Injector — addon review
Tired of Grid eating up 4 MB of addon memory? Try this low memory alternative instead!
Injector is a lightweight grid-like raid/party frames addon, and is ‘advertised’ to use only 200kB!
That’s a whopping 95% decrease in raid frame memory! You can’t get any better than this.
Here’s the download link:
http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info14339-0.7.1.6.html
- Easy multiclass configuration
- You can turn on duration on indicators on some spells (looks like cooldown)
- You can easily add and place new indicators and icons of any size whereever you want
- LibHealComm-4.0, LibQuickHealth-2.0, Clique supported
- Manabars
- Ability to filter spells cast only by you
- Color changing depending on charges
- Track HoTs
- Track Arena buffs and CC’s
- and other stuff…
This is a preview of how the Indicators/Icons are set up:
There are some console commands available:
/inj unlock | lock — the anchor is a tiny red circle which you can use to move your frames.
/inj reset
/inj scale
/inj charspec — toggle character specific position and scale
/inj toggle | show | hide
/inj togglegroup <1-8>
But most of the configuration settings have to be done using the config.lua file. There is no in-game GUI, but it is well worth the effort. Adding Raid Debuffs have to be done by editing the loadables.lua file (you’ll can either give the spell ID or type in the name of the spell in “…”), and by default take a side icon instead of a center icon so you have to manually edit the file.
Once you have saved the changes in the lua file, just reload your UI (“/rl”) and the changes should be reflected in-game. No need to relog, restart WoW, etc… The only drawback I can see is that configuration may be a bit daunting for those new to LUA editing, but it only takes a while to get used to it. For those with some experience, it will only take a short while to set everything up the way you like it. I’ve even added more spells to be tracked and it even tracks beneficial buffs such as Evasion, Barkskin, Shield Wall, etc… so you know when tanks are using their cooldowns and when it’s over. Well worth the time if you ask me!
Overall, I found this to be a really excellent alternative to Grid. It has almost all (maybe even more) features than Grid has and uses a sliver of the memory Grid uses. This has to be the most memory efficient Grid-alternative out there right now, and I highly recommend it for those using older computers like I am. As a side note, I recommend that you go through some of the comments if you’re editing the LUA file as it may provide some useful tips in there. Need a function missing in Injector? Feel free to post a comment there and who knows… maybe the author will do something about it.
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Just use Vuh’do, it does all the work for you and look pretty
There’s a new update for Grid2 as well. You might want to check it out.
link: http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/grid2.aspx