Comments about GridCustomLayouts

Comment #8

no-reply@curseforge.com (warbaby) — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:26:37 +0000

Thanks for your inspiring comment... I never thought this mod so helpful(shy:).

I think your problem is an usage problem of recent Grid versions. The layout of each "party_state" is set seperately. In menu "Grid - Layout" there are "Solo Layout, Raid Layout, Heroic Layout, etc". When you save CustomLayouts, it only set your layout of CURRENT party_state. If your raid leader changes difficulty to heroic, Grid will change the layout to the former one you use in that party_state.

If that is the situation, you just need to manually choose the layout in Grid - Layout menu. Hope this helpful.

And I made a patch of origin GridLayout.lua, It solves dc in combat, and add a FORCE LAYOUT menu, which will be used by Grid unless it is set to NONE. I post it here: GridLayout.lua

Comment #7

no-reply@curseforge.com (reehay) — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:35:43 +0000

bug report: been noticing that CustomLayouts arent being recalled by Grid. the Customlayout is still saved, but when joining a heroic raid for instance, the unit frames do not reflect the CustomLayout. usually just toggling between a default layout and then back to the CustomLayout fixes this but tonight i had to delete all custom layouts, re-log, then re-type, save, and choose my CustomLayout.

once again, thanks very very much for your efforts. ive been promoting your addon to all my guild members.

Comment #6

no-reply@curseforge.com (reehay) — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:55:42 +0000

Warbaby.... thank you sooooo much!!! these examples worked perfectly for what i wanted. and thanks for this addon. i got half my guild using it now.

Grid is now a perfect fit for my UI.

Comment #5

no-reply@curseforge.com (reehay) — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:42:17 +0000

woot thanks Warbaby.. this sounds like exactly what i want. will try it when i get home from work.

much appreciated.

Comment #4

no-reply@curseforge.com (warbaby) — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:38:19 +0000

Yes, for example :

1,2,3;GROUP
4,5;CLASS

2 GROUPS, one has 15 units, another has 10 units. The first 5 units of GROUP 1 are in "raid group 1", etc. And the units in GROUP 2 are sorted by their CLASS.

1,2,3,4,5;13/2;GROUP

This layout shows only 1 GROUP, but in 2 column (it looks just like there are 2 GROUPs). The first COLUMN shows 13 units, and the second shows 12 units(assume that you are in a 25 raid). And they are sorted by raid group. (The 3rd group is divided into 2 columns).

Oh, actually, by using "groupBy=GROUP" and "groupingOrder=3,2,1,4,5" attribute, you can specify the order of the groups, and the last group may be left out. But you can never specify to individual person.

Comment #3

no-reply@curseforge.com (reehay) — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:08:05 +0000

oh ive very sure i have a misunderstanding lol.. this stuff is all very foreign to me. I love Grid but for all its customizability i cant fathom why it doesnt include a more user-defined layout. im assuming there are good reasons why not but i dont understand them.

so basically youre saying - with your addon - the best i can do is create 2 columns of 10 and i cant specify which 5 of the raid will be left out? if so, can you tell me if this is will ever be implemented? or is it an inherent impossibility due to Grid or something?

thanks very much for your reply

edit ok i read your reply a bit closer... so i can make 2 GROUPs which will show units for all 25 players in a Heroic Raid but i can organize them by raid group 1,2,3, etc?

Comment #2

no-reply@curseforge.com (warbaby) — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:03:21 +0000

I think you have a misunderstanding with maxColumns and unitsPerColumn.
They are not layout-level attributes, they are group-level (or header-level).
So, a single line with only "maxColumns=3;unitsPerColumn=10" will be illegal, because it doesn't have any groupFilters or nameLists.

An example:

1,2,3,4,5;maxColumns=2;unitsPerColumn=10
WARR,PAL,DRUID,DK;maxColumns=1;unitsPerColumn=5

The above layout means that you have two GROUPs.
The first one has 2 columns. Each of the column has 10 buttons. So there will be at max 2*10 units, the rest ones will not be shown. The order who will be shown and who will not, can't be specified.
The second one will show the first 5 units of the 4 tank Classes. Also, you don't know who will be ommited.

Comment #1

no-reply@curseforge.com (reehay) — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 06:42:24 +0000

Need help with a Heroic Raid custom layout. Im not familiar with these commands and im getting errors trying to create three columns - two of them 10-unit columns, one of them 5 units.

I created my Custom Layout and then tried entering:

"maxColumns=3;unitsPerColumn=10"

and

"maxColumns=3

unitsPerColumn=10"

i got an error message and Grid made one single column of 20 or so raid units.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.