Jamba 0.5 available for testing (Update 12).

[Jafula]

I will definitely try to provide some feedback. Question: You mentioned that the messages can be displayed in the area I made with MSBT. Should I read this as MSBT is required? If I can get rid of it and use just yours I will.

Just trying to clarify, I will try to provide some feedback tonight / in the morning,

Thanks again.

Yes and No :-)

Jamba has "message areas". You define a message area and then in other parts of Jamba you can tell Jamba to use a particular message area. For instance; every proc sends its messages to "Default Proc Area". You can change the area a proc gets sent to in the Proc configuration screen.

Message areas can be default chat window, party chat, whisper, raid warning, and if you have Parrot installed, a Parrot area or if you have MSBT installed, a MSBT area.

The reason I use Parrot/MSBT is that they already have written the code (quite a lot) that is required to display messages in a manner that makes you take notice. I don't have the time / immediate desire to write code to replicate this functionality.

For instance with your three Balance Druids, you could set up three new areas in MSBT, say top left, top middle and top right, one for each druid. You could then create three Jamba Message areas that use the MSBT areas. Then you could set up Jamba Proc and add in three Eclipse spell notifications, differentiating the spells by the tags (i.e. druid1, druid2, druid3), and a different Jamba message area for each Eclipse. You have to tag a druid with the druid1 tag, the 2nd druid with the druid2 tag, etc for the third.

This way when a druid procs Eclipse, the message will appear top left for druid1, top middle for druid2 and top right for druid3.

Alternatively you could not use MSBT and have all messages go directly to a Raid Warning on the master.

Please have a play and let me know if there is anything that could be changed / improved.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

OK, Jafula. Confirmed that the problem is they have different channels/passwords. I just logged into the pally team. Channel shows "JambaTeamOnline" pw shows "JambaPassword." Shammies are set to the same thing. But, when I right-click a chat tab and go into the Global Channels settings, I see "JambaTeamOnline" channel on the shammies but "UghJamba" on the paladins for the channel. So the paladins remembered the channel/password change but it does NOT show that changed channel/password in the config UI. Very weird.

[edit] OK, investigating the settings for channel names/passwords, I see this on my paladin Zipples:

JambaCommunicationsProfileDB = {
    ["profileKeys"] = {
        ["Donalfonso - Garona"] = "Donalfonso - Garona",
        ["Donramirez - Garona"] = "Donramirez - Garona",
        ["Zipples - Garona"] = "Zipples - Garona",
        ["Busuku - Garona"] = "Busuku - Garona",
    },
    ["profiles"] = {
        ["Donalfonso - Garona"] = {
        },
        ["Donramirez - Garona"] = {
            ["teamOnlineChannelName"] = "UghJamba",
            ["teamOnlineChannelPassword"] = "Ugh",
        },
        ["Zipples - Garona"] = {
        },
        ["Busuku - Garona"] = {
        },
    },
}

Now, what's interesting about this is that Zipples shows a Blank/default channel/password entry in the config, yet she's connecting to the UghJamba/Ugh settings for Donramirez. I check the global channels for Zipples and she's definitely connected to UghJamba/Ugh. So is it reading the wrong index into the profile settings for channel/password when you're pulling the defaults/settings?

[Ughmahedhurtz]

LOL! OK, just deleted all my settings LUA files and guess what? The UghJamba channel is still connected on all my druids. :P In fact, if I right-click the chat tab, go to Global Channels, I see both UghJamba and JambaTeamOnline channels in there.

[Jafula]

LOL! OK, just deleted all my settings LUA files and guess what? The UghJamba channel is still connected on all my druids. :P In fact, if I right-click the chat tab, go to Global Channels, I see both UghJamba and JambaTeamOnline channels in there.

Thanks for your two posts, they will help when I get to the code...

I use the wow api JoinPermanentChannel which is why the channels hang around and probably part of the problem. My bad.

*Edit* If you are up to hacking, try changing all instances of JoinPermanentChannel to JoinTemporaryChannel in the JambaCommunications.lua file. Characters leave temporary channels when they log out. (I assume I wrote it so that the code tries to join the channel when the character logs in.)
But, the JoinTemporaryChannel might or might not accept a password (two sources of conflicting documentation).

[Ughmahedhurtz]

OK, just resetting things and going through the basic config process again. I changed the JoinPermanentChannel to JoinTemporaryChannel as you suggested.

1. /jamba-team add <member1>, etc. to add all my druids to the team
2. /jamba-team invite, worked OK after I let it "settle" a few seconds.
3. Went into JambaDev-->Core: Communications settings.
4. Changed channel to UghJamba, and pw to Ugh.
5. Push Settings.
6. ERROR: All 5 reset the UI to JambaTeamOnline and JambaPassword in the UI. JambaTeamOnline is the only one that shows up in the UI.
7. Changed it back to UghJamba/Ugh and clicked OKAY to close the settings dialog.
8. Went back into Interface-->Addons-->JambaDev-->Core: Communications, and it's reset back to JambaTeamOnline/JambaPassword again. All alts show offline. Checked global channels and no jamba channels are connected at all anymore.
9. Did a /console reloadui and the default channel is connected (JambaTeamOnline/JambaPassword).

So with the JoinTemporaryChannel thing set up, it doesn't appear to be able to select a non-default channel at all anymore.

[Jafula]

Hmmm, thanks for all that help! Number 6 worries me. I'll sort that one out and then I'll play around with the Channel joining and see what I can come up with.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

On a related note, how difficult would it be to have Jamba just save all its settings globally? I ask because with the 0.5 dev version, I just add everone to every group and everyone's chat/warning/etc. settings are identical. Would be much easier to set up and copy configs to alt accounts if the only thing that was character-specific was the master setting.

[edit] And frankly, for 0.5 I think I'd not even bother with the Jamba Buy/Sell stuff as FreeRefills and AutoProfitX both handle those so well.

[Jafula]

On a related note, how difficult would it be to have Jamba just save all its settings globally? I ask because with the 0.5 dev version, I just add everone to every group and everyone's chat/warning/etc. settings are identical. Would be much easier to set up and copy configs to alt accounts if the only thing that was character-specific was the master setting.

[edit] And frankly, for 0.5 I think I'd not even bother with the Jamba Buy/Sell stuff as FreeRefills and AutoProfitX both handle those so well.

Global wouldn't be a problem; but I can imagine situations where global might not be suitable for everyone.

I'm going to support profiles, so you should be able to set one team up and then copy profiles and tweak stuff. There will also be a push settings button on the top level Jamba config that will ask each module in turn to push its settings.

I like my version of Jamba buy/sell and have ideas for it, but it is definitely the last on the 0.5 list (I plan to release 0.5 when the Display Team, Follow and Me modules are complete).

[Ughmahedhurtz]

The "profile" thing you mention should fit the bill, as will the global "push settings" thing. Honestly, while I gripe about that, it's still easier than 0.4 and I really only have to do it once per team. I wouldn't consider it a high-priority usability issue.

[Moorea]

I depend on jamba sell :-)

rule #1 of customer satisfaction: don't take stuff away ;-)