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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ithilyn
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Posted Oct 18, 2010
Click on the link he has above in the description, "The most recent development version of EBB is available directly from the wowace SVN via ", http://www.wowace.com/projects/elkbuffbars/files/. Download the most recent zip file, listed as Alpha. Install it manually into your Interface\Addons folder.

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Posted Oct 18, 2010
I put an update on the svn that has the tracking stuff removed and that doesn't try to cancel buffs. So at least there are no errors for the moment.
Still looking into a real fix for the buff canceling :/

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Posted Oct 18, 2010
First off: Really happy to see that you are working on this - this addon is amazing.

Second: Im a noob when it comes to this: "SVN" ? does that mean an update in the latest version or?

Thanks for your work Elkano - much appreciated.

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Posted Oct 18, 2010
I'm curious as to what this "svn" is aswell.

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Posted Oct 18, 2010
svn is just a version control system I use over at wowace to help me with development. wowace's packager is currently a bit busy though so it will take some time until I can give a link to the latest files.

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Posted Oct 17, 2010
need update :P

1x ElkBuffBars-2.2.6-151\ElkBuffBars.lua:773: attempt to call upvalue 'GetTrackingTexture' (a nil value)
AceAddon-2.0-91100 (ElkBuffBars):979: in function <...ddOns\ElkBuffBars\libs\AceAddon-2.0\AceAddon-2.0.lua:973>
<in C code>: ?
AceEvent-2.0-91097 (ElkBuffBars):260: in function `TriggerEvent'
AceEvent-2.0-91097 (ElkBuffBars):910: in function <...ddOns\ElkBuffBars\libs\AceEvent-2.0\AceEvent-2.0.lua:903>

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Posted Oct 17, 2010
Correction: Just take a look at this ticket.
http://www.wowace.com/addons/elkbuffbars/tickets/65-wow-4-0-1-error/

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Posted Oct 17, 2010
Ok, to fix this for Cataclysm, here's basically what I did:

Go through ElkBuffBars.lua and comment out each line that has "tracking" in it. That is, search for "tracking" and at the beginning of that line, put two hyphens at the beginning of the line.
"local GetTrackingTexture = _G.GetTrackingTexture" becomes
"--local GetTrackingTexture = _G.GetTrackingTexture"

and later:
nameoverride = {
BUFF = {},
DEBUFF = {},
TENCH = {},
-- TRACKING = {},
},

This sort of thing. And then in EBB_BarGroup.lua, find the following at about line 272, and comment it by putting --[[ at the beginning of the first line and ]] at the end of the last line.

--[[ for _, v in pairs(ElkBuffBars.trackingdata) do
if self:CheckFilter(v) then
table_insert(data, v)
end
end
]]

Comment stuff out instead of delete because you don't know when you might mess something up.

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Posted Oct 17, 2010
Using this method, the dewdroplib stuff (for configuration) seems to be broken, and I don't know a way around it. But if you really want this to work, you've probably been using it already and have it already configured as you've wanted it all along.

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Posted Oct 17, 2010
I hope that there will be an easy way to report and clean/hide these bot-advertising-spams one day. From a such hugely popular site as this, there will be countless clicks to each shady URL and many compromised OSes and WoW-accounts...

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Posted Oct 17, 2010
pls update it elkano

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Posted Oct 17, 2010
Jesus.

Message: Interface\AddOns\ElkBuffBars\ElkBuffBars.lua:773: attempt to call upvalue 'GetTrackingTexture' (a nil value)
Time: 10/17/10 04:01:17
Count: 2352
Stack:
Locals:

Now, what you don't see is that the 'count' is going up at a rate of about 10 errors a second.

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Posted Oct 17, 2010
Satrina Buff Frames is also good, but you need to dig a bit in the config to make it look like EBB.

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Posted Oct 16, 2010
How about this mod as a replacement:

http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info18242-Raven.html

It seems pretty close. I'm about to try it right now.

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Posted Oct 16, 2010
it seem's GOOD
but English only :(

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Posted Oct 16, 2010
Even after commenting out line 733, Elkanos now kills my frame rate. Enabling it instantly takes my FPS from 60 to 15 or so, and a bunch of my other addons no longer function properly.

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Posted Oct 16, 2010
Agree with eveyone else; would love to see an update... Satria's buff frames just is not the same as Elkano's. Thanks for the great work on this.

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Posted Oct 16, 2010
Still works for me in 4.0.1, but I can't click off buffs anymore, very annoying. I'm also currently using recount, omen, pitbull, grid, dbm, sexy maps, skinner, dominos, epgp, power aura classic, sct and probably one or two I'm forgetting.

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Posted Oct 16, 2010
Apparently the can't click off buffs thing is a Blizzard bug, or change, not sure which. I've heard scattered reports about it. So it may not be an issue with Elkano's Bars, but with Blizzard.

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Posted Oct 16, 2010
i deleted line 733 of "ElkBuffBars.lua" and now it seems to work again :)

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