X-Perl UnitFrames 2.2.0a

A much enchanced version of Nymbia's Perl UnitFrames, and a complete replacement for Blizzard's default unit frames, including raid frames and raid tools, with many additions and improvements over the original Nymbia code.

Range Finder (combined with optional health check) for all frames based on spell or item range test.

HoT Monitor will highlight units clearly that have your own active Heal over Time spells.

Debuff Highlighting in standard debuff colours on all friendly frames. Priority given to show debuffs that YOU can cure first.

Raid Frames, buff icons, MT list units and some other portions or X-Perl are Created on demand. Saving a lot of time and memory at system startup. Defering the creation of many parts of X-Perl to when they are actually required. And of course, most often outside of raids they are never required and are never created.

Raid Target icon support for Target, Target's Target, MT Targets.

Unit tooltip will show much CTRA information, with the addtion of combat rezzers available (druids with Rebirth ready (or very soon available) and any normal rezzers out of combat) if you bring up tooltip of a dead person.

'In-combat' indicators for Pet, Target, Target's Target, Party, Party pets, Raid, MT Targets.

3D Portraits for player, pet, target, focus, party. Optional. Of course this may degrade your framerate somewhat because you are displaying more 3D character models that without this option. But some like it pretty, and it does look cool.

Red and Green combat flashes for frames when player, pet, target, party, partypets, raid take damage/heals. Useful indication of things happening.

Added time left on party member/target buffs/debuffs when in a raid, these depend somewhat on CTRA/oRA/oRA2 sending appropriate information over the addon channel, although some of it can be determined at run time by X-Perl, when a player gets a buff for example, we know how long it should last, and therefor when it should expire.

Totally new options window including all X-Perl options and access via minimap icon.

Configurable colours for borders and backgrounds. Including class coloured names, and configurable reaction colours.

Much care has been taken with code size, memory load, memory usage per cycle and so on. LuaProfiler/OnEvent mods used extensively and regularly to ensure that X-Perl does not do more work than is absolutely necessary.

With that in mind, the event system was totally re-written, and is as kind to system performance as possible. The majority of events are disabled while zoning to alleviate any event backlog issues. And where most addons use 1 event handler per unit frame, which although standard, the alternative has improved X-Perl's performance. By using single main event handlers, we can route the events to appropriate units. So, for example, when a single UNIT_HEALTH update is fired, then just a single raid frame or party frame etc. gets the event, rather than 40 raid frame's handlers, 4 party and so on. Nymbia's Perl used to do a lot of crazy full frame udpates all over the place, eating away at CPU cycles. This was all fixed to only update what was necessary based on events.

Liberal usage of local functions to cut down compiled code size, and increase speed since functions are called directly rather than by name. Every time you have a global function, you have a global string name associated with it, so size in the global environment saved where possible.

XPerl_RaidHelper sub-addon
Assists View
Will show anyone from raid assising you with your target, and can also show healers or all plus known enemies targetting you.
Tooltips for the same also available (on player and target frames) if you prefer to not use the main window.

MT Targets
Replaces CTRA/oRA2 MT Targets window, and doubles as a replacement for the Perl RaidFrames warrior targets.
Indicator shows which target you are on.
Frames will be coloured to show if tanks have duplicate targets.

XPerl_RaidMonitor sub-addon (WORK IN PROGRESS)
Casting Monitor
Shows selected classes in a list (much like the MT List), but with some differences.
Shows mana bars and cast bars on left. Their targets on right. Health bar as normal, but a secondary small red bar on targets which shows the maximum single hit this unit has received since entering combat. The secondary bar will extend downwards from their current HP level down to as far as zero.
A green name on the targets indicates this is the same target that you have.
You can click on casters or their targets as expected.

All bars can be re-sized in X-Perl main options (Monitor section).

Totals can be toggled (from the 'T' minibutton at top of frame) which gives overview of raid mana status.

XPerl_RaidAdmin sub-addon (WORK IN PROGRESS)
Raid Admin
Save/Load raid roster setups
Only does direct save and load for the moment, but more to come (templates and such).

Item Check
Replacement for /raitem /radur /raresist /rareg. Use the old commands before, or drop items in the left item list.
Query button will perform /raitem on all ticked items (query always includes dur and resists) and you can then view and review all the results whenever, without having to re-query each item.
Includes everyone in raid, so you don't have to work out who doesn't have items, it'll list them with 0 instead of no entry.
Active Scanner to check raid member's equipment for the item selected. So you can be sure that people actually have the item worn (Onyxia Cloak for example), without having to go round single target inspecting everyone who 'forgot' to install CTRA for the 50th raid in a row.

