Getting the "Font not set" error?
Make sure both the Font -> Font Face, as well as the Bars -> Font Face is properly set to a valid font.
TipTac - An Advanced Tooltip Addon
TipTac is a tooltip enchancement addon, it allows you to configure various aspects of the tooltip, such as moving where it's shown, the font, the scale of tips, plus a lot more.
To open the option dialog, just use "/tip" without any parameters. Use "/tip anchor" to show the anchor frame and position it as you want.
You can always get the latest release of this addon on Curse.
Please post your comments, questions and suggestions for this addon there.
Current Features
- Shows the buffs and debuffs of the target with cooldown models. Has options to make it only show the ones you cast.
- When in a raid or party, there is an option to show who from the group is targeting the unit.
- Vast anchoring options allows you to change between Normal, Mouse and Parent anchor, this is configurable for both unit and non-unit tips on a frame or non-frames.
- Anchoring frame lets you decide exactly where you want tips with the normal anchoring option.
- Able to change the font face and size for all tips in the User Interface. Uses "LibSharedMedia" if installed.
- Can show a Health, Mana, Energy, Rage, Runic Power or Focus bar inside the tip, which can be enabled or disabled as you prefer.
- Tips are getting updated at a customizable interval to display changes.
- Configurable fading options, both a prefade and fadeout time can be set. They can also be set to zero if you prefer the tips to just hide instantly.
- Allows for you to change the background and border color of the TipTacTip and any of the modified tip.
Layout Templates
Currently TipTac comes with a few presets, these are a collection of preset settings. You can find the presets in the options. I am looking for more layout presets to include in future releases of TipTac. So feel free to post your saved settings.
Special Tip Modification
TipTac does not only configure the tip for units, you can also use TipTac to modify other tips in the WoW Interface. The way they are getting modified are both in scale and appearance. The border and background of the modified tips can be changed to colors of your desire. You can disable this appearance change by disabling the option "Hook Special Tips" under the General tab of the options dialog. Currently these tips are getting modified, but you can add more if you wish by editing the "TipTac\core.lua" file. GameTooltip, ShoppingTooltip1, ShoppingTooltip2, ShoppingTooltip3, ItemRefTooltip, WorldMapTooltip, AtlasLootTooltip and QuestHelperTooltip.
Other TipTac Addons
There are two other addons, included in the TipTac package, which improves tip functionality in WoW. First one is "TipTacTalents", which will show player talents in the tip. The second addon is "TipTacItemRef", which improves the look of the ItemRefTooltip, which is the one shown when clicking on an item, spell or achievement link in the chat. Please refer to each addon's readme.txt file for more information regarding their functionality.
Saving Settings Per Character
If you prefer to have TipTac configured differently on each of your characters, you will have to manually edit the "TipTac.toc" file. In this file, you will have to locate "SavedVariables", and change it into "SavedVariablesPerCharacter". You must restart WoW for it to take effect, and it will reset your current settings.
Lacking Features, Ideas & Problems
- There is an issue with the Chat Frame Hyperlink hooking.
- Add glyph and npc support for the TipTacItemRef addon.
- Colorblind mode does not work properly with owned combat pets with a custom name.
- ItemRefTooltip: Does not support "archaeology". The "currency" type should be supported now, but need verification.
- ItemRefTooltip does not position well if scaled below 1.
- Add hover tips to "GuildBankMessageFrame".
- Add more slash command to change settings, this will allow people to reconfigure TipTac on the fly, without opening the config window. Great for multiple specs etc.
- Sometimes tips may not fade for a mage's mirror images. This happens because GTT:GetUnit() does not return a unit token when you mouse over them.
- Even with the option "Instantly Hide World Frame Tips", some tips still fades out, this is because TipTac uses a "mouse cursor change" event to find out when to instantly hide world tips. But since not all world objects change the mouse cursor, you wont see tips fading out instantly for them.
- Change the font of the "GameTooltipMoneyFrame" texts.
- Adding a castbar in addition to the already existing health and power bar.
Been struggling with TipTac failing to skin Inventory Items & Bag Items (Issue #217), so I decided I would just edit a texture and hopefully that is the fix, until this is updated. Keep in mind, I did this to match my skin choice, so it might not be for everyone.
