PitBull 4.0

[jokeyrhyme]

Yeah, the built-in Pitbull castbars are nice, but they are just inflexible enough to make me search for another solution. My main issue with the Pitbull ones is the shuffling that is caused when the castbar appears. But if you have it turned on all the time (no auto-hide) then it just sits there sucking up screen real estate for absolutely no purpose. For a while I treated the inactive castbar as something of a blank bar and I put a few texts there, but I ended up ditching it.

I'm using Castbars too now and I'm having the same problem. The layout I'd love to have involves the castbars occupying the same space as my unitframes (or maybe just my powerbar) and just being drawn over the top whenever a cast is happening. But the strata levels between Pitbull and Castbars isn't distinct enough and the unitframe is often drawn over the top.

There are a bunch of related tickets if you guys wanted to show support with votes / comments:
- 504: option to change strata
- 613: possible solution to transient bar ugliness (superimpose)
- 351: castbars separate from unitframes
- 398: hide bars on cast

[vorsim]

The time has come where I get the urge to attempt to make my own UI. Im trying to get my Pitbull player frame to look something like this....

.......100/100[ ]
..21.1k/21.1k[ ]
..................[ ]
..................[ ]

(The skewed [ ]'s represent vertical power/health bars)

What's the best way to arrange my power/health text like that? There's an option to switch x2 texts in the same position from left to right, dont see an option for switch from top to bottom. In older versions of Pitbull I could do it by creating 1 text and just squish x2 dogtags for power and health together, my attempts to do the same with Lua texts have not gone well.

local max = MaxPower(unit)
if max > 0 then
return "%s/%s",Power(unit),max
end
local s = Status(unit)
if s then
return s
end
local cur, max = HP(unit), MaxHP(unit)
return "%s/%s || %s%%",Short(cur,true),Short(max,true),Percent(cur, max)

Just shows my power, removing the end in the middle returns an error. So knowledgeable UI types how would u do it? Just going back to using dogtags (if thats still possible) would be an option too I guess

[Telal]

I've been working on something with pitbull now for about a week and I'm stumped.

I'm a MT in my guild, and I'm trying to get Pitbull to show "stacks" of debuffs on the ToT windows (so that I can taunt off when it is my time), debuffs show, but I can only get "time remaining" to show.

Can anyone assist?

[Kerecha]

Originally Posted by Telal

I've been working on something with pitbull now for about a week and I'm stumped.

I'm a MT in my guild, and I'm trying to get Pitbull to show "stacks" of debuffs on the ToT windows (so that I can taunt off when it is my time), debuffs show, but I can only get "time remaining" to show.

Can anyone assist?

Hmm... dosen't it do that by default?
Afaik there is no setting to control that, it always shows stacks.

[Shadoweric]

Actually there is. Go to your layout for your frames, go to the Aura tab, then Texts, then select the various "counts" in the dropdown list.

[Kerecha]

Originally Posted by Shadoweric

Actually there is. Go to your layout for your frames, go to the Aura tab, then Texts, then select the various "counts" in the dropdown list.

Odd mine's not enabled and i see the stacks... must have some other addon doing it then...

[dragoron]

I'm trying to figure out a specific layout for my unit frames. I'm trying to place a blank bar above my other bars and portrait for a place for name / class / level texts, sort of like what you find in Xperl. I've gotten a bar placed, but it won't go into the position I want. I'm trying for the following:

-------------------------------
Name, Class, Level
-------------------------------
.............. Health
. Portrait . ----------------
.............. Mana
.............. ----------------
.............. Cast
-------------------------------

but the closest I can manage is this:

-------------------------------
.............. Name, Class, Level
.............. ----------------
.............. Health
. Portrait . ----------------
.............. Mana
.............. ----------------
.............. Cast
-------------------------------

[Kerecha]

Originally Posted by dragoron

I'm trying to figure out a specific layout for my unit frames. I'm trying to place a blank bar above my other bars and portrait for a place for name / class / level texts, sort of like what you find in Xperl. I've gotten a bar placed, but it won't go into the position I want. I'm trying for the following:

-------------------------------
Name, Class, Level
-------------------------------
.............. Health
. Portrait . ----------------
.............. Mana
.............. ----------------
.............. Cast
-------------------------------

but the closest I can manage is this:

-------------------------------
.............. Name, Class, Level
.............. ----------------
.............. Health
. Portrait . ----------------
.............. Mana
.............. ----------------
.............. Cast
-------------------------------

Thats how it will always look in PB due to how portrait vs bars is handled

[idomu]

The time has come where I get the urge to attempt to make my own UI. Im trying to get my Pitbull player frame to look something like this....

.......100/100[ ]
..21.1k/21.1k[ ]
..................[ ]
..................[ ]

(The skewed [ ]'s represent vertical power/health bars)

What's the best way to arrange my power/health text like that?

Try something like this.

local s = Status(unit)
if s then
return s
end
local curp,maxp,curh,maxh = Power(unit),MaxPower(unit),HP(unit),MaxHP(unit)
   return "%s/%s\n%s/%s", curp,maxp,Short(curh),Short(maxh)

I used something similar to get this.

[TheRey]

Is there any way of making the HP-text change colour depending on the amount of HP?
Like 100% = green, 50% = yellow, 10% yellow? ._.