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).
It didn't happen immediately after log in but about 10 min after while I was in Shattrath the error occurred on it's own. I wasn't doing anything, just sitting there.
Date: 2011-06-28 15:06:20
ID: 2
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ..\AddOns\Parrot\Code\CombatEvents.lua line 2479:
bad argument #1 to 'bit_band' (number expected, got string)
Debug:
(tail call): ?
[C]: ?
Parrot\Code\CombatEvents.lua:2479:
Parrot\Code\CombatEvents.lua:2477
Parrot\Code\CombatEvents.lua:2488: HandleCombatlogEvent()
Parrot\Code\Parrot.lua:350: ?()
...ibDataBroker\CallbackHandler\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:147:
...ibDataBroker\CallbackHandler\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:147
[string "safecall Dispatcher[16]"]:4:
[string "safecall Dispatcher[16]"]:4
[C]: ?
[string "safecall Dispatcher[16]"]:13: ?()
...ibDataBroker\CallbackHandler\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:92: Fire()
...ns\TradeskillInfo\libs\AceEvent-3.0\AceEvent-3.0.lua:120:
...ns\TradeskillInfo\libs\AceEvent-3.0\AceEvent-3.0.lua:119
You need to add two parameters to this to make it work. Change it to:
function Parrot_CombatEvents:HandleCombatlogEvent(uid, _, timestamp, eventType, _, sourceGUID, sourceName, sourceFlags, sourceRaidFlags, destGUID, destName, destFlags, destRaidFlags, ...)
This adds parameters for "sourceRaidFlags" and "destRaidFlags", which were added to the COMBAT_LOG_EVENT_UNFILTERED event in 4.2.
I apologize if it posted like crap.
Can you show me how to ignore a CD? I tried to use the ignore function in Cooldowns by entering the names tof the spells that I want to ignore, but notifications still show up when those skills are ready. For instance, how do I ignore the CD of the skill, "Army of the Dead"? How should I input the name to make it work? Thanks.
If you were already in game when you edited the file, just reload your UI then go back to the damage/healing filters page in Parrot configuration.
You should be good to go after this!
Just to clarify, Parrot works but none of the changes I make are being saved and new scroll areas don't work.
The reason I thought it didn't work at all is because I remade my scroll areas and diverted events to them, nothing at all showed up in the scroll areas I made. These changes were reverted when I restarted WoW.
Tried updating to your latest version but still can't get Parrot to work at all.
Parrot was so much more powerful than SCT, please fix it!
Thanks for all your hard work.
2) Scroll to the very bottom and change this line:
function Parrot_CombatEvents:HandleCombatlogEvent(uid, _, timestamp, eventType, sourceGUID, sourceName, sourceFlags, destGUID, destName, destFlags, ...)
to this:
function Parrot_CombatEvents:HandleCombatlogEvent(uid, _, timestamp, eventType, hideCaster, sourceGUID, sourceName, sourceFlags, destGUID, destName, destFlags, ...)
Make sure you have load out-of-date addons checked. There are still LUA errors, but it works.