Parrot
Floating Combat Text of awesomeness.
Displays Events from the combatlog (damage, healing, ...) as moving text and numbers across the Screen. It also supports various other Events (Loot, Cooldowns, ...). Further Parrot offers a Trigger-system to display Text and play sounds on certain predefined events (e.g. Nightfall for Warlocks).
Localization
If you want to translate Parrot into your language (or update an existing translation) please do so here.
FAQ
Q: "I created a custom Trigger doing <something>. Is it worthy to be in parrots default triggers?"
A: In many cases it is. If you want to contribute a custom trigger to be added to the default triggers, please post a ticket where you describe *exactly* how you set it up. I can't figure that out for every class and every spec.
Q: "Parrot is not showing heals, but it's enabled in the options"
A: Since 3.2 WoW displays every full overheal in the combatlog (even for HoTs). That's why Parrot v1.9.0+ contains an option in Events to "Hide full overheals" which is enabled by default to avoid unnecessary spam.
Q: ''I want to use custom fonts and sounds in Parrot, but there are none available'
A: Parrot doesn't provide sounds or additional fonts (only the fonts included in WoW)
For additional fonts and sounds please install SharedMedia.
To use custom sounds and fonts see the "INSTRUCTIONS for MyMedia.txt" in the SharedMedia-folder.
Q: "Whenever I /reload or log back in again, parrot auto-hides blizzard's default outgoing damage text (the one above the mob in question). Is there any way to avoid having to enable blizz's functions all the time?
A: When enabled Parrot manages the settings for Blizzard FCTs damage- and heal-display. You can enable these features to be used with Parrot in the config (General->Game damage/healing)
Q: "Sometimes when Looting stackable items, the stackcount is off. Why isn't this fixed?"
A: The problem is, that the Interface-event for the Loot is sometimes triggered before, and sometimes after the item was put in the bag (depending on lag). If anyone knows a solution that does not involve constantly polling the bags' content, I'm open to suggestions.
Questions
If you need help with some option, trigger, or whatever use the Parrot-forum on wowace for any questions you might have (please no bug-reports).
Feature Requests
To make a feature Request please use the ticket-system.
Before making a feature Request please make sure that the current alpha does not contain the feature already.
Also check if there is a similar feature request among the open tickets already (and maybe join the discussion there).
enter the config for scroll areas and check the config mode.
Then you can move the scroll areas anywhere you want them.
ok no, i thought i had fixed it, same problem as sc4v persists. but for only one of 9 characters on my account.
Parrot seems really nice, but I'm experiencing same bug. Outgoing actions have slight lagg for showing up (0,5-1sec) with is awful.
Oh, well... Gotta find something else :(.
Got a problem with parrot since a few hours. If i cast a spell e.g. flash of light parrot often doesn't show the floating text in the scroll area. config should be right, because sometimes the text appears perfectly and sometimes a few seconds later.
Anyway to solve this?
Thanks, razgov.
I personally consider Recount too much of a memory hog and use Skada.
But both Recount and Parrot refect the changes that have been made to the combatlog in 3.2.
Cheers.
Hi
It seems, Parrot has some problems concering left/right on horizontal INCOMING information. When I choose up/Left or any other direction, it always displays the information to the right side.
Few questions:
Is there any way to remove the Mongoose Bite notification? It hasn't been applied to dodges on hunters in years. And is there a way to add notifications for when your mana's full?
Additionally I implemented a better way of adding new and removing deprecated default triggers.
If a Trigger is deprecated, or if you find a useful Trigger that should become a default-trigger please post a ticket in the ticket-system.
atm I only play Enhancer-Shaman in PvE and have very little knowledge of other classes.
And recount don´t work with parrot 1.8.0 or newer. With 1.7.2 work recount.
so v1.8.1 some bugfixes for the poorly tested v1.8.0.
Sorry for your inconvinience, I thought I head 1 more week before the 3.2-patch.
The profile-switching/-reseting/-copying should now work completely.
If you lost your settings v1.7.2->v1.8.0 try to switch your profile to "Default" (no /reload required anymore).
@everyone with their profiles constantly reseting
I was not able to reproduce such a behaviour. Please post a Ticket in the wowace-ticket-system.
The last 4 comments all reflect the same bug (Ticket #81)
It has been fixed in v1.8.1.
Sadly the test-phase for the v1.8.0-release was way too short. I hoped to have another week before the patch.
If you find any other bugs, please don't hesitate to create a Ticket.
If you lost your settings v1.7.2->v1.8.0 try switching your profile to "Default".
profalbert:
"Actually you just have to switch back your profile.
v1.7.2 defaulted to the "Default"-profile while v1.8.0 defaults to the per-character-profile.
The profile-switching does not work as intended yet.
So this is what fixed it for me:
* use old SavedVariables/Parrot.lua
* login
* switch profile to Default
* /reload
The profile-switching is a high-priority in development and will be fixed soon."