[How To] Mod Trinity Bars 2.0 to have "focustarget" in the target options.

I hit 70 recently and promised myself I would rework all my mods, macros and key bindings to be more streamlined and efficient (as well as taking less ram). I was working with Trinity2 and was surprised that in the button options you could target pretty much anything except "focustarget". I thought to myself, "how hard could it be to include that as one of the options?".

Turns out... not that hard at all.

Trinity2 generally comes with the following folders:
Trinity2
TrinityBars2
TrinityCastBars
TrinityXP (though this is an entirely optional addition)

Inside the TrinityBars2 folder you will find a lua file entitled "bars.lua". Open this file and go to line 88 which looks like this:

Code:

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local targetNames = { "none", "player", "pet", "target", "targettarget", "focus", "mouseover", "party1", "party2", "party3", "party4" }

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Simply add "focustarget" in there at the end to make it look like this:

Code:

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local targetNames = { "none", "player", "pet", "target", "targettarget", "focus", "mouseover", "party1", "party2", "party3", "party4", "focustarget" }

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Before Shots:

This is options panel I am talking about:
http://www.theitmonkey.com/images/mu...od/before1.jpg
I am setting a button 2 to be a spell... I have also selected Opt1 to be "target" and now I want to set a value of target:
http://www.theitmonkey.com/images/mu...od/before2.jpg
Notice that before modding Trinity "focustarget" is not an option, although "focus" is. But I don't want to shoot a fireball at my focus.

Here is the list AFTER the mod:
http://www.theitmonkey.com/images/mu...yMod/after.jpg
Now "focustarget" is part of the list.

Now I can drag any spell to that button on the bar and have it target=focustarget.

I have tested this and it works.

Hope this comes in handy.

Other than the nifty mod of trinity that you have shown, you have also shown me functionality in the mod that I hadn't looked at. Maybe I wont have to write out macro's for all my spells after all :D
Then again I guess macros are more versatile with the various conditions.

Yes, macros are much more versatile. But I don't believe that all spells need a macro. Fireball for instance. I don't need to put the modifiers in there that cancel it if the mob is dead or friendly or doesn't exist... wow already wont cast a fireball at a friendly target, or a dead one, or one that doesn't exist. (/cast [target=god] fireball. WoW:"Error, unit does not exist")

Macros are good for /castsequences though... so you'll never get rid of macros all together. What I do like about the mod is I can switch out the spell that goes on that button on the fly without having to edit a macro.

Thanks for sharing this. I have been wanting to try another bar mod (currently using Bongos2) ever since I setup my 5 box interface. I have been too scared to make the leap because of the time it would take and I may just end up with something like I already had. Now you have shared this hack I will be definetly making the jump to trinity bars. I will make sometime to do so this weekend.

IT Monkey, I love you and Hate you. I spent hours setting up Bongos3 and getting all my Macro's right, now you make it so much easier. I will change over to Trinity tonite.

I was lucky and had already changed to trinity when I started multiboxing :)
I only wrote macros for spells that I thought could need it (i like to make them so that any char can be the main by just changing focus), but with this fix I might need macros for even less of them, will have to test this out when I get time.

This is great - the lack of focustarget was the only thing i could fault Trinity for - its an amazing bar mod and you just made it perfect!

while you are modding the list focustargettarget is another very useful unitid, especially for healers/paladins

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Originally Posted by 'Djarid',index.php?page=Thread&postID=53689#post53 689

while you are modding the list focustargettarget is another very useful unitid, especially for healers/paladins

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I didn't know that was a valid target option. If it is just add it like I added "focustarget". You can add any valid target that would work normally with target=.

Thanks for the kudos guys but all I did is what I normally do when something doesn't work the way I want it to... poke it with a stick until it does.. if it refuses to cooperate I fling poo at it. That's why I am the monkey.