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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- #15
Aiiane Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:53:42
Tivanni, I've answered on your ticket, you don't need to also create a comment here. :)
- #13
Aiiane Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:12:26
sangdrax8, that's a function of the new HoverCast modes (mode 1, the new default, will make your target follow your cursor while hovering over unitframes, thus allowing the range/LoS check to refresh on them). It's just a change to when units are targeted by HoverCast, not a change to Squared.
- #12
sangdrax8 Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:58:46
Last night I first saw issues with range finding not showing who was out of range till I clicked on the person. After logging out and back in (I didn't update versions) it started updating when I simply rolled my mouse over the persons square. This is MUCH better as I can quickly sweep my mouse across the bars and everyone is updated.
So perhaps this is the correct functionality and something was/is interfering with it the first time I posted about it?
- #11
Aiiane Fri, 03 Oct 2008 04:30:16
Dawgdoc, did you remember to set an ability for it to check?
/sqr rangefading-ability ABILITY NAME GOES HERE
- #10
Dawgdoc Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:43:30
Any suggestions on how to get the rangefading to work?
Everyone is always the full color with no fading on my UI no matter what I do.
Ive set rangefading on (/sqr rangefading true) as well as kept the frequency to 0. Both of these are defaults but when it wasnt working I reset them to the standard defaults.
Suggestions?
- #9
Aiiane Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:33:45
Gzugzuu, you might want to look at the DieBuffsDie addon.
- #8
Gzugzuu Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:51:57
This isn't so much Squared-related, but a question about the default UI in relation to Squared...
I hid my default UI group bar and I'm using Squared instead. However, the buffs and debuffs from the default UI still show up in their respective places and appear on top of Squared. How do I turn these off?
- #7
DerSocram Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:32:41
This sadly makes the Range/LoS check almost useless :(
I so looked forward to that feature when installing this addon.
- goes to a corner, crying*
- #6
Aiiane Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:52:44
No, Birliban2k. This is a limitation of the WAR API.
- #5
Birliban2k Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:17:35
As tstearns78 on settings Page said 09/29/2008 03:58:20
I've also noticed that the square of an individual who is out of range or LoS will not fade until I have clicked on their square and attempted to try and heal. Is there a way for range or LoS to be constantly checked for all individuals in the group so that the squares are faded prior to an actual healing attempt?
I do have the same issue. Bars won't fade by themself until you click on them. I tried several abilities and options, but wont work.