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
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Posted Oct 27, 2022In reply to jaydeheals:
The "Zoom" option in the Bartender bar settings basically does this. It disables the border and adjusts the underlying icon to remove their build-in border as well, giving your pure icons.
Unless you still want the built-in icon border? Most people always found that kinda ugly though.
Maybe Masque has a plain skin that does just this?
I also theoretically have all the parts to do it. Maybe I can just add a checkbox to hide the border, in addition to Zoom?
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Posted Oct 27, 2022A lot of people replace Icons in their game files these days because its a more elegant way to have clean, high resolution icons, especially on high-res screens. This is particularly good for weakauras but it worked perfect with actionbars as well.
Here is an illustration:
The first row are unmodified actionbars. The second row is using Bartenders "zoom" option. The 3rd row is what unmodified, unskinned, unmasqued actionbars used to look like before 10.0 and also what all Icons, like Buffs, Debuffs or WAs without any skins or zoom look like
I know this isnt on your end and I dont understand why the devs came up with this reskinning of icons in the actionbars. All other Icons in the standard UI do not have this. Here is an example of the standard UI buff bar, no skin:
Masque currently has no solution to this and I hope you can see why "zooming" isn't a good solution either. I'm not looking to reskin icons like masque does it. I would simply love to get rid of what blizzard added and rather not have an extra AddOn for that.
This is what a friend was able to achieve but as you can see there is still a teint and a border.
Clean Icons for Reference:
https://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info25064-CleanIcons-MechagnomeEdition.html
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Posted Oct 27, 2022In reply to jaydeheals:
I've been testing with just removing the border, and man are the vanilla icons inconsistent in style.
But either way, the next version will offer an option to hide the border, and the dark shadow on the icon will be removed in all variations of the Bartender buttons.
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Posted Oct 27, 2022In reply to nevcairiel:
This inconsistency probably explains why they wanted to have extra borders. The update you just pushed is awesome. This makes me very happy, thank you so much. However, the dark "shadow" still remains.
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Posted Oct 27, 2022In reply to jaydeheals:
I'll check on the shadow. It should've been removed, but i'll make sure.
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Posted Oct 27, 2022In reply to nevcairiel:
The change to remove the shadow was accidentally left out from the last version, it should be there now.
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Posted Oct 28, 2022In reply to nevcairiel:
I'm guessing part of it is because lots of Vanilla icons were Warcraft 3 icons, once, and the masque thing they do in WoW wasn't a thing then. Also, Blizzard icon-designers were likely never instructed to not make borders in order to help bar-addons makers.
But I'm sure 'someone' could look into fixing some of the biggest offenders.
*cough*
https://www.deviantart.com/goblinounours/art/World-of-Warcraft-HD-icon-pack-729115119
(I should get back into that one day)
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Posted Oct 27, 2022you can't access the submenu for summon warlock demons anymore, same issue with hunters and mages portal spells, ty very much for continued support you are a life saver.
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Posted Oct 27, 2022In reply to VulgarAngryToxic:
I had the same issue with mage teleports, portals and polymorphs. I ended up going back to the new UI without addons and adding them to the new "class bar". Works for now until the addons catch up. Right now I am missing MoveAnything terribly. Why Blizzard doesn't look at what is out here in custom addons before making these changes I will never understand. What they did to the bank is terrible. They gave the combine to one bag for inventory...why not the bank? Sigh.
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Posted Oct 27, 2022WotLK version:
Hi! How can I stop this button lock from occuring each time I log onto my char with the new update?
I regularly move buttons around as I play for temporary abilities (calling the different colour drakes in Oculus for example) and having to open menu to disable the lock is irritating :(
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Posted Oct 27, 2022In reply to SunfyreBlazing:
This is so annoying. Would like to know this as well
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Posted Oct 27, 2022In reply to supermany2:
Same, but for retail. it's super annoying
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Posted Oct 27, 2022In reply to SunfyreBlazing:
You can always move buttons by holding Shift when dragging.
However unlocked buttons will also save again in 4.13.0
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Posted Oct 27, 2022Are there plans to add an option to bring back to old micromenu design? The new monochromatic one looks off to my poor old eyes.
Same for the bags, I always like to be able to open one specifically as I often know which bag contains what... but now the 'other bags' buttons are like 50% of the size they used to be because f@ck guys like me I guess.
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Posted Oct 27, 2022In reply to Goblinounours:
Bartender just re-packages the Micro Menu from Blizzard, it does not choose the artwork. I'm not even sure the old artwork is still available.
That said, since Bartender just collects the original Micro Menu buttons, another addon (maybe Masque) could re-style them.
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Posted Oct 27, 2022In reply to nevcairiel:
Thanks for the info! :)
I'll keep an eye on Masque.
I hope Blizzard will fix the flyout thing that doesn't work, 'cause that sucks, but it kills me to see how Bartender 4 is still so much more flexible than the best they could come up with.
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Posted Oct 26, 2022Very weird: "Press and Hold Casting" *does* work on "Bar 6" but does not work on "Bar 1". I can't tell what's differently configured about them; in particular, they both have State Configuration turned off.
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Posted Oct 26, 2022Same deal with mouseover casting; works on secondary bars, does not work on the primary bar.
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Posted Oct 27, 2022In reply to durandal42:
Press and hold casting does not work for any Bartender bars (or any addon-provided bars). If it appears to be working on another bar, my assumption is you are using a keybinding and the keybinding is still pointing to the Blizzard bar, instead of the Bartender bar?
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Posted Oct 27, 2022In reply to nevcairiel:
That would do it, and also explain why the secondary bartender bars didn't have visible hotkey labels, despite them still seeming to react to keypresses. Sorry for the noise!