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Time to Drink Forever

Your tank pulled the whole room. Again. Your healer is at 4% mana, clutching a drink they never got to open. Time To Drink watches their mana and tells the party to hold the pull. Hydrated healers keep you alive.
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Description

Time To Drink (Forever) - WoW Forever addon  v1.0.0-beta
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By Jifferoni / Deedee Megadoodu

WHY THIS EXISTS
  Your tank pulled the whole room. Again. Your healer is at 4% mana,
  clutching a drink they never got to open. Time To Drink watches their
  mana and tells the party to hold the pull. Hydrated healers keep you
  alive.

INSTALL
  Copy the "TimeToDrink_Forever" folder into:
     <World of Warcraft>\_forever_\Interface\AddOns\
  (During the beta the folder may be _classic_beta_ instead.)
  You should end up with:
     ...\Interface\AddOns\TimeToDrink_Forever\TimeToDrink_Forever.toc
     ...\Interface\AddOns\TimeToDrink_Forever\TimeToDrink_Forever.lua
  Restart the game (a new addon folder isn't picked up by /reload).
  If the AddOns list says "out of date", tick "Load out of date AddOns":
  the interface number (16001) is the beta value and may change at launch.

OPENING IT
  /ttd, the addon compartment button (the little drawer by the minimap),
  or Options > AddOns > Time To Drink.

THE WINDOW
  - Healer: pick from your group. Solo, you are picked automatically.
    Joining a new party clears it and opens the window.
  - Live mana bar: blue, turns amber below Low and red below OOM.
    The red and amber zones and marker lines show where alerts fire.
  - Sliders: Low and OOM. Low always stays at least 5% above OOM;
    raising OOM pushes Low up with it. Mouse wheel nudges by 1%.
  - Repeat alerts every: 10 to 120 seconds in 5 second steps.
  - Switches: party chat alerts, on-screen warning (only you see it),
    sound, and a movable mini mana bar overlay.
  - Messages: Low mana / OOM / Healer picked tabs, clickable tokens
    {healer} {mana} {threshold} {oom}, and a live preview.
    Enter saves, Escape cancels, empty restores the default.

WOW FOREVER LIMITS (why there is a probe)
  WoW Forever may hide some values from addons ("secret values") and may
  block addons from sending chat inside instances. This build handles
  both without errors:
  - If the healer's mana is hidden, the bar still fills (the game draws
    it) but the addon can't compare it, so no alert fires. The window
    says "hidden in combat".
  - If chat is locked, party messages are skipped and the on-screen
    warning still shows. The footer says "Chat blocked here".

/ttd probe
  Prints what your client allows: build, whether your and your healer's
  mana is readable, and whether chat is locked. "/ttd probe chat" also
  sends one test line to party chat plus a hidden addon message and
  reports whether they arrived. Please run it:
    1. in a city, in a party
    2. inside a dungeon, out of combat
    3. inside a dungeon, in combat
  The last result is also saved in
    WTF\Account\<name>\SavedVariables\TimeToDrink_Forever.lua
  so you can send that file instead of screenshots.

COMMANDS
  /ttd             open / close the window
  /ttd probe       report what this client allows
  /ttd probe chat  probe plus a real chat + addon message test
  /ttd test        show a sample on-screen warning
  /ttd bar         show / hide the mini mana bar
  /ttd lock        lock / unlock the mini mana bar
  /ttd scale 0.9   resize the window (0.6 to 1.4)
  /ttd reset       recenter the window and mini bar
  /ttd status      print current settings

CREDITS
  Title font: Pirata One by Rodrigo Fuenzalida and Nicolas Massi,
  used under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (see Fonts\PirataOne-OFL.txt).

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