Tooltip Backdrop Colors after update (April 26, 8:35 PM CST)

[mike_h]

It appears that the tooltip backdrop color from the Tooltips mod that comes with Cosmos has been removed or disabled, perhaps by accident. The option is still there, but it does not work correctly anymore. Would it be possible to have this returned?

[Fin]

I noticed the same thing. Pretty irritating if you're used to the coloured tooltips. :cry:

[Androsulach]

The only tooltips that are still colored are the player tooltips. All mob tooltips are black. It can be really risky if you're used to using colored tooltips and get within aggro range of an aggressive mob since you have to target them to see if they're neutral or not.

[wyzzy]

honestly.... how can we put it like it was? because i cant play like they are at moment....
and i learned something with this, i won't run cosmos***** daily again... it's enough, you guys change a lot of stuff all the time...

[wyzzy]

also wanted to know what is tooltip pvp target doing... i turn it off and it doesnt disappear.

[Cluey]

If you want to know what is changing when you run cosmos***** read the window which pops up.
If the window summary doesn't pop up nothing changed.
When it does pop up it tells you which files it changed, if its an addon you use or you want more info on it scroll down to below the standard readme info and there will be a changelog of what is happening.
look for it by the line like this:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
did yada
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Also when a file is updated the updater makes a backup of the file it updated.
I also noticed that the tooltip had changed and read what had been changed in it, from the cosmos.txt file:
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r1395 | sarf | 2005-04-26 19:38:27 -0500 (Tue, 26 Apr 2005) | 1 line

TooltipsColorTarget - removed the brown code that wasn't working. :( Sorry.
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r1394 | sarf | 2005-04-26 19:21:11 -0500 (Tue, 26 Apr 2005) | 1 line

TooltipsColorTarget - fix for brown tooltips, should now be nice and red.
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Unfortunatley it doesn't seem to have worked correctly so I had a look at the changed file.
It tells you which files it changed so you don't even have to think about it.I compared the old "TooltipsColorTarget.lua" to the backed up one and I could only see one change, as it wasn't working as well as the old one I just deleted the new one and renamed the old one from "TooltipsColorTarget.lua.prepatch" to "TooltipsColorTarget.lua" and it now works how it used to.

You are running a mod which makes chaning things easy for you but its an advanced interface changing tool.
It doesn't cost you anything, so stop bitching and use your brain and see if you can make it work how you want it too.
If you can't sort out a simple problem like this maybe you shouldn't be using a mod.

[wyzzy]

dude if your so smart, paste the .lua code so i can change on my file.
if you don't know shit, then please don't post more crap in here.

[mike_h]

I believe I have found the issue within the code.

Of the file Addons\TooltipsColorTarget\TooltipsColorTarget.lua , in lines 16-17, the code is written as

changed = 1;
end

after the patch.

The "changed" variable controls whether the backdrop color function is initiated when the tooltip is shown, and having the "changed" variable switched to true only when the above "if" statement is true seems to have been causing the backdrop color to not change correctly.

The solution that fixed this issue for myself was just to switch the order of the two lines, so it appears like this:

end
changed = 1;


Having these two lines switched was also the only difference I could find between the prepatch file and the updated file, as Cluey suggested searching.

My tooltips are now working as before the patch.

[Cluey]

dude if your so smart, paste the .lua code so i can change on my file.
if you don't know shit, then please don't post more crap in here.
So you didn't even read what I said.
You don't need to look at the code I have already done that, all you had to do was delete one file and then rename the backed up file.
If you know the windows key short cuts its a total of eight key combinations after finding the file in question.

[Marsman]

As of today, it's all back the way it was with the normal colored tooltips.