Skada Damage Meter

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Skada is a modular damage meter with various viewing modes, segmented fights and customizable windows. It aims to be highly efficient with memory and CPU.

"Skada" is Swedish for "Damage".

Note: I took a tiny break from WoW (a decade), but recently started playing SoD. Be aware that this addon may not quite work yet.

Usage

When you first start using Skada, there will be a window created by default. This window can be extensively customized in Skada's configuration panel; click the little cog icon to access a menu, and then click Configure. Depending on your user interface, there may also be a minimap button allowing quick access to this menu.

Skada supports multiple windows. To create a new window, click Windows in the addon's configuration panel. There are three built-in types of windows - Bar, Inline, and Data text. Bar is the classic damage meter window, and is very customizable. Inline shows the meter in a horizontal line, which can be useful for integration in custom user interfaces. Data text shows just one item at a time, and can also be displayed by any LDB display addon, such as Titan Panel, ChocolateBar, or ElvUI.

In the normal Bar window, you can left click on specific items for more detailed information, and right click for less details. At the very "top" is the list of all saved fight segments. Some data modes have several detailed information views. In this case you choose alternate views by holding certain keys pressed while clicking. For example, in Damage mode, you can Shift-click a player to see what enemies the player caused damage to. Tooltips will display how to reach the different views.

You can also use window buttons for selecting fight segment and mode directly.

Scrolling in Skada is done with the mousewheel.

Plugins

Skada is easy to extend, and there were once many extra plugin addons out there that add functionality. However, there are unlikely to be any maintained ones currently.

There is a page with API information here.

Reporting issues

For now use comments.

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_ForgeUser1390390
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Posted Aug 21, 2011
What happened to this addon? I have been watching for weeks now and have seen this addon go from one of the best to something far less...
Seems to me that the "look" changes you have made has caused many issues with its functionality... "look" changes are not needed... Functionality IS...
Please return this addon to greatness and stop trying to make it "look" different

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Posted Aug 22, 2011
You will have to be more specific. The slightly changed "look" as you say is just the default look and it can easily be configured for the previous default "look". If you do not like it, just use another addon.

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Posted Aug 29, 2011
You have made many look changes... caused positioning all out of wack... changed window sizes and limitations... changed the number of items shown in a list... and that's not counting the actual numbers and real core functionality... and then you wana say dont like it use something else... fine d--- head

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Posted Aug 21, 2011
After the update I can't make a report anymore.

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Posted Aug 19, 2011
Been having a problem using SKADA and unable to "Set Focus" on a target during heroic runs. Gives me error message, asks to "Disable?" and Skada is the only addon turned off upon reload. Fix or how to fix this?

i kinda preferred the old version as well, the minimap button is a lil touchy and seem to mis-click on other options instead of intended now, grrrrrrr

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Posted Aug 19, 2011
I installed Skada yesterday and I can't see it. /skada toggle and nothing happens. Updated it today and still same.

Few weeks ago worked like a charm, but now seems to be broken. I'm also using ELV UI if that's problem with new version...

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Posted Aug 19, 2011
ElvUI modifies Skada to make it fit into the UI. You should visit ElvUI's forum. Skada itself works fine.

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Posted Aug 19, 2011
Version 1.2-34 worked perfectly in ElvUI. What changed in Skada to break in that time frame? ElvUI claims a Skada bug. Skada claims a ElvUI bug....

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Posted Aug 19, 2011
same problem here... maybe skada dev can talk to elv ui dev and get it sorted out?

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Posted Aug 20, 2011
Just use an older version of Skada. It works perfectly fine and integrates into ElvUI like it's supposed to. ElvUI 3.0 will be released in a month or two, so until then be patient and wait for his fix.

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Posted Aug 22, 2011
There is an option for it now.

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Posted Aug 19, 2011
Meh, finally found it myself:
Line 1062 of Skada\lib\SpecializedLibBars-1.0

self.bgtexture:SetVertexColor(0.3, 0.3, 0.3, 0.6)
To:
self.bgtexture:SetVertexColor(0, 0, 0, 0)

WTB An option for this!

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Posted Aug 19, 2011
Can you tell me how to hide bar backgrounds? I use a dark bar colour and I can't tell it apart from the background in Firelands. I have tried editing a lot of the LUA but haven't been able to hide the background yet :/

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Posted Aug 19, 2011
The newest version of Skada has removed this problem, it seems.

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Posted Aug 19, 2011
Updating Skada today has caused issues with hiding buttons in and out of combat with, of all things, CLCret. I can't report any errors, but there are multiple accounts of it on the CLCret page.

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Posted Aug 19, 2011
Should work again now.

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Posted Aug 18, 2011
After today's update reverse bar growth no longer works.. please fix this.

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Posted Aug 18, 2011
Ever since update, Skada resets itself to tracking per segment, rather than the total. Is there a way to revert this?

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Posted Aug 18, 2011
after updating this today I get this error and it makes my grid2 not work.

Date: 2011-08-18 15:43:07
ID: 1
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ..\AddOns\Grid2\GridLayout.lua line 533:
attempt to index local 'f' (a nil value)
Debug:
(tail call): ?
(tail call): ?
Grid2\GridLayout.lua:533: UpdateTextures()
Grid2\GridLayout.lua:481: UpdateDisplay()
Grid2\GridLayout.lua:475: LoadLayout()
Grid2\GridLayout.lua:375: ReloadLayout()
Grid2Options\GridLayout.lua:36:
Grid2Options\GridLayout.lua:34
(tail call): ?
[C]: ?
[string "safecall Dispatcher[2]"]:9:
[string "safecall Dispatcher[2]"]:5
(tail call): ?
...nfig-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0.lua:798:
...nfig-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0.lua:613
(tail call): ?
[C]: ?
[string "safecall Dispatcher[3]"]:9:
[string "safecall Dispatcher[3]"]:5
(tail call): ?
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...er\Libs\AceGUI-3.0\widgets\AceGUIWidget-CheckBox.lua:68:
...er\Libs\AceGUI-3.0\widgets\AceGUIWidget-CheckBox.lua:57
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Posted Aug 17, 2011
report error

Skada-r352
BarDisplay.lua:236: Invalid spell ID in GameTooltip:SetSpellByID

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