Changelog

3.0.1

• CurseForge project ID added, automatic uploads to CurseForge.

3.0.0

DotRange 3.0 keeps the familiar three boxes and range logic of 2.1 and brings a settings menu, WoW Edit Mode support, visibility rules, profiles and an English and German translation.

Features

• Three boxes show the distance to your target: 3 green boxes in melee range, 2 yellow boxes at medium distance, 1 white box when the target is visible but further away. The range check uses several class-specific spells; one of them being in range is enough.
• Edit Mode: move the display in WoW's Edit Mode (Esc > Edit Mode); the position is saved per layout. The Edit Mode dialog has a scale slider and a More settings button. An optional lock prevents moving, even in Edit Mode. While editing, a sample with three green boxes is shown, regardless of target and visibility rules.
• Settings menu under Settings > AddOns > DotRange or with /dotrange. All changes apply immediately.
• Visibility: always, only in combat, only in instances, or only in a group; optionally hidden in vehicles; always hidden during pet battles.
• Target options: hide without a target; new option to show the display only for hostile targets.
• Automatic hiding: if your character knows none of the spells used for the range check (for example a mage or a Beast Mastery hunter), the display is hidden and the menu shows a note. This is checked again when your specialization or spells change.
• Appearance: colors for melee, just outside, medium distance, inactive boxes and border; box size, border width, scale and opacity.
• Profiles: settings are stored per character; copy them from another character or reset them.
• Languages: English and German.
• Debug mode (off by default) that writes a log to the SavedVariables; /dotrange check prints the range check for the current target in the chat.

Changes since 2.1

• Your settings from 2.x are taken over automatically on the first start. Your previous position becomes the starting position in every Edit Mode layout.
• The display is moved in Edit Mode only. Outside Edit Mode, mouse clicks always go through it.
• The old settings window has been replaced by the settings menu.
• /dotrange opens the settings instead of showing or hiding the display. The previous /dotrange debug output is now /dotrange check.
• Leftover files from older versions (Config.lua, DotRange.lua) are no longer loaded and can be deleted from the DotRange folder.

Changes since 3.0.0-alpha.2

• Edit Mode support (LibEditMode) with position per layout, scale slider, More settings button, lock and a sample display.
• Moving the display with the mouse outside Edit Mode has been removed.
• New menu options: Scale and Reset position.

3.0.0-alpha.2

Test build for milestone 2.

• New settings menu under Settings > AddOns > DotRange (AceConfig), opened with /dotrange. All changes apply immediately. The old settings window has been removed.
• Profiles: switch, copy from another character, or reset (AceDBOptions).
• Visibility: always, only in combat, only in instances, or only in a group; optionally hidden in vehicles; always hidden during pet battles.
• New option Only for hostile targets (off by default).
• If your character knows none of the spells used for the range check, the display is hidden automatically and the menu shows a note. This is checked again when your specialization or spells change. With only medium-range spells, the display shows at most 2 boxes.
• Debug mode can also be switched on and off in the menu.
• The chat message for classes without spells on login has been replaced by the note in the menu.

3.0.0-alpha.1

Test build for milestone 1. The display works as in 2.1.

• The addon is now split into several files and uses AceDB-3.0 for its settings (still per character by default).
• Settings from 2.x (DotRangeCharDB) are taken over automatically on the first start. The old data is kept and only marked as migrated.
• English is the default language, German is included as a translation.
• /dotrange now opens the settings. /dotrange help lists the commands. Showing and hiding the display with /dotrange has been removed.
• The previous chat output of /dotrange debug is now /dotrange check.
• New debug mode (/dotrange debug on|off|clear|status, off by default). It writes a log to the SavedVariables (DotRangeDebugLog, at most 5000 entries): version, build, class, specialization, known spells, combat start and end, instance changes, errors, and once per second in combat the range result of every spell. Protected ("secret") values are never stored, only marked as <SECRET>.
• All range and unit checks are protected against errors and secret values.
• Release packaging with the BigWigs packager (GitHub release on tag v*).
• License: MIT.

2.1

• Several candidate spells per class and specialization; hunter spell ID fixed, warrior gap between 5 and 8 yards closed, druid and shaman added
• Locked display lets mouse clicks through; position no longer stored twice
• Option "Hide without target"; reset refreshes the open settings window
• Protection against secret values (Midnight 12.0)