Parrot - WoW AddOns - WowAce.com

Floating Combat Text of awesomeness.

Displays Events from the combatlog (damage, healing, ...) as moving text and numbers across the Screen. It also supports various other Events (Loot, Cooldowns, ...). Further Parrot offers a Trigger-system to display Text and play sounds on certain predefined events (e.g. Nightfall for Warlocks).

Localization

If you want to translate Parrot into your language (or update an existing translation) please do so here.

FAQ

Q: "Parrot is not showing heals, but it's enabled in the options"
A: Since 3.2 WoW displays every full overheal in the combatlog (even for HoTs). That's why Parrot v1.9.0+ contains an option in Events to "Hide full overheals" which is enabled by default to avoid unnecessary spam.

Q: ''I want to use custom fonts and sounds in Parrot, but there are none available'
A: Parrot doesn't provide sounds or additional fonts (only the fonts included in WoW) For additional fonts and sounds please install SharedMedia.
To use custom sounds and fonts see the "INSTRUCTIONS for MyMedia.txt" in the SharedMedia-folder.

Q: "Whenever I /reload or log back in again, parrot auto-hides blizzard's default outgoing damage text (the one above the mob in question). Is there any way to avoid having to enable blizz's functions all the time?
A: When enabled Parrot manages the settings for Blizzard FCTs damage- and heal-display. You can enable these features to be used with Parrot in the config (General->Game damage/healing)

Q: "Sometimes when Looting stackable items, the stackcount is off. Why isn't this fixed?"
A: The problem is, that the Interface-event for the Loot is sometimes triggered before, and sometimes after the item was put in the bag (depending on lag). If anyone knows a solution that does not involve constantly polling the bags' content, I'm open to suggestions.

Feature Requests

To make a feature Request please use the ticket-system.
Before making a feature Request please make sure that the current alpha does not contain the feature already.

Also check if there is a similar feature request among the open tickets already (and maybe join the discussion there).

Bugs

Please use the ticket-system

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- #53
sc4v Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:06:43
Got a problem with parrot since a few hours. If i cast a spell e.g. flash of light parrot often doesn't show the floating text in the scroll area. config should be right, because sometimes the text appears perfectly and sometimes a few seconds later.
- #52
dmcleod Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:17:52
Hi

It seems, Parrot has some problems concering left/right on horizontal INCOMING information. When I choose up/Left or any other direction, it always displays the information to the right side.
- #51
profalbert Fri, 07 Aug 2009 08:53:29
The last 4 comments all reflect the same bug (Ticket #81)

It has been fixed in v1.8.1.

Sadly the test-phase for the v1.8.0-release was way too short. I hoped to have another week before the patch.
If you find any other bugs, please don't hesitate to create a Ticket.

If you lost your settings v1.7.2->v1.8.0 try switching your profile to "Default".

Last edited on 07 Aug 2009 by profalbert
- #50
rakkarage Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:21:43
deleted my config files and started again... but icon transparency and text transparency sliders do not work always goes back to 0? even if type in %... then get error Message: Interface\AddOns\Parrot\Code\Display.lua:422: Usage: ParrotFrameFontString15:SetAlpha(alpha)
- #49
TBABlackPanther Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:12:37
Hi i have this error:

[2009/08/06 18:52:28-2692-x8]: Parrot-v1.8.0\Code\ScrollAreas.lua:407: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value) (tail call): ?: <in C code>: ? <string>:"safecall Dispatcher[2]":9: in function <[string "safecall Dispatcher[2]"]:5> (tail call): ?: AceConfigDialog-3.0-34:786: in function <...nfig-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0.lua:605> (tail call): ?: <in C code>: ? <string>:"safecall Dispatcher[3]":9: in function <[string "safecall Dispatcher[3]"]:5> (tail call): ?: AceGUI-3.0-25 (AckisRecipeList):305: in function `Fire' ...st\libs\AceGUI-3.0\widgets\AceGUIWidget-DropDown.lua:426: in function <...st\libs\AceGUI-3.0\widgets\AceGUIWidget-DropDown.lua:417>: (tail call): ?: <in C code>: ? <string>:"safecall Dispatcher[3]":9: in function <[string "safecall Dispatcher[3]"]:5> (tail call): ?: AceGUI-3.0-25 (AckisRecipeList):305: in function `Fire' ...s\AceGUI-3.0\widgets\AceGUIWidget-DropDown-Items.lua:333: in function <...s\AceGUI-3.0\widgets\AceGUIWidget-DropDown-Items.lua:328>:

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- #48
Camci Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:14:24
im having this error: http://paste.wowace.com/930/
- #45
Skizelli Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:03:16
I'm getting the following error when trying to change Sticky font outline within the Scroll areas (for Incoming, Outgoing and Notification):

Parrot-v1.8.0\Code\ScrollAreas.lua:407: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value) (tail call): ?:
- #44
profalbert Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:11:55
v1.8.0 is released and fixes the issue.
- #43
dragonwang Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:21:41
Hello, is there an update for 3.2 patch? All incoming heals to me shows up as critical heals. Thanks.
- #42
profalbert Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:00:46
HoTs only produce overheal if the overheal is partial

If the target is at full-health, the tick does not do anything in the combatlog (that's part of the reason why druids don't have much overheal in heal-meters)

-> it's a wow-issue

as for the "multiple"-text, I concur (missed it myself sometimes). Please create a ticket, and I'll look into it.