TipTac Reborn

WoW AddOn TipTac Reborn [TWW] [CataC] [Classic Era]

TipTac Reborn is a tooltip enchancement addon, it allows you to configure various aspects of the tooltip, such as moving where it's shown, the font, the scale of tips, plus a lot more. It's the successor of the original TipTac by Aezay (abandoned since Nov 2020) with massive modifications since then.

It's also available on CurseForge.

• based on latest version v20.11.04 from Nov 4, 2020 of the original TipTac by Aezay
• added fixes for WoW patch ...
  • 11.0.5 - The War Within [TWW]
  • 4.4.1 - Cataclysm Classic [CataC]
  • 1.15.5 - Classic Era / Vanilla [Classic Era]
• added many enhancements

The following problems are fixed respectively enhancements were added

• added minimap icon
• support for LibDataBroker
• lua errors regarding SetBackdropColor(), SetBackdropBorderColor(), GetRaidTargetIndex() (if icons are enabled), SetPoint()
• background colors
• border colors, also based on unit class or item quality. Additionally the border colors are now "non sticky" if you move your mouse e.g. over items and then over spells.
• backdrop of compare item tooltips, item links and other addons using tiptac to modify tooltips or frames.
• considered new nineslice layout. default tooltip backdrop will be changed with configured backdrop. further styling (background/border texture and backdrop edge size) and 100% solid background is now possible again.
• change between normal and mouse anchors works now while moving your mouse over the corresponding elements.
• prevented flickering of tooltips over buffs if "Anchors->Frame Tip Type" = "Mouse Anchor"
• fixed flickering of tooltip when selecting an item or illusion at transmogrifier if "Anchors->Frame Tip Type" = "Mouse Anchor"
• fixed wrong placement for item comparison tooltips if "Anchors->Frame Tip Type" = "Mouse Anchor".
• added restoring to default font settings when disabling "Font->Modify the GameTooltip Font Templates" without the need to reload the ui for the setting to take effect.
• added styling of tooltips for battle pet, battle pet ability, pet battle, auras from standard nameplate, DropDownList1/2, FriendsTooltip, embedded tooltip, contribution buff (e.g. for contribution reward at legionfall construction table), queue status frame (e.g. for lfg/lfr), trading post (introduced with df 10.0.5), wow settings, barbershop, AceConfigDialog-3.0, LibDBIcon, LibUIDropDownMenu-4.0, LibDropDownMenu, LibDropdown, LibDropdownMC, LibQTip, LibExtraTip, auras from addon Plater, tooltips from addon ElvUI, OPie and RaiderIO
• changes regarding config option "Special->Enable ChatFrame Hover Hyperlinks":
  • fixed hooking/unhooking of chatframe if toggling option
  • added mouseover for guild/community->chat, battle pets, battle pet abilities, illusions (from Wardrobe)
  • added mouseover for chatlinks: torghast anima power, transmog item/set, azerite essences, dungeon score and instance lock
• added class border color for member list in guild/community->chat and guild/community->guild roster, dungeon score tooltip and attendees in LFG list if config option "Colors->Color Tip Border by Class Color" is checked
• changes regarding (added) config options under "ItemRef":
  • added border color for spells, unit auras, tradeskills, currencies (in chatframe), achievements, guild challenges (in guild/community->info) and pvp enlistment bonus (in pvp->quick match)
  • added border color and infos for battle pet, battle pet abilities, (world/party) quests in worldmap/questlog/questtracker, questtracker of addon WorldQuestTracker, trade skill reagents (in TradeSkillUI), toys (in ToyBox), items, illusions and sets (in Wardrobe), sets (at Transmogrifier), currencies, achievements in guild/community->info->news, rewards in quest(log)/LFG-browser, azerite essences, runeforge power (in adventure journal), (enhanced) conduits, spells in macros on action bar, torghast anima powers, mini achievement shields in achievement buttons, items/illusions in dress up frame, flyouts (e.g. mage portals), pet actions, keystones (including RewardLevel, WeeklyRewardLevel, ItemID, TimeLimit and AffixInfos), instance locks
  • fixed "Smart Icon Appearance" for mounts and mount equipment (in mount journal), items (in adventure journal), spells and items (in guild/community->perks)
• added scroll frame to config options. the scroll bar appears automatically, if content doesn't fit completely on the page.
• applied transparency from standard backdrop and backdrop border to special backdrop and backdrop border
• fixed timewalking enemy tooltip level color
• added option for pixel perfect tooltip backdrop (edge size and insets) to fix 1-pixel borders which are sometimes 2 pixels wide
• added icons to item comparison tooltips (ShoppingTooltip1/ShoppingTooltip2 and ItemRefShoppingTooltip1/ItemRefShoppingTooltip2)
• fixed fading issues with tooltip
• fixed hooking tips if event VARIABLES_LOADED from TipTacItemRef fired before the one from TipTac
• fixed sometimes flickering tooltip if moving with flying mount and "Anchors->Frame Tip Type" = "Mouse Anchor"
• added anchors and offsets for ItemRef icon (thx to NoBetaBoredom for PR)
• added showing of role and talent/specialization icon, coloring talents by class color, average item level, the de facto standard GearScore algorithm from addon TacoTip and TipTac's own implementation of GearScore to TipTacTalents. scanning/inspecting of units completely rewritten.
• completely rewritten ttCore, ttBars, ttAuras, ttHyperlink and ttIcons. also applied necessary changes to ttStyle.
• scanning/inspecting of talents and average item level completely rewritten
• added option in "Anchors" to override GTT anchor for world/frame units/tips during challenge mode, during skyriding or in combat and (Guild & Community) ChatFrame
• added option "Backdrop->Enable Backdrop Modifications" to enable/disable all backdrop modifications
• added option "Backdrop->BG Texture Layout" to set if the background texture should be repeated or stretched to fit the tip
• added option "Hiding->Hide Tips Out Of Combat" and "Hiding->Hide Tips In Combat" to hide frame/world unit tips or unit/spell/item/action-bar/experience-bar tips during challenge mode, during skyriding or in/out of combat
• added option "General->Show Player Guild" to show/hide guild name/rank
• added option "General->Show Mythic+ Dungeon Score" to show mythic+ dungeon score and best run
• added option "General->Show Current Unit Speed" to show current unit speed after race & class
• added option "General->Show Player Guild Rank->Format Guild Rank" to also show player guild rank level in addition to guild rank title
• added option "General->Show Mount" to show the player's mount icon/name/speed and an icon indicating if you already have collected the mount
• added option "Colors->Enable Coloring of Name" to enable/disable coloring of names
• added option "Colors->Enable Coloring of Faction Text" to change the color of the unit's faction text
• added option "ItemRef->Show Mount ID" to show the mount id
• added option "ItemRef->Show Icon ID" to show the icon id
• added option in "ItemRef" to show stack count of items in tooltip
• added options "ItemRef->Show Expansion Icon/Name" to show the expansion icon/name of the item. This feature is only available in retail and not in WotLKC or classic era.
• added refresh anchoring of shopping tooltips after re-anchoring of tip to prevent overlapping tooltips
• considered debuff border for aura positions
• splitted options for auras from spells
• prevented auras from moving off-screen
• automatically reduce tip's scale if its size exceeds UIParent width/height
• option "General->Show Who Targets the Unit" now evaluates the visible nameplates when ungrouped
• added option "Reactions->Show the unit's reaction as icon"
• added unit reaction for honored, revered and exalted NPCs
• added option "Special->Hide Specialization & Class Text" to strip the specialization & class text from the tooltip introduced with df 10.1.5
• added option "Bars->Show Cast Bar" to show the cast bar including additional customizing options
• added option "Bars->Enable Minimum Width for Tooltip If Showing Bars" to set a minimum width for the tooltip if showing bars, so that numbers are not cut off.
• added "enabled"-feature for options. depending options are now grayed out if disabled.
• added button in options to help reporting bugs or requesting features
• added button in options to import/export config
• added showing/hiding of options to WoW's interface options
• improved stripping the specialization & class text from the tooltip introduced with df 10.1.5
• improved using custom class colors from other addons if ColorMixin methods are not available
• stripped creature type text from tooltip for npcs or wild battle pets if creature family isn't available to prevent displaying the creature type twice
• added feature to enable/disable/set custom class colors in options under "Colors"
• classic era: fixed lua errors in talents module regarding GetSpecialization() and GetInspectSpecialization()
• classic era: added missing styling of auras
• classic era: reactivated talent format option
• classic era: suppressed error speech/message when calling CanInspect(unit) within TipTacTalents
• classic era: fixed sometimes missing displaying of level, race, class and talents for unit tooltips

