Talk:Quartz

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Someone said something about using this mod and having a "stopcasting" macro. By hitting the macro when your bar gets to the red part it cuts out latency. Can someone explain? I'm clueless here. Why, how, what, where, when?

Stopcasting

The /stopcasting command cuts a cast off and frees up the clientui to start a new cast. If this happens in the time where the cast has already happened serverside nothing will happen to your just cast spell (for the server your cast is already finished) but the clientui will release your cast so you can start a new one. So in effect if you time your stopcasting+cast macro right at the start of the latency part of the castbar you are casting as if you have 0 latency. When you get used to it as a caster you can increase your spelldps by quite a sizeable margin.

Stopcasting no longer needed

Stopcasting is no longer needed after the 2.3 patch. For more info see http://altitis.blogspot.com/2007/10/stopcasting-quartz-and-patch-23.html

Bug

4/28/08

I've been getting an error when I interact with an object in the world (where you get the golden gear pointer on mouse over). The error alluded to /Quartz/Player/Player.lua line 191.

Here's the current line 189-192:

if db.profile.targetname and self.targetName and (self.targetName ~= ) then local castText = castBarText:GetText() or nil if text then castBarText:SetText(castText .. " -> " .. self.targetName) end end

And the revised 189-193. This simply places the word 'Interact' in the cast bar if no spell is being cast.

if db.profile.targetname and self.targetName and (self.targetName ~= ) then local castText = castBarText:GetText() or nil if castText ~= then castText = 'Interact' end if text then castBarText:SetText(castText .. " -> " .. self.targetName) end end

I know next to nothing about lua, so I have no idea if ~= is the correct modifier, but it seems to be working for me. Apparently, I know next to nothing about editing this wiki. It has run all those lines together, so you'll have to edit this text to see it correctly. I apologize if this isn't the place to submit a bug report.