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Cooldowns
- 19 Likes
- World of Warcraft
- 56,713 Monthly Downloads
- Supports: 5.2.0
- 1,658,246 Total Downloads
- Updated 04/21/2013
- Created 12/12/2008
- 1,142 Favorites
- Project Site
- Comments
- Release Type: Release
- License: All Rights Reserved
- Newest File: 4.2.3
About Cooldowns
A World of Warcraft add-on that displays numeric cooldown counters on buttons and other icons with cooldowns.
*** Having Problems? ***
Before posting a problem report, please make sure you are using the most recent release and try resetting all Cooldowns settings using the Defaults button in the Interface Configuration window. If your settings got messed up somehow during the recent updates, setting them to defaults may solve the problem. If that doesn't help, and you still don't see cooldown text, try adjusting the pixel width setting to a smaller number (default should be 27). If that doesn't help, post a problem report and make sure to include which other addons you run and any special configuration changes you make so I can try to replicate the problem. Also, if you run an older version because newer ones are not working for you, let me know. Otherwise, until scientists invent the teleporter and I can port to your computer, there isn't much else I can do for you. ;)
*** NEW FEATURES IN 4.2 ****
- Users can now set the minimum pixel width for cooldown text display. Cooldown counters will not appear on buttons or other cooldown icons that have a width smaller than the number chosen (except for the quest watch buttons which always show cooldown text). The default is 27 which is between the size of the standard player buff icon and the standard unit frame debuff icon. The standard action button width is 36 pixels. Scaling a cooldown icon using another addon until it is smaller than the selected minimum width will cause the cooldown text to stop displaying on that icon.
- Now checks higher up the frame hierarchy for a named frame for filtering. Should allow filtering for addons with buttons that had nameless immediate parent frames.
*** NEW FEATURE IN 4.1 – FILTERING ***
Too many cooldown texts all over the place now? What happened? I made Cooldowns work with any visible cooldown in any addon (bigger than width of 27 pixels). But now there is also… Filtering! Check out the Filtering tab in the Cooldowns configuration panel. You will see a list of all the UI frames that Cooldowns is aware of and you can uncheck the ones that you don’t want to see cooldown text on. Don’t want to see cooldown text on Bartender4 bar 6? Uncheck BT4Bar6. Don’t want to see text on WeakAuras icons? Uncheck WeakAurasFrame.
*** NEW FEATURES IN 4.0 ***
- Can now configure the minimum cooldown time for cooldown text to appear. Used to be hard-coded to 1.5 seconds. (thanks OptimusSupernova)
- Better support for other addons including TellMeWhen.
*** NEW FEATURES IN 3.0 ***
- Can now select whether cooldown numbers flash the alternate color or display it as solid as the cooldown nears zero.
- Can now select fonts in the addon options panel from a dropdown list containing all known in-game font names.
- Text file in the addon folder contains list of known in-game fonts.
- Cooldown counters now displayed on the spell button flyout frame (e.g. priest chakra).
Configure colors, fonts, and other options through the Cooldowns interface options panel.
Please see the readme.txt file for a tutorial on how to configure fonts in Cooldowns.
* 4.2.3
- Fixed problem caused when rebooting computer while long cooldown is running
| File Name | Release Type | Game Version | Downloads | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.2.3 | Release | 5.2.0 | 63,924 | 04/21/2013 |
| 4.2.2 | Release | 5.2.0 | 55,350 | 04/04/2013 |
| 4.2.1 | Release | 5.2.0 | 45,093 | 03/26/2013 |
| 4.2 | Release | 5.2.0 | 30,664 | 03/18/2013 |
| 4.1.1 | Release | 5.2.0 | 187 | 03/13/2013 |
| 4.1 (release) | Release | 5.2.0 | 39 | 03/13/2013 |
| 4.1 (beta) | Release | 5.2.0 | 11,761 | 03/12/2013 |
| 4.0 (beta 5) | Release | 5.2.0 | 23,202 | 03/11/2013 |
| 4.0 (beta 4) | Release | 5.2.0 | 24,733 | 03/09/2013 |
| 4.0 (beta 3) | Release | 5.2.0 | 13,932 | 03/08/2013 |
| 4.0 (beta 2) | Release | 5.2.0 | 4,344 | 03/08/2013 |
| 4.0 (beta) | Release | 5.2.0 | 5,891 | 03/08/2013 |
| 3.0.2 | Release | 5.1.0 | 85,837 | 01/26/2013 |
| 3.0.1 | Release | 5.1.0 | 5,147 | 01/26/2013 |
| 3.0 (release) | Release | 5.1.0 | 43,939 | 01/13/2013 |
| 3.0 (beta 2) | Release | 5.1.0 | 75,371 | 12/08/2012 |
| 3.0 alpha | Release | 5.1.0 | 24,623 | 12/03/2012 |
| 2.1 | Release | 5.1.0 | 22,204 | 12/01/2012 |
| 2.0.1 | Release | 5.1.0 | 29,338 | 11/29/2012 |
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Comments
Is there a way to get a perfect centering of the cooldown number on the action button? thanks!
