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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).

Bugs

Please use the ticket-system

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Posted Jan 11, 2011
is there a way to filter a cooldown? strike and mortal strike share a cooldown. also with the death night runes "blood tree!"

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Posted Dec 22, 2010
Date: 2010-12-22 19:58:09
ID: 1
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ..\AddOns\Parrot\Code\Display.lua line 230:
attempt to index upvalue 'Parrot_Suppressions' (a nil value)
Debug:
(tail call): ?
Parrot\Code\Display.lua:230: ShowMessage()
...e\AddOns\LoggerHead\Libs\LibSink-2.0\LibSink-2.0.lua:226: func()
...e\AddOns\LoggerHead\Libs\LibSink-2.0\LibSink-2.0.lua:412:
...e\AddOns\LoggerHead\Libs\LibSink-2.0\LibSink-2.0.lua:398
...e\AddOns\LoggerHead\Libs\LibSink-2.0\LibSink-2.0.lua:418: Pour()
LoggerHead\Loggerhead.lua:194: EnableLogging()
LoggerHead\Loggerhead.lua:185: ZoneChangedNewArea()
LoggerHead\Loggerhead.lua:150:
LoggerHead\Loggerhead.lua:145
(tail call): ?
[C]: ?
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(tail call): ?
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[C]: LoadAddOn()
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..\FrameXML\UIParent.lua:316: TimeManager_LoadUI()
..\FrameXML\UIParent.lua:517:
..\FrameXML\UIParent.lua:492
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DataStoreQuests, v4.0.001
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DataStoreSpells, v4.0.001
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DataStoreTalents, v4.0.001
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DXELoader, v
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ForteCasting, v
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ForteHealthstone, v
ForteTalent, v
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ForteVehicle, v
ForteWarlock, v
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LoggerHead, v4.0.126
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Omen, v3.1.0
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Parrot, vv1.10.22
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Quartz, v3.0.4
RaidBuffStatus, vv4.05
RatingBuster, v
Recount, v
RogueSpamReborn, v
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SnowfallKeyPress, v
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XPerlRaidPets, v
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BlizRuntimeLib_enUS v4.0.3.40000 <us>
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Posted Dec 12, 2010
"Execute" trigger bugged.

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Posted Dec 10, 2010
In Cata there's a new spell damage type, Shadowfrost. The priest spell Mind Spike uses it (I don't know if any others do). Right now in Parrot it shows up as bright yellow and the color can't be changed because it isn't listed among the other damage types. If this could be fixed at some point it would be great.

Thank you for developing this addon, I love it.

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Posted Dec 5, 2010
You spelled the Druid's 'Eclipse' wrong. Parrot says 'Ecplise' :)

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Posted Dec 4, 2010
Hey Man, used your addon for as long as I have been using add ons and have never noticed the "Agro" in the centre of my screen before so I am assuming it is new. I want to get rid of it as I find it really annoying (especially when solo) but cant find the way to do so. If anyone could let me know what would be great.

Cheers

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Posted Dec 10, 2010
Parrot doesn't do that. It's probably X-Perl.

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Posted Nov 25, 2010
not sure what´s going on, could be last upgrade i did to parrot, or new 4.0.3a patch, but i get Low mana while in cat form when i have full mana

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Posted Nov 19, 2010
I am getting a bug where it keeps saying that my DK Pet is doing damage while I am mounted, it even keeps display that it is doing damage even when I have dismissed it.
Anyone else getting this issue?

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Posted Nov 6, 2010
Does Parrot merge multiple swings like MSBT does? That annoys me very much, and the fact that I can't set it up how *I* want it to be.

I like damage done to me on one side, healing I'm receiving on the other, and I like to use the traditional damage numbers over the head of mobs for my outgoing damage. It's not physically possible to do this with MSBT. Is it with Parrot?

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Posted Nov 6, 2010
Parrot has a lot of configuration options. You can set damage and healing to show where you want. Parrot will merge damage that occurs close together to prevent it from being spammy, but you can adjust those setting too, I would assume to the point where it wouldn't merge at all.

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Posted Nov 3, 2010
I was wondering if anyone knew how to shut off the (2x) after your damage? It's pretty annoying.

Thanks.

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Posted Oct 30, 2010
Date: 2010-10-30 14:01:40
ID: 1
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ..\AddOns\Parrot\Data\TriggerConditions.lua line 207:
attempt to index field 'amount' (a number value)
Debug:
(tail call): ?
(tail call): ?
Parrot\Data\TriggerConditions.lua:207:
Parrot\Data\TriggerConditions.lua:194
Parrot\Data\TriggerConditions.lua:275: check()
Parrot\Code\Triggers.lua:1399:
Parrot\Code\Triggers.lua:1395
Parrot\Code\Triggers.lua:1471: OnTriggerCondition()
Parrot\Code\TriggerConditions.lua:118: FirePrimaryTriggerCondition()
Parrot\Code\TriggerConditions.lua:80: ?()
Parrot\Code\Parrot.lua:413: ?()
...ist\libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:147:
...ist\libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:147
[string "safecall Dispatcher[3]"]:4:
[string "safecall Dispatcher[3]"]:4
[C]: ?
[string "safecall Dispatcher[3]"]:13: ?()
...ist\libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:92: Fire()
...s\AckisRecipeList\libs\AceEvent-3.0\AceEvent-3.0.lua:120:
...s\AckisRecipeList\libs\AceEvent-3.0\AceEvent-3.0.lua:119

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Posted Oct 26, 2010
Starting to think this Addon is dead ...

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Posted Nov 1, 2010
Check the development site http://www.wowace.com/addons/parrot/ for the updates.

So how is it this addon dead? The author has been updating it, quite frequently as a matter of fact.

Plus it works fine for me.

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Posted Nov 2, 2010
I can assure you that the project is not dead.
Also I can assure you that I do not read curse-comments often (only every once a month or so). If you have issues with parrot, please create a ticket using the link from the description.

Also, with the little time I have to spare I prefer to spend it coding rather than playing. This means that reported bugs get attended and fixed, but the fixes stay in alpha for a long time because I'm not testing them.
So I wait for issues to come up, that may delay release-versions.

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Posted Oct 21, 2010
tested to go back to version 1.10.20 and that worked...:)

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Posted Oct 21, 2010
Just noticed now thet parrot now for som reason lags down the game, lags when entering combat and exeting combat. had to disable it.
anything I can do at my end do fix this as i love this addon.
it didn't do this some versions ago.

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Posted Oct 21, 2010
Is there a way to show the name of the pet instead of just "pet"? With warlocks now having guardians I'm interested to see who is doing what. I changed pet to [name] and [petname] in the settings, but it still shows as pet.

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Posted Oct 19, 2010
While trying to activate any glyph (Talents -> Glyphs) I get a wow warning: "Parrot has been blocked from an action only available to Blizzard UI. You can disable this addon and reload the UI" with 'Disable' and 'Ignore' buttons on the bottom

No error other than the window.

I was in secondary spec, inside a raid, if it helps.

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