TacoTip Gearscore TBC

TacoTip Gearscore TBC is a revived fork of TacoTip for Classic-era World of Warcraft. The original addon stopped working for TBC Classic, so this fork exists to make it work again, keep the useful features alive, and give the project room for future improvements.

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• 支持客户端 / 支援用戶端：1.15.8、2.5.5 (20505)、3.4.5 (30405)、3.80.1 (Titanforge)
• 主要功能 / 主要功能：提示增强、GearScore、平均装等 / 平均物品等級、天赋 / 專精、角色与观察面板信息
• 打开设置 / 開啟設定：/tacotip 或 /taco
• 语言 / 語言：默认跟随客户端语言，未翻译内容会自动回退到英文；主页面也提供语言下拉选单 / 下拉選單。

At a glance

Why TacoTip Gearscore TBC exists

What it does

Current feature highlights

• Tooltip borders now render correctly: class-colored borders use Blizzard's native backdrop system instead of a stretched overlay, so the UI-Tooltip-Border texture displays as a proper sliced corner/edge border, and late tooltip refreshes now keep the class tint instead of falling back to gray.
• Dual-spec players now see both specializations in compact tooltip styles, with the inactive spec dimmed to 60% opacity.
• Class icon moved from inline text to a positioned badge at the top-right corner of the tooltip, with configurable size (8–32px) in the options panel.
• PVP icon now only appears on player units that are actually flagged for PVP, not on PVP-flagged NPCs.
• Hostile NPC levels in tooltips now use Blizzard difficulty coloring again, so gray / green / yellow / orange / red difficulty is visible at a glance.
• Specialization lines now use class-colored spec names and per-spec icons derived from LibClassicInspector talent data.
• Compact player tooltips now show a separate iLvl line under GearScore so users can see both values without switching to the wide layout.
• The live tooltip preview in the options panel now sits in a dedicated right-side column instead of covering the controls.
• The tooltip mover reset flow now preserves the selected custom anchor instead of wiping it.
• Long options pages now support proper mouse-wheel scrolling and correct content height instead of visually dead scrollbars.

What's new in v0.6.2

This release resolves compatibility and behavior issues on Classic Era / Season of Discovery (SoD) clients:

• Classic Era / SoD Guild display fix: Implemented a fallback parser that extracts the guild name from the tooltip bracketed text (e.g. <Guild Name>) when GetGuildInfo is restricted.
• Hiding empty brackets: Completely clears/hides the guild line when disabled rather than doing string substitution, avoiding trailing <> brackets on Classic Era clients.
• GetTalentInfo parameters: Corrected a parameter-mapping bug where group was being queried as isPet, which incorrectly triggered pet talent lookups.
• CanInspect warning resolved: Removed the redundant boolean argument from the CanInspect call.
• Robust test coverage: Added unit tests in TacoTip_Tests.lua to verify fallback guild parsing and hiding.
• Blizzard API reference mapping: Documented guidelines for using the wow-ui-source repository to cross-reference official Blizzard APIs.

What's new in v0.6.1

This release focuses on audit-driven correctness fixes, tooltip glitch investigation, and test suite hardening:

• tip_style no longer forced to 2: Config sanitizer no longer clobbers valid style selections (1, 3, 4, 5).
• GetQuality color fix: Green and blue channels now read from the correct table coefficients instead of being swapped.
• CAfter border bleed defense (generation-counter): The deferred border re-apply in ApplyTooltipAppearance now uses a generation counter (_borderDeferralGen) bumped on every clearTooltipVisuals(), so a stale CAfter from a previous player hover cannot contaminate a recycled tooltip. Combined with a direct backdrop write that bypasses the texture guard in applyTooltipBorderOverlay, the border is always reset to the configured base color on every tooltip recycle.
• Portrait/visual leak on map quest tooltips (CRITICAL): The onTooltipShow non-player branch (map POI icons, items, spells) now calls clearTooltipVisuals() instead of partial cleanup, fixing a bug where the portrait, 3D portrait, and power bar from a previous player hover could persist on non-unit tooltips when ClearLines() (used by map POI tooltips) skipped OnTooltipCleared.
• Elite frame portrait border removed: The show_elite_frame feature (dragon/star atlas overlays on the portrait for elite/rare/boss NPCs) used SetAtlas with Wrath-only atlas names that do not exist on TBC Classic. This created orphaned invisible texture frames that accumulated on the shared GameTooltip and could contribute to tooltip glitching. Removed entirely — creation, show/hide logic, config key, and options UI checkbox.
• Power bar cleanup: clearTooltipVisuals() now hides TacoTipPowerBar and stops its update ticker during tooltip transitions.
• Pawn API safety: PawnGetSingleValueFromItem is now wrapped in pcall like every other Pawn API call.
• Locale completion: 22 missing keys added to all 10 non-English locales with translated values; 4 missing keys added to enUS.lua.
• Test suite hardening: Portrait size assertions use float tolerance (math.abs(w - 42) < 0.01), Interface metadata test falls back to TOC constant when GetAddOnMetadata returns nil, and border bleed tests now use SetUnit("player") to ensure the tooltip is visible so OnTooltipCleared fires properly.
• Version bump: 0.6.0 → 0.6.1 — TOC, metadata, and CHANGELOG aligned.

