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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_ForgeUser1352834
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Posted Oct 22, 2010
I'm having a problem with ElkBuffBars and DockingStation. DockingStation will gray the plugin out in the menu, and when I attempt to activate it manually it gives me an LUA error. It ends up making a blank space where the plugin should display, and when I mouseover that location it also gives me an LUA error.

I can't give you the exact error right now because WoW decided it wanted me to download a few more gigs, however it should be easy to recreate. I'm not sure if this is a problem with Elk or DockingStation, but I posted it on both.

Great mod, and I'm glad to see it transitioning into Cataclysm.

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Posted Oct 22, 2010
So I get this weird message each time I log into game:

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Count: 1
Message: ..\AddOns\ElkBuffBars\ElkBuffBars.lua line 751:
attempt to call upvalue 'GetTrackingTexture' (a nil value)
Debug:
...ddOns\ElkBuffBars\libs\AceAddon-2.0\AceAddon-2.0.lua:25:
...ddOns\ElkBuffBars\libs\AceAddon-2.0\AceAddon-2.0.lua:23
...ddOns\ElkBuffBars\libs\AceAddon-2.0\AceAddon-2.0.lua:1055: ManualEnable()
...ddOns\ElkBuffBars\libs\AceAddon-2.0\AceAddon-2.0.lua:983:
...ddOns\ElkBuffBars\libs\AceAddon-2.0\AceAddon-2.0.lua:976
[C]: ?
...ddOns\ElkBuffBars\libs\AceEvent-2.0\AceEvent-2.0.lua:260: TriggerEvent()
...ddOns\ElkBuffBars\libs\AceEvent-2.0\AceEvent-2.0.lua:910:
...ddOns\ElkBuffBars\libs\AceEvent-2.0\AceEvent-2.0.lua:903

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I have absolutely no idea why, because my EBB's work great. Figured I'd post it all the same. :)

Thank you for a great add-on!

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Posted Oct 22, 2010
Hrm. Just realized I hadn't updated to the beta. That's from version 2.2.5 - r150. Feel free to ignore me. :)

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Posted Oct 21, 2010
Funny, so bliz thought ahead, that whole thing about shift clicking a buff to put the name in the chat frame after a /cancelaura does not work it fires the blocked addon frame. And rightful so because after i read what you had said about the /cancelaura and shiftclick on a elk buff frame... it hit me well if you can do that no reason you could not do a runslashcmd function with a getbuffname and ultimately make it so when you click a elk buff frame it runs the /cancelarua buffname. Bliz already beat us to that idea though... shift-clicking and deleting the time does not work so of course the aforementioned idea also would not work... i had my hopes up for a moment though :)

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Posted Oct 24, 2010
me either... I hadn't tested it before posting it here but there was no indication why it shouldn't work :/

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Posted Oct 21, 2010
r156 missing my shaman's enchants :(
Previous alphas was OK....

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Posted Oct 21, 2010
Yep, I just noticed this also. Since the change to add ranged/thrown weapon tench, I don't see poisons on any weapon now.

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Posted Oct 21, 2010
Confirmed. Tench frame isn't showing poisons.

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Posted Oct 21, 2010
yeah, my fault ^^' forgot to add a function call

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Posted Oct 21, 2010
Hmm, that's not a bad idea if it's possible. Could even then turn bar icons off and position/size the buttons where you could hardly see the difference from how they look already with icons.

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Posted Oct 21, 2010
I was wondering if placing secure buttons next to each buff in the buff frame would be possible. In that way, you could just click the button and cancel it's corresponding buff. Perhaps the buttons would have to be placed in a separate frame that attaches to the buff frame to get it to work.

Anyway, it was just a thought I had. Not sure if it is even possible.

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Posted Oct 20, 2010
Anyone else not able to remove buffs when clicking them with this addon since yesterdays release? I have checked and made sure mouse disabled is not checked... I cannot click off buffs of any kind...

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Posted Oct 20, 2010
This is an issue affecting all addons that needs to be adjusted on Blizzard's side.

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Posted Oct 20, 2010
this is strange... it should have kept the old settings :/

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Posted Oct 21, 2010
Take a backup of the config file and then remove everything with Tracking in it. Worked for me.

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Posted Oct 21, 2010
I have the same issue, when I change to r153 all the groups in my setup are gone. as a result I have to use an older version :(

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Posted Oct 21, 2010
It works! =) I've made some tests and finally I've only removed "Tracking" entry inside "bargroups->filters->names_exclude" as DaWicked said. Thank you all.

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Posted Oct 20, 2010
Thank you for your work in this amazing addon. I have some different groups with black/white lists and buff filters etc. After updating from version 151 to 153 i've lost all my config. I've tried with diferent profiles but they all dissapeared. If I reinstall 151 it works again. Must I configure all bars again to make it work? Thanks again and sorry about my english.

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Posted Oct 21, 2010
Can you tell me which file (new or old) and which lines?

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Posted Oct 21, 2010
C:\Program Files (x86)\World of Warcraft\WTF\Account\<yourAccount>\SavedVariables\ElkBuffBars.lua

Search "tracking" text and delete all lines between brackets (include traking itself) i.e. text to remove:

["TRACKING"] = { ["blablahblah"] = true,
["blablablah"] = true,
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