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BeneCast is an addon for casting beneficial spells on party/raid members.

Warning! When you download a version check to see whether it's at least beta.

The End of BeneCast
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I'm afraid I'm gonna have to let this addon go. I have been raiding more and more these days and by design BeneCast is not equipped for that. As a consequence I have been using Grid / Clique to fill healing duties (even though I'm Balance atm... a real druid is always ready to pop a heal).

In fact, Grid has been so good that I no longer use partyframes at all.

Clique is not ideal however. I tried to start a GridBeneCast addon by using GridManaBars as a template to add tiny casting buttons to the side of the Grid-frames. But the further I got the more it was obvious that I was simply not good enough of an addon-programmer to make it work. Additionally the thought of all the time I'd have to spend was too much.

I'm marking this addon as no longer maintained or something. If anyone wants to pick it up, gimme a jingle on here.

This may not be the end of my addon-developing career. But it's being moved from the fridge to the freezer for now.

As for a non-Grid replacement for BeneCast: I use Healium now. It's rocking my socks off.

Versions and Wintrow and you
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Alpha-versions are not meant to be run as it's just me checking intermediate versions into the repo while I work or when I think I'll be switching pc's.

Beta's are versions that I have tested myself and that I think are lacking in one way or another and I need more testing and/or feedback from my peers and/or users.

Releases are beta's that I deem good enough for general use. It may still not be perfect (when is it ever :). Generally this is decided based on positive user-feedback or whenever I feel like it. I'll also release if it's simply "better than the previous release".

There is another type that I call 'brave ones-alphas'. I have VERY little testing time, so whenever I get around to loading it up I'd like to have gotten the obvious errors out of the way. When I call out a certain revision like that I am stating my intent to dedicate my next testing session to that version (unless it's taking too long and I start twiddling at the code again :p). Anyone brave enough to load up the addon in the mean time is then free to test and post tickets with impunity (but for god sake, mention the exact revision number when you do).

What is this BeneCast
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BeneCast is an addon for casting beneficial spells on party/raid members. This includes: buffs, cures and heals. Basically it will add buttons next to unitframes for quick and easy casting without cumbersome targetting. BeneCast comes preloaded with a list of skills that fall under this category and allows you to pick who gets which buttons next to their healthbar.

It is only meant for 5-man healing due to the complexities that accompany creating and attaching buttons to up to 40 raid-unitframes. You can still raidheal, but you'll have to target them and use the action buttons attached to the target or focus-frame. There are also better addons out there for raidhealing like Grid and Clique.

Various unit-frame addons are supported. If you find BeneCast does not detect your unit frame of choice post me a ticket and I'll try and add them.

Linkies
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See http://www.wowace.com/projects/benecast/pages/state-of-the-addon/ for a more accurate status.

See http://www.wowace.com/projects/benecast/pages/usage/ for a manual.

See http://forums.wowace.com/showthread.php?t=14847 for the Official BeneCast 10 thread.

See http://www.wowace.com/projects/benecast/pages/ideas-for-bene-cast/ for what's cooking in my brain concerning BeneCast.

History
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BeneCast was originally developed by Skurel. His 1.x version was picked up by several developers when he stopped releasing versions. As it was lacking certain features and had a minor amount of bugs I started my addon-development fixing and adding to the best version out there at the time.

A big part of the addon for me was the inclusion of healing bars for party-pets as my druid was often grouping up w a hunter.

Skurel briefly resurfaced once more to release a buggy 2.0 version (still wow classic though) and I opted to move to the "new and improved" version and fix the bugs. For several years I maintained the addon naming it BeneCast 2.1.2 Wintrow x.yy. After a while the addon was barely recognisable, Skurel had dropped off the planet and people insisted that I took more credit by leaving out the "old" version number.

This is now a complete rewrite based on the new ideas of how an addon should be developed as well as using wowace-libs to do the things I am mostly inept at.

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_ForgeUser1268563
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Posted Nov 14, 2008
Ahem, perhaps understandably, development of BeneCast 10 has been hampered somewhat by the launch of WotLK.... *grin*

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Posted Nov 20, 2008
So are you using BenecastER too then? ;-)

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Posted Feb 13, 2009
Playing time as at an alltime low now. So I don't play with others a lot even IF I get on. Usually a quick bout of a half an hour questing and then I'm off again. So I don't really need to heal anyone but myself atm.

And the Auto-selfcast option by Blizz covers that sufficiently.

However, when I do get around to a dungeon run and I need to heal something I muddle along without Benecast/Benecaster. Mostly because neither integrates with Pitbull at all.

I may need to change Unit Frame addon :(.

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Posted Nov 5, 2008
woot, an update for Benecast?! Get it ready quick pretty please!! :)

I got hooked on Benecast in vanilla wow, still use the lastest version that (almost) works, I cant play my healers without it, I refuse to! ;=)

Welcome back Wintrow :)

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Posted Oct 28, 2008
r91 is a "brave ones" update. It is the next version I am dedicating a test-session to (of which I have very little). Any eager beavers that want to test this out for me are welcome.

/benecast win
should show a GUI similar to Omen's (I think)

I have not looked into why previous versions have not yet shown a minimapbutton. So I won't be surprised if that's not fixed yet.

