WowAce

First full test of Skada tonight, r287 (actually a week ago, but no author input on the WowAce forums where I originally posted this or the project tickets for a long time). Set it up, changed Data Segments to Keep slider to the max of 30, among other changes. Encountered a bug, a problem and two design issues.

--Bug: when trying to access one of the options in the Dewdrop-like right-click menu out of combat (either from the LDB feed or via the "gear" icon on the title bar):

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["type"] = "error",
["session"] = 349,
["counter"] = 1,
}, -- [149]

Occurred once in the session, did not repeat. But the same error as the above has occurred regularly when accessing things through the options tooltip (deleting fight segments to make the tooltip smaller, etc.). So it was not a once-off problem.

--Problem: after setting the maximum fight segments retained to 30, went into the Dewdrop-like menu to try to select one of them after combat. Only the first 10 or so segments were selectable, all the rest under the first 10 or so were grayed-out and not selectable.

--Design issue 1: relating to the above, when that Dewdrop-like tooltip gets to be too large (as can happen when you choose to retain a large number of fight segments), it can become very difficult to access selections at the top (or bottom) of the tooltip. That is, until you move the LDB display or Skada title bar someplace else on your screen. Which is often a big hassle.

For example, have the Skada title bar sitting at the center-right of your screen, with a LDB display feed for it in the to the top-right-center of your screen. In both cases when the tooltip is displayed with 30 fight segments, it extends and is cut off at the top of the screen. The selections at the top of the tooltip become become inaccessible.

Thus you cannot choose "Damage" or similar from the selections near the top of the tooltip until you move one of the tooltip-spawners (title bar or LDB display) someplace on your screen where the tooltip is able to be displayed completely. Again, a hassle.

To fix this (other than completely redesigning where to put those options), should add a scrollbar to the tooltip when someone chooses other than the default number of fight segments to show. As, for example, Broker_HitCrit has.

--Design issue 2: The Absorbs and the Absorbs & Healing meters are great.

One thing that is not as great as it could be, though. Unlike Recount and the rest of the meters in Skada is the lack of a "xPS" measure for those meters on the right of the bars. They only measure total absorbs/absorbs+healing. Would be nice to see a "xPS" measure as well for Absorbs and Absorbs & Healing.