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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Posted Aug 9, 2011
Hello, before the last update my configuration was 2 windows (DPS + Threat) showing only 5 bars each window. After the update I'm not able to configure 5 bars anymore or at least I cannot find a way to do it, is still possible to do something like that?. Thanks for this great addon.

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Posted Aug 10, 2011
Unlock then Resize

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Posted Aug 9, 2011
aaaaaaaaand the old error still there:

Date: 2011-08-09 21:32:24
ID: 3
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ..\AddOns\SkadaDeaths\Deaths.lua line 42:
attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)
Debug:
(tail call): ?
SkadaDeaths\Deaths.lua:42:
SkadaDeaths\Deaths.lua:37
SkadaDeaths\Deaths.lua:57: func()
Skada\Skada.lua:1404:
Skada\Skada.lua:1304
[string "safecall Dispatcher[15]"]:4:
[string "safecall Dispatcher[15]"]:4
[C]: ?
[string "safecall Dispatcher[15]"]:13: ?()
...UD3\Libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:92: Fire()
...ce\AddOns\ArcHUD3\Libs\AceEvent-3.0\AceEvent-3.0.lua:120:
...ce\AddOns\ArcHUD3\Libs\AceEvent-3.0\AceEvent-3.0.lua:119

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Posted Aug 9, 2011
I have my skada windows on the right side of my interface. So the left-justified title bar text seems kinda ... misplaced.

Please put it back to the center. Or give an option for the alignment. Or tell me which line of the code i've to edit ^^

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Posted Aug 9, 2011
Hi, i use a relatively large monitor (2560x1440) and it is not possible to move the skada window to the lower third - it gets stuck at a certain point and stays in the middel of the screen.

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Posted Aug 10, 2011
Found a (the) solution meanwhile: This behaviour disappears after rescaling the Skada-window, window is freely moveable then. Thanks anyway!

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Posted Aug 9, 2011
yea, got a bit messy all over, disable when solo aint working f/e

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Posted Aug 9, 2011
1.3-2 don't work correctly with ElvUI :(

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Posted Aug 9, 2011
Hey mate, an error poped with newest:

Date: 2011-08-09 15:55:31
ID: 2
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ..\AddOns\Skada\Skada.lua line 1247:
attempt to index local 'set' (a nil value)
Debug:
[C]: ?
Skada\Skada.lua:1247: get_player()
GTFO\GTFO_Skada.lua:26:
GTFO\GTFO_Skada.lua:24
GTFO\GTFO_Skada.lua:264: GTFO_RecordSkada()
GTFO\GTFO.lua:1766: GTFO_RecordStats()
GTFO\GTFO.lua:803: GTFO_OnEvent()
[string "*:OnEvent"]:1:
[string "*:OnEvent"]:1

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Posted Aug 9, 2011
@angrysteel

Shift-rightclick anywhere in the window to bring up the menu.

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Posted Aug 9, 2011
goin back to previous release, i gave up on trying to make the new version fit into my UI due to reasons posted already (size restrictions and resize function not workin properly)

thank you for this amazing add-on anyway :-)

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Posted Aug 8, 2011
With the new Title Bar, its easy to report , select mode, etc. But since the new title bar, i no longer see the little Wheel (config icon), in the upper right hand corner to allow reporting when you choose to keep the Title Bar hidden.

Is there a /slash command to pull this up? Currently i have to /skada config, enable the title bar, then i have access to the reporting options.

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Posted Aug 9, 2011
Yes, in "General options", check "Show totals".

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Posted Aug 9, 2011
Perfect! Thank you very much for this great addon!

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Posted Aug 8, 2011
Is there any way to have a bar at the top of the list showing the total of the stat being showed? (For example, the total DPS of the group in which you are.) Would be just the sum of the bars, and I find this information very useful to know the performance of my group or raid in many aspects (dps, healing, interrupts, etc.).

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Posted Aug 8, 2011
Yeah, this one would be incredible informative and useful!

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Posted Aug 8, 2011
This new version is bad. Why are there minimum height/width restrictions?

Aadsfasdfasdf!

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Posted Aug 9, 2011
Will make the restrictions less... restrictive.

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Posted Aug 8, 2011
Installed the new version, and now I can't have my windows as narrow as I could previously.

Given that I had them surrounded by other UI elements, this makes me exceedingly unhappy at the change.

Is there a fix I just haven't found yet?

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Posted Aug 8, 2011
New version won't even show up for me... I can't get the windows to show... I used to have it embedded into ElvUI, but even when I removed the embed, it still wouldn't show.

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