Bartender4
Bartender4 is a full ActionBar replacement mod. It provides you with all the features needed to fully customization most aspects of your action and related bars.
Status for Dragonflight / 10.0
- Hold-to-cast is not currently available for addons
- Action Bars have been slightly re-arranged in Bartender4 for Dragonflight
- Bar 1-8 now reflect Blizzard Bars 1-8 (these are old 1, 3-6, and the 3 new bars)
- The old bars 7-10 are now called "Class Bar 1-4" (Shapeshifting, Stances, etc)
- The old bar 2 is now called Bonus Action Bar
Features
- Support for all Action Bars and all related bars
- 10 Action Bars (13 in Dragonflight!)
- Stance Bar
- Pet Bar
- Bag Bar
- Micro Menu
- XP/Reputation Bar
- All Bars are fully customizable (Scale, Alpha, Fade-Out settings, ...)
- Very flexible and customizable Show/Hide driver based on Macro Conditions
- Additional Layout and Paging settings for Action Bars
- Page all bars based on Stance or Modifier
- Possess Bar support
- Custom State driver support with Macro Conditions
- Options to hide specific elements of the buttons (Macro Text, HotKey, more could be added on demand)
- StickyFrames support
- Masque/ButtonFacade support!
- Easy Hotkey Binding using KeyBound
- Options to control the hiding of the default blizzard artwork (you might still want that to be displayed..)
FAQ
Q: I cannot move/drag my skills on my bars?
A: Hold Shift to move skills safely. You can also unlock your bars in the Bartender4 options, but using Shift is safer and recommended.
Q: How do i access the Configuration?
A: You can open the configuration with the Slash Commands (/bt or /bartender) or through the Bartender4 LDB plugin.
Q: Where are my keybindings? And how do i bind new keys?
A: Bartender4 buttons should automatically inherit keybindings from the Blizzard bars. For new keybindings, you can use KeyBound to re-bind your keys. You can access KeyBound by its slash command (/kb) or through the button in the BT4 config. Hover a button, press key → voila!
Q: Can I skin the buttons beyond the built-in options?
A: Bartender4 allows skinning through Masque! After installing both Bartender4 and Masque, you can customize the BT4 appearance in the Masque options.
Q: How do i disable the snapping of the bars?
A: Currently, you can temporarily override the snapping by holding down the Shift Key while moving your bars, or uncheck the option in the popup when your bars are unlocked.
Feature Requests/Bug Tracker
Please submit Bugs and/or Feature Requests using the Ticket System on the WoWAce Project page or in the Bartender4 Forum Thread. Please provide as many information as possible, including your client language, the exact version you are running, how to reproduce any errors, and a stack trace, if applicable.
Links
WoWAce Project: Bartender4 on WoWAce
Custom State Header: Info page on WoWAce
This addon is still creating micro stutters and not worth using.
In reply to NightOfMistra:
This addon does not create micro stutters for me and I love using it so it's very well worth it.
In reply to NightOfMistra:
I've been noticing the micro-stutters for a while now and didn't know what it was. I started turning off addons one at a time today, and damn if it isn't Bartender.
I'm sure some people aren't having this issue, and that's great for them!
But does anyone know how to fix it for those of us who are having the issue? Or a work-able alternative?
UPDATE: i turned off every addon i have except bartender4 and BAM!! micro-stutters! it's smooth as butter if i have all addons turned off, or if i have everything loaded except bartender4. please help!
In reply to Grizz2202:
I am not able to post this as a main comment so I am posting it here to see if Bartender4 is blocking my comment.
Also seeing micro stutters / massive lag spikes while playing as many others have mentioned. For me specifically it's happening while going up/down stairs.
Reproduction steps:
1. Have a 100% mount speed
2. Go to Telredor, Zangarmarsh (Outlands)
3. Head to the city and run up and down the steps multiple times
This causes my computer to stutter for multiple seconds and eventually fully recovers in frames.
I've also checked my GPU, CPU, and internet, which none of them are spiking during the stutters.
Once I turn off bartender4 addon the micro stutters stopped happening. I had every other addon shutoff as well, but once bartender was on the game was stuttering.
Please let me know if this gets fixed, I really like this addon and would love to continue using it!!!!
Suggestion:
Would it be possible to make the Backpack icon the same size as the other bags? At present, it hangs down over my micro bar, and I sometimes accidentally click the backpack instead of something on the micro bar below it. Or I have to raise the bag bar.
