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 Aug 24, 2011
I've been having some issues with the blizzard buffs showing back up during fights, I've disabled the blizzard buff through /ebb config and it keeps on coming back. Any ideas?

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Posted Aug 12, 2011
I'm having a problem that's been frustrating me for a while. I made sure I had the latest version of this addon installed (2.3.1 - r167). Let's say I'm in combat and I pop ice block.. I'm not able to right click the "Iceblock" buff to get rid of it - it forces me to stay in ice block the full duration. Am I doing something wrong or did Blizz change something? Would love to get this working.

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Posted Aug 13, 2011
from the addon description on this page:
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.

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Posted Jul 28, 2011
hey elk, how do you re-enable elk minimap button? cause i've looked and i just don't see an option in /ebb config so

although i do see "show minimap tracking frame" but thats not "display ebb button"

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Posted Jul 30, 2011
/ebb hide off

Had an issue figuring that out too, this will re-enable your minimap button.

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Posted Jul 17, 2011
Hi,

I am getting a similar error to one of the posters below and cannot seem to figure out what it is. The LUA message pops up upon login, and the AddOn will not function at all. I have cleared my AddOns folder, as well as my SavedVariables and done a fresh download and install of EBB, but am still getting the same error. Since no other AddOns are installed at the moment, we can rule out the issue being related to other AddOns using the libraries as you mentioned in your response. I installed and ran bugcatcher/bugsack, and here is everything it listed:

1x ElkBuffBars-2.3.1-166\EBB_BarGroup.lua:119: attempt to call method 'ToggleAnchor' (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>

nil

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nil

Any help or insight as to what is going on would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks

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Posted Jul 17, 2011
oh, seems like I forgot to rename that function call ^^' my bad :/ will upload fixed version...

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Posted Jul 18, 2011
That fixed it! Thank you very much!

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Posted Jul 17, 2011
I'm not exactly sure what isn't working here, but concerning slash commands, try "/ebb" or "/ebb config". Also, if you aren't using the r166 beta, make sure you activated "load out of date addons". You could also try to delete the addon's saved variables to reset it to initial settings if the other things didn't help.

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Posted Jul 16, 2011
I am having a serious issue with the addon for some reason. I was using it for couple of months before this new patch came out, until out of the blue the addon simply stopped to function for an entirely unseen reason. I let it go because I was very busy IRL, but now that I have more free time I tried to download the newer version, and the issue persists. Any ideas/thoughts about configuration of the game that I might've done wrong? Any slash commands I can type ingame that could force it to display unless there was installing issue?

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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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