The module polled: a central OnUpdate at 100 Hz over every visible plate,
a full OnDataChanged refresh of each plate every 0.5 s, and per-tick reads
of the engine's name/level regions, frame size, mouse state and
SpellIsTargeting. ClassicAPI feeds every unit event to the nameplateN
tokens, so none of that is needed.
Each bound plate now registers its unit events on its own frame against
its token (UNIT_HEALTH/MAXHEALTH, UNIT_AURA_DELTA, UNIT_FLAGS,
UNIT_DYNAMIC_FLAGS, UNIT_FACTION, UNIT_LEVEL, UNIT_CLASSIFICATION_CHANGED,
UNIT_NAME_UPDATE, UNIT_TARGET, the casts) and each handler updates only
what that event can change; the module-level events (target, combat,
level-up, roster, guild, spell targeting) fan out to the plates they
concern. Health comes from UnitHealth on the token instead of the
engine bar's OnValueChanged hook; name, level and difficulty colour from
UnitName/UnitLevel/GetDifficultyColor instead of the blanked engine
regions (UnitLevel's -1 is exactly the engine's skull case, so "??B"
survives). The engine resets the plate's size at every bind, so the
engine frame's size and click routing are re-applied from its OnShow
instead of being checked every tick; the overlay steps aside for
ground-target spells on CURRENT_SPELL_CAST_CHANGED.
The only OnUpdate left is a driver frame, shown while a castbar sweeps or
the target zoom animates and hidden when both sets are empty; the zoom
is time-based now rather than per-tick multiplication. The
nameplates/nameplates_target/nameplates_mass throttle categories no
longer mean anything and are gone from libthrottle and the GUI;
nameplates_castbar stays as the sweep rate of non-target castbars.
Mouseover tracking is gone (the token already names the unit), and
libhealth's "known" return now decides whether absolute health is shown,
so a unit whose health is only known as a percentage no longer prints
"57 | 57%".
Previously every visible plate polled C_Spell.UnitCastingInfo each throttled
tick just to detect casts. Now cast state is event-driven:
- SPELL_START_OTHER (nampower) stamps a per-GUID castState cache (spellId,
timing, channel flag from spellType); SPELL_FAILED_OTHER clears it; normal
completion expires at endTime. GetCastInfo just reads the cache, so all
call sites (castbar update, non-target detection, casting name-color) stop
polling.
- plateByGuid routes events to plates in O(1) and bounds the cache to on-screen
casters; NAME_PLATE_UNIT_ADDED seeds an already-casting unit with one poll.
- The vestigial nameplate.castUpdate flag now fires on cast start to bypass the
throttle for an immediate bar.
With the poll gone, per-tick work is a cache read + SetValue, so the dedicated
target castbar frame now runs unthrottled (every frame) for the smoothest
sweep, and the non-target nameplates_castbar default rises 50 -> 100 FPS.
Known limits: other-unit cast pushback isn't reported by nampower, and a
mob-cancelled channel with no fail event lingers until endTime.
The cursor-follow OnUpdate polled GetCursorPosition() 10x/second forever,
even with no tooltip visible. Rework it so the follower frame is created
once, hidden, and only shown while a tooltip is up -- an OnUpdate fires only
while its frame is shown, so the poll now runs solely during tooltip display.
Position the follower immediately on show to avoid a one-frame flash.
Also bump the tooltip_cursor throttle default from custom/10 FPS to the
fastest preset (50 FPS) so cursor tracking is smooth out of the box while
the Throttling tooltip knob stays available for low-end machines.
Brues