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Check out BigWigs_PizzaTimers to see a simple example of starting a BigWigs local bar from a script.

Hi,

Thanks for the reply - I wasn't far off it turns out.

In case you're interested, the macro I ended up with was the following:

#showtooltip Last Stand
/use Offering of Sacrifice
/cast Last Stand
/run s,d,e = GetSpellCooldown("Last Stand") if s == 0 then b = BigWigs:GetModule("Custom Bars") b:TriggerEvent("BigWigs_SendSync", "BWCustomBar 20 Last Stand!") end

Thanks again, and all the best,

Bob.

Umm, I don't think you really want to send that as a sync?

BigWigs_CommonAuras shows that eh?
http://www.wowace.com/projects/big-wigs_common-auras/

hi guys, seems i have an odd issue since wotlk release. no more raid warning spam. and this happens to littlewigs too.
i did try some configs, bossblock, raidwarning broadcast is cheched and uncheckable (grey). played around with ora2 too, but no way, no spam, even if i'm leader :(

any suggestion?

Hi again,

Quote from Phanx

Umm, I don't think you really want to send that as a sync?

Pretend ( ;-) ) I'm a complete noob to this stuff and elaborate why not? I wrote it this way so as to emulate as closely as possible the /bwcb slashcommand. But I'm not a lua developer - just a programmer trying to hack something in place with a minimal knowledge of the basics. The macro seemed to perform correctly on tonight's raid. Is there a technical reason that it is wrong?

Quote from sayntavarice

BigWigs_CommonAuras shows that eh?
http://www.wowace.com/projects/big-wigs_common-auras/

That will only show it to people with BW_CA installed (as I understand it). My intention was to push the bar out to anyone with vanilla BW installed through the existing custom bar functionality.

Thanks again,

Bob.

Quote from crosswordbob

That will only show it to people with BW_CA installed (as I understand it). My intention was to push the bar out to anyone with vanilla BW installed through the existing custom bar functionality.

Your original post made it sound like you just wanted a bar for yourself, not for the entire raid, which is what sending it as a sync message will do.

That said, though, you should be aware that not everyone in your raid wants or even needs to see a bar for your Last Stand. Rogues and warlocks, for instance, don't need to see that, since there's nothing they should or even can do about it. Healers may already have their own way to see when you have Last Stand up. And pretty much everyone already has enough information on their screen as it is, without you adding to it with bars for things they probably don't care about.

I'd suggest you just ask your raiders who need or want to see your Last Stand to install BigWigs_CommonAuras, which allows them to configure which things they actually want to see, instead of forcibly spamming them with extra screen clutter.

Personally, if I ever had a tank in my raid start spamming me with Last Stand bars like you're doing, I would immediately write an addon to block his spam and send annoying messages to raid chat and whispers to him every time he did it. :mad:

Quote from Phanx

Your original post made it sound like you just wanted a bar for yourself, not for the entire raid, which is what sending it as a sync message will do.

Ah - I thought I had made it clear when I originally posted quoting the /bwcb command that this is what I was intending to emulate. I know others have used this macro command for this purpose, but for myself I was attempting to do it in such a way that I didn't fire spurious bars should I accidentally hit the macro while LS was on cooldown.

As for whether or not it is desirable, I tend to raid within a fixed set of people, most of whom have been in favour of the bar; many of them are reluctant (I'd hate to use the word "fearful"...) about installing addons beyond the "mandated" few our guild prescribe. I tend to be RL and MT, so I like to let everyone know when I hit the panic buttons.

As an additional note, since quoting the macro above (and before reading your reply), I did add an "if 1==1" clause to the bar code to enable me to quickly and easily disable the synch should anyone object. I'll run with it for a while and see how people go.

And to be perfectly honest, I would probably have just given up (partly for the reasons you gave), but once I had the idea, I hated to abandon it simply due to failure; I'm a typical geek in that I needed to solve the problem more than I needed the solution ;-)

Thanks again,

Bob.

Quote from kappesante

hi guys, seems i have an odd issue since wotlk release. no more raid warning spam. and this happens to littlewigs too.
i did try some configs, bossblock, raidwarning broadcast is cheched and uncheckable (grey). played around with ora2 too, but no way, no spam, even if i'm leader :(

any suggestion?

lol seems i'm the only one with that issue

Just got 2 of these upon entering Eye of Eternity (latest version of bigwigs):

[19:45:59] This seems to be an older version of Big Wigs. It is recommended that you upgrade before entering into combat with a boss.


Could this be because the ingame version gets reported as 4964, while the one on projects is 4983?