TinyTip
<font>Please delete your all your TinyTip folders before upgrading to the latest version</font>
What is TinyTip? Well, it started out as just a simple upgrade over AF_Tooltip_Mini and exploded from there. Now it shares no code with what it used to be, becoming something more, while still staying true to its name. The core of TinyTip is basically just an upgrade over AF_Tooltip_Mini, a small file around 24KB. The more modules you allow to load, the more this value increases. The goal of TinyTip is to allow you to mix and match your modules while keeping the smallest memory footprint possible. All files except TinyTip.lua and its locale files are optional. You can take a look below, I've listed the optional files as "not required". If you don't use a file's features, you can safely remove it from the TOC.
Anyway, as you can guess, TinyTip changes the look of your GameTooltip. Here are the features found in core:
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TinyTip (core)
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In TinyTip.lua (required)
- Name, backdrop, and border (optional) colouring by reaction (Hostile, Friendly, etc.)
- Class coloured with raid colours.
- Level coloured by difficulty.
- Creature Type (Imp, Cat) given for Pets.
- UnitClassification (Humanoid, Undead, etc.) given for NPCs.
- Elite Status (Elite, Rare, WorldBoss, Rare Elite) added when applicable.
- (Tapped) for Tapped, (Corpse) for Corpse
- Optional Guild Names displayed. (on by default)
- Optional backdrop coloring for friends and guildies. (on by default)
- Optional Honor Rank Name or Number. (on by default)
- Optional "Hostile", "Friendly", etc. reaction text for the colour-blind. (off by default)
- Optional Compact Tooltip mode.
- English, German, French, and Chinese localization, and partial support for other clients.
In Embedded TinyTipAnchor.lua (not required)
- Positioning Options (Anchoring, Offsets)
In TinyTipTargets
- TargetOfTarget information - what is this tooltip's unit targeting?
- Search through Party members targeting this unit, or...
- Search through Raid members targeting this unit.
In TinyTipIcons.lua (TinyTipExtras, not required)
- PvP Rank Icon
- Buffs and Debuffs
- Raid Target Icon
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In LoadOnDemand Addon TinyTipOptions
GUI Options, use /tinytip or /ttip to bring up the menu.
Only loaded if you use that slash command.
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Troubleshooting
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Q: TinyTip is preventing another tooltip addon from working.
A: Go into that other addon's TOC file and add/change this line to include TinyTip.
## OptionalDeps:
Q: I'm getting an error from TinyTip, or an option isn't working right.
A: 1) Check my WoWI portal to see if it's a known issue, and for updates.
2) Maybe your files are corrupt. Delete TinyTip, TinyTipExtras, and TinyTipOptions, then re-download them and install from stratch.
3) Your Saved Variable database may have gotten corrupt somehow. Try using /tinytip default and then /tinytip confirm to reset it.
4) If resetting your options doesn't work, exit WoW, delete all your Saved Variable files for TinyTip (global and per character), then restart WoW.
5) Leave a bug report on my WoWI portal.
Q: Where's the secret cow option?
A: There is no secret cow option.
what i mean is that when you mouse over something, and then move your mouse to a position where no tooltip is dislplayed/needed, then the previous tooltip stys at the cursor for about ~2 seconds before it fades out.
i would like it to despawn instantly, or at least faster than it does now.
ans help would be appreciated, thanks
And no Russian Localization :(
And this is the first time I've ever used this tooltip mod, so there's no previous version crap mucking it up.
Issue may very well be that you used the options stuff before, maybe you are mixing settings from v1 even? When I can generate down loadable zips again we can see what happens with a fresh install and config maybe?
And yeah, tickets work best for me overall, can always put in a chat comment linking to the ticket if need be.
I ask because this mod has had a single problem since WoW 3.0.8 was released. I have the tooltip set to position in the Blizzard default position (lower right corner of screen). When mousing over various things--players (friendly or hostile), NPCs or monsters--the tooltip "flips around" to different positions on the right side of the screen.
When you mouse over a unit, sometimes it shows up in the proper place. Sometimes it appears incorrectly on the midddle of the right side of the screen. Sometimes it appears incorrectly near the mini-map at the top of the screen. Then the next time you mouse over the unit, it reappears in the proper place (lower right corner).
This is consistent behavior on all characters. It is not remembering its set position during play.
Using no other mods that affect the tooltip; it occurs with no other mods running as well. Using TinyTipBasic r28/29 (r28 from October 2008 was the last real code update of TinyTip) & the other modules out of the TOC/library-updated TinyTip "v2.03-beta" here.
Let us/me know if you can look into this and if it can be resolved.
Yes, I can generates true diffs without issue (GNU Diff ftw). But its unlikely to help. I have not modified anything in either TinyTipPositioning's StandAloneConfig.lua nor any other module's version of that file. All of TinyTipPositioning's StandAloneConfig's variables are set to "nil" (as are the other Configs).
I have changed one thing (or more) through Options long ago (pre-3.0), though. Which may be the issue.
TinyTipPositioning's default tooltip position is CURSOR. But I changed it through Options to GAMEDEFAULT. Which puts the tooltip for moused over units in the default Blizzard position of the lower right corner of the screen (as described in my last post). Which could be why you haven't seen the issue yet.
Here is the section out of the TinyTip.lua saved variables which reflects my current settings:
"["profiles"] = {
["global"] = {
["MAnchor"] = "GAMEDEFAULT",
["ReactionText"] = true,
["KeyElite"] = true,".
The two things other than MAnchor are handled by TinyTipBasic's StandAloneConfig/options; I may have changed them long ago through Options.
Hope you are able to find the problem & fix it if possible. I'll put this all in a ticket if wanted; preferred to post here first so that others that may have the same issue can see it.
I saw there was no tinytip options folder in this buid, so i've tryed to install tinytip option(as a stand alone addon, and even by putting tinytip option in the module folder), but it changes nothing.
So after unchecking all my addons and letting only TinyTip, every time I try to access ttip options, i've got this error :
Interface\Addons\TinyTip\TinyTip.lua:93:attempt to concatenate local 'title' (a nil value)