Skada Damage Meter

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Skada is a modular damage meter with various viewing modes, segmented fights and customizable windows. It aims to be highly efficient with memory and CPU.

"Skada" is Swedish for "Damage".

Usage

When you first start using Skada, there will be a window created by default. This window can be extensively customized in Skada's configuration panel; click the little cog icon to access a menu, and then click Configure. Depending on your user interface, there may also be a minimap button allowing quick access to this menu.

Skada supports multiple windows. To create a new window, click Windows in the addon's configuration panel. There are three built-in types of windows - Bar, Inline, and Data text. Bar is the classic damage meter window, and is very customizable. Inline shows the meter in a horizontal line, which can be useful for integration in custom user interfaces. Data text shows just one item at a time, and can also be displayed by any LDB display addon, such as Titan Panel, ChocolateBar, or ElvUI.

In the normal Bar window, you can left click on specific items for more detailed information, and right click for less details. At the very "top" is the list of all saved fight segments. Some data modes have several detailed information views. In this case you choose alternate views by holding certain keys pressed while clicking. For example, in Damage mode, you can Shift-click a player to see what enemies the player caused damage to. Tooltips will display how to reach the different views.

You can also use window buttons for selecting fight segment and mode directly.

Scrolling in Skada is done with the mousewheel.

Plugins

Skada is very easy to extend, and there are many extra plugin addons out there that add functionality, such as:

Skada Graphs: Adds graph display systems to Skada
Skada DPSplusHPS: Useful add-on for Disc Priests.
Skada Chat Frame Integrator: Integrates Skada in any chat frame.
SkadaScroll: Provides additional options for scrolling the bar displays
Skada Avoidance and Mitigation: Helps tanks benchmark their damage reduction performance via avoidance and mitigation
Skada for Tanks: Adds information useful for evaluating a tank's performance
Guild Skada High Score: Let's you compare a guild's performance.
Skada_FriendlyFire: Display friendly fire damage done by players
Skada Player Score: Generate combined performance scores for players.

There is a page with API information here.

Reporting issues

Suggestions and bug reports here. Bug reports in comments will be deleted.

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_ForgeUser8747880
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Posted Dec 7, 2012
I get this bug very often

Date: 2012-12-07 22:34:44
ID: 11
Error occured in: AddOn: Skada
Count: 2
Message: Error: AddOn Skada attempted to call a forbidden function (CastGlyph()) from a tainted execution path.
Debug:
   [C]: CastGlyph()
   ...terface\AddOns\Blizzard_GlyphUI\Blizzard_GlyphUI.lua:525: GlyphFrameSpell_OnClick()
   [string "*:OnClick"]:1:
      [string "*:OnClick"]:1
Locals:
None
AddOns:
Swatter, v4.0.6 (<%codename%>)
WowheadLooter, v50006
NPCScan, v5.0.0.5
NPCScanOverlay, v5.0.0.3
Babylonian, v5.1.DEV.332(/embedded)
BankItems, v50003
Configator, v5.1.DEV.344(/embedded)
DBMCore, v
DBMPvP, v
Gatherer, v4.0.6
IgnoreMore, v1.1.1-40300
PhanxChat, v5.1.0.177
Postal, v3.5.0
RangeDisplay, vv4.1.2
ReforgeLite, v1.19
Skada, v1.4-7
SkadaCC, v1.0
SkadaDamage, v1.0
SkadaDamageTaken, v1.0
SkadaDeaths, v1.0
SkadaDebuffs, v1.0
SkadaDispels, v1.0
SkadaEnemies, v1.0
SkadaHealing, v1.0
SkadaPower, v1.0
SkadaThreat, v1.0
SlideBar, v4.0.6 (<%codename%>)
TidyPlates, v6.8.0 (R556)
TidyPlatesGraphite, v
TidyPlatesGrey, v
TidyPlatesNeon, v
TidyPlatesQuatre, v
TidyPlatesHub, v
TidyPlatesWidgets, v
TomTom, vv50100-1.0.1
WarcraftPetsExpress, v2.00c
WeakAuras, v1.4.7.8
BlizRuntimeLib_enUS v5.1.0.50100 <us>
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Posted Dec 3, 2012
Is it possible that you can move the tooltip to the normal anker?

the absorb plugin is included?