Supported Addons
CT_RaidAssist, oRA2. Shows tooltip info and player status, replaces MT Targets List, improves raid frames, shows player status, resurrection monitor, buff timers aware.
MobInfo-2 / MobHealth3 - Shows target health from MobHealth database.
DruidBar and SimpleDruidBar - Shows druid mana bar from DruidBar when shapeshifted.
Clique compatible. And any other click cast addon that uses the same communication method. (see below)

Cod:

Patch Notes

Note: The Status Highlight Missing Buffs feature is causing a little lag when people join/leave the raid, so refrain from leaving it on all the time. Defaulted them to off as well.

You will need to restart WoW for all features to be enabled, as a few files have changed.

I'm only pushing this release because of the first thing listed here for 2.2.0:

2.2.0a
Fixed: Stupid startup errors. Sorry.

2.2.0
Tense Nervous Headaches? Whilst trying to promote people in raid? Removing wrong members?
Raid colleagues nagging at you for being a nub? Can't promote your best friend?
Well, Zek comes to the rescue with a hack for Blizzards 2.0.3 fuckup.
The raid context menus should work properly... /applause
---------- WHEN USED FROM X-PERL'S RAID FRAMES ----------
If any of them still don't work, yell at me some and I might fix them.

NEW: When a unit has a Status Highlight, their tooltip will indicate what it means in the same colour.
NEW: Tutorial Tips for new users. Load on Demand module. Uses the same system as WoW's new users tips. For existing users it will default to off and not load. You can always turn it on from the global options if you're curious.
NEW: MT List shows Main Assist and Main Tank status (as defined from Blizzard raid dropdowns).
NEW: Target's debuff highlighting now has an option to limit for all/friend/enemy.
Fixed: Error when mousing over X-Perl icon when in a battleground.
Fixed: Group number display when in raid.

2.1.9
NEW: X-Perl's minimap tooltip will show count of real raid/party members and if you're the leader of real raid, if you're in a pseudo BG raid.
NEW: Status Highlighting can highlight with a grey border anyone who is missing your class' raid buff (sta, int, mark only). And optionally, ALL 3 class' raid buffs (for raid leaders). Missing classes will not be included in the check. Rogues and warriors are skipped for INT buff checks.
Changed: Shield Monitor added to track expiry of PW: Shield.
Changed: HoTs Monitor will flash frame highlights for 5 seconds before HoT is due to expire.
Changed: TOC Updated to 20003
Fixed: Cooldown on 'Renew' in the HoTs Monitor.
Fixed: Error in options when XPerl_Target not loaded.
Fixed: Error in options when XPerl_PartyPets not loaded.
Fixed: Party NameFrames weren't registering as click casters.
Fixed: Party frames weren't seting up correctly at startup.
Fixed: Player's hit damage over portrait.
Fixed: Party Leader icon not always correct. Actually rather than an X-Perl fix, is a workaround for bug in the API which often claimed that party1 was the leader, regardless of who the leader really is.
Fixed: Party debuff highlighting error.
Fixed: Tooltip problem with debuffs in raid when 'Buffs Until Debuffed' option enabled and unit is debuffed.
Fixed: Raid group 9 was not hiding when you switched from class sorting to group sorting.
Fixed: Focus hit indicator was in middle of screen.

Known Bugs with this version

TODO
Do a generic buff display thing. Based on target frame stuff and fix the upper display, so we can have row/col options for all frames.
Setup Wizard.
Player Targets view to go with MT Targets.

Known Issues
Large non-standard fonts can exclude all text in frames. Please let me know which ones, where, when, what addon, settings etc.
Targets Target fading bars occasional jump a little.
Occasionally clicking a player in the Item Checker can select wrong person. Think it is when an active equipment scan is in progress and the list is in constant movement internally.

While every care is taken to ensure there are few or no bugs, it is always possible that some slip through. And often other mods can interfere with normal behaviour. Popup error messages are annoying, so it is highly recommended that you install an improved error catcher. BugSack(Ace2) is particularly good, or ImprovedErrorFrame would also suffice. These divert the popups away to a little minimap button that you can ignore mostly.

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