hit Fire Blast (instant cast at 250 damaged)
• Click Frost Nova; a player spell to lock the player in place.
• I back up far enough to cast a Fireball (3 seconds).
• Then pop a Mana Shield on myself.

The net result is, if I do this well, is the target has not had a chance to hit me, and I've taken 50-60% of his damage. Then before they can hit me for anything I have a shield on me. If they resist the frost bolt or the frost nova, I can quickly move around in the target bar for backup strategy. The important part here is that I don't have to move my mouse very far to cast a spell against myself.

I use a * on the group specification so that I can assign the group to either a target or hostile focus unit, and it works the same way.



Ah yes, I can remember using a Commodore Pet, back in the day. Now, if I were to tell you 'bout my acne when those things first came out, that tells you enough, eh?

The display is pretty smart in that it will not show a spell that cannot be cast. So if you have an attack button and a buff button then only the one that applies shows.

E is the master - but i dont think blizzard lets a mod author decide what button should be created in combat. It probably could be done outside of combat - but that isnt what i would want. I think it would be good for blizzard to allow a mod author make the distinction be tween friend and foe - they do for macros [harm].

In your profile ad the CR group

normal,player,heal
normal,player,CR
normal,player,buffs
normal,player,CR
normal,player,rez
normal,player,debuff

Drome (AKA bob)

While your instructions were very helpful, the real problem is that I aparently was an idiot the last time I tried to set up...
For future reference, MazzleUI uses the Discord Unit frames which I had appropriately selected. Now comes the idiot part. Apparently, the default placement of the buttons and the level onscreen that the unit frames are set to causes the buttons to be DIRECTLY behind the unit frame and not visible. A coincidence, not your mod's fault. That, combined with the fact that MazzleUI scales the buttons down so small that they are easy to miss on my screen caused me to believe that the the buttons were not properly attaching to the frames. Once I started tinkering with the button placement it became readily apparent that I should not go installing new UI elements at two in the morning. Once that got straightened out I had no difficulty.

Two stupid questions though... is it possible to have different buttons appear when targeting hostile vs. non-hostile targets? also, is there a way I can set it up so that it puts buttons of specific groups in separate rows, i.e. heals on the top row, buffs in the middle, rez and debuff removal on the bottom? I don't remeber reading anything about that in the manual.

The text based setup was extremely Intimidating (mind you, the only programing experience I've had ever was on a commodore 64). But extremely easy once I sat down with the manual and figured out where everything went. Beautiful piece of work. Let me junk 2-3 addons that weren't really doing what I wanted anyhow

And no cracks about being an old geezer with the commodore 64 guys... that thing STILL runs... and my first "real computer" won't anymore...I miss playing wolfenstein 3D sometimes

Still using this addon and it gets better all the time

After some fiddling with the latest version I managed to get PW:S working the way I wanted. Though I'd post it here if anyone was wondering.

Make a custom button with this definition:
_pws,buff,Power Word: Shield,,Weakened Soul

Use that in your groups. That button will hide if the unit has PW:S on it OR is affected by Weakened Soul (and thus can't be buffed). Much better than the default behaviour when the button shows as soon as the shield stops even though it can't be recast yet.

Thank you very much for your reply.

I solved it by just using:

_Felsbeißer,buff,Waffe des Felsbeißers,,Felsbeißer/Flammenzunge/Frostbrand
_Flammenzunge,buff,Waffe der Flammenzunge,,Felsbeißer/Flammenzunge/Frostbrand
_Frostbrand,buff,Waffe des Frostbrands,,Felsbeißer/Flammenzunge/Frostbrand


No need to specify ranks and I think the buttons will "auto-update" themselves, too. No need to update them when new ranks are aquired.

At least the above code casts my highest rank of a given weapon buff and also the buff button disappears (I don't need blinking) if any rank of any weapon buff is active.

Feel free to put me right if I'm on error ;o)

It's actually a buff, and I failed to include the specification for it in the main text. Here are the important specifications:

This is a fairly complex specification, but this is what it does. First. It is not necessary to select which Rank the enchant casts at. WOW will select the highest rank possible. Second. These buttons are specified with a blink. This means that all the buttons will blink unless one of the three enchants are present. Blinking means the enchants have worn off.

Clicking any of the three buttons will cause the buttons to stop blinking and the appropriate enchant to be applied to the weapon.

The maintenance you will need to do with the specification is just update which enchants appear on the weapon and which ranks. The specification above assumes Rockbiter Rank 4, Flametongue Rank 3 and Frostbrand Rank 2. As soon as you train for Flametongue Rank 4, for example, you'd change the buffs to:

Hopefully that helps.