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Posted Dec 6, 2012
Quote from psynex »

Did a dungeon this morning and realized with patch 5.1 you can no longer use party chat to report meters. Party is now "instance" channel when in a dungeon.

yes it would be nice to add the new " instance " channel ( /i ) added in 5.1 to the addon , as it replaces all the LF(G/R) and Battleground channels , party and raid can still be used if premaid :)

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Posted Dec 1, 2012
Did a dungeon this morning and realized with patch 5.1 you can no longer use party chat to report meters. Party is now "instance" channel when in a dungeon.

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Posted Nov 29, 2012
Could we get a Killing Blow meter on here? I would really like it. may even donate if implemented.

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Posted Nov 29, 2012
Hi mate. I've found amazing bug.

I'm using pet named exactly like my hunter (for pvp distraction purposes).
When I'm using Skada with that pet it doesnt merge damage. If I use any other named pet it just works perfectly.

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Posted Nov 28, 2012
The Heart of Fear bosses, at least in LFR, are not working with the latest Skada (updated 11/28/2012). Is there a way to fix this?

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Posted Nov 28, 2012
Bind to key. Win?

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Posted Nov 26, 2012
Ticket #289 - Hide during pet battles. Please? :)

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Posted Nov 28, 2012
You can disable the title bar. Showing the title bar but not the actual title makes no sense to me, however.

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Posted Nov 22, 2012
Should be in option that you could hide/disable/remove the title bar text. Why hasnt it this feature?

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Posted Nov 15, 2012
Any word on the bug that causes bars to pop out the window?

added: sometimes when hearthstoning or porting into a dungeon, skada will hide itself,and not work, and I have to reload for it to work again. any idea why?

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Posted Dec 4, 2012
Quote from elrandir »

Any word on the bug that causes bars to pop out the window?

added: sometimes when hearthstoning or porting into a dungeon, skada will hide itself,and not work, and I have to reload for it to work again. any idea why?

I am having this issue as well :(

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Posted Nov 13, 2012
I keep having the same issue:( I must unload Skada most of the time when I swap talents:( I wish so bad I;m not forced to switch to Recount but if this continues, I 'will have to:(

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Posted Nov 8, 2012
Getting this function error when trying to change glyphs:

Date: 2012-11-08 11:13:27
ID: 1
Error occured in: AddOn: Skada
Count: 1
Message: Error: AddOn Skada attempted to call a forbidden function (RemoveTalent()) from a tainted execution path.
Debug:
[C]: RemoveTalent()
...rface\AddOns\Blizzard_TalentUI\Blizzard_TalentUI.lua:56: OnAccept()
..\FrameXML\StaticPopup.lua:3827: StaticPopup_OnClick()
[string "*:OnClick"]:1:
[string "*:OnClick"]:1
Locals:
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Posted Nov 18, 2012
please, please, please ... this bug has been existing since aaaages and is NOT skada related ! it's the intrnal blizzard glyph addon (yes, the original blizzard wow client uses addons) that has a bug, and the internal client watchdog blames some random (!) 3rd party addon for it ... disable skada, wait a couple of days, and you'll see the bug happen again, only to blame some other addon now -.- it's not skada, and moving over to recount won't help ...

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Posted Nov 3, 2012
I have a Major Bug. My Skada only shows me the Overall Data. even if i turn to current fight it shows the overall. reinstalled it couple time and deleted the daved variable but nothing helps. I don't get any LuA errors.

another issue: the first 5 lines are ok, but the following lines are more and more aut of the skada window.

http://puu.sh/1m9gG

http://puu.sh/1m9eO

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Posted Nov 1, 2012
we need additional feature to count what CC people are using and who they are using it on.

coud it be done?

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Posted Nov 7, 2012
confirmed, same issue here.

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Posted Oct 27, 2012
the lines are still going outside their boxes. this seems to be happening the more data (or results) it is displaying once it goes past 4/5 it seems the last one is the disjointed column

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