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That would be an addon really cool to have in WotLK.
Anyone got it working for 3.4.1+ ?

Thanks UppyDan for trying to fix this but neither of the changes have made difference for me. Previous one with blocking a whole bunch of lines still popped an error at the start and the error was gone after changing the line # 1024. But as soon as joined a party (created a group in LFG since it marks you as being in a party group), another error appeared and no role icons on any portraits. I am also using Shadowed Unit Frames addon and pretty sure that one has support for Role Icons function calling out from this one. Here's the new error that appears when joining a party.

22x RoleIcons/RoleIcons.lua:1227: attempt to call global 'UpdateTarget' (a nil value)
[string "@RoleIcons/RoleIcons.lua"]:1227: in function <RoleIcons/RoleIcons.lua:1202>

Locals:
frame = RoleIconsHiddenFrame {
0 = <userdata>
}
event = "PLAYER_REGEN_ENABLED"
name = nil
(*temporary) = nil
(*temporary) = "target"
(*temporary) = "attempt to call global 'UpdateTarget' (a nil value)"
string = <table> {
split = <function> defined =[C]:-1
match = <function> defined =[C]:-1
gmatch = <function> defined =[C]:-1
upper = <function> defined =[C]:-1
gsub = <function> defined =[C]:-1
format = <function> defined =[C]:-1
utf8sub = <function> defined @Outfitter/Libraries/UTF8/utf8.lua:183
lower = <function> defined =[C]:-1
sub = <function> defined =[C]:-1
len = <function> defined =[C]:-1
utf8lower = <function> defined @Outfitter/Libraries/UTF8/utf8.lua:276
gfind = <function> defined =[C]:-1
join = <function> defined =[C]:-1
rep = <function> defined =[C]:-1
utf8len = <function> defined @Outfitter/Libraries/UTF8/utf8.lua:158
char = <function> defined =[C]:-1
rtgsub = <function> defined @FrameXML/RestrictedInfrastructure.lua:618
utf8upper = <function> defined @Outfitter/Libraries/UTF8/utf8.lua:266
reverse = <function> defined =[C]:-1
byte = <function> defined =[C]:-1
trim = <function> defined =[C]:-1
utf8reverse = <function> defined @Outfitter/Libraries/UTF8/utf8.lua:286
find = <function> defined =[C]:-1
}
addonName = "RoleIcons"
debug = <function> defined @RoleIcons/RoleIcons.lua:84
settings = <table> {
hbicon = true
map = true
debug = false
chat = true
raid = true
classbuttons = true
popup = true
system = true
state = <table> {
}
trimserver = true
autorole = true
focus = true
target = true
serverinfo = true
tooltip = true
rolebuttons = true
}
pairs = <function> defined =[C]:-1
defaults = <table> {
hbicon = <table> {
}
debug = <table> {
}
map = <table> {
}
popup = <table> {
}
tooltip = <table> {
}
serverinfo = <table> {
}
chat = <table> {
}
system = <table> {
}
trimserver = <table> {
}
autorole = <table> {
}
focus = <table> {
}
target = <table> {
}
raid = <table> {
}
classbuttons = <table> {
}
rolebuttons = <table> {
}
}
addon = <table> {
unitstatus = <table> {
}
ServerChatString = <function> defined @RoleIcons/RoleIcons.lua:402
svnrev = <table> {
}
SetupVersion = <function> defined @RoleIcons/RoleIcons.lua:1284
UpdateRGF = <function> defined @RoleIcons/RoleIcons.lua:432
UpdateServers = <function> defined @RoleIcons/RoleIcons.lua:588
version = "r183"
formatToon = <function> defined @RoleIcons/RoleIcons.lua:785
trimServer = <function> defined @RoleIcons/RoleIcons.lua:145
L = <table> {
}
revision = 183
}
RegisterHooks = <function> defined @RoleIcons/RoleIcons.lua:1007
InCombatLockdown = <function> defined =[C]:-1
UnitGroupRolesAssigned = <function> defined =[C]:-1
myDefaultRole = <function> defined @RoleIcons/RoleIcons.lua:190

Another fix for DragonFlight (for the "OnTooltipSetUnit" error):

In RoleIcons.lua, around line 1024, replace this line ...

   GameTooltip:HookScript("OnTooltipSetUnit", UpdateTT)

with this line ...

   TooltipDataProcessor.AddTooltipPostCall(Enum.TooltipDataType.Unit, function(tooltip, data) UpdateTT(tooltip) end)

In reply to UppyDan:

 I`ll test also.

Author hasn't logged in for about 4  years. Hopefully someone takes over this great addon or is it dead for good? :(

There are a couple of other Unit Frame addons that use this one for role icons too.

Fix for DragonFlight - In RoleIcons.lua, comment out all the lines in the function UpdateTarget().  (See below.)  I'm not sure what it breaks, but seems to work good enough.

local function UpdateTarget(frame)
-- local Frame = frame:gsub("^(.)",string.upper)
-- addon.frametex = addon.frametex or {}
-- local tex = addon.frametex[frame]
-- if tex then tex:Hide() end
-- if not settings[frame] or not UnitIsPlayer(frame) or not _G[Frame.."Frame"]:IsVisible() then return end
-- local role = UnitGroupRolesAssigned(frame)
-- if role == "NONE" then return end
-- if not tex then
-- tex = _G[Frame.."FrameTextureFrame"]:CreateTexture(addonName..Frame.."FrameRole","OVERLAY")
-- tex:ClearAllPoints()
-- tex:SetPoint("BOTTOMLEFT", _G[Frame.."FrameTextureFrameName"], "TOPRIGHT",0,-8)
-- tex:SetTexture(role_tex_file)
-- tex:SetSize(20,20)
-- addon.frametex[frame] = tex
-- end
-- tex:SetTexCoord(getRoleTexCoord(role))
-- tex:Show()
end

 Tentative fix - Open up RoleIcons.lua and go to line 29, looks like this:

local maxlvl = MAX_PLAYER_LEVEL_TABLE[#MAX_PLAYER_LEVEL_TABLE]

Replace it with this:

local maxlvl = GetMaxLevelForLatestExpansion()

YMMV, caveat updater, etc and so forth.  Theoretically future-proofed?

In reply to Veyska:

 I came here to post this same fix. I mean, what could go wrong?

Hey thanks for this.

it still was working until 9.0 any chance of getting a fix?

See https://www.wowace.com/projects/roleicons?comment=80

Gonna miss this

It looks like a user got it working:

https://www.wowace.com/projects/roleicons?comment=80

please update

Update please for BfA

Doesn't work anymore since BFA :(

If you don't want the addon to announce on every talent change, delete or comment out line 207:

frame:RegisterEvent("ACTIVE_TALENT_GROUP_CHANGED");

Is the author still around and pay attention to any tickets created on the wowace page?

Some sort of response always goes a long way :)

 Is this going to be updated for legion?