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. 😀
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?
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
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.
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. 🙂
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.
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Others posted on the forum either are out of date or require lua config.
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
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. 🙂
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.
Thanks Guster! I’ll try that. 🙂
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.
If you’re not opposed to editing Lua files in place, I got SLDT’s ZoneText working by commenting out lines 197 and 238.
I’d try LDB plugins (Data Broker) and something like Fortress.
Thanks Barrah, I’ll check it out.