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.
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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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- 20 Sep 2008
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- 16 Oct 2009
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- MIT License
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Aiiane Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:22:13Maahes, the proper thing to do would be to create a ticket for it, of type 'Enhancement'.
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Maahes Sat, 27 Sep 2008 02:42:48Hey, thanks for all the work you are putting into this. Made my life so much easier. Not sure if this is the place to ask, but I was wondering if there was anyway you could at some point implement a way to show a hp %, just like being able to see a number as well as the hp bar. Not a biggie, but would love you long time if you could. Again thanks for your hard work.
~Maahes
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Aiiane Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:54:41Chaly, you might want to take another look at the settings page (and the color settings page) - by modifying the hp-high, hp-medium, and hp-low threshold values, and turning on the color-hpbars option, you could get exactly that already. :)
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Chaly Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:12:10Great addon! By far the most efficient group/raid view i know and transcribed perfectly ;) Thanks a lot.
Just an idea: maybe we can optionally set the squares to change their colors like this:
100%=green,
99% - 50%=yellow / orange / red (fading)
49% - 1% =red to pink (fading)
0%= black or grey or something
This idea isn't innovative.. it is lent from the addon "Healers Helper" (Dark Age of Camelot) that was the first squared groupwindow i've seen. Particularly for DD characters this kind of coloring is excellent as it arrests attention even if you're busy with your enemy target.