For us Mistweaver Monks it would be nice to have something that tells you that your Jade Statue is about to expire. Overall great addon.
hello
my cooldown addon is working on all my characters but on my druid i already set seetings to default and it aint working! can yuo pls help me?
When I qued for a BG it bugged out and wouldn't let me until i reloaded the UI without Cooldowns.
I was able to queue for a few BGs and didn't have any problems. What other addons are you running and exactly how does it bug out?
Reading through your "Having problems?" section, I've tried making the cooldown text font larger - 38 - (that fixed the minor issue last time I had this problem with the older versions), Then I set the pixel width to a lower number - 20 - and used a small cooldown in-game, like my healing stream totem (30 sec. cooldown) and the cooldown timer still won't display anywhere on my bars. I've had this problem for the last 3 versions of your lovely addon (I'm not being sarcastic, I really do like this addon, it helps tremendously with my poor vision).
Although, reading through a few posts from other folks, I set my pixel width to 17, and timer font to 20 and went from there. Numbers suddenly poofed, but they were real tiny. Seems to work after derping around with the settings a bit if you have bartender bars scaled real small for pvp.
I'm not sure what other BT4 settings you might be changing, but when I scale a BT4 bar really small, the only Cooldowns option I need to change is the pixel width (making it low as well) and the cooldown numbers show up. I might also use the thin outline instead of the thick when they are that small to see the numbers more clearly. The consequence of making the number that small is that you might see cooldown numbers on other small cooldowns that you might not want to have numbers. In that case, the filtering system will let you hide those unwanted numbers.
The font size option can be used to make the font bigger or smaller relative to the scaled button size, but has no effect on whether or not the text shows up. That option is mostly for adjusting font size when using other fonts that might appear smaller than the default font at the same size. There is an upper limit to font size that WoW enforces. If you make the buttons really big, eventually, the cooldown text stops growing with them. :)
Well, I'm glad you were able to get it to work.
I have it working just as I did before now. :) I've set the font larger one size at a time starting from 20 and kept going until I could clearly see them. It actually seems to be better now, though. I think I have the outline enabled to give me a bold black outline so I can very easily see what abilities are up, and which are unavailable. Especially on an Enhancement shaman with cooldowns everywhere. @.@
As it turns out, the missing cooldown timer numbers were a combination of Cooldowns and Bartender4. Like I said before, I've scaled my bars down real small since I'm a mass keybinder and click almost nothing anyway, The fact that my bars are real small, Cooldowns, I guess, was confused in a way.
Still a great addon to use, I'd reccomend it. :D
Hello I literally just downloaded this addon and played around with a couple of the options to see what I like and how I like it. I just have 1 little issue with the mod. The option to change "show cooldown text only when cooldown longer than" won't work. It stays at 1.5 seconds no matter what I try. I wanted to set it to 30 seconds so I tried that a couple times, then tried 30.0 thinking maybe it needed a decimal. Still didn't work. Tried 60 seconds, same thing. Tried 10, then 2.5, same deal. Is this a bug? Is there a specific way to change it outside of the interface option? Any help would be appreciated.
Edit: I just tried putting "thirty" into the field and that didn't work either. Didnt really expect it to but then again I don't make addons so I have no idea how they work. :)
It's definitely a bug and I don't know how an entire line disappeared from my program! :P Will upload fix.
I don't know if this is a bug, a glitch caused by other addons running at the same time, or just my setup, but when i click on the mounts/pets icon on my action bar, the game freezes completely and i have to reboot the game. After i disable cooldowns, i don't have any problems. This was for the last update tho, maybe it's been fixed
I do believe that problem was fixed in one of the version 4 beta releases. It was due to blizzard adding cooldowns to their pet icons but not naming the icon parent frames. My addon didn't handle non-named frames well at all. I am running the current version and it doesn't cause any problems for my pet window. Try version 4.2 and let me know if it solves the problem. If it still does't work, it might be another addon is messing with the pet frames. Let me know which addons you run and I will try to replicate the problem.
Hi Yarko,
Great addon, thanks for all the work on it. I have a question similar to some other folks.
I use bartender and I find that long CDs (such as stampede or army of the dead) show a timer but shorter CDs (like Tiger's Fury or Horn of winter) don't show a CD timer. Even 3 minute CDs like Berserk don't show a timer. Is there something I am doing wrong because all of my CDs used to show timers until a week or two ago.
I have version 4.2 installed.
I have been playing with BT4 myself on my DK and haven't had any problems. Of course, I run with all default settings. :) The first thing that comes to mind is that the setting in the Cooldowns config panel that adjusts the number of seconds that the cooldown must be before the cooldown text appears has somehow gotten screwed up. The default is 1.5 seconds. Try resetting the cooldowns options by using the "Defaults" button in the interface options panel. Make sure you only do the Cooldowns settings. If that doesn't work, the only other thing I can think of is that somehow settings in BT4 are causing the problem. If some of the bars are scaled smaller, then their buttons might not get any text and perhaps those are the buttons that are not working for you. But it sounds like the problem is about the length of the cooldown and not which bar they are on, and I don't know of a BT4 option that would affect that. Of course, I'm not a BT4 expert. Do you adjust your BT4 settings from the defaults? If so, let me know what you do so I can try to replicate the problem.