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Last Update:	Oct. 2, 2007 (11 months ago)
Category:	Other
Tags:	tip and tooltip
Project Manager:	Aezay
Current Version:	TipBuddy for WoW 2.0 TipBuddy 2.40 (for World of Warcraft 2.2.0)
Downloads Today:	36
Downloads Total:	107,681
Favorites:	1,490
Comments:	247

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Created On:	Dec. 10, 2006
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About TipBuddy for WoW 2.0

Important Notice for TipBuddy

I have stopped working on TipBuddy to work on my new tip mod: <file type="tooltip">8709</file>

Reason I stopped working on TipBuddy was due to it not being my mod, it was the work of Chester, he made the mod originally, I just updated it.

When you are working on code you didn't write yourself, it is a lot more complicated to work with, and I didn't feel I could fix the bugs in TipBuddy, each new release had new bugs popping up and I was getting seriously annoyed with it.

Also, TipBuddy was taking way too much memory, I believe it was somewhere between 500 and 700k which is a lot for a standalone mod with no libraries. TipTac uses 30k.

My plan with TipTac was just to make a smaller mod, one that didn't hog so many resources and one that would be a lot easier for me to work with.

To all those who has used TipBuddy, thank you. I will ask you to try out TipTac and see if you like it. If you feel there is something missing which you could do in TipBuddy, post what it is on the TipTac page and it might be something I will add.

TipBuddy - Updated for WoW 2.0

This mod was originally made by Chester. http://wow.curse-gaming.com/en/files/.../tipbuddy/

I updated this to work with WoW 2.0, mostly for my own personal use. But I noticed Curse still don't have a working TipBuddy mod, so I decided to release it.

Slash Commands: /tipbuddy /tbuddy /tip

Original Description by Chester

TipBuddy is the ultimate, most customizable tooltip mod you can find. With TipBuddy, you have total control over what you want to see in your tooltip. You can display your tooltips for units in two ways: Default mode and Compact Mode. Default mode's visual style is similar to Blizzard's default tooltip, but much much more customizable. Compact Mode has a unique style that is a bit more compact and (for some) much better to read. It has a few more options Default Mode. Using a combination of both is not uncommon to differentiate one type of unit from another. Check out some features below:

TipBuddy Features
- Anchor your unit tooltips to your mouse or to the TipBuddyAnchor (which can be dragged anywhere you want onscreen)
- Non-unit tooltips (buttons, etc) can be anchored to your mouse, the TipBuddyAnchor or with "Smart" Anchoring (will always keep the tip on screen no matter what)
- All of your tooltips clip to the edge of the screen. Even if you have it attached to your mouse, it will never get clipped off the edge.
- All modes of anchoring can be configured and offset however you like.
- Your tooltip's background color can be customized to your liking per unit-type (including guildmates). OR:
- Background colors can be set to reflect the difficulty of that unit towards you (red=impossible, green=easy, grey=trivial, etc)
- Easy to use Options Menu (see screenshot)
- Shows buffs and debuffs on your tooltip
- Shows rank icons next to name
- Show rank player rank titles next to name or turn them off
- All lines in the tooltip can be turned on or off per unit-type
- See your target's target next to their name which is color coded based on the target type (this is extremely useful)
- All tooltips can be scaled up or down
- Supports MobHealth database and can show health/mana text over the bars
- Adds Guild, Class, Race (all color configurabale) to your tooltip
- All text colors are configurable with easy to use color wheels
- Choose whether the Default tip fades away or disappears
- Plus more!!

1 Installation Guide
2 Translations
3 TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)
4 Mac Support
5 Directory Structure

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 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.

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)...

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raraofdoom said
May 23, 2008, 03:30PM (3 months ago)
I miss tipbuddy, I can't use any other tooltip mod, I want this one back, tiptac just doesn't seem to have enough information or configurability after using tipbuddy.

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DaSilva said
July 21, 2008, 05:53PM (1 month, 1 week ago)
Yeah, TipBuddy is the one and only!
TipTac fades out some Tooltips on other players while the mouse arrow is still above them.

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Aezay said
April 7, 2008, 04:37PM (4 months, 3 weeks ago)
Crusadebank, read the description for TipBuddy, I am no longer working on this, but instead on my other tip mod called TipTac.

