Elkano's BuffBars
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 26, 2014Thank you; latest release did indeed fix it.
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Posted Nov 11, 2014In config mode, I am unable to bring up the drop down menu using the groups config bar. Which obviously I need to be able to do to config each group of bars. Please help.
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Posted Nov 11, 2014With the switch to Ace3, there no longer is configuration via DropDown. (Reminds me, that I haven't updated the addon description, yet :/ ).
However, the bar group options have always also been accessable via the larger config dropdown which has now become a panel. So simply access it either via the minimap icon/data object or by typing "/ebb".
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Posted Nov 9, 2014Is there a way to setup a flash warning when something is removed off the bar? Like if a buff expires a raid warning will flash?
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Posted Nov 11, 2014Try MikScrollingBattleText. All types of warnings you may or may not need!
Just have to configure it.
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Posted Nov 11, 2014Thanks!
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Posted Nov 5, 2014To any no-gap enthusiasts here!
If you want to remove the terrible gap find "local function getTimeFormatCondensed(timeAmount)" in EBB_Bar.lua and change "return "%.1fs", seconds" to "return "%ds", seconds". Save the file!
Open the addon's menu and choose Condensed time format for all your bars.
It no longer shows tenths of a second and there's no gap!
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Posted Oct 20, 2014I've updated to the current version and looks like everything is fine with bar positioning.
But I'm getting this nasty bug making the addon kind of uselees since I can't see buff/debuff durations.
updt: it can be 'fixed' by choosing time format again.
Found this little bug (is it even a bug?) though.
'Blizzard Default' time format.
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Posted Oct 20, 2014The gap is no bug from the addon since I just call a Blizzard function to format the output in that case (SecondsToTimeAbbrev).
However, you wrote earlier that your last version was r167 (pre MoP). In r168 I changed the time formats so the one you used before is no longer available, which also explains the ???.
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Posted Oct 20, 2014Ouch. The 'no gap' version was my favourite.
I noticed that the 'condensed' time format has no gap.. but it also displays tenths of a second. Feels *a bit* distracting to me.
Maybe there should be an option to hide those. Heh.
You are the author and it's your addon.. all I can do is request that option.
P.S.: I like the new EBB menu.
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Posted Oct 19, 2014Hi!
Elkano, is it possible to switch to the latest version of EBB without losing my settings? Those in SavedVariables.
I'm currently using EBB Version: r167.
I want to update but I don't want to lose bar positioning :(
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Posted Oct 19, 2014You may have to reselect your profile if you had a custom one but besides that, it should work fine.
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Posted Oct 19, 2014Thank you! I'll try to update :) Hope nothing will go wrong. Ehe, my settings are really important to me.
I'm really happy you are still updating this great addon!
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Posted Oct 17, 2014The solution below worked for me
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Posted Oct 17, 2014Should be fixed with r179.
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Posted Oct 17, 2014There seems to be an error in the ElkBuffBars.toc file, where it misses a folder in the link to a lib.
I changed the following and it worked for me:
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libs\LibDataBroker-1.1.lua
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Change to -> libs\LibDataBroker-1.1\LibDataBroker-1.1.lua
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Posted Oct 17, 2014I was getting this issue on a few characters, after a re-install of the addon it is across the board. The addon list, both at the character select screen and in-game say the addon is loaded, but it is not loading.
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Posted Oct 16, 2014for some reason after i updated to the latest version the addon appears in the addon list but is not showing up in game. Not in the interface -> addons section either. Im stumped lol
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Posted Oct 16, 2014Now I'm even more afraid of updating to the latest version.
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Posted Oct 16, 2014This is all caused by finally moving from Ace2 (and associated libs) to Ace3. But glad you like it :)