Please help with an addon that lets me set the orders of my party members

Hi everyone!

I was wondering if anyone knew of an addon that would let you set the order of your party members? so for example, i can always have Toon_A be first slot (instead of having it always be yourself), ToonB be second slot (and not always party leader), ToonC be third slot, etc.

Reason being i use a macro to heal the party member based on their party positioning. and so when i hit f3 to heal the 3rd target member, different boxes will be healing different toons, which throws me off. ?(

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance! :)

i think pitbull unit frames alow some modification like abc order or reverse abc order, but the problem still with that is your group leader's will always have the different set up than the rest since leader is always patry1 exept on the leaders screen where someone else is party1. i go buy name spicific macro, for healing. or mouseover works well if your main is the healer.

my group always forms up in the same order, frankd - frankc - frankb - franka and Myfcrew is always the leader. no mater what order i invite them and i use x-perl.
another thing i find usefull is when i have a tank in my multi-box team i still have my healer as my main screen but ever one is always following the tank, and i do this by setting the tanks movment keys to something different. takes a bit of getting used to controlling him this ways but i find it works better then having a bunch of macros on the healer and just mousing over whoever i have to heal.

There is a way to get the party frame to show toons in an explicit order. If anyone has some time to modify a unitframe mod you basically do the following:

Code:

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-- self.mPartyFrame would be the frame inheriting SecurePartyHeaderTemplate
self.mPartyFrame:SetAttribute("showPlayer", true)
self.mPartyFrame:SetAttribute("nameList", "Muddwhite,Muddblack,Muddred,Muddgreen,Muddblue")

---

This will show the party in that order for everyone. With click casting and mouse broadcast you could setup your party frame to allow for assist lag free healing and other things you would like to do on your party.

I personally have an extensive macro configuration for this. Basically I make 5 macros on each, one for each party member 1-4 and one for the character itself. Basic order of the macros can be /cast [target=player] Healing Wave Substitute player with party1-4 for the other macros.

Lets say we have characters A, B, C, D, and E The easy way to see how you need to reference them in the default UI is explained in a matrix.

On each row you can see who the one on the left needs to target the one up top.

Code:

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x        A        B        C        D        E
A        player        party1        party2        party3        party4
B        party1        player        party2        party3        party4
C        party1        party2        player        party3        party4
D        party1        party2        party3        player        party4
E        party1        party2        party3        party4        player

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The way I do it is pretty straightforward, I'm going to need the macros anyway so pretty much everyone has 5 macros one for targeting himself and 4 for the other party members, then I just bind the self one on the correct position and voila works like a charm every time.

Of course you can do it the hard way and insert those lua codes, but I don't really think making you see the characters in different positions would really help. Especially if, as I believe the default ui doesn't even know what party5 means.

Hope this helps someone. =)

Thanks for the ideas. Appreciate you two taking the time out to help. :)