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Crusadebank said
April 6, 2008, 09:18PM (4 months, 3 weeks ago)
Anyone know when this is gonna updated or have an idea for a mod that is equal to it.

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Phibion said
March 11, 2008, 06:17PM (5 months, 2 weeks ago)
Awesome addon...but how do i get non-unit tooltips to dissapear instead of fade?

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dctrjons said
Dec. 14, 2007, 04:47AM (8 months, 2 weeks ago)
TipTac isn't working for me...just doesn't have the functionality this does for quick info. Color coding all-the-way.

However this and mobinfo are no longer friendly. Only shows the 'right' column which has less important info. Anyone care to take this one on again?

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oopin said
Nov. 26, 2007, 03:20PM (9 months ago)
(french :x)

No option to activate tip buddy only on hostile caracters ?

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Ayo said
Nov. 17, 2007, 12:54PM (9 months, 2 weeks ago)
any update plz ? :)

thank you ;)

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Bavi said
Oct. 22, 2007, 05:36PM (10 months, 1 week ago)
I would like TicTac to follow pop the bar up at my mouse marker... How to do that?

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Gunfighter said
Oct. 21, 2007, 11:51PM (10 months, 1 week ago)
I tried tiptac but couldn't get over the missing info from tipbuddy. I pulled the tiptac folder out of the add-ons directory but I can't get tipbuddy to work again. Now, I get the limited tiptac info attached to the mousepointer with no color. I can't see who the target has targeted. I need that for PvP. Also, I'm having the same problem as ImmortalDragon2 with only getting "Player Options" when I mouse over the target frame and the target of target. Did tiptac change something in the WoW directory? Changing the settings on tipbuddy now has no efect, clicking the apply button makes no changes either. Please help! I'm sucking at PvP now having almost no info about my opponent.

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Q000 said
Oct. 9, 2007, 07:04PM (10 months, 3 weeks ago)
U are the MAN ! :D

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Apocrypha said
Oct. 3, 2007, 01:58AM (10 months, 4 weeks ago)
Thank you!

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scottydawg said
Oct. 2, 2007, 11:37PM (11 months ago)
Thank you Aezay :)

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Kargis said
Oct. 2, 2007, 09:17PM (11 months ago)
I've been using this mod for over a year. Even with Patch 2.2 I noticed one fault with this mod, but it ended up being an issue with ag_UF. One thing I noticed on an earlier build, the Target's Mana bar showed up for two versions, then quietly went away again. Any thought of bringing that back? I have it enabled, but it never showed but that two versions. Thanks, and please keep this updated. =)

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MrRitter said
Oct. 2, 2007, 06:40PM (11 months ago)
Use TipTac!
http://www.curse.com/downloads/details/8709/

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Aezay said
Oct. 2, 2007, 04:28PM (11 months ago)
Ok, I realise that a lot of people are still using this mod, and therefore I decided to make a quick 2.2 fix to get rid of those errors.
As I do not intend to update this further, I still recommend you to try out out my new tip mod called TipTac. If you feel it lacks certain features from TipBuddy, please post it on the TipTac page.
You can find TipTac here: http://www.curse.com/downloads/detail.../8709/

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bushwakko said
Oct. 2, 2007, 05:11PM (11 months ago)
TipBuddy doesn't work correctly for me, the tooltip follow the mouse correctly when I target a friendly, but when I target an enemy it just appears right below my minimap. No even where the anchor thing is....

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Spiderkeg said
Sept. 26, 2007, 08:13PM (11 months ago)
I love TipBuddy. I wish it was being worked on and updated. Hopefully the newest incarnation of this clone, TipTac, will eventually be a virutal copy of options and abilities.
I have grown to rely on having my tooltip full of necessary and important information. Comes in major handy during PvP when set with the right options.

