GridStatusShield

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This project is abandoned and its default file will likely not work with the most recent version of World of Warcraft. Whether this project is out of date or its author has marked it as abandoned, this project is no longer maintained.

This addon provides a grid status which provides the remaining amount of your shields on a unit.

Ok, 4.0 is there and Blizzard heard my prayers and added absorb tracking support. Therefore now also shields of other players and classes should be displayed correctly (at least when I'm done with it :-). And they should be very accurate now.

Currently I'm still experimenting whats the best way to use these therefore GridStatusShield currently provides two different methods to use. The first is based on the combat log and the other one on internal events and the tooltip of unit buffs. You can change the method in the settings of GridStatusShield. So if you encounter any problems try changing the tracking method (and let me know about the problems).

Some pros and cons of the two methods

Combat log based:

PRO: independent from clients language
PRO: pretty fast
CON: not very reliable (out of range units, broken log, lag, missing events for certain shields, multiple shields of the same kind (divine aegis))

Buff-tooltip based:

PRO: reliable concerning lag, range, and multiple shields of the same kind
CON: very slow at the moment because it parses every buff tooltip every time something changes (can be improved a lot)
CON: parsing needs to be done for every language separately (If you can help me with your language there it would be awesome!)

A FAQ (just to amuse me ... and maybe it helps you :-))

Q: I don't see any shield values!
A: Maybe your language isn't supported yet, try changing to combat log based shield tracking.

Q: I don't see any value for Power word: Barrier!
A: This shield does not create any combat log messages, try disabling combat log based shield tracking.

Q: This ** addon slows my PC extremely down in fights!!!
A: The current default shield tracking method is very slow, try changing to combat log based tracking, that should be much faster.

Q: The shield values aren't displayed correctly if there is more than one Divine Aegis on a unit (or any other shield which can occur multiple times on the same unit).
A: Yeah, those are hard to keep a part using the combat log. Try disabling combat log based shield tracking.

Q: "Try this! No, try that! Then try this! Nom no! Try that method!"... you are messing with us right?
A: Maybe... just wanted to show the pros and cons of the two methods in another way ;-)

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Posted Jul 19, 2011
Just checked as u told. Disabled everything except grid and gsshield. It didn't work. Still the same. The funny thing is that i don't see any lua error or something. Or propably I m missing it somehow... :<

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Posted Jul 19, 2011
I backuped wtf folder and removed it. then i disabled everything except these 2. it works fine.

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Posted Jul 19, 2011
Last try, i enabled all addons i have with wiped WTF folder. It doesn't work. Wanna send u the list of my addons? is gonna help?

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Posted Jul 21, 2011
yes please. You can also narrow the addon down by deactivating one half of the addons and see if it works. if so its one of the deactivated half if not its one of the activated ones. THen you can repeat that procedure with these addons. And so on until you have only the problematic addon left.

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Posted Jul 18, 2011
Can't understand this add on :( 2 days before it worked fine (i logged wow after some time installing the new release for 1st time) but now it doesn't show me the amount of shields. What i need to provide so u can help me with this?

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Posted Jul 14, 2011
HOORAY! I was about to delete Grid altogether, but now this is back!

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Posted May 23, 2011
So what's going on with this addon? It's been very useful, but isn't working since 4.1.

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Posted May 16, 2011
Is it correct that shields are no longer displayed since 4.1 Used to work fine

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Posted Mar 1, 2011
hi, thanks for your addon.

for french langage, the info are :
name : "Mot de pouvoir : Bouclier"
tooltip of the buff : "Absorbe xxxx points de dégâts."
(i do not know if accent are important...)

contact me if you want to make tests.

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Posted Oct 16, 2010
Patch 4.0.1.

When using the combat log for detecting it works fine wit no problems. Otherwise it shows weird numbers even if there's no shield on etc..

So the "fast and unreliable" works perfectly whilst the "slow and reliable" has bugs or something in it.

Other than that, works great:) ty

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Posted Oct 17, 2010
Which client language do you use? Currently the not-combat log parsing is only tested for the german (my) client. For the other languages I need the tooltip lines of the shields auras (should be something along "Absorbs xxx damage" or "Absorbs xxx shadow damage". For the english client I have the tooltips from wowhead but couldn't test if parsing them works correctly.
I push a beta where the english ones might work.

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Posted Aug 28, 2010
Nothing will show up for me =\ I enabled the shield status and changed the colors and everything and when I shield nothing shows up on grid. I am a priest too...

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Posted Sep 4, 2010
Does an lua error occur?
Which language do you use?
How exactly did you enable the shield status.

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Posted Aug 22, 2010
Probably a stupid question but I downloaded the add-on and it says that its missing the dependency Grid. Help please?

