Aesa (Enemy Cooldown Tracker)

The word "AESA" which stands for "Active Electronically Scanned Array", is known as a type of radar built on phased array technology. While here, it's a lightweight WOW addon that tracks player's cooldowns for you and help you control the combat.

The addon processes only crucial abilities such as Kidney Shot (rogue), Will of the Forsaken (racial) and ignores worthless cooldowns such as Powerword:Shield (priest) to avoid explosive increasing of timer bars that makes you confused.

Features:

Unit cooldowns tracking (either from friendly or hostile units, at your option) within your combatlog range and displays countdown timers according to your present target selection.
Support tabbed browsing of unit cooldowns. The addon keeps a record of your target history and allows you to reinspect their cooldowns by switching between tabs without changing (and losing) the present target.
Support cooldowns tracking of focus.
Correctly handles chained cooldowns, e.g. cold snap (mage) resets CD of all frost spells and preparation (rogue) resets sprint, vanish, evasion, etc...
The last cooldown ability triggered by your target will be highlighted in order to prevent you from getting lost into dozens of cooldown timers.
Minor UI customizations: size, font, texture, etc...

Known Issues:

As some talents/equipments will reduce cooldowns of certain abilities, for example, intercept (warrior ability), which originally has a 30 seconds cooldown is reduced to 15 for a 33/28 PvP/Arena warrior. The addon is unable to analyse these talents infomation due to protections of BLIZZARD core API. As a result I have to define and use the minimal cooldown value of spells in data context as far as I can.

Brilliant ideas/suggestions are always welcomed, and thank you for your concern.

- Maintained by kydori

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Tagging as 0.9.3 Beta4

- fix with-external libs error.
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Aesa:
- bug fix.
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Aesa:
- bug fix.
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Aesa:
- bug fix.
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Aesa:
- test
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Aesa:
- bug fix.
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Aesa:
- bug fix.
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Aesa:
- bug fix.
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Aesa:
- bug fix.
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Aesa:
- bug fix.
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A /trunk/Data/Locales/esES.lua
A /trunk/Data/Locales/esMX.lua
A /trunk/Data/Locales/frFR.lua
A /trunk/Data/Locales/koKR.lua
A /trunk/Data/Locales/ruRU.lua
A /trunk/Data/Locales/zhTW.lua

Aesa:
- more localization add,need your help。
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Aesa:
- bug fix.
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Aesa:
- bug fix.
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Aesa:
- meta changed.
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Aesa:
- meta changed.
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Aesa:
- use web localization.
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Aesa:
- use web localization.
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A /trunk/Data/Locales/zhCN.lua
A /trunk/Data/Spells.lua
A /trunk/Data/Textures
A /trunk/Data/Textures/Button.tga
A /trunk/Data/Textures/Frost.tga
A /trunk/Data/Textures/LiteStepLite.tga
A /trunk/Data/Textures/LiteStepLite2.tga
A /trunk/Data/Textures/Ruben.tga
A /trunk/Data/Textures/Ruben2.tga
A /trunk/Data/Textures/Steel.tga
A /trunk/Global.lua
A /trunk/Options.lua
A /trunk/embeds.xml
A /trunk/readme.txt
A /trunk/readme.zhCN.txt

Aesa:
- 0.9.3 sync
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"project-8061/mainline: Initial Import"
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1 Installation Guide
2 Translations
3 TOC Numbers (Out of Date mods)
4 Mac Support
5 Directory Structure

Installation Guide

Exit "World of Warcraft" completely
Download the mod you want to install
- Make a folder on your desktop called "My Mods"
- Save the .zip/.rar files to this folder.
- If, when you try to download the file, it automatically "opens" it... you need to RIGHT click on the link and "save as..." or "Save Target As".
Extract the file - commonly known as 'unzipping'
Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!
- Windows
  - Windows XP has a built in ZIP extractor. Double click on the file to open it, inside should be the file or folders needed. Copy these outside to the "My Mods" folder.
  - WinRAR: Right click the file, select "Extract Here"
  - WinZip: You MUST make sure the option to "Use Folder Names" is CHECKED or it will just extract the files and not make the proper folders how the Authors designed
- Mac Users
  - StuffitExpander: Double click the archive to extract it to a folder in the current directory.
Verify your WoW Installation Path
That is where you are running WoW from and THAT is where you need to install your mods.
Move to the Addon folder
- Open your World of Warcraft folder. (default is C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\)
- Go into the "Interface" folder.
- Go into the "addons" folder.
- In a new window, open the "My Mods" folder.
- The "My Mods" folder should have the "Addonname" folder in it.
- Move the "Addonname" folder into the "AddOns" folder
Start World of Warcraft
Make sure AddOns are installed
- Log in
- At the Character Select screen, look in lower left corner for the "addons" button.
- If button is there: make sure all the mods you installed are listed and make sure "load out of date addons" is checked.
- If the button is NOT there: means you did not install the addons properly. Look at the above screenshots. Try repeating the steps or getting someone who knows more about computers than you do to help.

Translations

When you download a mod, please be sure that the mod is compatible with your translation of wow. Some mods only work on the US versions, while some only work on some of the various European versions. These variations are called "Localizations".

TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)

When Blizzard patches WoW, they change the Interface number. This means that all mods will be "out of date" unless or until the author releases a new version for that interface. Some people go into the .toc files and update the numbers themselves, but this is STRONGLY advised against as it will cause problems locating possible incompatibilities addons. When you log into WoW after a patch, you DO NOT have to delete your interface directory. All you have to do is simply tell WoW to ignore the interface numbers and load all the mods anyway. All you have to do is, while at the "character select" screen, look in the lower left corner and click on the "addons" button. A window will pop up listing all your installed mods.

If you look in the upper left corner of that window there should be a box that says "Load Out of Date AddOns". You want to CHECK this box. Now simply go into WoW normally and all your mods should load. As of the 1.9 patch, you will have to do this after EVERY patch/update that Blizzard posts! If you encounter any problems with a mod after a patch, please be sure to let the author of the mod know so they can fix it.

Mac Support

WoW addons are not platformed based. As such, they can be used on either Mac or PC. You can extract both .zip and .rar files on a Mac using StuffitExpander.

Directory Structure

World of Warcraft
    |_ Interface
    |_AddOns
    |_*AddonName*
    |_ *AddonName*.toc
    |_ *AddonName*.xml
    |_ *AddonName*.lua
    |_ (possibly others as well)...

Aesa (Enemy Cooldown Tracker)

ananhaid

Downloads

kydori

Table of Contents

Installation Guide

Translations

TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)

Mac Support

Directory Structure