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by Garwulf on December 9, 2009 · 14 comments

Everything is A-OK with my UI since the patch, with the exception of SL Data Text. Actually, it’d been tossing the occasional error back for the past month or two, but still displayed fine. Now it won’t display zone text at all.

Here’s what I found over at WoWInterface when looking for Patch 3.3 updates…

“I am no longer player WoW, or updating any WoW AddOns I previously maintained. This AddOn is available to anyone to continue development on, but from this point on will remain in it’s ‘current’ state.”

That was of course from the developer. Rather than hacking the files, I’d rather just jump on with something that’s being actively updated.

Anyone know of a good stat block addon that isn’t FuBar? I suppose I could go back to Fu, but I really liked the simpilicty of SLDT. ‘Course if I find anything in the meantime, I’ll be sure to post it here.

Other than that, things seem to be workin’ just fine.

Tagged as: addons, patch 3.3, user interface

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1 Barrah December 9, 2009 at 2:52 pm

I’d try LDB plugins (Data Broker) and something like Fortress.

2 Garwulf December 11, 2009 at 12:53 am: Thanks Barrah, I’ll check it out.

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3 Guster December 9, 2009 at 4:50 pm

If you’re not opposed to editing Lua files in place, I got SLDT’s ZoneText working by commenting out lines 197 and 238.

4 Guster December 9, 2009 at 5:00 pm

Gah. Sorry, posted too soon. Then grabbed some coffee.

Try commenting out lines 197 and 238 of Elements/ZoneText.lua. They both reference MinimapToggleButton which seems to be the culprit.

I haven’t noticed any other issues so far.

5 Garwulf December 9, 2009 at 5:24 pm

Thanks Guster! I’ll try that.

6 dusty December 9, 2009 at 8:54 pm

If you just open up the ZoneText.lua file in the addon and comment out (– at the beginning of the line) lines 197 and 238, then your the problem will go away.

7 Attica December 9, 2009 at 11:36 pm

For the record, Fubar has not been updated for a few months and has been spitting out errors ever since 3.3. Glad to hear you found a possible solution.

8 Martbenzak December 9, 2009 at 11:42 pm

Somebody has already started a git repository for sldata with the above mentioned edits. It appears they’re trying to keep the addon up to date now that the original developer isn’t playing.

http://github.com/Sokka/SLDataText

9 chedwa December 9, 2009 at 11:46 pm

I haven’t tried the above mentioned fix but if all else fails, other than waiting for SLDataText to be updated. Here are two alternatives I found on the World of Warcraft forums, Mod to replace SLDT.

LiteStats

SBC

Others posted on the forum either are out of date or require lua config.

10 Rackham-Cenarius December 13, 2009 at 6:54 am

Hmm… surprised no one’s mentioned this, but STtext is a *direct* replacement for sldatatext.

http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info13975-stText.html

and is updated for patch 3.3. Also make sure you download the optionals that the garwulf ui needs use – stText Folks, stText Gold and stText Bags.

11 Raybeez February 5, 2010 at 1:11 pm

I’m slowly but surley working on LUA files.Trying to find out what files open lua files and how tweak and make addons work proper.If anyone know what applications open them I’m more than willing to try and tweak my broken ones.

12 Garwulf February 5, 2010 at 2:19 pm: Raybeez,

Just rename the file, changing the .lua to a .txt extension. Open it in notepad or textedit (mac) and make the necessary changes, click save, then name it back to .lua. Easy as that.

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13 Doghaus April 9, 2010 at 3:37 am

BAH, doesn’t work in windows 7, once you change it to .txt it changes the file type to Text and doesn’t let you change it back. Any suggestions, guys?

14 Garwulf April 9, 2010 at 11:38 am: D/L the updated version of SL Data Text. Another programmer picked up the project and fixed it.

http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info8539-SLDataText.html

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