ShieldsUp

ShieldsUp is a shaman shield monitor.

ShieldsUp provides simple text monitoring of your Earth Shield and Water Shield. It is based on the excellent, lightweight beSch by Infineon, and adds more exentsive configuration and an in-game configuration interface.

Please Note

ShieldsUp is in beta stages, and as such is subject to change at any time, and is likely to contain bugs. If you are not comfortable using beta-quality addons, and are not able or willing to provide bug reports with specific useful details, I would recommend that you do not use ShieldsUp yet.

Current Features

• Shows Earth Shield and Water Shield charges
• Shows Earth Shield target's name
• Shows when someone overwrites your Earth Shield
• Alerts when either Shield expires or is removed
• Configurable sound and text alerts supporting MSBT, SCT, and more
• Configurable font, size, colors, transparency, and position

Planned Features

• Track Lightning Shield if it's used instead of Water Shield
• Automatically show/hide for solo, party, raid, arena, or battleground
• "Solo mode" that shows only a single tracker for yourself
• Use "solo mode" for shamans without Earth Shield

Requesting Features

Post a ticket. Please note that ShieldsUp is intentionally limited in scope to self-monitoring of shaman shields. Requests for features outside this scope will be denied.

Reporting Bugs

Post a ticket. Please check to make sure your bug hasn't already been reported before opening a new report. Please include:

• what version of ShieldsUp you are using,
• what you were doing when the problem occurred,
• whether or not the problem occurs every time to do that thing,
• whether the problem is resolved by resetting your settings,
• whether the problem is resolved by disabling all other addons,
• what locale you play in,
• and (most importantly) the exact text of any error messages you recieve.

Make sure that Lua errors are enabled in your interface options, or install a bug capture system like !BugGrabber + BugSack.

Additional Notes

ShieldsUp currently uses AceConfig-3.0 and AceGUI-3.0 to provide a GUI configuration. However, I am not at all satisfied with the large size of these libraries as compared to the small size of my addon code for distribution purposes, and may or may not continue to use these libraries for GUI configuration.

Font and sound support is handled via the LibSharedMedia-3.0 library. ShieldsUp does not waste bandwidth and disk space including a bunch of extra font and sound files; as such, if ShieldsUp is your only LSM-3.0 addon, you will only be able to select Blizzard fonts and a few Blizzard sounds. Other LSM-3.0 addons may bundle extra fonts or sounds in their download, and these will be available to use in ShieldsUp. Alternatively, you may download the SharedMedia addon, which provides a wide selection of fonts (and textures) for use in addons which support LSM-3.0 (or 2.0 or even 1.0).

Text alert support is handled with the Sink-2.0 library, which provides an abstract output method for addons to simplify supporting the various combat text addons, including MSBT, SCT, Parrot, BCF, and Blizzard's Floating Combat Text.

If you run standalone copies of Ace3, LibSharedMedia-3.0, and/or LibSink-2.0, you can remove the copies embedded in ShieldsUp.

If you do not need GUI configuration and wish to reduce ShieldsUp's memory footprint, you can delete the Config.lua file.

Comments

Do not post comments on Curse. I do not read comments. If you have a specific problem to report, or a specific feature request, use the ticket system.

2.4.3.12
- Removed some debugging code that prevented settings from saving between sessions

2.4.3.10
- Fixed some errors I thought I'd already committed
- Alert options currently not fully functional

2.4.3.8
- Added aura scanning on "aura lost" events; this will prevent showing zero on recast shields in all but extremely laggy situations.
- Added support for AddonLoader.

Installation Guide

1. Exit "World of Warcraft" completely
2. 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".
3. Extract the file - commonly known as 'unzipping'
   Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!
   • Windows
     • Windows XP 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.
4. Verify your WoW Installation Path
   That is where you are running WoW from and THAT is where you need to install your mods.
5. 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
6. Start World of Warcraft
7. 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)...