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This project is abandoned and its default file will likely not work with the most recent version of World of Warcraft. Whether this project is out of date or its author has marked it as abandoned, this project is no longer maintained.

This project is being retired in favor of its successor, StarTip2. This new addon is still in beta, but it already fixes bugs that existed in StarTip the original. http://wow.curseforge.com/addons/startip2/

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- StarTip - Tooltips from OuterSpace

Credits:

Huge appreciation goes out to ckknight for a ton of code. If you know CowTip, StarTip is similar. Props to Shefki for LuaTexts.

And many tributes go out to the many library authors whom have written the numerous libraries StarTip's script environment is built upon.

Customization Tips

StarTip provides an environment for your scripts.. This environment provides WoW API functions such as UnitName, UnitLevel, etc... If it's not available, try _G. Also, much of LuaTexts by Shefki is included, but be aware that modifications have been made and elements either removed or added. Also be aware that how you format your return values is incompatible with Pitbull4's implementation. In StarTip you simple return a string that's already formatted.

There are many plugins available. I imagine if you're willing to write an actual Lua script that you won't mind reading code. Go into the Libs folder and click into LibScriptable-1.0. Note all the LibScriptablePlugin* elements. These are what provide StarTip's script environment with functions and other elements.

Check here for a brief tutorial.

StarTip also has LibDogTag support. Just return the dog tag from your script, and click the check mark labeled "Dog Tag" to enable this feature.

Note: If you know of a library that you want to make available in your own scripts. let me know and I'll see about writing a plugin for it.

Bug Reports and Feature Requests

StarTip will take advantage of BugGrabber if it's installed, and will attempt to disable lines that cause errors. Note that the errors are not suppressed.

Report any bugs or feature requests here: StarTip Forum.
Or create a ticket here: StarTip Ticket Tracker
You can also post on the Wowace forum thread.

If you find a bug and you want to revert to a stable version, try the upload on Wowinterface.com

Note: Please write a ticket if you have a back trace: StarTip Ticket Tracker

Note to Translators: You can easily support this project by translating some phrases at either two locations: StarTip and LibScriptable-1.0.

The comments on Curse.com have been disabled. They're too much of a hassle to keep up with and use to communicate with users. There are numerous other options mentioned in this description for filing bug reports, or for simply seeking general help. Try the Wowace.com forums if you're still not sure where to go.

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_ForgeUser1196255
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Posted Nov 11, 2010
I posted earlier that updating the addon corrected my problem, but now it's back again. Unless I remove the 'true' argument as I said above, I can't view anyone's guild in tooltips. Rather annoying bug, really. :/

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Posted Nov 14, 2010
I haven't figured out why Err showed up. For now I made it so instead of showing Err, it shows nothing at all, hiding the guild line. I'm going to change that so it defaults back to the normal guild info, which will hide the tooltip when looking for an NPC's guild. I'll have to hunt down that bug. It doesn't happen all the time, and I'm not sure what triggers it.

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Posted Nov 14, 2010
I'm not sure, but I think I may have figured out the trigger, if not the actual cause. It only seems to stop working when I enter a dungeon or BG, so it could have something to do with cross-server data, or the actual act of crossing over onto instance/BG servers. A UI reload corrects it, but it happens again when I leave the dungeon/BG.

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Posted Nov 15, 2010
I also get this bug, but it happens whenever I press Alt-Z and then come back from it. Like the other guy, doing a /console reloadui fixes it, until I Alt-Z again.

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Posted Dec 11, 2010
This is still happening btw. To reproduce, hit alt-Z and mouse over a unit. Guild tag is removed for all units until reloadui.

Try something like this in LibScriptableDisplayPluginLuaTexts:482:

local function Guild(unit)
local guildName
guildName = select(2, PluginUnitTooltipStats.GetUnitTooltipStats(unit))
if not guildName then
guildName = select(1, GetGuildInfo(unit))
end
return guildName
end

Call using return Guild(unit)

Npc guild tags can still fall off, but player guilds will always show. This because LibScriptableDisplayPluginUnitTooltipStats crashes when there is no tooltip to parse, and there isn't an easy way to reinitialize it.

Hope this helps someone.

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Posted Nov 9, 2010
Love the addon. It was a sad day when my cowtip stopped working. I was wondering if you could see about putting a fadding option on the tooltip. Alpha is what I believe others call it. I'd also like to know if there's a way to bypass your "In-Combat" position setting I'd like to keep the tooltips where they're set already and not have them move to somewhere else because I'm in combat. Also the newest version seems to be broken. It's telling me I need chatter again.

