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).
[2009/03/10 10:51:23-1639-x1]: Parrot-v1.6.6-beta1\Locales\zhCN.lua:3: attempt to index local 'L' (a nil value)
[2009/03/10 10:51:23-1639-x1]: Parrot-v1.6.6-beta1\Locales\zhTW.lua:3: attempt to index local 'L' (a nil value)
The localization-errors should now be gone for good in v1.6.5-8-g6b23182
but please post your found bugs as tickets, it can be missed in the comments.
v1.6.5-2-gae04a31 cause many errors up to 100 and Parrot don't work... Most errors shown missing translations.
Still havent noticed (maybe because i haven't played alts so much) this on my alt mage :
When i use option "Shorten Spell Names" with limit of "2" like Frostbolt suppose to become "FB" and Fireball "FB",
i would regonize which spell is used with name coloring + icon. Still only Fireblast uses the "FB" short name, Cone of Cold "CoC" and some other spells too.
Is there way to fix this ? Hate to see my screen overflow with "Frostbolts" and "Fireballs".
fixed link ;)
ticket system link seems to be broken
any way to allow for two buff in the isBuffActive field to check for battle shout or commanding shout or might
Parrot has a "Game damage" option, that allows showing only the damage via blizzard fct.
If you want more than that, create a ticket and I'll think about it.
such a display is not possible with addons (as far as I know).
If you wish a new feature or want to report a bug, please create a ticket.
battle shout & might?
thanks