Current Skinning in TipTac:
Before Changing Texture:
After Changing Texture:
If you want the same effect, you merely need to do the following:
Hope this helps a few people!
Love the addon
still have the problem where some item and inventory dont get skinned also the auctioneer tooltip
this is fixed in the version for bcc, but broke border coloring
Hey!
Great addon, but I can't see raider.io's raid progress anymore :/ - any fix for that?
Edit: I found it haha.
Feature request
Will you consider adding also showing the name of the player's covenant in the tooltip?
In reply to JukiKatzuki:
Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think this is possible. I read somewhere that Blizzard made it so that the covenant information can't be pulled from the game (not sure how, blocked an API I guess, I'm not a programmer) so that's why no other tooltip addon has done this feature.
There is a sort of work around though. Someone did create an addon that does list a person's covenant in the tooltip, but it works off of a manual database like a Raid IO score. It's not 100%, but it updates roughly about twice a week so it does a good job at least for me.
https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/whats-your-covenant
Hope this helps.
Is there an option to display that an enemy corpse is skinable ?
This is a very missing feature.
Would be very nice to see an official update for WoW Classic (BC)! :)
There are (afaik) no other tooltip addons... we need this! :P
In reply to Aur0r491:
Just realized that it is working for TBC Classic (for me). I had some problems with backdrop insets first, but after re-set the values for it, everything seems like to be OK. Oh and make sure to disable the TipTac_Talents plugin.
Just one thing that really drives me nuts is that the custom-borders are not apply when you mouseover items from your bag or in character stats screen. This bug is also present in retail.
I really wish a fix for that...would even pay for it lol ..
In reply to Aur0r491:
Had issues when mouse-over a target that would grant no EXP (leveltext = gray).
Seems like this fixed it for me in WoW Classic TBC:
open ttStyle.lua
replace
line #4
local UnitQuestTrivialLevelRange = UnitQuestTrivialLevelRange;
with
local GetQuestGreenRange = GetQuestGreenRange;
and
line #55
elseif (level >= -UnitQuestTrivialLevelRange("player")) then
with
elseif (level >= -GetQuestGreenRange("player")) then
is there a way to make it anchor to a specific spot on the screen only when in combat and otherwise have it at the cursor?
Desperate for a fix on TBCC!
Getting a LUA error when anchor point is set to "Bottom Left".
Message: Interface\FrameXML\GameTooltip.lua:161: Action[SetPoint] failed because[SetPoint would result in anchor family connection]: attempted from: GameTooltip:SetPoint. Time: Thu May 20 17:28:48 2021 Count: 24 Stack: Interface\FrameXML\GameTooltip.lua:161: Action[SetPoint] failed because[SetPoint would result in anchor family connection]: attempted from: GameTooltip:SetPoint. [string "=[C]"]: in function `SetPoint' [string "@Interface\FrameXML\GameTooltip.lua"]:161: in function <Interface\FrameXML\GameTooltip.lua:159> [string "=[C]"]: in function `GameTooltip_SetDefaultAnchor' [string "@Interface\FrameXML\UnitFrame.lua"]:461: in function `UnitFrame_UpdateTooltip' [string "@Interface\FrameXML\UnitFrame.lua"]:452: in function <Interface\FrameXML\UnitFrame.lua:451> Locals: (*temporary) = GameTooltip { 0 = <userdata> fadeOut = 2 OnBackdropLoaded = <function> defined @Interface\SharedXML\Backdrop.lua:195 ItemTooltip = <unnamed> { } SetHyperlink = <function> defined =[C]:-1 RightEdge = <unnamed> { } ClearBackdrop = <function> defined @Interface\SharedXML\Backdrop.lua:325 default = 1 SetLootItem = <function> defined =[C]:-1 FadeOut = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\TipTac\ttCore.lua:855 numMoneyFrames = 1 SetRecipeReagentItem = <function> defined =[C]:-1 SetBuybackItem = <function> defined =[C]:-1 