Chinon is configurable unit frames add-on. It displays one or several buttons for each player and pet in your party/raid, sorted by class or group. Clicking on these buttons cast a configurable spell or run a macro.
The unit frame displays optionally:
- a life bar
- an incoming heal bar (using LibHealComm-3.0, like Grid)
- a damage bar (how much damage was received in last four seconds)
- one or more debuffs: part of the unit frame background color changes, for example the left part could become blue when a magic, poison or disease is applied to the target if your left button dispell these
- colored debuffs: yellow means mana drain or loss of control, red means unstable affliction
- customizable range trackers: display a dot if the unit is in range for your spells
- buff: displays chosen buffs as a stack size. The text turns red if the buff expires. Used for example for life bloom.
- an aggro tracker, that displays a red dot in the middle of the button if target of target is target
The goal of this add-on is to provide information with clear color codes, so that you can react quickly in raid, arena or battleground.
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r44 | Sidoine | 2008-10-23 23:32:09 +0000 (Thu, 23 Oct 2008) | 1 line
Changed paths:
A /tags/3.0.2 (from /trunk:43)
made a copy
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r43 | Sidoine | 2008-10-23 23:31:50 +0000 (Thu, 23 Oct 2008) | 3 lines
Changed paths:
M /trunk/Chinon.lua
M /trunk/DefautOptions.lua
Chinon:
- bug when adding a buff tracker
- riptide added to shaman default spells (shift right)
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r41 | Sidoine | 2008-10-20 22:11:46 +0000 (Mon, 20 Oct 2008) | 3 lines
Changed paths:
M /trunk/SoinBouton.lua
Chinon:
- buff expiration time corrected
- use the new threat API to display which players have aggro
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r39 | Sidoine | 2008-10-15 22:36:41 +0000 (Wed, 15 Oct 2008) | 2 lines
Changed paths:
M /trunk/Chinon.lua
M /trunk/Chinon.toc
M /trunk/SoinBouton.lua
A /trunk/embeds.xml
Chinon:
- 3.0 support
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r38 | Sidoine | 2008-10-05 19:13:27 +0000 (Sun, 05 Oct 2008) | 2 lines
Changed paths:
M /trunk/Chinon.toc
Chinon:
- libbabblespell was not removed from toc
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r36 | Sidoine | 2008-10-05 18:48:50 +0000 (Sun, 05 Oct 2008) | 6 lines
Changed paths:
M /trunk
M /trunk/.pkgmeta
M /trunk/Chinon.lua
M /trunk/DefautOptions.lua
M /trunk/Locale/enUS.lua
M /trunk/Locale/frFR.lua
M /trunk/SoinBouton.lua
Chinon:
- simple aggro tracker (displays a red dot if targettarget is target)
- option to show/hide this tracked added
- removed obsolete libbabblespell reference
- libincomingheal reference corrected
- pkgmeta corrected
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r35 | root | 2008-09-29 22:17:01 +0000 (Mon, 29 Sep 2008) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk
A /trunk/.pkgmeta
Facilitate WowAce-on-CurseForge transition
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r33 | root | 2008-09-29 20:57:44 +0000 (Mon, 29 Sep 2008) | 1 line
Changed paths:
D /tmp/trunk/Chinon
A /trunk (from /tmp/trunk/Chinon:32)
Importing old repo data under /trunk
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r32 | Sidoine | 2008-09-13 11:07:41 +0000 (Sat, 13 Sep 2008) | 3 lines
Changed paths:
M /tmp/trunk/Chinon/Chinon.lua
M /tmp/trunk/Chinon/DefautOptions.lua
M /tmp/trunk/Chinon/FrameSoin.lua
M /tmp/trunk/Chinon/SoinBouton.lua
Chinon:
- more than one buff icon may be displayed at once
- better priest default configuration
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r29 | Sidoine | 2008-07-15 20:58:30 +0000 (Tue, 15 Jul 2008) | 2 lines
Changed paths:
M /tmp/trunk/Chinon/EcranOptions.lua
M /tmp/trunk/Chinon/FrameSoin.lua
M /tmp/trunk/Chinon/SoinBouton.lua
Chinon:
- bug fixes when adding a new button
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r27 | Sidoine | 2008-04-20 16:14:10 +0000 (Sun, 20 Apr 2008) | 2 lines
Changed paths:
M /tmp/trunk/Chinon/SoinBouton.lua
Chinon:
- wider incoming heal bar
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r26 | Sidoine | 2008-04-19 14:35:53 +0000 (Sat, 19 Apr 2008) | 3 lines
Changed paths:
M /tmp/trunk/Chinon/FrameSoin.lua
M /tmp/trunk/Chinon/SoinBouton.lua
M /tmp/trunk/Chinon/SoinBouton.xml
A /tmp/trunk/Chinon/Texture
A /tmp/trunk/Chinon/Texture/SoinBouton.tga
Chinon:
- fix memory usage
- add frame border
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r25 | sayclub | 2008-04-14 01:06:07 +0000 (Mon, 14 Apr 2008) | 2 lines
Changed paths:
M /tmp/trunk/Chinon/Chinon.toc
A /tmp/trunk/Chinon/Locale/koKR.lua
Chinon:
- Added koKR translation
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r24 | Sidoine | 2008-04-13 15:32:00 +0000 (Sun, 13 Apr 2008) | 2 lines
Changed paths:
M /tmp/trunk/Chinon
Chinon:
-Fix external reference
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r23 | Sidoine | 2008-04-13 13:03:48 +0000 (Sun, 13 Apr 2008) | 2 lines
Changed paths:
M /tmp/trunk/Chinon/FrameSoin.lua
Chinon:
- bug with pets in party
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r22 | Sidoine | 2008-04-13 12:48:40 +0000 (Sun, 13 Apr 2008) | 2 lines
Changed paths:
M /tmp/trunk/Chinon/DefautOptions.lua
Chinon:
- priest default to superior heal instead of normal (low level) heal
