Litmus

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... is a Mana Emergency Monitor capable of showing which player is currently innervated.

Contents 1 Introduction 2 What does it do? 3 Configuring Litmus 3.1 Lock 3.2 Scan 3.3 Filter 3.4 Display 3.5 Test 4 Known Bugs 5 Feedback 6 Thanks to

Introduction

Litmus is a mana emergency monitor and a tool for both raidleaders and druids in general. It is heavily based upon eeMon and therefore shares its customizability.

If you are playing a druid you might've heard this before:

RL: "PriestA and PriestB are low on mana. Druids, innervate them!"
Druid1: "PriestA innervated."
Druid2: "Damn, he got innervated by me, too."
Druid3: "Why did you two do that? I already casted it on him seconds before the RL said he was low on mana..."
PriestB: "OOM."

Bottom line:

• RLs are way to busy during raids to announce which druid has to innervate whom.
• Raidgroups change way to often to set up rules for innervating that everyone can remember.
• Druids most likely innervate a priest without checking if he already got innervated.
• And they almost never check, if any other mana class would benefit from innervate, too.

Litmus was created to help druids and raidleaders sort out these problems easily.

What does it do?

Litmus works like any ordinary emergency monitor - but instead of showing you the players in your group/raid having the least health, it'll display those with the least mana. It also displays their (classcolored) names, the amount of mana missing, the subgroups in the raid and an icon for those that are currently innervated.

You can configure Litmus via FuBar, if you have it installed. Litmus will automatically place its icon on your bar so that you can access all its functions with a right-click. If you do not use FuBar, you'll have to use the slash command

/litmus

Configuring Litmus

After installing Litmus you should see its main frame on your screen. You can drag that frame around by clicking onto the title (should also work with SnapToGrid). Even though Litmus works out-of-the-box you are free to configure it to your needs.

Lock

lets you lock the whole addon. If this is active you won't be able to accidentally move around the main frame any more. default=off

Scan

Units lets you configure how many units you would like Litmus to display simultaneously. default=5

Mana lets you set the man threshold for the display in percent. Everything above this will be sorted out. default=75%

Frequency sets how often in seconds the addon checks through your raidmembers and updates the list. Druids should probably lower the default down to 0.6 when in a raid. default=1

Filter

Class lets you define which classes not to show. For example, if you don't want hunters to appear on your list then just mark them. Please note that Litmus only displays units that have mana. default=all off

Group lets define you which groups in your raid should not be displayed. default=all off

AutoGroupFilter automatically filters all the subgroups of a raid that you are not a member of (which can be useful for shamans with mana tide). Whenever you are moved to another subgroup the filters will adjust accordingly. You cannot set custom groupfilters while this option is active. default=off

Self removes your char from the list when marked. default=off

Pet removes your pet from the list when marked. default=off

Display

When tells Litmus when it has to show up. You can choose between Always, Never, Group and Raid. default=always

Scale lets you resize Litmus. default=100%

Frame lets you set the Color and Alpha of the main frame as well as switch its Title on/off.

Bars you configure the bars' Alpha, Style, Texture, Width, Height and Spacing.

NamePosition lets you choose where to display the unit's name. default=outside bar

ManaPosition lets you choose where to display the unit's missing mana. default=outside bar

Text lets you choose a Color used for text that is not classcolored and also allows you to Reset it to its defaults.

ClassColorNames shows the names of all units with their classcolor when enabled. Pets are shown in a dark muddy red. default=on

DisplaySubGroup lets you toggle the display of a player's subgroup in the raid. The number for the subgroup only show if you actually are in a raid. default=on

Test

shows you your current settings for a few seconds.

Known Bugs

• none

If you are willing to help me with further localization then please send me a PM on the wowace forums.

Feedback

If you want to give any kind of feedback, report bugs or suggest further features, please do so in this thread on the wowace forums.

Thanks to

• Evil Elvis for creating eeMon, putting all these really detailed comments into the code and letting me borrow functions from it
• Johannes of EU_Aegwynn for testing this plugin during real raids and giving feedback
• Nabucco, Pandora, Jalima, Ginella, Ortwin, Pahlawan, Rockerus, Vráin, Marillion and Schlummi of EU_Aegwynn for providing me with loads of twinks to always form a raid with me
• everyone at the wowace forums for their work and help