Regards,
- El

The buff, debuff, and spell buttons exist in the current documentation. buffblink, debuffblink, spellblink and use buttons do not exist. I'll try and update the documentation soon. For now the changes are documented in the WOWInterface website for the mod in the description which prefaces this forum.

Hy there! Wonderful mod! I really enjoy using it A TON! *****
(And the documentation is awesome, too!)

I have one problem (v1.5) though with the new weapon echant feature. (German client)

I have set up three new lines in the box "GROUP specifications":

self,WaffedesFelsbeißersRang4,* <---- this is Rockbiter Weapon
self,WaffederFlammenzungeRang3,* <---- this is Flametongue Weapon
self,WaffedesFrostbrandsRang2,* <---- this is Frostbrand weapon

(I am lv 29 atm)

These lines bring up my weapon buff buttons just fine. But I can't seem to find out what to add to the line to hide a given weapon buff button.

I tried something like:

self,WaffedesFelsbeißersRang4,*,Felsbeißer

and

self,WaffedesFelsbeißersRang4,*,Rockbiter


Anyhow, the buff buttons stay lit and won't disappear.

Any hint from anybody would find much appreciation from my side


Thanks guys!



EDIT:
Ok, I got it fixed myself using a custom button:

_Felsbeißer,buff,Waffe des Felsbeißers,,Felsbeißer


Thanks anyway

Pardon my stupidity, but are these features documented somewhere? I had read through an earlier version of the docs and did not see there?

Before you do all that, try this undocumented feature first. I'll assume MazzleUI has it's own unit frames and doesn't borrow somebody else's. Create a new (Blizzard) macro with the following line in it:

Now assign this macro to one of your action buttons. Move your mouse over the unit frames that represent your player's unit frame, your party's unit frames, pets, etc. then click the appropriate keyboard short-cut for the action bar (it's important to use the keyboard short-cut with your mouse over the unit frame). The script lists the names of all the unit frames under the mouse in the "General" tab. It should be pretty clear which name you need to use for the unit frames that XUB will attach to. Write down the names.

Next, go into "/xub unitframes" and under "Unit Frame" at the top of the screen, select "-- Custom Settings --". Next enter the name of the frames you want to attach the buttons to. Be very careful about upper/lower case, as it makes a difference to XUB. For Party and PartyPet, use a # symbol to represent the party number 1 to 4. I recommend you work only on setting the player unit frame until you get that working, then work on the rest.

If you want/have to get fancy and have any special frames you want to use, you can enter them in the custom frames. For example, agUnitFrames uses "targettarget", "targettargettarget" and "focustarget" to represent the target of the target, the target of the target's target, and the focus' target, respectively. You can specify up to 5 specialty frame names for these combinations, if the MazzleUI supports them.

Finally, when you get it working, please reply to this message and let me know what the Unit Frame names are so I can add that to the supported UI's.

Hmm...couldn't get the buttons to show up at all...
I think I may have just been doing something wrong in the setup, just out of curiosity, has anyone heard of any problems using this mod with MazzleUI?

Well, I'm going to try a few things tommorow, and if it still doesn't want to work, I may have to strip the UI down and rebuild until I can make this work... so much better than "SmartBuff" or whatever it is they use in there...

Version 1.5 (March 28, 2007) -- Released

See the notes above.

I didn't add the Colours ability in this release because I was having difficulty displaying the colour I came up with. I'll work on this ability with v1.6.

There is a bug in v1.4 which will get fixed shortly (v1.5) affecting agUnitFrames. In the interim, you can set your unit frames to Custom (/xub uf), then set the Party and Party Pet unit frame templates to:

* aUFpartyUnitButton#
* aUFpartypetUnitButton#

respectively.

As for the sizes. The Unit Frame settings are all moved to a new dialog called "Unit Frames" (/xub uf) and you can set the size of the unit frames independently of each other. {edit} You can set any button size from 5 to 200 pixels, by scrolling the mouse wheel over the text representing the button size.

I was using v0.94a for the longest time. I upgraded to v1.4 and now my buttons aren't scalable? What's the deal with that?! I liked my buttons to be a little bigger. Also, agUnitFrames seems to have changed. For some odd reason my group buttons are no longer working for the party frame after I updated last night.

Matt

EDIT: Alright, I figured out how to adjust the button size, miraculously. What happened with just having a slider in the main options menu? As for the party buttons not showing up I don't know. I think they changed the window name?