Quartz - WoW AddOns

Quartz is a modular approach to a casting bar addon. An overview of (hopefully most of) the modules:

*Player

The core of Quartz is lightweight implementation of a standard casting bar, with configurable size, text and icon positioning, and colors.

*Target/Focus

Implementation of target and focus casting bars in similar fashion to the player cast bar.

*Buffs

Display of target and focus buffs and debuffs as duration bars using the new API introduced in patch 2.1.

*Flight

Hooks into FlightMap or InFlight to display the current flight progress on your casting bar.

*Global Cooldown

Displays a tiny spark-bar to show your Global Cooldown near the cast bar. Helpful for those who'd rather not squint at their action bars to see when they can cast again.

*Interrupt

Changes the color and text of your casting bar to help show that your cast has been interrupted (and show who interrupted it).

*Latency

Displays the amount of time spent between cast send and start events, in the form of a bar at the end of your casting bar, with optional text that displays the actual duration of the lag. This helps in canceling casts when they will not actually be interrupted, especially for users with consistently high pings.

*Mirror

Shows the 'basic' timers such as breath and feign death, as well as some 'odd' ones such as party invite time, resurrect timeout, and arena game start, and a framework for injecting custom timers into the bars.

*Range

Recolors the casting bar when your cast target moves out of range mid-cast.

*Swing

Displays a swing timer for your melee weapon as well as hunter autoshot.

*Timer

Allows for creating custom timers displayed on the mirror bars.

*Tradeskill Merge

Merges multiple casts of the same tradeskill item into one big cast bar.

Use /quartz to bring up the configuration menu.

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- #91
DeathKoil Jun 02, 2011 at 23:27 UTC - 0 likes
I spent a few hours today and edited the default 3.0.6 release to accurately show DoT ticks, even extra ones from haste and haste procs / raid buffs. It also updates the tick positions after spell push back.

I was wondering if the authors wanted to look at the code and integrate it with their official release. Let me know.

DeathKoilz - Medivh US

mortenn May 29, 2011 at 20:55 UTC - 0 likes

Hi, great addon!

I have been wanting a cast time indicator on the buff bars for some time.. Tonight I finally sat down and hacked it in;

This is the code I inserted, on line 955 of modules/Buff.lua

if not bar.castTimeIndicator then
	bar.castTimeIndicator = bar:CreateTexture(nil, "OVERLAY")
	bar.castTimeIndicator:SetTexture(1,1,1,0.8);
end
_, _, _, _, _, _, castTime = GetSpellInfo(v.name)
if castTime then
	local w = (castTime / 1000) * bar:GetWidth() / (endTime - startTime)
	bar.castTimeIndicator:SetPoint("TOPLEFT", bar, "TOPLEFT", w, 0)
	bar.castTimeIndicator:SetPoint("BOTTOMRIGHT", bar, "BOTTOMLEFT", w + 1, 0)
	bar.castTimeIndicator:Show();
else
	bar.castTimeIndicator:Hide()
end

This appears to work perfectly for me, but it might break for others.. Only tested it using my shadow priest.

Cheers, Pres

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- #89
brucek2 May 05, 2011 at 06:05 UTC - 0 likes
Is there a Quartz module or feature aimed at helping the player always get their next cast fired off within the 0.5 second next cast buffer? I'm thinking something similar to the red/colored portion of the cast bar used to indicate latency. I'd be interested in this functionality both for the main player cast bar as well as the GCD spark.

I know the exact time is already displayed, but that's not quite as easy to use as a big colored bar. I also know many players (including me) have a rhythm that probably already works most of the time, but I do feel like I miss the buffer every once in a while, particularly during haste procs where I'm casting a string of instants.
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- #88
EtanClan Apr 27, 2011 at 16:55 UTC - 0 likes
Large issue with the swing module in 4.1. My FPS will drop tremendously and the game will often freeze up if I start to melee swing something with this module turned on.

Turning it off fixes the problem but it'd be nice for this to work again.
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thalador Apr 27, 2011 at 12:03 UTC - 0 likes
any plans to update to 4.1, as it seems a bit broken at the moment
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- #85
Sefaris Feb 09, 2011 at 00:51 UTC - 0 likes
Tnx! I have my settings back :)
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- #84
Morsker Feb 08, 2011 at 23:54 UTC - 0 likes
Try the alpha and see if that fixes your issue. It should solve any errors related to "profiles" or "bars resetting" or "RawHook".
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- #83
Sefaris Feb 08, 2011 at 23:28 UTC - 0 likes
I am not able to save any configurations i make to the addon-like any time i set bars they all go back to default placement font ect ect. Also throws a good many lua errors >< Any fix inc for all this, I miss my castbars :*(? This is all since 4.0.6 btw.

Last edited Feb 08, 2011 by Sefaris
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- #82
Morsker Feb 08, 2011 at 19:39 UTC - 0 likes
I committed the Drain Mana fix because it was trivial, and the chance of me doing it in a way you wouldn't like is basically zero. Hopefully!
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- #81
Rhey80 Feb 01, 2011 at 20:19 UTC - 0 likes
Any plan for the Boss frame casting bar? I can see them on the ShadowedUF but they are not customizable. Thanks.