Hi guys,

I'm trying to make Grid show the Unit's Current Health in one of the CenterText Indicators. There's a Status called "Unit Health" but when I use it, it displays the health as a deficit, which isn't what I want. I want to see the unit's absolute current health.

My use case is, for example, to be able to heal people who have 5000 health first so that if Bad Things Happen, no one will die from AOE damage or anything. So that's why I'd like to be able to see their absolute current health.

How can I set up Grid to do this?

Thanks.

P.S. One of the change log entries in Grid reads as follows:

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r699 | pastamancer | 2008-04-07 23:32:03 +0000 (Mon, 07 Apr 2008) | 3 lines

Changed paths:

   M /tmp/trunk/Grid/GridStatusHealth.lua



Grid:

- GridStatusHealth: unit_health provides the same text as unit_healthDeficit. 

I hope that there's still some way for me to make Grid do what I want.

Glancing at the options and playing around a bit, it seems like you can't. However, if you're adventurous enough to edit the code, one line should do it. Open GridStatusHealth.lua in Notepad or some other plain text editor, then find

local deficit = max - cur

replace with

local deficit = cur

and that should work.

I tried that, unfortunately it made it so that both the Deficit health and the Current health fields displayed the current health. It seems the same code is linked into both health texts.

I don't know how to program WoW Addons but I know enough about programming to try a few things...

Anyone know why this was changed in the first place?


UPDATE: I hacked grid and added a new function that displays the Current Health text, and changed the SendStatusGained call to set the unit_health string appropriately.