Elkano's BuffBars

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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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lufunpsy
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Posted Nov 16, 2010
4.0.3 broke something (tench?) but most of the mod is still functional.

..\AddOns\ElkBuffBars\ElkBuffBars.lua line 318:
BuffFrame:SetPoint(): TemporaryEnchantFrame is dependent on this

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Posted Nov 17, 2010
should be fixed in r162

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Posted Nov 16, 2010
That wouldn't be of much use, really. You'd have full probably be a 1-hour flask timer bar, and you'd never see any bar for your 20 seconds of Power Infusion.

The bars are sorted by time remaining, so you can tell at a glance which are going to go away next.

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Posted Nov 22, 2010
You didn't understand.

Sorting works if all your buffs are in the same group. I want to scale the statusbar's to one time, so, f.e. set to 30 all statusbars would be full if the buff/debuff is over 30 seconds and gradually empty when it falls under 30. With that you would be able to compare >all< buffs/debuffs in a glimpse.

I actually find the way statusbars work now less useful. I'm playing a rogue and it's faster and easier for me to decide by looking at the statusbars than by looking at the time. If every statusbar is scaled differently I do not have an image of the time left, since 1 second "of" one statusbar is different than 1 second "of" a statusbar with longer/shorter buff/debuff time.

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Posted Nov 15, 2010
Yeah... 59 comment pages and no search option :D

Not sure if someone asked before, anyway:

Instead of making the statusbar "full" for the maximum duration of the buff and "empty" for 0, is there a way to scale all the statusbars to one time? If not, it will be a great feature, as now the only way to compare buff times on different bars (f.e. target-bar and self-bar) is to compare the time

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Posted Nov 15, 2010
well until EBB has Right click buff removal I'm using Raven
http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/raven.aspx
its almost the same as EBB but with right click remove buff working in 4.0.1

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Posted Nov 15, 2010
So apparently you CAN right click away buffs if you don't filter what buffs you see. Is there a plan to implement this functionality? The three click method isn't always fast enough.

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Posted Nov 15, 2010
could be caused by there not being an EBB LDB icon :P
EBB is still Ace2/DewDrop/FuBar, the recode I'm working on will be Ace3/LDB though.

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Posted Nov 15, 2010
So... what might I be doing wrong that 2.3.0-159 doesn't have a plugin showing up on my ChocolateBar LDB display? The minimap icon is there, but I can't find any option in either EBB or CB to have the little EBB LDB plugin show up so I can get this off my minimap X D.

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Posted Nov 17, 2010
Ohh! Heh, that must have been the work of Fubar2Broker or something, idk. Thanks for the reply, I feel less crazy, looking for something that doesn't exist X D. And thanks for such a great addon, I love EBB.

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Posted Nov 17, 2010
Aha, that explains the Ace2-related wobbly I'm getting. I shall anticipate the recode with anticipatory anticipation.

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Posted Nov 14, 2010
I've noticed something new that caught me by surprise: whenever I /reloadui (to correct an issue with another addon, for example), upon reloading my UI, the default Blizzard 'buff catcher' frame shows up again and doesn't go away until I relog.

The frame doesn't appear on initial load, but only after reloading my UI through /reloadui.

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Posted Nov 14, 2010
yeah, there seem to be some more code parts on Blizzard's side that show it if it's activated. Easiest fix is to simply deactivate buff consolidation in Blizzard's options.

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Posted Nov 13, 2010
Has Blizz finally allowed addons to control buffs i.e. right clicking them off? I know it was/is a problem with Satrina, but if this one works I'm sold.

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Posted Nov 9, 2010
Is there a way to configure EBB differently for each of my characters, I don't see an option to use different profiles?

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Posted Nov 10, 2010
try: /ebb profile

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Posted Nov 10, 2010
"latest" is a rather fuzzy term... which revision are you using?
latest alpha/beta shouldn't be doing anything wrt tracking anymore.

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Posted Nov 11, 2010
I'm using 2.3.0, r159. The tracking always worked in the past, but it isn't showing up under Buffs and Tracking. I haven't configured anything. The right click to cancel buffs works now, but then the tracking disappeared.

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Posted Nov 12, 2010
ah, you meant the tracking EBB used to show.
Yes, that one is gone since with being able to track multiple things at once there is no need anymore to show what exactly you are tracking.
So you will have to access it via the minimap button or eg some LDB addon.

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Posted Nov 8, 2010
I have a question about this addon. Mine is the latest version and such, but my tracking isn't showing up. There doesn't seem to be anywhere where I can track things, such as repairs or low level quests. If I take off all of my addons but Elkano's, it doesn't change anything, so it isn't a compatibility thing. Is there a fix for this out?

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