How TacoTip compares

Tooltip details

TacoTip can add or customize all of the following on supported Classic-family clients:

• class-colored player names
• player titles
• guild names and optional guild-rank formatting
• target display
• faction/team icons and PvP icon handling
• talents / specialization display with class-colored names and spec icons
• GearScore and average item level
• optional Pawn score display when Pawn is installed and up to date
• item level, item GearScore, and HunterScore on item tooltips
• optional portrait display and portrait scaling
• configurable tooltip background, border, fonts, text size, and bar textures

Tooltip layouts behave as follows:

• Full / wide styles show the richer two-column style details, including combined GearScore + iLvl presentation.
• Compact styles keep the tooltip shorter while still showing key player data.
• Mini styles condense GearScore / iLvl / Pawn into a terse summary line.
• Player talent/spec lines now use colored spec names and icons instead of plain white text.
• Hostile non-player unit level numbers now follow Blizzard's own difficulty-color logic so the tooltip conveys XP relevance and danger more clearly.

Supported game versions

TBC Classic Anniversary patch 2.5.5 uses interface 20505, which is the target version this fork now validates against.

TacoTip is also compatible with Chinese Titanforge / private-server clients that report a Wrath-family 3.80.1 build, because the addon runtime accepts build major 3 and the Classic-era code paths remain enabled.

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Options UI layout

TacoTip Gearscore TBC now uses a parent category with focused child pages in the Blizzard AddOns/options tree. The AddOns list entry uses the addon title from TacoTip.toc, so it appears as TacoTip Gearscore TBC in the Blizzard options tree.

The root TacoTip page now also includes a language dropdown that follows the client locale by default and lets players save a different TacoTip language for the next /reload.

The Tooltips page also includes:

• guild-rank style selection
• class-tinted border/background options with alpha control
• border/background color swatches backed by the Blizzard color picker
• tooltip background and border texture selection with automatic SharedMedia pickup and Blizzard fallback
• optional unit portrait display and portrait scaling
• tooltip font selection with Blizzard fonts plus optional SharedMedia support
• tooltip text-size control
• shared health/power bar texture selection with wide single-dropdown strip previews
• scroll-wheel support on long pages and slider widgets
• clearer titled subsections and hover-help on custom widgets
• immediate preview refresh when supported media/font selections change

The root TacoTip page now also carries the lightweight behavior/client toggles that used to live on a separate sparse Advanced page:

• suppress inspection-style tooltip additions in combat
• Blizzard UberTooltips toggle
• chat class color CVar toggle
• Wrath-only achievement points toggle

Positioning workflow

• Use the Positioning page to choose between Blizzard default placement, mouse anchoring, or a saved custom tooltip position.
• Anchor Spells to Mouse applies the cursor-anchor behavior specifically to spell and action-button tooltips.
• When custom positioning is enabled, the Open Tooltip Mover button shows the live mover.
• Use the custom anchor dropdown to choose TOPLEFT, TOPRIGHT, BOTTOMLEFT, BOTTOMRIGHT, or CENTER.
• Resetting the mover position now snaps back to the selected anchor corner instead of silently clearing the chosen anchor.
• The green mover handle and the actual tooltip anchor now stay synchronized when the custom anchor changes.
• Use the Character & Inspect page to fine-tune overlay offsets with numeric fields and sliders, or unlock the overlay movers for manual drag placement.

Character & Inspect workflow

• Toggle GearScore overlays and average item level overlays independently.
• Use the numeric X/Y fields for precise placement.
• Use the sliders for quick visual tuning.
• Unlock overlay movers if you want to drag the labels directly on the paper doll / inspect frames.

SharedMedia and built-in media support

When LibSharedMedia-3.0 is present, TacoTip can automatically pick up additional:

• fonts
• statusbar textures
• background textures
• border textures

If no SharedMedia pack is installed, TacoTip still exposes expanded Blizzard fallback choices for fonts, bar textures, tooltip backgrounds, and tooltip borders.

Localization status

• New settings strings are authored in Locale/enUS.lua first.
• All shipped locale files now include the current options UI coverage used by the modern settings pages.
• The root options page includes a single language dropdown. By default TacoTip follows the current client locale, but players can save another supported locale and apply it on the next /reload.
• If a future key is missing in a locale, TacoTip still falls back to English through the existing merge behavior.

Available languages

Current localization work included in this build:

• aligned every shipped locale file with the modern options UI keys from enUS.lua
• updated the visible welcome/help ownership string to AcidBomb (Pilsung) across all locales
• preserved client-locale default behavior with manual override support from the root options page
• kept English fallback behavior for any future untranslated keys

Installation

1. Download the latest release.
2. Extract the TacoTip folder into your World of Warcraft Interface/AddOns folder.
3. Reload the UI or restart the game.
4. Use /tacotip or /taco to configure the addon.

Notes

Known Issues

• Pawn on Season of Discovery (fixed in 0.5.9): SoD-era Pawn does not expose PawnClassicLastUpdatedVersion, so the previous version-only load gate disabled Pawn entirely on SoD. The gate now also accepts Pawn's public API presence, and the spec lookup falls back to the primary spec because SoD runes replace talent trees (GetSpecialization can return nil). Pawn scores now display on SoD players. On TBC/Wrath where Pawn is ready immediately, scores show instantly. Pawn's own init-time "scale colors" message (if any) is logged by Pawn, not TacoTip, and is wrapped in pcall so it cannot crash a tooltip.
• Options preview is settings-driven and expands on Shift (fixed in 0.5.9): Every setting (style, class color, portrait, bars, fonts, textures, borders, alpha, and all content toggles) drives the preview directly with no keypress, and every setting feeds both the preview example AND your live in-game tooltip since both read the same config. The preview shows a fixed max-level ROGUE example (named AcidBomb) so it always looks the same regardless of your class. Hybrid styles (2/4) show their compact default and expand to full while Shift is held — exactly like the live tooltip.

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