Looking for help in designing and creating a awesome addon

[realista69]

Would there perhaps be any other suggestion to circumvent/ modify the targeting for a certain player, tank or dps? Something perhaps similar or better than the coding below:

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local tank = oUF:Spawn('header', 'oUF_MainTank')

tank:SetManyAttributes('showRaid', true, 'groupFilter', 'MAINTANK', 'yOffset', -5)

tank:SetPoint('BOTTOMRIGHT', UIParent, 'BOTTOMRIGHT',-10, 20)

tank:Show()



local assist = oUF:Spawn('header', 'oUF_MainAssist')

assist:SetManyAttributes('showRaid', true, 'groupFilter', 'MAINASSIST', 'yOffset', -5)

assist:SetPoint('BOTTOM', tank, 'TOP', 0, 10)

assist:Show()
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Even if there were a way to rotate the players in your group so you can refocus on them, in this sense you would at least be able to switch targets faster. Addons like oRA2 below:

http://www.wowace.com/addons/simpletankframes/

I did take a look at Clique and it was very close to what I was hopeful this add on could do, even if you have to choose your targets on the fly it seemed to be somewhat similar.

[Seerah]

Blizzard locked down a lot when 1.10 and 2.0 hit back in 2006. You can't rearrange a group in combat. Again, that would allow someone to just click in one spot on their screen and let an addon determine which unit should get a heal, for example. Blizz *really* wants the players to make these types of decisions - "UI, not AI".

Anything you wish to do with this addon will need to adhere to the restrictions Blizzard has imposed.

Here is a list of valid UnitIDs: http://www.wowpedia.org/UnitId
More info on what is restricted (from the 2.0.1 changes on wowpedia): http://www.wowpedia.org/Patch_2.0.1/...Protected_Code
Here is some information on the secure templates: http://wowprogramming.com/docs/secure_template

[SDPhantom]

Originally Posted by Rilgamon No, there is the role "maintank" but no unitid. At least not that I know.

I thought I saw it in official patch notes somewhere, but I don't remember what patch and Blizzard has been known to list changes and neglect to actually put them in the associated patch.

[Seerah]

The bosses now have IDs (if it's a fight that displays the boss frames)... I don't remember about the tanks...

[Nibelheim]

I don't think there's a MT id, you have to find out who it is through other means.

local raidID = UnitInRaid(UnitID)
local _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, raidInfo = GetRaidRosterInfo(raidID)
if raidInfo == 'MAINTANK' then
...

[Seerah]

That's what I was thinking. And then, since they're obviously in your group, you can use their name as the UnitID which means you can also append 'target' to the end.