Perhaps, it could be a choice to raise the backpack higher instead of hanging lower.
But I would prefer the choice to make it the same size as the other bags, as it used to be.
Thanks
Message: [ADDON_ACTION_BLOCKED] AddOn 'Bartender4' tried to call the protected function 'BT4Bar9:Show()'.
Time: Sat Apr 16 20:27:46 2022
Count: 1
Stack: [ADDON_ACTION_BLOCKED] AddOn 'Bartender4' tried to call the protected function 'BT4Bar9:Show()'.
Locals: <none>
There seems to be a massive performance issue when assets are loading into the game, such as npcs (TBCC). For example i leave the bank in Stormwind and my WoW client has a huge stutter spike. I also have stutters all around the entire time. Deactivating Bartender fixes the stutters. I use version 4.11.1. I can't recall it was like that before the ZA patch hit.
In reply to mezz1945:
Having the same issue. instant lag spikes within cities while BT is running
In reply to mezz1945:
Same issue here. Since the ZA patch I've been trying to identify which addon was causing massive framerate hangs in major cities and it is definitely Bartender4. No errors but the lag is palpable. Hope someone can take a look at this.
In reply to mezz1945:
Issue cause is identified and reported in https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/bartender4/issues/1835
It's basically caused by the way Blizzard tried to fix the druid shapeshift bug after the ZA patch
I guess we'll have to wait and see if the addon authors want to circumvent it, or wait and hope Blizzard reverses or improves their fix.
In reply to mezz1945:
See issue #1835
Hi i just downloaded bt but Im having issue it still have blizzard UI anyway get rid of that?? I know there section to remove blizzard artwork and that is clicked off but I'm still having blizzard ui
New Error:
Message: [ADDON_ACTION_BLOCKED] AddOn 'Bartender4' tried to call the protected function 'MainMenuBar:Show()'.
Time: Wed Mar 23 10:11:56 2022
Count: 1
Stack: [ADDON_ACTION_BLOCKED] AddOn 'Bartender4' tried to call the protected function 'MainMenuBar:Show()'.
Locals: <none>
I like Bartender, but still have some personal problems with using it.
1st : maybe I'm just unaware of how to do this but, I want to be able to (As a Druid in WoW) make my Default Form Spells I have in each square of Action Bar 1 swap with the appropriate ones from my other Forms WITHOUT having to assign another ENTIRE Action Bar to override it.
(If it can't do that I believe it should be able to do so automatically by this day and age, because this is otherwise ridiculous).
I already have my Action Bars where I want them to be and I don't want to mess with them any further just to get everything to work right.
But as a way of being reasonable, I'm sure I can cope with Bartender's functions to assigning a separate Action Bar over my Default Form Spells grid, If I could instead then ADD MORE/EXTRA Action Bars.
I don't see why 10 Action Bars is the limit in Bartender. Doesn't matter if some Players use the initial 10 Action Bars or less.
So if there could be a simple fix for my problem, make Bartender capable of having/adding AS MANY Action Bars AS DESIRED BY THE PLAYER, so that I can assign new Action Bars to override whichever other ones I want then.
ALSO, let the Addon make it so that the squares quantity of every Action Bar be adjustable to ANY number as well and not just 12 in total.
I would like to be able to have 16, 20, maybe even 50 squares to use for 1 Action Bar if I so desire, if that's the case.
In reply to Grugad:
I don't really understand what is the problem with assigning other action bar and how an addon may understand what are your default abilities for a specific form in order to automatically swap to them, but anyway for your issue with the number of action bars you may look into Button Forge addon which seems to allow you to create as many as actionbars/buttons you want.
Config of bar 1 in bartender
Page 1: Dps skills
Page 2: Healing skills
Modifier based switching: When I press shift I see Page 2
I have a macro with /swapactionbar 2 1
I use this macro to switch between healing spec and dps spec; and the bar switches. BUT when the bar is switched shift still takes me to bar 2
I want the shift switch to take me to page 2 if bar 1 currently has 1; and vice versa. Is this possible?
does "possess bar" not work in tbc? the example it gives is specifically mind control, and i tested it with mind control on my priest and my action bar did not update with my possess abilities
or do i not have it set up correctly?
In reply to XboxControllerTV:
I don't think this functionality exists in BC, it came with vehicles in Wrath.
[suggestion]
Hi
I have a suggestion to make and if it hasn't already been made, here it is:
Have the ability to bind keys including the mouse. For example: shift + left click or other
Best regards