TMW_SetSpellByIDWithClassIcon = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\TellMeWhen\Components\Core\Spells\ClassSpellCache.lua:212 SetMerchantItem = <function> defined =[C]:-1 SetupTextureCoordinates = <function> defined @Interface\SharedXML\Backdrop.lua:257 TopRightCorner = <unnamed> { } ttIcon = <unnamed> { } GetEdgeSize = <function> defined @Interface\SharedXML\Backdrop.lua:231 SetInventoryItem = <function> defined =[C]:-1 TopEdge = <unnamed> { } ttCount = <unnamed> { } SetLootRollItem = <function> defined =[C]:-1 SetBagItem = <function> defined =[C]:-1 BottomRightCorner = <unnamed> { } SetBackdropColor = <function> defined @Interface\SharedXML\Backdrop.lua:442 LeftEdge = <unnamed> { } textLeft1Font = "GameTooltipHeaderText" SetGuildBankItem = <function> defined =[C]:-1 updateTooltipTimer = 0.067000 TopLeftCorner = <unnamed> { } Hide = <function> defined =[C]:-1 comparing = false waitingForData = false textRight2Font = "GameTooltipText" __tamedCounts = false BottomEdge = <unnamed> { } SetBackdrop = <function> defined @Interface\SharedXML\Backdrop.lua:372 hasMoney = 1 TopOverlay = <unnamed> { } GetBackdropBorderColor = <function> defined @Interface\SharedXML\Backdrop.lua:452 GetBackdrop = <function> defined @Interface\SharedXML\Backdrop.lua:390 SetUnitDebuff = <function> defined =[C]:-1 SetHeirloomByItemID = <function> defined =[C]:-1 SetQuestItem = <function> defined =[C]:-1 SetTradeTargetItem = <function> defined =[C]:-1 SetBorderBlendMode = <function> defined @Interface\SharedXML\Backdrop.lua:309 SetTrainerService = <function> defined =[C]:-1 GetBackdropColor = <function> defined @Interface\SharedXML\Backdrop.lua:433 SetBackdropBorderColor = <function> defined @Interface\SharedXML\Backdrop.lua:465 BottomLeftCorner = <unnamed> { } SetInboxItem = <function> defined =[C]:-1 SetIconTextureAndText = <function> defined @Interface\AddOns\TipTacItemRef\ttItemRef.lua:62 shoppingTooltips = <table> { } SetItemByID = <function> defined =[C]:-1 SetQuestLogItem = <function> defined =[C]:-1 Center = <unnamed> { } OnBackdropSizeChanged = <function> defined @Interface\SharedXML\Backdrop.lua:225 SetUnitBuff = <function> defined =[C]:-1 SetExistingSocketGem = <function> defined =[C]:-1 SetTradePlayerItem = <function> defined =[C]:-1 textRight1Font = "GameTooltipHeaderText" SetSendMailItem = <function> defined =[C]:-1 backdropInfo = <table> { } TextRight1 = GameTooltipTextRight1 { } textLeft2Font = "GameTooltipText" ttGradient = <unnamed> { } TextRight2 = GameTooltipTextRight2 { } TextLeft2 = GameTooltipTextLeft2 { } SetUnitAura = <function> defined =[C]:-1 Applywrong section
Anyone got a fix for Burning Crusade Classic?
Sometimes when I hoover the mouse over items in my bags the info window is where it is suppose to be to the left of the item I am checking, but others and mostly the info window is centered or to the right over the item I am checking in my bags.
Hello, I'm having an issue with the tooltip border for items, my settings are working great with skills tooltips, I'm using 1 pixel border, but when it's an item tooltip the border it's the default one always, the color change option works fine and I'm using the ItemRef addon too. Anyway to get the item tooltip to have the border I choose? Thanks.
In reply to an_hell:
Same issue here, I wonder if someone managed to get item tooltip borders to match TipTac settings. There are a few comments here but no solution for now.
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This is a great addon. I've been using it for a while and love the customizability.
The only thing I'd love to see is a "Player item level" option for the tiptac window.
Maybe something that can just simply show the item level they have currently equipped like "<206>" or "<193>" next to their talents or their name in a green color. Something along those lines.
Any chance of this? Is it possible to do? We can already see player talents which is nice, but would be nice to see player ilvl too.