HateList

First of all, this addon is great work. As a priest, i really like to see the aggrolist of my targets target. Before, i was blind to it. Best example how usefull that is was at the end of the Ruins of the Ice Dwarf Kingdom for 50+. Thynos instakills the group if the player that first gets to be the top entry in the hate list does not stay at the first place for the whole encounter.

The start was a bit unlike, since our tank, which is #1, did not have time to get enough aggro together before he was changed into a chicken. That alone wasn't a total loss but the priests couldn't see their aggro values and one of them got over the tank with the aggro collected via spamming groupheals.

That could have been avoided with this addon. :)

Well, now to my suggestion. My first impression of hatelist was, that it was a display bug. It does not look anything like a standalone frame should look. If it would have been me, i would have started out with a look somewhat similar to pbinfos threatmeter. Well.. if i find time perhaps i still will, but only for myself and perhaps my guild. :-)

Anyway, keep up the good work.

Hi there,

I abandoned the addon for some days because the HateList_Leader concatenate error thing annoyed me quite much. Glad to read that it seems t be fixed now, as well as some nice additions for the way aggro display can be toggled. I'll reinstall addon now and test it again. If it works I'll tell my guildmates.
If I would tell my guildmates before and there would be any errors they would probably just ignore the addon forever. -.- So I want to be sure when I propose an addon, that it has no major bugs.

Keep up the good work. :)

Just had to say that this addon is a pure must now, it works perfectly.
Thanks for all your hard work! =]

The relative view is working really nicely, thanks for adding that =]
But there are two small issues with it, the HAteList frame is sometimes a little to small and the values exceed the frame space, so would be nice if we could scale it, or just make it wider by default. Second thing is, the ppl above you in the list with more hate, get '-00' as a red prefix to their relative hate value. Players with less hate are working nicely.

Ok, seems you were heavy on the zero button when changing text colour to red, and also need to get rid of the white default negative symbol thats added by default, since you've already added a red one . Change line 300 in hatelist.lua to:
getglobal("HateList_Frame_Bar" .. i .. "_TextR"):SetText("|cFFFF0000-" .. "|cFFFFFFFF" .. tostring(math.abs(hate_mod - TargetList["PLAYER_HATE"][i])));

No idea if this is a good way of doing it, but at least it works for now ;)
Only remaining issue for me now is giving the values a little more playing room, this is especially relevant for real-hate or relative-hate when fighting high hp bosses, as values can get rather large.

Seems v2.41 fixed all my issues. Private channel management is working, and the new real aggro value feature is just what we ordered. Thanks for all your hard work and for sharing such an excellent addon with the rest of the community!

Further development ideas:
Giving users more options as to what the HateList can display might increase the userbase. Now that you have % and real aggro working, what about a a list that displays players real aggro difference relative to their position above and below you in the list. Like:

Player A +29412
Player B +16876
Player You
Player C -9620
Player D -11231
Player E -48703

Not sure if I'm making sense here or if ppl would want this, but to me this would make it a lot easier to know exactly which spells would boost me over the top and which are safe.

And perhaps also implement an onMouseclick event to the HateList window that toggles between the various displays (value/%/etc), as we don't always have the luxuary of time to type the slash commands in the middle of a fight.

Oh, already a new version, you don't slow down do you ;p
Will have to do some more testing with this new one to verify whether the issues i mentioned in my previous post still are relevant.

Glad to hear you're still gonna keep working on this great addon =]

I did a complete removal of HateList (deleted directory and purged all related data from SavedVariables, and manually reinstalled it. Sadly I'm still getting:

call HateList_Frame's OnUpdate, line: [string "?"]:459: attempt to concatenate global 'HateList_Leader' (a nil value)

It seems, however, that I'm only getting this when I invite and become the leader of a party. Promoting a different leader will result in joining the subsequent private channel (HateList<Leader>) and everything works fine. But as soon as I'm promoted back to leader, the errors will appear and HateList stops functioning. Plus it seems it does not change private channel whenever I become the leader, so the private channel will still be connected to the previous leaders channel. I've tried to /leave that channel but it does not work, and /join 'ing my own channel does not work either.

Got the same results in three different login sessions, so they are reproducible. Hope this will be of use to you, and excuse my poor and longwinded explanations.

Yes, as Abras said, just give it time. It was definately not a waste of time and I will spread it to my guildmates.

I've been having some slight annoyances with the HateListUserchannel spewing out all its messages to the general chat tab, even though it's unticked by default. Having to tick and untick it again to prevent the message flood.

Just downloaded v2.3 but havn't been able to properly test it in party/raid as everyone seems to be asleep, so will report back as soon as we've given it a test run =]

Several guildmates are also waiting for implementation of actual aggro (aswell as %) before they switch over from pbinfo's ThreatMeter.

Just did a little 2 man party testing with one of my nub toons and I keep getting this:

call HateList_Frame's OnUpdate, line: [string "?"]:459: attempt to concatenate global 'HateList_Leader' (a nil value)

Will do proper testing tomorrow, time for some sleep now.

Give it time.. Many ppl are unsure about new products, but if it does what it says on the tin :) it will spread like wild fire ! might help if it could show actual agro aswell/insted of %.

Would be nice if we could choose for the HateList window to grow upwards, or preferably as 'csart' mentioned, to have the HateList hidden when not in a party or raid.

Only done a few tests with it so far, but seems to be updating quicker than the pbinfo ThreatMeter.

Keep up the great work! =]