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Aezay said
Sept. 26, 2007, 03:53PM (11 months ago)
I am not actually updating this mod anymore, try my new mod TipTac here: http://www.curse.com/downloads/detail.../8709/

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Bobpeg said

Sept. 26, 2007, 12:36PM (11 months ago)

I get an error of

Date: 2007-09-26 13:34:55 ID: 51 Error occured in: Global Count: 1 Message: ..\AddOns\TipBuddy\TipBuddy.lua line 2237:

  Usage: GameTooltip:SetOwner(frame)

Debug:

  [C]: ?
  [C]: orgSetOwner()
  TipBuddy\TipBuddy.lua:2237: SetOwner()
  ..\FrameXML\PaperDollFrame.lua:1160: oldItemRack_PaperDollItemSlotButton_OnEnter()
  ItemRack\ItemRack.lua:1557: PaperDollItemSlotButton_OnEnter()
  [string "*:OnEnter"]:1:
     [string "*:OnEnter"]:1

AddOns:

 Ace, v1.4
 AceGUI
 agUnitFrames, v05-01-07
 Atlas, v1.10.0
 AtlasBattlegrounds, v1.10.0
 AtlasDungeonLocs, v1.10.0
 AtlasEntrances, v1.10.0
 AtlasFlightPaths, v1.10.0
 AtlasOutdoorRaids, v1.10.0
 AtlasExtras, v1.8.6
 AtlasLoot, vAtlasLoot Enhanced v4.01.01
 Auctioneer, v4.0.2.1908
 AuraMap, v2.2.4
 AutoBar, v2.01.00.04 beta
 BankStatement
 Bartender3, v3.1 r43463
 BonusScanner, vv2.4
 ClearFont2, v2.1
 CooldownCount, v1.2
 CTCore, v2.001 (CTMod 2.0)
 CTMailMod, v2.0 (CTMod 2.0)
 cyCircled, v0.5
 cyCircledOnyx, v1.0
 DarkPortal, v2.1.2100
 eePanels, v1.0
 ElkBuffBars, v2.0
 EnhTooltip, v4.0.1
 EquipCompare, v2.10
 Fearwarder
 FluidFrames, v1.2
 Gatherer, v2.99.0.0458
 CritSound, v1.0
 HealBot, v2.47
 HealerCombatLog, v0.91
 ImprovedCamera, v2.0.1
 ItemRack
 Ace2
 Threat10, v2.1
 LootHog
 MailSound
 MBB
 MobInfo2, v3.13
 myClock, v1.8
 Omen, v2.1r45044
 oRA2, v2.0.$Revision: 43741 $
 AHShowBid, v20000 R.1
 PoMTracker, v1.81
 Prat, v2.0 37732
 RatingBuster, v1.2.4 (r39424)
 Recount, v$Revision: 45786 $
 ReputationMonitor, v2.5
 sct, v5.7
 sctcooldowns, v2.0.0
 sctd, v2.33
 ShackleWatch, v1.0
 SilverDragon, v2.0.38392
 simpleMinimap, v20100-6
 Skinner, v2.1
 SmartBuff, vv2.1a
 SmartDebuff, vv2.1a
 SorrenTimers, v2.1
 Squeenix
 Stubby, v1508
 SWFixLogStrings, v2.0
 SWStats, v2.1.2
 SWUniLog, v2.1.2
 Swatter, v4.0.2.1876
 TipBuddy, v2.39
 TitanCritLine
 Titan, v3.1.0.20200
 TitanBag, v3.1.0.20200
 TitanClock, v3.1.0.20200
 TitanHonor, v1.13
 TitanItemBonuses, v3.1.0.20200
 TitanLootHog
 TitanMoney, v3.1.0.20200
 TitanPerformance, v3.1.0.20200
 TitanRegen, v3.1.0.20200
 TitanRepair, v3.1.0.20200
 TitanXP, v3.1.0.20200
 TitanFearWard
 TitanTradeCooldown
 TrinketMenu
 WorldMapButtonHider
 XLootGroup, v0.5
 XLootMaster, v0.6
 XLoot, v0.9
 LSChat
 DBMAPI
 DBMRaidTools, v0.1
 EngBags, v2.1.1-25

but i do get the same one as renegadeice has

EDIT - fixed the problem renegadeice has bu updating AGUF :D

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Important Notice for TipBuddy

TipBuddy - Updated for WoW 2.0

Original Description by Chester

Table of Contents

Installation Guide

Translations

TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)

Mac Support

Directory Structure

Player tooltips

How to open the option dialog

Tooltip configurations

Tooltip configurations

Anchoring Options