Date: 2010-11-09 06:33:32
ID: 1
Error occured in: Global
Count: 4
Message: [string "Main Name (requires Chatter) right"] line 1:
attempt to call method 'Stop' (a nil value)
Debug:
[C]: Stop()
[string "Main Name (requires Chatter) right"]:1: runnable()
...yEvaluator-1.0\LibScriptableDisplayEvaluator-1.0.lua:132: ExecuteCode()
StarTip_UnitTooltip\UnitTooltip.lua:627:
StarTip_UnitTooltip\UnitTooltip.lua:617
StarTip_UnitTooltip\UnitTooltip.lua:1215: SetUnit()
StarTip\StarTip.lua:672:
StarTip\StarTip.lua:646
[C]: ?
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Posted Nov 10, 2010
Hmm, I fixed that Chatter error. It's complaining that self.Stop doesn't exist, which is due to poor design. I'll be fixing that eventually, but I did remove the :Stop() call from that line. If you had modified it in any way before I fixed it, then you wouldn't receive the updates I send out. The first line should read: if not _G.Chatter then return end -- not if not _G.Chatter then self:Stop(); return end

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Posted Nov 10, 2010
You can set the alpha under appearance and change the background colors.

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Posted Nov 6, 2010
Well, 2 of my issues have been identified...

1. No GearScore tip
2. No Quest Info tip when mousing over someone.

But, another I haven't seen...

3. I used to be able to mouse over an NPC and if they were a dealer of some sort of good, it would tell me in the tool tip. <Trade Goods>, <Bowyer>, <Fishing Supplies, etc, etc etc. Would be nice to have that back.

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Posted Nov 7, 2010
Cowtip used to have vendor and trainer tags as part of the guild line if I remember correctly. Similarly, with Cowtip you could identify pet/companion ownership in the guild line as well, would like to see this added in.

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Posted Nov 7, 2010
Well, as of today's update, Gearscore is now working again.

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Posted Nov 7, 2010
As of tonight's update, it's working with NPC guilds..

Now... Can you do anything about quest info??? :D

Great job, btw.

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Posted Nov 8, 2010
How do you get gearscore to work in Startip. I don't see an option.

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Posted Nov 8, 2010
How do you get gearscore to work in Startip. I don't see an option.

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Posted Nov 10, 2010
Quest info? You mean related to quest tracking? I don't think the default UI has a tooltip there, at least it doesn't when I disable all of my addons.

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Posted Nov 5, 2010
I have the same problem. Cant see a gearscore in my tooltip, it worked briefly after the 4.0.1 patch, but has been broken for 2 weeks or more.

Thanks,

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Posted Nov 4, 2010
I'm not sure if this is Startip's shortcoming or GearScore's, but in GearScore I have the option enabled to show GS in the tooltip, but it doesn't show with Startip. Could this be worked in, if it is a Startip issue?

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Posted Nov 4, 2010
Updated a couple minutes after the addon update and it is still broken for me. It's still "asking" me for chatter:

5x <string>:"Main Name (requires Chatter) right":1: attempt to call method 'Stop' (a nil value)
LibScriptableDisplayEvaluator-1.0-15:132: in function `ExecuteCode'
StarTip_UnitTooltip-1.0\UnitTooltip.lua:628: in function <StarTip_UnitTooltip\UnitTooltip.lua:618>
StarTip_UnitTooltip-1.0\UnitTooltip.lua:1218: in function `SetUnit'
StarTip-v1.3.43\StarTip.lua:672: in function <StarTip\StarTip.lua:646>
<in C code>: ?
AceHook-3.0-5 (Ace3):95: in function <Ace3\AceHook-3.0\AceHook-3.0.lua:87>

