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I propose adding an option to prevent display of the player in raid frames.

For example in a raid of 10 people (including the player) the raid group would only display the 9 other players.

This would be similar to the default for groups (not raids).

I have somewhat successfully modified get_main_tank_name_list() in PitBull4/GroupHeader.lua to make this work by overwriting the tank filter with a filter that just filters the player out. If you are interested in putting this in the main project I can possibly submit a patch that would integrate better and provide a better settings UI.

Just realised this is VERY similar to this ticket http://www.wowace.com/addons/pitbull4/tickets/736-custom-groups/

... which also happens to have some awesome code I can borrow from.

If you'd be interested in me submitting a patch to provide this functionality let me know, I know I'll use it.

Declining this. I'm not likely to ever add an option to hide the player from raid groups because there is a huge negative to using nameLists, which is what we'd have to do to do this.

nameLists can only be updated out of combat. So if you ever go into a battleground then your raid frames are going to be pretty much worthless a players leave and new ones join in the bg.

If I do anything it would be to provide a way to expose the nameList functionality of the group frames to modules and then let people write modules that do this. But in general nameLists won't ever work reliably. They can work reliably for things like main tanks because you can't change the main tanks in combat or for that multiboxing guy because all of his own characters are going to be predefined ahead of time and he doesn't need to change them.

Fair enough. Cool, thanks for the explanation - I'll be thinking twice before using name lists in future...

No problem. This question pops up from time to time. It's the same reason PB4 doesn't support fancy sort by role like Grid has. It just doesn't work reliably. If Blizzard added an option to exclude the player from the raid group automatically (similar to how there is an option to include the player in the party groups) then we could do this. Maybe I should see if I can't request this but it'll probably be several months before we'd ever see this in a released version of the game.