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r21 | Sidoine | 2008-04-13 10:21:55 +0000 (Sun, 13 Apr 2008) | 3 lines
Changed paths:
M /tmp/trunk/Chinon/Chinon.lua
M /tmp/trunk/Chinon/Chinon.toc
M /tmp/trunk/Chinon/SoinBouton.lua
Chinon:
- should recreate the spell list when it changes
- fix bug where debuffs were not correctly colored
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r20 | Sidoine | 2008-04-12 23:48:10 +0000 (Sat, 12 Apr 2008) | 3 lines
Changed paths:
M /tmp/trunk/Chinon/Chinon.lua
M /tmp/trunk/Chinon/FrameSoin.lua
M /tmp/trunk/Chinon/SoinBouton.lua
Chinon:
- Party was not correctly updated
- Labels were not aligned with buttons
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r19 | Sidoine | 2008-04-12 22:22:02 +0000 (Sat, 12 Apr 2008) | 3 lines
Changed paths:
M /tmp/trunk/Chinon
M /tmp/trunk/Chinon/Chinon.toc
Chinon:
- Setting externals
- Fix a typo in Chinon.toc
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r18 | Sidoine | 2008-04-12 22:04:07 +0000 (Sat, 12 Apr 2008) | 2 lines
Changed paths:
A /tmp/trunk/Chinon
A /tmp/trunk/Chinon/Chinon.lua
A /tmp/trunk/Chinon/Chinon.toc
A /tmp/trunk/Chinon/Data.lua
A /tmp/trunk/Chinon/DefautOptions.lua
A /tmp/trunk/Chinon/EcranOptions.lua
A /tmp/trunk/Chinon/FrameSoin.lua
A /tmp/trunk/Chinon/FrameSoin.xml
A /tmp/trunk/Chinon/Locale
A /tmp/trunk/Chinon/Locale/enUS.lua
A /tmp/trunk/Chinon/Locale/frFR.lua
A /tmp/trunk/Chinon/SoinBouton.lua
A /tmp/trunk/Chinon/SoinBouton.xml
Chinon: initial commit
- Heal and decurse by clicking on customizable raid/party unit frames
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Installation Guide
- Exit "World of Warcraft" completely
- Download the mod you want to install
- Make a folder on your desktop called "My Mods"
- Save the .zip/.rar files to this folder.
- If, when you try to download the file, it automatically "opens" it... you need to RIGHT click on the link and "save as..." or "Save Target As".
- Extract the file - commonly known as 'unzipping'
Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!
- Windows
- Windows XP has a built in ZIP extractor. Double click on the file to open it, inside should be the file or folders needed. Copy these outside to the "My Mods" folder.
- WinRAR: Right click the file, select "Extract Here"
- WinZip: You MUST make sure the option to "Use Folder Names" is CHECKED or it will just extract the files and not make the proper folders how the Authors designed
- Mac Users
- StuffitExpander: Double click the archive to extract it to a folder in the current directory.
- Verify your WoW Installation Path
That is where you are running WoW from and THAT is where you need to install your mods.
- Move to the Addon folder
- Open your World of Warcraft folder. (default is C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\)
- Go into the "Interface" folder.
- Go into the "AddOns" folder.
- In a new window, open the "My Mods" folder.
- The "My Mods" folder should have the "Addonname" folder in it.
- Move the "Addonname" folder into the "AddOns" folder
- Start World of Warcraft
- Make sure AddOns are installed
- Log in
- At the Character Select screen, look in lower left corner for the "addons" button.
- If button is there: make sure all the mods you installed are listed and make sure "load out of date addons" is checked.
- If the button is NOT there: means you did not install the addons properly. Look at the above screenshots. Try repeating the steps or getting someone who knows more about computers than you do to help.
Translations
When you download a mod, please be sure that the mod is compatible with your translation of wow. Some mods only work on the US versions, while some only work on some of the various European versions. These variations are called "Localizations".
TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)
When Blizzard patches WoW, they change the Interface number. This means that all mods will be "out of date" unless or until the author releases a new version for that interface. Some people go into the .toc files and update the numbers themselves, but this is STRONGLY advised against as it will cause problems locating possible incompatibilities addons. When you log into WoW after a patch, you DO NOT have to delete your interface directory. All you have to do is simply tell WoW to ignore the interface numbers and load all the mods anyway. All you have to do is, while at the "character select" screen, look in the lower left corner and click on the "addons" button. A window will pop up listing all your installed mods.
If you look in the upper left corner of that window there should be a box that says "Load Out of Date AddOns". You want to CHECK this box. Now simply go into WoW normally and all your mods should load. As of the 1.9 patch, you will have to do this after EVERY patch/update that Blizzard posts! If you encounter any problems with a mod after a patch, please be sure to let the author of the mod know so they can fix it.
See also: About "Out Of Date AddOns"
Mac Support
WoW addons are not platformed based. As such, they can be used on either Mac or PC. You can extract both .zip and .rar files on a Mac using StuffitExpander.
Directory Structure
World of Warcraft
|_ Interface
|_AddOns
|_*AddonName*
|_ *AddonName*.toc
|_ *AddonName*.xml
|_ *AddonName*.lua
|_ (possibly others as well)...