Locals:
self = {
UpdateMem = <function> @ StarTip\Libs\LibScriptableDisplay-1.0\LibScriptableDisplayPluginResourceTools-1.0\LibScriptableDisplayPluginResourceTools-1.0.lua:224:
strbyte = <function> defined =[C]:-1
rshift = <function> defined =[C]:-1
UnitDefense = <function> defined =[C]:-1
UnitHasAllEffectStrings = <function> @ StarTip\Libs\LibScriptableDisplay-1.0\LibScriptableDisplayPluginUnitControl-1.0\LibScriptableDisplayPluginUnitControl-1.0.lua:27:
GetNumGuildEvents = <function> defined =[C]:-1
DeclineGuild = <function> defined =[C]:-1
SpellHasEffectString = <function> @ StarTip\Libs\LibScriptableDisplay-1.0\LibScriptableDisplayPluginUnitControl-1.0\LibScriptableDisplayPluginUnitControl-1.0.lua:20:
UnitGUID = <function> defined =[C]:-1
UnitRace = <function> defined =[C]:-1
ComboSymbols = <function> @ StarTip\Libs\LibScriptableDisplay-1.0\LibScriptableDisplayPluginLuaTexts-1.0\LibScriptableDisplayPluginLuaTexts-1.0.lua:1089:
UnitClass = <function> defined =[C]:-1
Classification = <function> @ StarTip\Libs\LibScriptableDisplay-1.0\LibScriptableDisplayPluginLuaTexts-
1.0\LibScriptableDisplayPluginLuaTexts-1.0.lua:702:
floor = <function> defined =[C]:-1
GetTabardCreationCost = <function> defined =[C]:-1
Alpha = <function> @ StarTip\Libs\LibScriptableDisplay-1.0\LibScriptableDisplayPluginLuaTexts-1.0\LibScriptableDisplayPluginLuaTexts-1.0.lua:1156:
tonumber = <function> defined =[C]:-1
UnitIsTappedByPlayer = <function> defined =[C]:-1
GetEffectMaskByName = <function> @ StarTip\Libs\LibScriptableDisplay-1.0\LibScriptableDisplayPluginUnitControl-1.0\LibScriptableDisplayPluginUnitControl-1.0.lua:16:
HostileColor = <function> @ StarTip\Libs\LibScriptableDisplay-1.0\LibScriptableDisplayPluginColor-1.0\LibScriptableDisplayPluginColor-1.0.lua:252:
ConvertMethodToFunction = <function> @ StarTip\Libs\LibScriptableDisplay-1.0\LibScriptableDisplayPluginUtils-1.0\LibScriptableDisplayPluginUtils-1.0.lua:243:
UnitIsRaidOfficer = <function> defined =[C]:-1
atan = <function> defined compat.lua:18
WidgetHistogram =
{}
GetCPUUsage = <function> @ StarTip\Libs\LibScriptableDisplay-1.0\LibScriptableDisplayPluginResourceTools-1.0\LibScriptableDisplayPluginResourceTools-1.0.lua:180:
GetEffectStringByMask = <function> @ StarTip\Libs\LibScriptableDisplay-1.0\LibScriptableDisplayPluginUnitControl-1.0\LibScriptableDisplayPluginUnitControl-1.0.lua:18:
UnitIsDeadOrGhost = <function> defined =[C]:-1
UnitHasEffectString = <function> @ StarTip\Libs\LibScriptableDisplay-1.0\LibScriptableDisplayPluginUnitControl-1.0\LibScriptableDisplayPluginUnitControl-1.0.lua:26:
Angle = <function> @ StarTip\Libs\LibScriptableDisplay-1.0\LibScriptableDisplayPluginLuaTexts-1.0\LibScriptableDisplayPluginLuaTexts-1.0.lua:639:
XP = <function> @ StarTip\Libs\LibScriptableDisplay-1.0\LibScriptableDisplayPluginLuaTexts-1.0\LibScriptableDisplayPluginLuaTexts-1.0.lua:1106:
UnitGroupRolesAssigned = <function> defined =[C]:-1
strupper = <function> defined =[C]:-1
short = <function> @ StarTip\Libs\LibScriptableDisplay-1.0\LibScriptableDisplayPluginString-1.0\LibScriptableDisplayPluginString-1.0.lua:40:
GetMemUsage = <function> @ StarTip\Libs\LibScriptableDisplay-1.0\LibScriptableDisplayPluginResourceTools-1.0\LibScriptableDisplayPluginResourceTools-1.0.lua:280:
asin = <function> defined compat.lua:17
UnitIsFeignDeath = <function> defined =[C]:-1
GetUnitPitch = <function> defined =[C]:-1
IsAutoRepeatSpell = <function> defined =[C]:-1
LibAlts =
{}
UnitAura = <function> defined =[C]:-1
rand = <function> defined =[C]:-1
GuildInfo = <function> defined =[C]:-1
ClearSpec = <function> defined @StarTip\Libs\LibScriptableDisplay-1.0\LibScriptableDis
---

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Posted Nov 4, 2010
Unit Tooltip/Main Nam (requires Chatter) - disable it and it will work again.

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Posted Nov 4, 2010
Thanks! I didn't know where to look ;)

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