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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- #21
Girado Sat, 20 Dec 2008 10:36:59
Hi I seem to have "spam" problems in my notifications scroll with certain buffs being refreshed via procs. Ones that come to mind are Abomination's Might, Unleashed Rage, and Elemental Oath. For an entire raid all I see half the time in the middle of screen is something like this: +[Abomination's Might] -[Abomination's Might] +[Abomination's Might] -[Abomination's Might] +[Abomination's Might] -[Abomination's Might]
This happens every time the buff is refreshed on my character. Anyway to fix it or change it so I don't see those all the time?
- #20
RandomPerson592 Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:18:24
Great addon, I love it.
I'm having a problem with triggers for "when a spell is ready".
If my GCD is active when a spell cooldown is up, the message doesn't appear.

For example. I fire an arcane shot. 6 seconds later my message pops up saying "arcane shot ready". As expected. If use arcane shot, then 5 seconds later I do a steady shot, then when the 6 seconds rolls around, I don't get my "arcane shot ready" message because I'm in the middle of my GCD.

Any ideas?
- #19
mhanskat Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:32:45
I'm having issues getting the icon for Eradication to show when it procs for me. Anyone know where I can
A) get a master list of Icon ID#'s B) know of a workaround to to get this icon to show
It's not technically a spell only a buff ot talent even, so I'm not sure if it has a real SpellId.
Anyway I'd love some help on this if anyone knows how to fix this!
- #18
Aprexbt Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:20:29
Ok... I love the addon. Just getting that out there. But I was wondering if you could add a Full Mana warning. With the new Aspect of the Viper I find myself staying in viper long after i have full mana and not rememebering to change back. If there was a warning exactly the same as low mana but it was triggered by the bar reaching 100% it would be very helpful.
- #17
Grimbeorn Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:24:21
Self heals are not showing up. I have them enabled, and I've designated a scroll area. I am a priest. I've tried circle of healing, flash, greater, renew, mending etc. Nothing shows up. When people heal me or I heal them its fine though.
Edit: Devouring plague heal, and PWS heal with glyph shows up.
- #16
Reyhania Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:52:09
combo points: should be already fixed in a beta version as far as I know and read from the ticket with the ID 30 regarding "Rogue combo points do not display"
- #15
Ayindi Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:02:58
Hi,
does anyone see combo point gains? Since the patch it seems to be gone for me! I'm using the german client.
- #14
slickwalker Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:21:46
How might i go about using suppressions so that all output is just the icon and the amount healed/damaged? I've tried [name] and [ability] but that strips even the icon. I really dont want to have to go thru each event and modify the existing string.
- #13
mrruben5 Sat, 18 Oct 2008 17:38:44
Is it possible to create a trigger with the new Overkill Combat Log Option?
- #12
profalbert Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:25:25
<<quote>>ghostarfire said
10/16/2008 15:58:09

Excuse me, I wanna to join in the localization in Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese. But I don't know how to use the SVN system now. I know that you are using a kind of Linux system called "git". But it seems that the git cannot work well in Windows(Simplified Chinese version). <</quote>> Contact me via IRC (#wowace on irc.freenode.net).
The only solution for now is to send me patches/diffs/updated files or something and I commit them.
The Curseforge-team is working on a Common Translation system afaik.

And I repeat: For Bug-reports please visit the parrot-ticket-page on wowace.
http://www.wowace.com/projects/parrot/tickets