Elkano's BuffBars

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

For over 20 years, EBB has been a mainstay for both long-term and returning players (at least some) and reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated.

Two-in-One Download

For Classic WoW, the addon uses its older 2.x code base, for Mainline WoW (Retail and Forever) it is now based on Blizzard's AuraContainer; all in the same download file.

2.x based on UnitAura

Version 2.x was a total recode, initially based on the Ace2 framework, later ported to Ace3, which became necessary in order to support some of the longtime wanted and suggested features. It has served well for ~19 years (since June '07) and made it 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. 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.

Due to changes Blizzard made with WoW 4.x it's no longer possible to cancel buffs without the use of secure frames. EBB v2 thus limits cancelling of buffs to out-of-fight since using SecureAuraHeader would have required a major code restructuring. ~~This will be coming in a later version.~~

3.x based on AuraContainer

This is once again a complete artisanal rewrite, which became necessary due to Blizzard making auras secret in combat. This also gave me the push to include some features I already wanted but never included before. And you can cancel buffs in combat again.

Layouts can now be shared between groups, support multi-line/-column alignments, and give you way more options than before. But it can also just look the same as it used to.

What did suffer from the change of underlying technology are some of the filter options, as Blizzard has intentionally broken those.

And I haven't added localization to v3, yet. So most texts are in English besides a few strings reused from the game client.

Settings

The settings can be accessed via chat (/ebb), LDB icon, or simply via the game settings.

Other Infos

In order to get additional bar textures and fonts for EBB simply install e.g. SharedMedia which is available for download under https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/sharedmedia
If you have bug reports or feature request, create a ticket: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/elkbuffbars/issues

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Posted Nov 1, 2010
Would it be possible to add a funktionality to copy single buffgroups between profiles or have them syncronise somehow?
I always have a specific buffgroup just to show if encounter relevant buffs/debuffs are active on me (plague on prof/LK etc.), but have to update the filter on each and every char of mine seperately (and of course that is only possible right after I "saw" it on that specific char).
Another use would be for arena specific debuffs and debuffs in general.

Something like "shared" buff group filters would be a great help.
Ideal would be if they appeared as "special" where "whitelist" and "blacklist are located. You'd create them with a unique name, select them for groups on chars where you want to use them and any change on one char would show up on all of them.
(A backup copy would be great though.)

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Posted Oct 31, 2010
Since FuBar is no longer being maintained, would it be too much to ask for if you could include LDB functionality? I just moved from FuBar to ChocolateBar Broker Display, and would love for your addon to show up on that bar without having to use Fubar2Broker and the dummy fubar addon :) The minimap becomes caotich with all those icons aroun it.

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Posted Oct 29, 2010
I've noticed with EBB's latest update when you want to dismiss a buff (via right clicking it off), an icon appears in the middle of the screen, left clicking dismisses, right clicking cancels the dismiss and hides the icon (I think that's it... might have it backwards...), anyways, is there a way to bypass this so I can just right click the buffs off straight from the bars like before?

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Posted Oct 30, 2010
no
thats the reason theyve had to do that, because the normal way didnt work

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Posted Oct 30, 2010
Funny X-pearl has it back to single right click buff removal.
I would really like to see EBB do the same.
i like EBB much better for buffs and debuffs!

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Posted Oct 31, 2010
XPerl is using a secure method to create the entire unit frame, which allows them to have one-click buff cancelling, but removed their ability to "Set Focus" on something by rightclicking it's unit frame.

The way EBB works, there's no real way to replicate the entire addon within secure handlers, which means we'll always need to have SOME sort of workaround, like the current "button-in-middle-of-screen".

Don't worry, there's a lot of work being done to try to change the way this works. I've already come up with a method to make it SEEM like it works exactly like the old way, and told Elkano about it. I'll have a test version avaliable in a few days and if Elkano gives me the OK, I'll put a link up here. Although if it works as well as I think it will, he'll probably just include it into the next version.

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Posted Oct 29, 2010
An automatic Aion mining addon?
lol, wrong part of curse there bud, and the link even says "bot" in it.
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Posted Oct 28, 2010
love your addon, been using it for 2 years now but recently, since 4.0 to be exact, my ebb has been shot, the bars moved up over my minimap and whenever i open the configuration menu, it seems non interactive, it shows up for about 10 seconds, not letting me open any menus or even toggle blizzard frames back on. :/ help on this subject would greatly help since i've been playing without buff bars for the last 2 weeks. thanks!

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Posted Oct 28, 2010
Elkano,

I love your addon. Wouldn't want to play without it.

That said... Would it be possible to add Party1-Party4 to the list of "targets" that a buff frame can look at?

I would REALLY like to create 4 extra frames, one for each party member so I can get a bar-graph showing RENEW and other HoTs on each of them. I think I could use a different addon to do this, but it basically means I'd be loading two different complete buff indicator addons, yours and someone elses. I prefer yours. I prefer the way you handle configuration.

I already use two different frames for Player, (buffs over 1 minute, and buffs 1 min and under), one for my target, one for focus, etc. but I can't make one each for party members.

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Posted Oct 31, 2010
hot candy works pretty well for that.

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Posted Oct 28, 2010
/cancelaura works for Lightning Shield

But it seems there is no way to remove Windfury Weapon, Flametounge Weapon and those sort of stuff... :(

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Posted Oct 28, 2010
Here's a screenshot with all other addons disabled showing EBB_SAB_Cancel just by mousing over the character.

http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/2507/wowscrnshot102810194906.jpg

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Posted Oct 28, 2010
Same problem here. It's definitely caused by Elkano's, I tried disabling all other addons and the problem persisted. Rolling back to r158 removed the problem. The game will show you mouse-over highlighting your own character when the issue occurs, and prevents any character mouse movement while clicked down at that point.

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Posted Oct 28, 2010
A current bug in the latest release version (r159) prohibits mouse interaction over the spot where the '3 click cancel' center frame resides.
I encountered this bug last night while in ICC, and was wondering why I would often not turn without right-clicking 2 or 3 times. Eventually I learned that it was because where I tend to anchor my mouse for turning is the same spot where this window hides itself.

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Posted Oct 28, 2010
that's strange, working fine for me :/
try "/framestack" and mouse over the region

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Posted Oct 27, 2010
I use /cancelaura <spell name> for now. Better than nothing until a fix is released.

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Posted Oct 27, 2010
@Yewbacca

I cant even left click on that large square to remove buff. I get an error, if I hide Errors nothing happens. I can only right click the square to remove the square, but this doesnt remove buffs.

I cannot remove any buffs with EBB!

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Posted Oct 27, 2010
ELKANO:
Curse Client has not detected the updated version.
I was using r150 for ages, since 4.0.1 I've been checking Curse Client daily for an update but it never detected one. Only now just checked the website and saw there has been two updates.. Why not use the Client for updates?

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Posted Oct 28, 2010
He has classified the releases as beta and the curse client does not download beta releases by default. You have to tell it to grab beta releases if you want them to be downloaded and installed by curse client.

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Posted Oct 27, 2010
Thanks for this realy usefull addon, but i can't figure out how to create different profiles for each of my toon. at the moment i can only use it on one of my toons. i tried /ebb profile choose charname of server slash command, but that did'nt make it.

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