Squared

About Squared

Squared is a highly-customizable unit frame addon similar to the widely-known WoW addon "Grid". It provides a very compact view of health for you, your group, your warband, or your scenario. Clicking on a square will target the associated player.

1 About Squared
2 Important note for WAR 1.3
3 Notes about recent patches
4 Settings
5 Reporting bugs and requesting features
6 Other tools
7 Miscellaneous

Important note for WAR 1.3

If you are having issues with squares not fading for "OUT OF RANGE" targets, please see this thread: http://tinyurl.com/squared1-3

Notes about recent patches

Added in 3.7: Tooltips for units in group/warband mode. Hold down the shift key while mousing over a unit to view its tooltip.

3.6 features a fairly significant optimization for WAR 1.2. I highly recommend upgrading to it for decreased lag when in large groups.

Added in 3.5: Easy exporting and importing of settings. The panel to do so is in the GUI.

Added in 3.4: Toggle/settings button. By default, it's located on the left side of the minimap, but you can move it wherever you wish from the Layout Editor. Left-clicking the toggle button will show/hide Squared (same as changing the "completely disable Squared" setting), while right-click will show/hide the Squared Configurator.

Added in 3.3: Settings profiles. Profiles allow you to keep different sets of settings and swap among them at will. In addition, each character will remember which profile they were using last, and automatically load that profile when logging in to the character.

(For more details all on Squared versions, see the change log.)

Settings

To open the configuration GUI, type /sqr (or /squared).

For command-line config, see the settings page for configuration options (as well as color settings).

If you want to use the settings for one of the user-submitted examples, find the specific one you want in the Squared Image Gallery and click on its name to go to the description page, which will have a Squared Import Format block that you can plug into Squared's Import Settings window.

Reporting bugs and requesting features

While I monitor many difference places, including Curse/CurseForge comments, various forums, and email, I give the highest priority to bugs and feature requests which are posted on the Squared Ticket Tracker on Lighthouse.

Other tools

For click-casting, see SquaredHealBot.

For hiding the default warband frames, I suggest Phantom.

Addon developers interested in developing plugins for Squared should look at the Squared plugin API page.

Miscellaneous

I wasn't going to put up a donation link at first, but enough people have asked/prodded me about it that I figured I might as well. Please, don't feel pressured to donate, I enjoy writing addons just for the sake of helping out, but if you really want to, there's a Pledgie campaign here.

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- #26
flake99 Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:54:55
Hi there.
Is there a possibility to add tranperency to say the back fill (background which is currently set to 0, 0, 0) e.g. like HealGrid as I prefer having a transperency background then a set color.
- #25
Aiiane Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:26:07
I've added an option to display AP in version 2.1, Biakovic.
- #24
Biakovic Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:07:29
Thanks for your answer, and of course, for this must-have add-on.
I can't wait for the PA-amount implementation!
- #23
Aiiane Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:53:21
At some point I plan to add that option, yes, Biakovic.
Edit: Most 'todo' stuff is handled in the ticket tracker. If I plan on investigating/implementing something, I'll mark the ticket as 'Accepted'; if I'm not sure whether I'll implement something or not, it's marked as 'Waiting' (also things where I'm awaiting further comment from the submitter are marked as such), if I've started working on something but it's not done yet, it's marked as 'Started'.
- #22
Biakovic Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:18:26
Aiiane, do you expect to display in a future version the current amount of PA (as a percentage, a thin vertical or horizontal line in each square, or anything else?). I would really appreciate this, since several skills regenerate group members PA.
As Solariz, I think it would be great if leaders were highlighted or marked by a special icon.
Is there a to-do-list somewhere? I didn't find anything.
- #21
billyzero Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:26:00
it's really buggy now, lots of invalid target and line of sight errors.
- #20
solariz Sun, 12 Oct 2008 15:54:04
@Aiiane: Is there any possibility to highlight the current group leader ? I want to use sqr as full replacement of the normal UI but currently I do not see the group leader or raid leader.
- #19
Aiiane Sun, 12 Oct 2008 02:39:04
XViper, there's never been a right-click menu in scenario mode.
- #18
XViper Sun, 12 Oct 2008 02:30:10
Something I've noticed since the recent patch, is I can no longer right click the icons for a menu in scenarios. (assist, target, etc)
Which isn't really a big deal, as it probably doesn't get used that much, but thought I'd point it out. :)
- #17
sbrunner Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:23:10
Is it possible to setup each group so you can move them to their own location or is that not in the War API? I would like to be able to split up the groups on different sides of my player. Thanks for all your great work on all your addons.