The following problems aren't fixed

• Padding for embedded tooltips and battle pet (ability) tooltips doesn't work. However, this only becomes a problem if a particularly thick border is set.

If there are additional fixes in the future, I update this note accordingly.

Install with CurseForge app

In CurseForge app, go to World of Warcraft, choose your flavor (Retail, Cataclysm Classic, Classic) and search for TipTac Reborn. Hit Install button.

Install with WowUp.io

In WowUp, go to Get Addons->Install From URL and enter https://github.com/frozn/TipTac

Manual Installation

Get latest release and replace the folders TipTac, TipTacItemRef, TipTacOptions and TipTacTalents with those from the zip file.

The War Within: \World of Warcraft\_retail_\Interface\AddOns
Cataclysm Classic: \World of Warcraft\_classic_\Interface\AddOns
Classic Era: \World of Warcraft\_classic_era_\Interface\AddOns

Buy me a coffee

Donations are welcome to appreciate my work to keep this addon alive, but isn't required at all. If you would like to donate (as requested to me), you can do so down below:

After using many WoW addons in the last years I decided to give something back to the mod/addon community and continued the one or other not longer supported/maintained projects (see here) including TipTac.

Common issues

Error message: Font not set

Solution: Make sure both the Font->Font Face, as well as the Bars->Font Face are properly set to a valid font.

Error message: Action[SetPoint] failed because[SetPoint would result in anchor family connection]: attempted from: GameTooltip:SetPoint

Solution: Delete file World of Warcraft\__<Flavor>__\WTF\<Account>\<Server>\<Character>\layout-local.txt