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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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_ForgeUser7215519
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Posted Jul 17, 2011
I tried the suggestions, and it worked. Guess somehow it went into suspend mode which I didn't even notice existed in the addon. Cheers for the assistance, love the addon.

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Posted Jul 17, 2011
Setting timeless buffs to whitelist will only show timeless buffs in that group. So you most likely want to set them to blacklist in order to not have them shown.

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Posted Jul 16, 2011
Got a little problem: wanted to add a new group where all buffs with less then 40 seconds will be shown. But it shows the timeless buffs too. If i try to set the filter of timeless buffs to whitelist and add a buff i never will have and won't disturb me it does not show the other buffs with less then 40 seconds eighter...

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Posted Jul 17, 2011
Thanks for the quick reply, that was it.

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Posted Jul 16, 2011
Since the latest update, the anchors are enabled even though I have them disabled. When I create a new profile, the buffbars are not visible at all. Any ideas?

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Posted Jul 16, 2011
2.3.1 will most likely have activated configuration mode for all bar groups since I changed some options.

And for the new profile, are the groups created? Do they show up in the config menu?

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Posted Jul 14, 2011
For some reason Elk Buff-bars do not show the "soar" buff/count you get while doing the "Call the Flock" daily quest from Matoclaw in Mt Hyjal. I had to disable the addon to be able to see the buff.
Just wanted to let you know.
Thanks for a great addon.

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Posted Jul 12, 2011
getting an error string on this for the current version, no bars showing either.

...ddOns\ElkBuffBars\libs\AceAddon-2.0\AceAddon-2.0.lua:1051: in function `ManualEnable'
...ddOns\ElkBuffBars\libs\AceAddon-2.0\AceAddon-2.0.lua:979: in function <...ddOns\ElkBuffBars\libs\AceAddon-2.0\AceAddon-2.0.lua:973>
[C]: ?
...ddOns\ElkBuffBars\libs\AceEvent-2.0\AceEvent-2.0.lua:260: in function `TriggerEvent'
...ddOns\ElkBuffBars\libs\AceEvent-2.0\AceEvent-2.0.lua:910: in function <...ddOns\ElkBuffBars\libs\AceEvent-2.0\AceEvent-2.0.lua:903>

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Posted Jul 13, 2011
This is only part of a stack trace and the real error is missing. Also only the libraries are mentioned so it could also be an other addon using the same libraries. Install !BugGrabber and BugSack to get a more useful error output :/

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Posted Jul 17, 2011
there are some self:Print lines with -- or --~ in front of them, just remove these chars

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Posted Jul 13, 2011
I didn't change anything regarding snapping so placing one group near an other such that either the sides or the middles are within 25px of each other should make them snap.
There are some disabled debug outputs in ElkBuffBar.lua's StickGroup function (around line 1000) that you could enable to help see what's going on.

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Posted Jul 12, 2011
I'm not sure if it was a recent update but I can no longer get my bars to snap to each other. I want to have my buffs and then the debuffs snapped underneath (pretty sure this is how it was default lol) but the bar won't connect to the bottom of another one. I thought it might be one of my addons but I've tested this with no addons at all and am not sure if this is an issue with the addon or perhaps I'm doing something wrong (might not be unlikely lol).

Any help would be greatly appreciated since I love using this addon. =)

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Posted Jul 15, 2011
I'll be honest, I'm not that great at editing code. What part do I need to change? I messed with it yesterday but couldn't figure out what part I needed to change.

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Posted Jul 9, 2011
With the latest version I got a problem with dropping/moving items in my inventory.
To be more precise:
When I move an item to another free position, on the old position the item leaves a grey shade (as if you've attached it to i.e a mail) but on the new position it looks like that spot is still blank.
Although hovering over the new (visually empty) spot, the tooltip of the item appears.
Similar effect with taking an item out of your mail, it doesnt show up (yet tooltip works).

After rolling back to vers. r165, all is working fine again.

Not sure wether it is a bug with the new version or some interacting problem with another addon.

Addons i use on my banker (only few enabled on him):
BugGrabber/BugSack
Dominos
DragEmAll
Mik's SCT
Minimap Button Frame
Quartz
Shadowed UF
Squeenix
Tidy Plates (Threat Plates)
TipTac
Titan Panel (basic vers)
tullaRange
... and ofc ElkBuffBars ....

btw - thanks for the by far best buff-mod !!!

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Posted Jul 10, 2011
strange, since I didn't change anything that would cause that...
only idea I have is that one of the embedded libraries was updated to a more recent version causing this so try r166 with the libs from r165.

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Posted Jul 10, 2011
Aswell, what I noticed but wasnt 100% sure if that was related to my mentioned bug is, that i.e. Looting laged pretty hard, aswell when an achievement poped up plus I had a few ~5 secs lagspikes.

As said, extremely difficult to say if that was related, yet with 165 I had none of these issues either anymore. (my Latency is usually: 15-25 / 20-50 ... displayed)

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Posted Jul 5, 2011
please update the addon to patch 4.2.

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Posted Jun 30, 2011
Is there a way to cancel buffs while in combat? Without using a cancel aura macro of course. Like right click on a buff and it cancels.

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Posted Jul 1, 2011
Currently, after Blizz' changes with Cataclysm, there is none.
Problem is the restrictions of the secure frames needed to cancel buffs. That kind of frames can not be modified the way EBB needs them.
Blizzard surely have to find a more suitable way to allow interaction without falling back to the ability to automatically cancel buffs via script.

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Posted Jun 30, 2011
WTB an update!

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