TipTac is a tooltip enchancement addon, it allows you to configure various things such as changing the tip anchor, the font, the scale of tips, plus a lot more.
It can also show a special tip window for units instead of the normal one, which allows for extra customization, such as having it show buffs, debuffs, health and mana bar, this can of course be disabled if you prefer the normal tip.
To open the option dialog, just use "/tip" without any parameters. Use "/tip anchor" to show the anchor frame and position it as you want.
Current Features
- Based on the default mode in TipBuddy, but can be configured in appearance in many ways.
- Shows the buffs and debuffs of the target with cooldown models. Has option to make it only show castable buffs and removable debuffs.
- When in a raid or party, it has an option to show who is targeting the unit.
- Vast anchoring options allows you to change between Normal, Mouse and Smart Anchor, this is configurable for both unit and non-unit tips.
- Anchoring frame lets you decide where exactly you want tips with the normal anchoring option anchored.
- Able to change the font face and size for all tips in the User Interface. Uses "LibSharedMedia" if installed.
- Can show a Health and Mana, Energy, Rage or Focus bar inside the tip, which can be enabled or disabled as you prefer.
- Tips are getting updated at a customizable interval to display changes.
- Unit tip fades out of display when no longer valid, fade time can be configured.
- Allows for you to change the background and border color of the TipTacTip and any of the modified tip.
Layout Templates
Currently TipTac comes with a few presets, these are a collection of preset settings. You can find the presets in the options.
I plan to work on layout option so you can eventually save and load personal layouts. But for now I am looking for more layout presets to include in future releases of TipTac.
Special Tip Modification
TipTac does not only configure the tip for units, you can also use TipTac to modify other tips in the WoW Interface.
The way they are getting modified are both in scale and appearance. The border and background of the modified tips can be changed to colors of your desire.
You can disable this appearance change by disabling the option "Hook Special Tips" under the General tab of the options dialog.
Currently these tips are getting modified: GameTooltip, ShoppingTooltip1, ShoppingTooltip2, ItemRefTooltip, WorldMapTooltip and AtlasLootTooltip. You can add more if you wish by editing the "TipTac.lua" file.
TipTac & MobInfo2
Since the 08.01.17 release, this should no longer be a problem since I renamed the config variable.
Apparently, without even letting me know, the author of MobInfo2 has made it so that when the option "Hide the other Tooltip" is enabled, it will disable the TipTac unit tip. To get TipTac to show this again, you just have to disable this option in MobInfo2.
Would have been nice if the author would have told me or at least write something in the MobInfo2 documentation. Because people are blaming my mod for not working due to this.
Saving Settings Per Character
If you prefer to have TipTac have individual settings for each your characters, you will have to manually edit the TipTac.toc file and change the line:
## SavedVariables: TipTac_Config
Into the following line:
## SavedVariablesPerCharacter: TipTac_Config
Lacking Features, Ideas & Problems
- Anchoring the tip depending on what content is shown, it being a unit or not, can be hard to determine as the call to GameTooltip_SetDefaultAnchor() is called before the GTT content is set, any solution? Due to this, some anchoring combinations might not work well if showing the TipTacTip is diabled.
- Scrab the entire TipTacTip and just modify the GTT. Although this could pose a problem to other mods which rely on scanning the GTT for info?
- The tooltip always fades for mailboxs, braziers, signs, etc, not sure how this could be worked around, any help on this issue is appreciated. This issue has been resolved somewhat, but I've not yet found out how to do it when those tip show on items which doesn't change the cursor.
- Cast Bar in addition to the already existing health and power bar.
TipTac Changes | 2008 Apr 06
- Included update of TipTacTalents as well, please check the seperate "changelog.txt" for those changes.
- New option to instantly hide world frame tips instead of fading them. These are tips like the ones which appear on herbs, mineral veins, mailboxes, chests etc.
- TipTac now checks if the unit token is valid everytime it updates the tip, this is to avoid the "once in a blue moon" error that could happen when "GTT:OnTooltipSetUnit()" was called, but the "GTT:GetUnit()" function returning nil.
Installation Guide
- Exit "World of Warcraft" completely
- Download the mod you want to install
- Make a folder on your desktop called "My Mods"
- Save the .zip/.rar files to this folder.
- If, when you try to download the file, it automatically "opens" it... you need to RIGHT click on the link and "save as..." or "Save Target As".
- Extract the file - commonly known as 'unzipping'
Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!
- Windows
- Windows XP has a built in ZIP extractor. Double click on the file to open it, inside should be the file or folders needed. Copy these outside to the "My Mods" folder.
- WinRAR: Right click the file, select "Extract Here"
- WinZip: You MUST make sure the option to "Use Folder Names" is CHECKED or it will just extract the files and not make the proper folders how the Authors designed
- Mac Users
- StuffitExpander: Double click the archive to extract it to a folder in the current directory.
- Verify your WoW Installation Path
That is where you are running WoW from and THAT is where you need to install your mods.
- Move to the Addon folder
- Open your World of Warcraft folder. (default is C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\)
- Go into the "Interface" folder.
- Go into the "AddOns" folder.
- In a new window, open the "My Mods" folder.
- The "My Mods" folder should have the "Addonname" folder in it.
- Move the "Addonname" folder into the "AddOns" folder
- Start World of Warcraft
- Make sure AddOns are installed
- Log in
- At the Character Select screen, look in lower left corner for the "addons" button.
- If button is there: make sure all the mods you installed are listed and make sure "load out of date addons" is checked.
- If the button is NOT there: means you did not install the addons properly. Look at the above screenshots. Try repeating the steps or getting someone who knows more about computers than you do to help.
Translations
When you download a mod, please be sure that the mod is compatible with your translation of wow. Some mods only work on the US versions, while some only work on some of the various European versions. These variations are called "Localizations".
TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)
When Blizzard patches WoW, they change the Interface number. This means that all mods will be "out of date" unless or until the author releases a new version for that interface. Some people go into the .toc files and update the numbers themselves, but this is STRONGLY advised against as it will cause problems locating possible incompatibilities addons. When you log into WoW after a patch, you DO NOT have to delete your interface directory. All you have to do is simply tell WoW to ignore the interface numbers and load all the mods anyway. All you have to do is, while at the "character select" screen, look in the lower left corner and click on the "addons" button. A window will pop up listing all your installed mods.
If you look in the upper left corner of that window there should be a box that says "Load Out of Date AddOns". You want to CHECK this box. Now simply go into WoW normally and all your mods should load. As of the 1.9 patch, you will have to do this after EVERY patch/update that Blizzard posts! If you encounter any problems with a mod after a patch, please be sure to let the author of the mod know so they can fix it.
See also: About "Out Of Date AddOns"
Mac Support
WoW addons are not platformed based. As such, they can be used on either Mac or PC. You can extract both .zip and .rar files on a Mac using StuffitExpander.
Directory Structure
World of Warcraft
|_ Interface
|_AddOns
|_*AddonName*
|_ *AddonName*.toc
|_ *AddonName*.xml
|_ *AddonName*.lua
|_ (possibly others as well)...