PitBull Unit Frames 4.0

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PitBull works with WoW Classic! Classic Era/Vanilla is supported in v4.3.x-vanilla releases. Cataclysm Classic is supported in v4.2.x releases (the same releases retail use).

Classic Era caveats:

Aura duration is not available from the API, so PitBull uses LibClassicDurations to show them. The duration can be inaccurate if it's affected by rank or talents.
Cast info is only available for your spells from the API. PitBull uses LibClassicCasterino to show cast bars for other units, but this can be inaccurate since there is a lot of guess-work involved.

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CurseForge: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/pitbull-unit-frames-4-0

Wago: https://addons.wago.io/addons/pitbull4

WoWInterface: https://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info20021

GitHub: https://github.com/nebularg/PitBull4/releases

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Posted Jul 3, 2009
You'll have to reconfigure. PB3 and PB4 are very different architecturally. We can't provide a good way to migrate.

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Posted Jul 1, 2009
pawn83,

local name = "reallylongword" print(name) print(name:sub(4)) print(name:sub(1,4)) print(name:sub(1,8))

http://lua-users.org/wiki/StringLibraryTutorial
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Posted Jul 1, 2009
I am not familiar at all with LUA, but I have made the transition. Just wondering if there is a way to truncate strings? Specifically, names on raid frames often extend into other nearby frames. This isn't always the case, so I don't want to just use a much smaller font.

I am currently using the standard name layout with it centered.

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Posted Jul 1, 2009
i know its probably something obvious but im useing this addon as a tank so would rather see how much health i have rather than how much iv lost could someone please tell me how to set pitbull to do this.

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Posted Jul 1, 2009
Hey.
Check out the layout for those units you want to edit, and set "current text" to "Lua:Health", scroll down to "code", and choose how you want health to be displayed. I use "Health: absolute and percent", and i find it perfect.

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Posted Jul 3, 2009
thnx lods for this :)

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Posted Jul 1, 2009
I have been running Pitbull4 for the past 2 months, mostly with no problems. With the 22/jun beta build, I have discovered a bug although I can't quite pin it down. I run Pitbull solely as a raid/party unit frame provider (I use a HUD for self/pet/target). When soloing dailies, Pitbull is consuming significant more CPU than any other addon (twice the CPU of the next most demanding addon according to the CPU profiling in titan panel), and when I was raiding last night, the WoW client suddenly threw up complaining about a significant number of errors coming from an addon. Because of how I use Pitbull, I have the majority of modules disabled, so I am particularly surprised by the CPU demand coming from the module when not in party/raid

Is there anyway I can easily instrument this or an error capturing addon I can use to better identify where the bug is? I attached the saved variables file if that helps.

Let me know if you would prefer I file a ticket.

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Posted Jul 1, 2009
Hi There,

I am a new Pitbull 4 convert from Xperl and love it. I am all set up bar one problem...I cannot get the health values to show up on the HP bar. Is there something I am missing? I do not get any error msg's and the mana shows up, just not the HP. Hard to call for 30% BL when I don't even know where it is!! Any help would be most welcome and thanks.

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Posted Jul 1, 2009
I have the same problem, can someone tell us where to show up HP at Healthbar

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Posted Jul 3, 2009
You probably just need to change the Health text to something other than Smart. Smart only shows health text on friendly units when they're not at full.

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Posted Jun 30, 2009
Cool, splitting the modules should help a lot in determining the culprit. I just thought Aura and VisualHeal would suffer similar performance issues to CastBar since in the middle of combat you've got tons of things procing for everyone and heals flying everywhere, and updating those constantly would be a lot to process.

Would it be possible to set a larger update window for CastBar to get better performance? Or maybe even for other modules as well that poll a lot?

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Posted Jun 30, 2009
Hey there, great addon. I use Caith UI compilation and decided to update PB4, but now most of my texts: names, values, no longer show up on the unit frames. Combat text does seem to show up however. When I switch profiles to default (which displays texts just fine) and then back to Caith UI, I get this error message
[string "Pitbull4_LuaTexts:Player:HP percent"]:1:unexpected symbol near '['

If this makes any sense, thanks in advance for your help. If it doesn't, well then have a good day!

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Posted Jun 30, 2009
You probably want to enable DogTagTexts and disable LuaTexts under the modules. The error message sounds like you tried to put a DogTag in the code box for LuaTexts.

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Posted Jun 30, 2009
Alrighty, both were already at those settings. Got the same message when I toggled the LuaTexts button to enable. Also, with LuaTexts enabled, I get my Texts and values back only they are not at the same settings as before. When I disable the LuaTexts, they disappear again. I wondering if I should just start over again from scratch and let Caith do the updates.

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Posted Jun 30, 2009
Well the error means there's a syntax error in the code for your Player layout and the text named HP percent. So you should probably take a look at the code for that text. I'm really not sure if Caith is using DogTagTexts, LuaTexts or some combination of both at this point.

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Posted Jun 30, 2009
Clooze, I suspect you mean the text is wrong. You probably set the text on that bar to be the health. Look under the Texts tab in the layout editor.

Chocozurean, The performance difference between LuaTexts and DogTagTexts is much narrower than when I first added LuaTexts. There were some performance issues with the PB4 use of LibDogTag that created this larger gap. So I'm not terribly surprised you didn't see a huge difference.

Aura, VisualHeal and Highlight module should be pretty well behaved. I have a theory why CastBar is creating problems for you. CastBar basically works by keeping track of who is casting and then updating those castbars on a constant basis. It keeps track of all of this information even if there isn't a CastBar enabled on any visible frame.

Typically this isn't in itself a big deal. But I believe that some of those table entries aren't getting cleaned up and so that's creating a performance drain.

We're sorta in the process of splitting modules out into separate addons and making them load on demand. This will offer a small performance benefit for people that don't want to use a lot of the modules and should make it easier to benchmark specific modules since they'll show up as separate addons.

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Posted Jun 30, 2009
Is there a way to add borders? I can't find it >.<

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Posted Jun 30, 2009
Border module. If it's enabled you should have a Border tab under Other in the layout editor.

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Posted Jun 30, 2009
Sounds like a bug. Can you open a new ticket at:
http://www.wowace.com/projects/pitbull4/tickets

You can use your curse username and password to log in there.

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Posted Jun 30, 2009
Hi, I added an expbar to my petframe (made a new layout etc). But it keeps disappearing! Sometimes when I log in, I can see it, but after a reload or after a new login, it's gone again :-s Sometimes it disappears even during gameplay =/
Anyone know what I do wrong in here?

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