GridCustomLayouts / Seperate Frame for your toons.

In referrence to this thread here:

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Originally Posted by Oatboat

GridLayout:AddLayout(L["Custom"], {
defaults = {
-- nameList = "Anona,Anonb,Anonc,Anond,Handyl,Shambyl,Bramby l,Gr endyl,Berrt,Erniee,Oscaar,Elmmo,Hannsal,Gretal,Jaa ckk,Jjill",
-- groupFilter = "",
-- sortMethod = "NAME"
-- sortDir = "ASC"
-- strictFiltering = true,
-- unitsPerColumn = 5, -- treated specifically to do the right thing when available
-- maxColumns = 5, -- mandatory if unitsPerColumn is set, or defaults to 1
-- isPetGroup = true, -- special case, not part of the Header API
},
[1] = {
showParty = false,
showRaid = true,
sortMethod = "NAME",
nameList = "Anona,Anonb,Anonc,Anond,Handyl,Shambyl,Bramby l,Gr endyl,Berrt,Erniee,Oscaar,Elmmo,Hannsal,Gretal,Jaa ckk,Jjill",
strictFiltering = true,
},
})

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I used to use this back in WoTLK - and I loved having my toons seperate from the rest of the unit frames (LFR/BGs mostly).

Searching google, the forums, and everywhere else I cannot figure out how to do this with either the current Grid/Grid2, or ElvUI.
I simply want to be able to display all of my toons seperate from the standard raid/party frames. Any help would be greatly appreciated. :)

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

I don't have much to offer, but keep in mind that there's kind of a group within a group thing as of MoP. That is, you join a "party" {1} and then when you enter a dungeon etc, that "party" becomes an "instance group" {2}. You might have to look for that additional layer to get something like this to work.

Alternately, you can try using the Jamba Team Display, which always shows just your team and always in the same order. With all the display options they are pretty much basic party frames.

I didn't realize that you can use Jamba as a healing frame, when the servers come back up I guess I will have myself a little play.

I haven't tried direct-healing through the Jamba Team frame, but it should be easy enough to set up something that will do the job if you can't directly interact with it. I currently have mine set up to do a slave-follows-slave function and individual movement control based on mouse position specifically because the display never changes order or moves. You should at the very least be able to use ISBoxer to set up buttons on or near the team frame that trigger hard-coded macros {/cast [@NAME] Heal}, so while it may not work the same as healing through the unit frames, it'll act the same way.

If you're using ISBoxer, you can do this through clickbars and VideoFX viewers.

Just throwing this out there as an option. Vuhdo does this fairly well with little effort. You can set up a separate panel for "Private Tanks" and use a simple macro to assign your toons as private tanks, making them display in that panel. Just make sure all toons have their sorting order settings the same, and so that they do not place themselves at the top of the list, and they should always be in the same order. I simply do mine based on name. I'll attach a picture of how mine looks ingame.

Attachment 1346
Simple frame with click healing and focus setting (for focus heal macros when using a tank), repeater frame on top of it and presto! Works fairly well for both PVE and PVP purposes. :)

Oh, and the macro I use to set the toons as private tanks is as follows:

/vd pt Wubsie,Wubsíe,Wubsìe,Wubsié,Wubsiè ". "/vd pt clear

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Originally Posted by Wubsie

Oh, and the macro I use to set the toons as private tanks is as follows:

/vd pt Wubsie,Wubsíe,Wubsìe,Wubsié,Wubsiè ". "/vd pt clear

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As long as Vuhdo doesn't end up broken or abandoned, that's a pretty darn simple method.

That is the risk I'm taking... Suppose the same could be said for a lot of add-ons we all run and love. I do have fall-backs set up with normal raid frames, clique and whatnot, but nothing that does the separate frame for my toons.

I might have to try this out, I've hacked up oUF_Fail to give me a dedicated set of frames for my team, but this vuhdo private tanks idea sounds more elegant...

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Originally Posted by Ughmahedhurtz

If you're using ISBoxer, you can do this through clickbars and VideoFX viewers.

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I don't believe I know what this is, I believe its new since my hiatus and recent return? I'll have a look around the forums to check it out.

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Originally Posted by Wubsie

Snip snip.

Attachment 1346
Simple frame with click healing and focus setting (for focus heal macros when using a tank), repeater frame on top of it and presto! Works fairly well for both PVE and PVP purposes. :)

Oh, and the macro I use to set the toons as private tanks is as follows:

/vd pt Wubsie,Wubsíe,Wubsìe,Wubsié,Wubsiè ". "/vd pt clear

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I was trying to figure that out on Vuhdo for ages! But didn't know that I needed to use a macro to add them in to the private party via macro. :) Time to play with ISBoxer macros and add it to the party invite macro in the settings. Can I add all my characters and just leave it in ISBoxer? Or will it cause issues with Vuhdo?

(Can't test it at the moment due to maintenance.)

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Originally Posted by Ughmahedhurtz

As long as Vuhdo doesn't end up broken or abandoned, that's a pretty darn simple method.

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I don't think Vuhdo/Healbot will be scrapped anytime soon. So I think we are safe.... for now...

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Originally Posted by Vociferate

I was trying to figure that out on Vuhdo for ages! But didn't know that I needed to use a macro to add them in to the private party via macro. :) Time to play with ISBoxer macros and add it to the party invite macro in the settings. Can I add all my characters and just leave it in ISBoxer? Or will it cause issues with Vuhdo?

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I made separate ingame macros that only include the toons in their teams, so the only experience I have with this comes from arenas where I only have 2 or 3 of the five. Seems to work fine there. The absent toons simply don't get added to the panel. Again, I've not tried massive lists in the macros though...

Also I'm not sure whether it'll refresh fast enough for it to work if you add it to the invites.

Almost forgot - I know you've got your setup already, but just for anyone wondering - the Jamba Team frame does indeed work with mouseover macros, so you should be able to slap a VFX over it and all that fun stuff.

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Originally Posted by Khatovar

Almost forgot - I know you've got your setup already, but just for anyone wondering - the Jamba Team frame does indeed work with mouseover macros, so you should be able to slap a VFX over it and all that fun stuff.

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I am still learning how to use that VFX stuff, its a new additions since I was last active.

But thank you to all in the thread, really stoked with how my teams are coming along now that I am finally back. :)

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Originally Posted by Wubsie

Just throwing this out there as an option. Vuhdo does this fairly well with little effort. You can set up a separate panel for "Private Tanks" and use a simple macro to assign your toons as private tanks, making them display in that panel. Just make sure all toons have their sorting order settings the same, and so that they do not place themselves at the top of the list, and they should always be in the same order. I simply do mine based on name. I'll attach a picture of how mine looks ingame.

Attachment 1346
Simple frame with click healing and focus setting (for focus heal macros when using a tank), repeater frame on top of it and presto! Works fairly well for both PVE and PVP purposes. :)

Oh, and the macro I use to set the toons as private tanks is as follows:

/vd pt Wubsie,Wubsíe,Wubsìe,Wubsié,Wubsiè ". "/vd pt clear

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You're a hero, it works wonders. Deserves a bump.

This works too for sorting http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/gridconfigurablelayouts
gridconfigurablelayouts....it's like customlayouts but easy to set up IMO
It also gets updated and isn't abandoned.

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Originally Posted by hannibal

This works too for sorting http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/gridconfigurablelayouts
gridconfigurablelayouts....it's like customlayouts but easy to set up IMO
It also gets updated and isn't abandoned.

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Fantastic. Now I can stop pointing people at a semi-broken add-on (GridCustomLayouts) who want to use Grid.