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Posted Oct 28, 2008
I'm an idiot. Waterfall has been completely replaced by AceConfigDialog-3.0. I had the functionality all along a mere line of code away.
/pullsouthair

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Posted Oct 28, 2008
Well... I suppose I could go and make a thread now.
Orion, you're free to improve my Options.lua and post it back to me in a ticket as a patch. I've been considering reverting to Ace2-format as well since upgrading Waterfall is turning out far more of a hassle than I anticipated.

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Posted Oct 28, 2008
Still not ready ppl. With the quality of my beta's you can't expect a decent version until I explicitly say it's a "stable beta" or until it has the release tag slapped on it.

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Posted Oct 27, 2008
I wouldn't recommend mixing Waterfall (Ace2OptionsTable) with the AceConfig Spec (Ace3OptionsTable) formats. Go with one or the other. I can help you with the options if you'd like, i'd like to say i have a nack for how things should look :D

BTW you need a forum thread here..

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Posted Oct 27, 2008
Just downloaded this mod and installed it properly. Not working though. None of the buttons are showing up anywhere.

Its not showing up when i load the game, /benecast does nothing, but I am recieving errors regarding benecast.

When shifting out and into forms and when mounting:
Interface\AddOns\BeneCast\EventHandlers.lua:52: attempt to index global 'wv' (a nil value)

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Posted Oct 27, 2008
Also happens when I access the AH even while shifted or mounted.

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Posted Oct 27, 2008
(i wish these forums would let me edit my original post)

also just got this error:

Interface\Addons\BeneCast\SnapTo.lua:35: attempt to index global 'BeneCastSetup' (a nil value)

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Posted Oct 27, 2008
@Kinesia
As I said. Waterfall isn't liking the Ace3 way of doing setup. Mostly it doesn't give me back the object I need. Also I seem to have been a tad ambitious in thinking I could easily upgrade Waterfall myself. Not that it's impossible, but it's definately a lot harder than I thought...

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Ah, thanks, I can see settings now. I'm getting this in Swatter, hope it helps. Also can you test with Pitbull frames when you get it working? An older version worked with it, but the latest you were running from the old wowinterface forums didn't, just want to make sure your updated version doesn't do it too. Message: Interface\AddOns\BeneCast\Options.lua:47: attempt to get length of local 'info' (a nil value) Debug:
(tail call): ? [C]: ? BeneCast\Options.lua:47: getFunc() ...\AddOns\AutoBar\libs\Waterfall-1.0\Waterfall-1.0.lua:2553: Refresh() ...\AddOns\AutoBar\libs\Waterfall-1.0\Waterfall-1.0.lua:672: AddControl()
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Posted Oct 27, 2008
@orionShock: can do buddy
@ingram4: yeah, I'm not getting it yet as well. r87 should have semi-operational slash commands (type /benecast and see what happens) and the waterfall GUI already opens up with "/benecast win". The GUI is barely working though because Waterfall doesn't really like the Ace3 aceoptions-tables. So I've decided to update Waterfall to Ace3 myself first instead of making Ace2 AND Ace3 optionstables (which would just increase the maintenance-work on post-release).

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Posted Oct 26, 2008
Having a little trouble getting 10.0.5 or 6 going - are there libraries I need to install as well?

(I have the buggrabber log, will PM you if you want it cause it's long and I don't want to crap up this page. ;)

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Posted Oct 25, 2008
not getting a options button on map... any help would be great thx

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Posted Oct 24, 2008
Wintrow, can you add in better commit notes? I'd like to track this project for development as i might return to using it. Can't do that if i can't see what's going on w/o pulling down the /trunk and looking though the file changes.

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Posted Oct 24, 2008
Yeah, that's because I forgot to update the version in the TOC file. Thx for the testing dolomis, ... seems I have a fan :D.

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#39 Posted Oct 24, 2008

Sadly, you're right about the boot error. Something I also noticed too, when Swatter displayed the error, is that it's saying this is Benecast 10.0.4. Is that correct?
Date: 2008-10-24 10:50:16 ID: 53 Error occured in: Global Count: 1 Message: ..\AddOns\BeneCast\SnapTo.lua line 42:

  attempt to index field 'Setup' (a nil value)

Debug:

  (tail call): ?
  BeneCast\SnapTo.lua:42: SnapPanels()
  BeneCast\EventHandlers.lua:189: ?()
  ...Ons\Ace3\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:146:
     ...Ons\Ace3\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:146
  [string "safecall Dispatcher[1]"]:4:
     [string "safecall Dispatcher[1]"]:4
  [C]: ?
  [string "safecall Dispatcher[1]"]:13: ?()
  ...Ons\Ace3\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:91: Fire()
  Ace3\AceEvent-3.0\AceEvent-3.0.lua:70:
     Ace3\AceEvent-3.0\AceEvent-3.0.lua:69

AddOns:

 Swatter, v3.1.6
 Ace3, v
 BeneCast, v10.0.4
 (ck=3f)

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Project ID

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Oct 13, 2008
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Beta 10.0.10
Feb 3, 2009
r130
Feb 4, 2009

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