Bug Reporting

Use a good error catcher (like BugSack from files.wowace.com) and provide the full error text, and give as much information as possible to recreate the problem. Don't assume I know what you're talking about with some three word report.

Either use the Ticketing System, or post a message on the wowace forum page: http://forums.wowace.com/showthread.php?t=14358

Introduction

Perl, with Extra stuff. Much enchanced from Nymbia's Perl UnitFrames, and a complete replacement for Blizzard's default unit frames, including raid frames and raid tools, with little remaining of the original Nymbia code.

Range Finder (combined with optional health check and/or debuff check) for all frames based on spell or item range test.

HoT Monitor will highlight units clearly that have your own active Heal over Time spells. Regardless of how many other heal over time buffs are on the raid members, you can keep track of your own ones and when they expire.

Debuff Highlighting in standard debuff colours on all friendly frames. Priority given to show debuffs that you can cure first.

Raid Frames, buff icons, MT list units and some other portions or X-Perl are Created on demand. Saving a lot of time and memory at system startup. Defering the creation of many parts of X-Perl to when they are actually required. And of course, most often outside of raids they are never required and are never created.

Raid Target icon support for Target, Target's Target, MT Targets.

Raid Tooltip will show combat rezzers available (druids with Rebirth ready (or very soon available) and any normal rezzers out of combat) if you bring up tooltip of a dead person.

In-combat indicators for all units.

3D Portraits for player, pet, target, focus, party. Optional. Of course this may degrade your framerate somewhat because you are displaying more 3D character models that without this option. But some like it pretty, and it does look cool.

Red and Green combat flashes for frames when player, pet, target, party, partypets, raid take damage/heals. Useful indication of things happening.

Added time left on party member/target buffs/debuffs when in a raid, these depend somewhat on CTRA/oRA/oRA2 sending appropriate information over the addon channel, although some of it can be determined at run time by X-Perl, when a player gets a buff for example, we know how long it should last, and therefor when it should expire.

Totally new options window including all X-Perl options and access via minimap icon.

Configurable colours for borders and backgrounds. Including class coloured names, and configurable reaction colours.

Much care has been taken with code size, memory load, memory usage per cycle and so on. LuaProfiler/OnEvent mods used extensively and regularly to ensure that X-Perl does not do more work than is absolutely necessary.

Assists View

Will show anyone from raid assising you with your target, and can also show healers or all plus known enemies targetting you.

Tooltips for the same also available (on player and target frames) if you prefer to not use the main window.

MT Targets

Replaces CTRA/oRA2 MT Targets window, and doubles as a replacement for the Perl RaidFrames warrior targets.

Indicator shows which target you are on.

Frames will be coloured to show if tanks have duplicate targets.

Casting Monitor

(WORK IN PROGRESS)

Shows selected classes (defaults to healer classes) in a list (much like the MT List), but with some differences.

Shows mana bars and cast bars on left. Their targets on right. Health bar as normal, but a secondary small red bar on targets which shows the maximum single hit this unit has received since entering combat. The secondary bar will extend downwards from their current HP level down to as far as zero.

A green name on the targets indicates this is the same target that you have. You can click on casters or their targets as expected.

For druids, right clicking on a caster will cast Innervate on them.

For shamans, right clicking on a caster will cast Mana Tide Totem. Check the * indicator to see if they're in your group.

All bars can be re-sized in X-Perl main options (Monitor section).

Totals can be toggled (from the 'T' minibutton at top of frame) which gives overview of raid mana status.

Raid Admin

(WORK IN PROGRESS)

Save/Load raid roster setups Only does direct save and load for the moment, but more to come (templates and such).

Item Check

Replacement for /raitem /radur /raresist /rareg. Use the old commands before, or drop items in the left item list.

Query button will perform /raitem on all ticked items (query always includes dur and resists) and you can then view and review all the results whenever, without having to re-query each item.

Includes everyone in raid, so you don't have to work out who doesn't have items, it'll list them with 0 instead of no entry.

Active Scanner to check raid member's equipment for the item selected. So you can be sure that people actually have the item worn (Onyxia Cloak for example), without having to go round single target inspecting everyone who 'forgot' to install CTRA for the 50th raid in a row.

Grim Reaper

Removed from X-Perl, but continues as it's own standalone Ace mod.

http://www.wowace.com/projects/grim-reaper/

More Buffing Features

Can be found in my new universal buffing mod, ZOMGBuffs

http://www.wowace.com/projects/zomgbuffs/

Donations

Some have asked where they can send donations to. Easiest would be if I steal my wife's Paypal account. Username of pussicat@ntlworld.com.

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- #89
typhrus Wed, 05 Aug 2009 16:36:29
Just got this error, i tried deleting my old xperl folder's and replacing them with the new ones but still error msg:

Message: Usage: GameTooltip:SetUnitBuff("unit", [index] or ["name", "rank"][, "filter"]) Time: 08/06/09 02:35:36 Count: 16 Stack: [string "Interface\FrameXML\BasicControls.xml:<Scrip..."]:18: in function <[string "Interface\FrameXML\BasicControls.xml:<Scrip..."]:4> [C]: ? [C]: ? [C]: in function `SetUnitBuff' ...rface\AddOns\XPerl_PlayerBuffs\XPerl_PlayerBuffs.lua:381: in function <...rface\AddOns\XPerl_PlayerBuffs\XPerl_PlayerBuffs.lua:377>

Locals: (*temporary) = GameTooltip { updateTooltip = 0.00099998693913222 0 = <userdata> comparing = false hasMoney = 1 shoppingTooltips = <table> { } numStatusBars = 1 SetUnitDebuff = <function> defined =[C]:-1 SetUnitBuff = <function> defined =[C]:-1 shownStatusBars = 0 numMoneyFrames = 1 SetUnitAura = <function> defined =[C]:-1 } (*temporary) = nil (*temporary) = 2
- #88
Grilor Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:02:59
got this on the newest release:

X-Perl UnitFrames - Failed to load X-Perl Options (nil)

not sure what that means if any thing

drnez Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:46:38

Thanks for updating this for 3.2. But I'm getting the following error on startup:

Date: 2009-08-05 10:42:06
ID: -5
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ..\AddOns\XPerl\XPerl_Globals.lua line 457:
   attempt to concatenate local 'reason' (a nil value)
Debug:
   (tail call): ?
   XPerl\XPerl_Init.lua:154: XPerl_pcall()
   XPerl\XPerl_Globals.lua:343:
      XPerl\XPerl_Globals.lua:322
AddOns:
  Swatter, v5.6.4377 (KangaII)
  acbAuras, v09.05.17
  acbCastBar, v09.05.17
  acbMirror, v09.05.17
  AucAdvanced, v5.6.4377 (KangaII)
  AucDb, v5.1.DEV.3583
  AucFilterBasic, v5.6.4377 (KangaII)
  AucFilterOutlier, v5.6.4377.2531
  AucMatchUndercut, v5.6.4377.2531
  AucStatClassic, v5.6.4377 (KangaII)
  AucStatHistogram, v5.6.4377 (KangaII)
  AucStatiLevel, v5.6.4377 (KangaII)
  AucStatPurchased, v5.6.4377 (KangaII)
  AucStatSales, v5.6.4377.2842
  AucStatSimple, v5.6.4377 (KangaII)
  AucStatStdDev, v5.6.4377 (KangaII)
  AucStatWOWEcon, v5.6.4377.2530
  AucUtilAHWindowControl, v5.6.4377.3311
  AucUtilAppraiser, v5.6.4377.2530
  AucUtilAskPrice, v5.6.4377.3175
  AucUtilAutoMagic, v5.6.4377.3142
  AucUtilCompactUI, v5.6.4377.2530
  AucUtilEasyBuyout, v5.6.4377.3583
  AucUtilItemSuggest, v5.6.4377.3108
  AucUtilPriceLevel, v5.6.4377.2545
  AucUtilScanButton, v5.6.4377.2530
  AucUtilScanFinish, v5.6.4377.2530
  AucUtilScanProgress, v5.6.4377.2530
  AucUtilSearchUI, v5.6.4377.3655
  AucUtilSimpleAuction, v5.6.4377.0
  AucUtilVendMarkup, v5.6.4377.2530
  AzCastBar, v09.05.17
  Babylonian, v5.1.DEV.130
  Bagnon, v2.9.3
  BagnonForever, v1.1.2
  BagnonTooltips, v
  Bartender4, v4.3.3
  ClearFont2, v2.6
  Click2Cast, v3.0
  Configator, v5.1.DEV.190
  DBMCore, v
  DebugLib, v5.1.DEV.130
  epgp, v5.5.1
  GFWLinkerator, v3.0.1
  MailGet, v
  Omen, v3.0.7
  OmniCC, v2.5.6
  oRA2, v2.0.$Revision: 657 $
  PallyPower, vv3.2.4-release 
  Peggle, v1.02a
  Prat30, v3.2.4 
  Prat30Libraries, v
  QuestHelper, v1.1.8
  Recount, v
  sct, v6.2
  sctd, v3.1
  SimpleCalc, v
  simpleMinimap, v30000-5
  Stubby, v5.6.4377 (KangaII)
  Talented, v2.4
  TinyTip, v0.3-Beta
  Titan, v4.2.6.30200 - Revision 295
  TitanCoords, v4.2.6.30200
  TitanGoldTracker, v4.2.6.30200
  TitanPerformance, v4.2.6.30200
  TitanRepair, v4.2.6.30200
  TitanVolume, v4.2.6.30200
  XPerl, v3.0.4a
  (ck=752)

- #86
MandyRaskal Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:47:30
Hi There :D I have enjoyed this mod for quite a long time, but recently my Death Knight's runes have not been showing up. The rune frame is there, but it is just an empty box underneath her health/runic power. Now, I should say that I do not load all of the components of the addon, so could you tell me which folder has the rune information is in? I am currently not loading party or raid frames as I use grid for these purposes. I'm wondering if that is part of the problem. Thanks in advance!
- #85
Sietelle Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:59:51
Is there a way of fixing the target/ToT frames from getting placed randomly on different characters or resetting Xperl to eliminate this problem from reoccurring? I've asked about this a few times and it seems like it is only happening to me; please PM me some kind of response about this, it is still really bothersome and the only reason I haven't switched is because I'm just too used to this addon to be as effective with another.
- #84
Nugen Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:42:59
I'm also looking for the option that stackrouse is asking for. I'm a healer and raid a lot thus using the raidframes very much, and whenever I step into a 5-man instance my UI completely changes because I have to use the party frame. I would love to be able to use the raidframes even in regular 5-man instances / party's. Thanks for a great addon, X-perl rocks!
- #83
questarey Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:48:15
alright :( tnx markus
- #82
sir-markus Wed, 01 Jul 2009 06:55:00
@questarey I had the same problem. and sadly for you: only reseting worked for me. but be sure to make a save of you current settings
- #81
questarey Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:19:34
Its a bit late but i'd hoped for an update to come :P Since r296 my totemframes wont work at all anymore. Also not if i use an older version. It just stand somewhere when i log in, and when i wanna drag it it just disappears.. Im not really into resetting it all and rearrange everything, so i hope its the addon and not me :P cheers, questarey
- #80
thewildcard Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:41:10
Is the hud ever coming back? I really liked the look of it.