Abreviation / Extra Spacebar Bug

[Antorinia]

can you add abbreviation to headline view please pls pls pls? i tried to do it by myself, but failed hard (also there is a bug in headline view, time to time mobs have extrta spacebar between two words in the name)

good looking name

and bad looking one with extra space

even in NPC role

[Backupiseasy]

Does this extra space happen consistently (e.g., always for Cousin Slowhands) or randomly? There are already options to abbreviate names, either by length or, e.g., only showing last name, ... see General - Names - Healthbar View - Abbreviation.

Ah, just noticing that abbreviations are not avalilable in headline view ... hm.

[Backupiseasy]

Hm, it looks fine for me:

So it seems to be related to something else. No idea currently.

[Backupiseasy]

I think this happend for me once as well, but I cannot remember any more what was the reason. Do you have enabled to transliterate cyrillic characters? Part of that code is to replace one space with two and revert that later, but I guess this might be bugged.

[Backupiseasy]

So, I find a fix for this now, but I am still not sure why it is happening. Some weird interaction between gsub function, cyrillic characters and (double) space ...

[Antorinia]

if its just cyrillic letters ill disable it and thats it, but id like to see abbreviations in headline view :D

[Antorinia]

Does this extra space happen consistently (e.g., always for Cousin Slowhands) or randomly? There are already options to abbreviate names, either by length or, e.g., only showing last name, ... see General - Names - Healthbar View - Abbreviation.

Ah, just noticing that abbreviations are not avalilable in headline view ... hm.

fix abbreviations when you have time please <3 <3 <3

[Backupiseasy]

Well, abbreviations in headline view are not bugged, I just always thought that the don't make sense in headline view as the whole mode is about showing only the name. But I guess you could think differently. Changing that, i.e., also enabling it in headline view is not difficult. Will see if I can add it to 11.2.0.

[Backupiseasy]

And yes, it's just transliteration of cyrillic letters that creates this 2-space defect.

[Antorinia]

Well, abbreviations in headline view are not bugged, I just always thought that the don't make sense in headline view as the whole mode is about showing only the name. But I guess you could think differently. Changing that, i.e., also enabling it in headline view is not difficult. Will see if I can add it to 11.2.0.

i just dont want long names for neutrals and out of combat mobs thank you very much, great addon love you <3

[Antorinia]

and one more thing, just suggestion can you add here

not just all NPCs but sepparete it the way blizzard did it like here

quest NPCs so for example i dont see NPCs i dont need, but still can see headline view for quest NPCs to completly get rid of classic blizzard names

[Antorinia]

Backupiseasy can check post above?

[Antorinia]

BUMP

[Backupiseasy]

Regarding the question about Quest NPCs, that has been requested already several times:, see https://github.com/Backupiseasy/ThreatPlates/issues/44

But there is no easy way to find out which type of NPC a particular unit is. There is no API for that. Plater does it, but by keeping a list of NPC ids I think (last time I looked). That's far to hard to maintain for me.

In Shadowlands there might now be a way based on the GameObjectIcon. That's an idea I had recently, but I am not sure.

[Antorinia]

what about abbreviations for headline view? <3

[Backupiseasy]

I'll try to add it to 11.2, but no promises :)

[Antorinia]

cant use this tag?

[Antorinia]

can you add abbreviation to headline view please pls pls pls? i tried to do it by myself, but failed hard

Backupiseasy broooooooooo please take a lewk again <3