Authors CurseForge

I've done a little hack to Pitbull4_Aura/Layout.lua that I find quite useful. Maybe others think so to and are able to properly include it into the layout options instead of hard coding this layout.

So, what does my addition do? It anchors the debuffs behind the buffs. To understand this layout, let me explain my setup: For my party or raid members, I display a long line of filtered buffs after each unit frame (unit frames are just as high as the buffs). And with this hack the debuffs are attached at the end of the buffs and thus their position can grow/shrink to the right/left with changing number of buffs instead of being fixed to a certain x offset (the other way round, debuffs before buffs is probably better, but I haven't coded this yet).

To accomplish this, I added at the end of Pitbull4_Aura:LayoutAuras:

    local buff_list = frame.aura_buffs
    local debuff_list =    frame.aura_debuffs

    if #buff_list > 0 and #debuff_list > 0 then    
        debuff_list[1]:ClearAllPoints();        
        debuff_list[1]:SetPoint("TOPLEFT", buff_list[#buff_list], "TOPRIGHT",16,0);        
        for i=2, #debuff_list do
            debuff_list[i]:ClearAllPoints();        
            debuff_list[i]:SetPoint("TOPLEFT", debuff_list[i-1], "TOPRIGHT",0,0);
        end
    end

Quote from shiin2

I've done a little hack to Pitbull4_Aura/Layout.lua that I find quite useful. Maybe others think so to and are able to properly include it into the layout options instead of hard coding this layout.

So, what does my addition do? It anchors the debuffs behind the buffs. To understand this layout, let me explain my setup: For my party or raid members, I display a long line of filtered buffs after each unit frame (unit frames are just as high as the buffs). And with this hack the debuffs are attached at the end of the buffs and thus their position can grow/shrink to the right/left with changing number of buffs instead of being fixed to a certain x offset (the other way round, debuffs before buffs is probably better, but I haven't coded this yet).

To accomplish this, I added at the end of Pitbull4_Aura:LayoutAuras:

    local buff_list = frame.aura_buffs
    local debuff_list =    frame.aura_debuffs

    if #buff_list > 0 and #debuff_list > 0 then    
        debuff_list[1]:ClearAllPoints();        
        debuff_list[1]:SetPoint("TOPLEFT", buff_list[#buff_list], "TOPRIGHT",16,0);        
        for i=2, #debuff_list do
            debuff_list[i]:ClearAllPoints();        
            debuff_list[i]:SetPoint("TOPLEFT", debuff_list[i-1], "TOPRIGHT",0,0);
        end
    end

im guessing thats what i need to be able to show buffs and debuffs on the same row in my raidlayout (same style with height being the same as the icon size)

Exactly, just append it at the end of Pitbull4_Aura:LayoutAuras(). As said before, it's just a crude hack that fixes your debuffs into place on a straight line right after your last shown buff with no further positioning options. You still have to provide correct icon sizes, number of auras to display and the correct position your buffs. Sort order and filtering of the debuffs are retained.

I tested it with the Solo and Party config modes of Pitbull but not "in action".

Quote from shiin2

Exactly, just append it at the end of Pitbull4_Aura:LayoutAuras(). As said before, it's just a crude hack that fixes your debuffs into place on a straight line right after your last shown buff with no further positioning options. You still have to provide correct icon sizes, number of auras to display and the correct position your buffs. Sort order and filtering of the debuffs are retained.

I tested it with the Solo and Party config modes of Pitbull but not "in action".

Ill give it some testing later, 5min before ToGC is a bad time to play with the UI :p

Apologies if asked and answered but at 137 pages ... hard to tell.

I've got Pitbull4 and Castbars both installed. I need my Castbars to show on top of Pitbull. They do for 1 castbar (player castbar showing over player Pitbull unit). But another one is buried under the Pitbull frame (target castbar under Pitbull target unit).

Is there a way to tell Pitbull to change the display order? I asked if Castbars can force itself up in the strata but the response (see the Curse page for Castbars for the comments) was to try to do it with Pitbull instead.

Quote from jahf

Apologies if asked and answered but at 137 pages ... hard to tell.

I've got Pitbull4 and Castbars both installed. I need my Castbars to show on top of Pitbull. They do for 1 castbar (player castbar showing over player Pitbull unit). But another one is buried under the Pitbull frame (target castbar under Pitbull target unit).

Is there a way to tell Pitbull to change the display order? I asked if Castbars can force itself up in the strata but the response (see the Curse page for Castbars for the comments) was to try to do it with Pitbull instead.

Can't you just use pitbulls castbar?

I can, I like Castbars better with the UI I put together.

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....(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

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?

Quote from 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.

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.

Quote from 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...

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
-------------------------------

Quote from 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

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.

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

First, you might be mistaken what this block of code does. It only works for one specific layout and will produce garbage in all other instances. The intended layout is shown below:

[UNITFRAME] [buff1][buff2]...[buffx] [debuff1][debuff2]...[debuffx]

Buffs on the right of the unitframe, taking only one row. The debuffs are then placed to the right of these buffs by the block of code. If non-standard sizes are used, the buffs and debuffs will overlap.
I did not try to provide a full-fledged layout solution but rather an easy fix to demonstrate a useful layout option (note that this is the same layout the late CastParty addon used) and hope that someone with more insight into the functionality of Pitbull would implement it as correct layout option.

Having said that. If you use a layout as described above, you should see the intended result as shown above. Note that I used Pitbull4_Aura v4.0.0-beta5.