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Posted Aug 26, 2010
this is a plugin (i think) for Grid, an addon which gives you customisable raid frames: http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/grid.aspx

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Posted Aug 17, 2010
I'm a zhTW player,and I just found a problem in this addon

13x GridStatusShield-1.01\LibShieldLeft.lua:587: Error: Could not find base shield size for 真言術:盾
GridStatusShield-1.01\LibShieldLeft.lua:587: in function `GatherShieldData'
GridStatusShield-1.01\LibShieldLeft.lua:707: in function `GatherShieldData'
GridStatusShield-1.01\LibShieldLeft.lua:861: in function `NewShield'
GridStatusShield-1.01\LibShieldLeft.lua:1176: in function `parsefunc'
GridStatusShield-1.01\LibShieldLeft.lua:1335: in function `?'
GridStatusShield-1.01\LibShieldLeft.lua:17: in function <GridStatusShield\LibShieldLeft.lua:17>

Locals:
shield = {
data =
{}
amountLeft = 0
}
shieldData =
{
order = 30
duration = 30
name = "真言術:盾"
minAmount =
{}
}
tgtGUID = "0x020000000160F423"
target = "Sylvanaee"
rank = 14
duration = 30
count = 0
base = nil
Shields =
{
遠古諸王護盾 =
{}
28513 =
{}
保護聖禦 =
{}
法力護盾 =
{}
犧牲 =
{}
55019 =
{}
29674 =
{}
防護暗影結界 =
{}
58597 =
{}
虛幻屏障 =
{}
53910 =
{}
53914 =
{}
28536 =
{}
53911 =
{}
28537 =
{}
53913 =
{}
寒冰護體 =
{}
53915 =
{}
真言術:盾 =
{}
28511 =
{}
神禦之盾 =
{}
硬化外甲 =
{}
29719 =
{}
28538 =
{}
防護火焰結界 =
{}
28527 =
{}
28512 =
{}
防護冰霜結界 =
{}
}
PWShield = "真言術:盾"
getBaseShieldSize = <function> @ GridStatusShield\LibShieldLeft.lua:387:
lib =
{
TooltipTextLeft2 = <unnamed> {}
PrintShields = <function> @ GridStatusShield\LibShieldLeft.lua:815:
CheckShields = <function> @ GridStatusShield\LibShieldLeft.lua:786:
PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD = <function> @ GridStatusShield\LibShieldLeft.lua:1344:
RemoveShieldFromList = <function> @ GridStatusShield\LibShieldLeft.lua:713:
RAID_ROSTER_UPDATE = <function> @ GridStatusShield\LibShieldLeft.lua:1352:
NewShield = <function> @ GridStatusShield\LibShieldLeft.lua:831:
TooltipTextRight2 = <unnamed> {}
GatherShieldData = <function> @ GridStatusShield\LibShieldLeft.lua:693:
CaptureUnitsRunningShields = <function> @ GridStatusShield\LibShieldLeft.lua:1080:
GetActiveShields = <function> @ GridStatusShield\LibShieldLeft.lua:1383:
RefreshShield = <function> @ GridStatusShield\LibShieldLeft.lua:873:
RegisterCallback = <function> @ Ace3\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:118:
TooltipTextLeft3 = <unnamed> {}
IsShield = <function> @ GridStatusShield\LibShieldLeft.lua:1363:
UnregisterCallback = <function> @ Ace3\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:181:
KnownShields = <function> @ GridStatusShield\LibShieldLeft.lua:1359:
OnUpdate = <function> @ GridStatusShield\LibShieldLeft.lua:1156:
TooltipTextLeft4 = <unnamed> {}
SpellDamage = <function> @ GridStatusShield\LibShieldLeft.lua:1253:
UnitAbsorbed = <function> @ GridStatusShield\LibShieldLeft.lua:973:
SetAegisTolerance = <function> @ GridStatusShield\LibShieldLeft.lua:489:
TooltipTextRight1 = <unnamed> {}
AuraBroken = <function> @ GridStatusShield\LibShieldLeft.lua:1213:
AuraRemoved = <function> @ GridStatusShield\LibShieldLeft.lua:1196:
AuraApplied = <function> @ GridStatusShield\LibShieldLeft.lua:1169:
UnitDead = <function> @ GridStatusShield\LibShieldLeft.lua:1302:
EnvironmentalMissed = <function> @ GridStatusShield\LibShieldLeft.lua:1290:
EnvironmentalDamage = <function> @ GridStatusShield\LibShieldLeft.lua:1279:
TooltipTextLeft1 = <unnamed> {}
LEARNED_SPELL_IN_TAB = <function> @ GridStatusShield\LibShieldLeft.lua:1339:
TooltipTextRight3 = <unnamed> {}
AuraRefresh = <function> @ GridStatusShield\LibShieldLeft.lua:1186:
DefaultShieldData = <function> @ GridStatusShield\LibShieldLeft.lua:668:
SwingDamage = <function> @ GridStatusShield\LibShieldLeft.lua:1233:
TooltipTextRight5 =
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Posted Aug 17, 2010
Your language isn't supported yet.
If you can send me the text of the tooltip of the spell in your language as well as pointing me to the part of the text which is the equivalent to "absorbs xxx damage" I can add support for your language.

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Posted Aug 18, 2010
Power World: Shield=真言術:盾
汲取友方目標的靈魂之力，為其加上魔法護盾，---可吸收xxx點傷害---。持續30秒。只要護盾存在，受保護者的施法就不會被傷害打斷。目標在被加上護盾之後的15秒內無法再次加上護盾。
This is the text of the tooltip of the Power World: Shield,and the problem is only in using PWShield,Divine Aegis is no problem.
Thank you!=.=

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Posted Aug 20, 2010
Could you please add my language as well?
tooltip: http://ru.wowhead.com/spell=17
"absorbs xxx damage" = поглотить 44 ед. урона

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Posted Sep 4, 2010
Sorry for taking so long but i was on vacation the last two weeks.
Can you please try if r45 from this the following link works for you both (cjxzdzh and minimen456)?

http://www.wowace.com/addons/gsshield/files/

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