Elkano's BuffBars
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 Nov 11, 2014In config mode, I am unable to bring up the drop down menu using the groups config bar. Which obviously I need to be able to do to config each group of bars. Please help.
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Posted Nov 11, 2014With the switch to Ace3, there no longer is configuration via DropDown. (Reminds me, that I haven't updated the addon description, yet :/ ).
However, the bar group options have always also been accessable via the larger config dropdown which has now become a panel. So simply access it either via the minimap icon/data object or by typing "/ebb".
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Posted Nov 9, 2014Is there a way to setup a flash warning when something is removed off the bar? Like if a buff expires a raid warning will flash?
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Posted Nov 11, 2014Try MikScrollingBattleText. All types of warnings you may or may not need!
Just have to configure it.
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Posted Nov 11, 2014Thanks!
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Posted Nov 5, 2014To any no-gap enthusiasts here!
If you want to remove the terrible gap find "local function getTimeFormatCondensed(timeAmount)" in EBB_Bar.lua and change "return "%.1fs", seconds" to "return "%ds", seconds". Save the file!
Open the addon's menu and choose Condensed time format for all your bars.
It no longer shows tenths of a second and there's no gap!
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Posted Oct 20, 2014I've updated to the current version and looks like everything is fine with bar positioning.
But I'm getting this nasty bug making the addon kind of uselees since I can't see buff/debuff durations.
updt: it can be 'fixed' by choosing time format again.
Found this little bug (is it even a bug?) though.
'Blizzard Default' time format.
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Posted Oct 20, 2014The gap is no bug from the addon since I just call a Blizzard function to format the output in that case (SecondsToTimeAbbrev).
However, you wrote earlier that your last version was r167 (pre MoP). In r168 I changed the time formats so the one you used before is no longer available, which also explains the ???.
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Posted Oct 20, 2014Ouch. The 'no gap' version was my favourite.
I noticed that the 'condensed' time format has no gap.. but it also displays tenths of a second. Feels *a bit* distracting to me.
Maybe there should be an option to hide those. Heh.
You are the author and it's your addon.. all I can do is request that option.
P.S.: I like the new EBB menu.
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Posted Oct 19, 2014Hi!
Elkano, is it possible to switch to the latest version of EBB without losing my settings? Those in SavedVariables.
I'm currently using EBB Version: r167.
I want to update but I don't want to lose bar positioning :(
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Posted Oct 19, 2014You may have to reselect your profile if you had a custom one but besides that, it should work fine.
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Posted Oct 19, 2014Thank you! I'll try to update :) Hope nothing will go wrong. Ehe, my settings are really important to me.
I'm really happy you are still updating this great addon!
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Posted Oct 17, 2014The solution below worked for me
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Posted Oct 17, 2014Should be fixed with r179.
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Posted Oct 17, 2014There seems to be an error in the ElkBuffBars.toc file, where it misses a folder in the link to a lib.
I changed the following and it worked for me:
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libs\LibDataBroker-1.1.lua
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Change to -> libs\LibDataBroker-1.1\LibDataBroker-1.1.lua
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Posted Oct 17, 2014I was getting this issue on a few characters, after a re-install of the addon it is across the board. The addon list, both at the character select screen and in-game say the addon is loaded, but it is not loading.
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Posted Oct 16, 2014for some reason after i updated to the latest version the addon appears in the addon list but is not showing up in game. Not in the interface -> addons section either. Im stumped lol
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Posted Oct 16, 2014Now I'm even more afraid of updating to the latest version.
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Posted Oct 16, 2014This is all caused by finally moving from Ace2 (and associated libs) to Ace3. But glad you like it :)
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Posted Oct 15, 2014I LOVE the update you did for 6.0! At first the profile that loaded on my Druid was the Default and not the one specifically meant for my RDruid (didn't realize it right away) so I went to right click the icon on the minimap to check out some of the settings. A configuration window pops up in the middle of my screen instead of the original menus! I'm SO glad you put in this new setup rather than keeping the other style that relied too much on mouseover popout menus! I had such a craptastic time trying to get some of those windows to work and scrolling through 150 buffs to filter out one new one was a pain in the rear.
Thank you so much for keeping this up to date and adding a quality of life change to the options configuration!