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EBB provides groups of statusbar style indicators to show (de)buffs currently affecting your char or some other units (currently focus, pet and target). For the player, it can also show indicators for temporary enchants place on it's weapons.

Due to changes Blizzard made with WoW 4.x it's no longer possible to cancel buffs without the use of secure frames. Currently EBB limits canceling of buffs to out-of-fight since using SecureAuraHeader would have required a major code restructuring. This will be coming in a later version.

Version 2.x is a total recode based on the Ace2 framework which became necessary in order to support some of the longtime wanted and suggested features. It's now possible to show different groups of bars which can be configured in many ways. Each group can be assigned an individual look and filter settings. EBB can be configured via a dropdown menu which is accessible via chat (/ebb config), FuBar plugin or (for the group settings) by right clicking the groups anchor. After setting up a group, its anchor can be hidden by alt-left clicking a bar or the anchor itself in order to lock the group in place.

In order to get additional bar textures and fonts for EBB simply install SharedMedia which is available for download under http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/sharedmedia.aspx
If you have bug reports or feature request, create a ticket: http://www.wowace.com/projects/elkbuffbars/create-ticket/
You can also check my thread at the WoWAce forums: http://forums.wowace.com/showthread.php?t=5290

The most recent development version of EBB is available directly from the WoWAce SVN via http://www.wowace.com/projects/elkbuffbars/files/

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Posted Feb 14, 2010
I have a few suggestions for this awesome - AWESOME - addon. Luv it.

1. A way to import portions of another profile would rock. If I could do "Import Profile" and then choose which bars I import, and have those bars optionally overwrite the same named bars in my current profile that would be really awesome. Sounds complicated though heheh.

2. Track cooldowns. Maybe add a target option for cooldowns, and then get the same whitelist/blacklist stuff.

3. Color bars or their backgrounds according to the class color of the class who cast them (good for tracking who is casting what debuffs on a boss). This is pretty minor.The cooldowns idea is the most impactful I think.

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Posted Feb 19, 2010
1. EBBs profiles are handled by the Ace2 framework which only supports 'full' profiles. So this would be a bunch of work and won't happen for EBB2.

2. Cooldowns is a whole different story than buffs and not the focus for this addon, so don't expect to see them.

3. This would require a large list for the mapping of spells to classes. But have a look at Utopia, which provides a frame showing all debuffs your party/raid can place on the target including who can apply them.

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Posted Feb 19, 2010
ups ^^' maybe I should clear the anchors on recycling ^^

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Posted Feb 14, 2010
Also - when I do this, it puts the imported layout all over the place. I have to /reload and then they appear properly imported.

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Posted Feb 14, 2010
Recieve this error when tryin to switch profiles or copy profiles.
Date: 2010-02-14 15:54:24
ID: 2
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ..\AddOns\ElkBuffBars\EBB_BarGroup.lua line 93:
<unnamed>:SetPoint(): <unnamed> is dependent on this
Debug:
(tail call): ?
Ace2\AceDB-2.0\AceDB-2.0.lua:25:
Ace2\AceDB-2.0\AceDB-2.0.lua:23
Ace2\AceDB-2.0\AceDB-2.0.lua:1699: func()
...tlasLoot\Libs\DewdropLib\Dewdrop-2.0\Dewdrop-2.0.lua:732:
...tlasLoot\Libs\DewdropLib\Dewdrop-2.0\Dewdrop-2.0.lua:671

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Posted Feb 13, 2010
Hi. Just a small question. Where can I find option for max amount of buffs shown. I found it once but now I'm just so blind that can't find it from anywhere?

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Posted Feb 9, 2010
Been using EBB for well over a year now, possibly 2. It's always been a relatively low resource add-on. However, since 3.3 it's easily been topping my memory usage, going up to 10 MiB or memory usage. Are there any other cases of this, or are there plans to fix it?

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Posted Feb 10, 2010
do you run with the libs embedded? in that case it is possible that EBB is blamed all the memory for the libs it uses although the memory use is caused by other addons.

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Posted Feb 8, 2010
i recently installed EBB and was wondering how i disable the debuffs on my current target. for instance whenever i am killing random mobs, whenever i cast a spell, the debuff shows up above the current target's unit frame. Is there an option to disable this?

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Posted Feb 9, 2010
by default EBB only shows de/buffs on your char, so either you're not using a default configuration or, more likely, you should check your unit frame addon for an option to disable that display.

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Posted Feb 7, 2010
Love the add-on and hoping for a 3.3 soon, but having one problem the last 2 days, the add on bars arn't showing up when i log in so i have to click on the mini map button every time and click them open, any Oppinions on how to fix

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Posted Feb 6, 2010
unfortunatley i use a Mac and it just says "out of Date" and wont even appear on my UI

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Posted Feb 8, 2010
Working fine for me, so unless you post any error messages, I can hardly help you.

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Posted Feb 5, 2010
Hello :]
Are you going to update the addon? cuz after this update im getting lua erros on each aggro :/
Thank you...

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Posted Feb 4, 2010
due to me recycling used frames I didn't set names for them since I don't need them (and they can become "invalid"). The frames are assessable via the addon's table but iirc kgpanels wasn't able to get to them that way.

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Posted Feb 4, 2010
I have been trying to parent a kgPanel to one of my EBB Group Buffs, but I cannot for the life of me figure out the frame name in order to anchor the panel to it. Does anyone have any help? I've tried using kgPanel's frame name checker, but it just comes up as Unknown.

Thanks, and wonderful addon :)

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Posted Feb 1, 2010
Great addon Elk. Just an idea/suggestion: To streamline the process of filtering, is it possible to get a "real time" option, like to shift right click on a (de)buff to filter it to black list? Sorry if this has been suggested, or if it's even in already (don't think so).

Thanks again.

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Posted Jan 31, 2010
I just got this addon last week and am still working on it. I changed from CT_BuffMod. One thing I liked about CT that I can't figure out how to do with EBB is that ALL the debuffs were colored red, and ALL the debuffs were shown below any buffs. So you had one list, and all the top stuff was buffs, and any debuffs you had were automatically placed belowe any buffs you had, also sorted by time remaining.

I've noticed with EBB, some debuffs are colored as buffs (even with Debuff Coloring selected), and the time remaining on debuffs are mixed in with the time remaining on buffs. So my buffs can be listed, from top down, as: buff, buff, debuff, buff, debuff, buff. I want it to read: buff, buff, buff, buff, debuff, debuff.

Sorry for the long text - just making sure I'm clear in my description. Any help?

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Posted Feb 1, 2010
If debuffs show up in between buffs it means that you put both in the same group. You've got to keep them in different groups in order to have them separated.
Also, the dubuffs weren't colored as buffs but as magical debuffs (which color is also blue). If you don't want them to be colored by debuff type (green for poison, purple for curses, ...) disable the debuff coloring.

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Posted Feb 4, 2010
Could you add a feature to have all the debuffs and buffs in the same group and debuffs all being sorted below buffs?

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