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 Oct 29, 2022In reply to Spennig:
Setting self-cast to whitelist means a (de)buff must have been cast by yourself (units PLAYER, PET or VEHICLE) to show in that group.
Setting it to blacklist has the opposite effect, i.e. it must not have been cast by yourself but some other unit.
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Posted Oct 29, 2022In reply to Elkano:
Thanks! Will whitelisting self-cast, prevent casts from others being shown, then, or just ensure mine show?
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Posted Oct 30, 2022In reply to Spennig:
EBB's filter system works such that entries must pass all filters set. If they fail any they won't be shown in that group.
And since for passing the self-cast whitelist spells must have been cast by yourself, it indeed prevents casts from others being shown.
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Posted Oct 28, 2022Using the r204-alpha build. Everything seems fine, no LUA errors, but I've lost the ability to right-click on my buffs to remove them. Anybody else experiencing this?
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Posted Oct 28, 2022In reply to cardmaster_rooks:
i noticed that too unable to remove buff via right click
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Posted Oct 29, 2022In reply to cardmaster_rooks:
Removing buffs still works as well as it did before, i.e. not in combat. 😢
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Posted Oct 29, 2022In reply to Elkano:
I'm not in combat. I've disabled every addon except Elkano's BuffBars to make sure it isn't something interfering with it and it still will not allow me to right click a buff to remove it. I can unhide Blizzard's buff icons and right click the same buff (the Blizzard icon, not the EBB one) and it removes it. I even deleted the settings in the WTF folder to start fresh and the problem still persists. Tried rolling back to the previous version (r203-alpha) but it's doing the same thing.
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Posted Oct 29, 2022In reply to cardmaster_rooks:
Then it's strange indeed. And if you didn't change any settings (like click-through) the only other thing that would come to my mind would be another frame overlapping and catching the clicks, e.g. due to the new Blizzard UI.
Are other click actions working, e.g. alt-click to toggle config mode or shift-click to paste the buff into chat? Or opening the tracking options?
In case you are in the CF Discord, feel free to reach out to me.
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Posted Oct 29, 2022In reply to Elkano:
That's exactly what I was thinking (possible overlapping frame), so I moved the bar group all over the screen to various spots and it didn't solve the issue. Alt-left clicking the anchor does activate configuration mode. But Shift-clicking a buff to paste into chat doesn't work.
I wouldn't worry about this if nobody else is having this issue. I think I'm going to try to get used to the old buff icons for now. Thank you!
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Posted Oct 30, 2022In reply to cardmaster_rooks:
I'm having the same issue.
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Posted Oct 30, 2022In reply to SANDOR_THEHOUND_CLEGANE:
Same, although only in beta. Retail works as normal
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Posted Nov 2, 2022In reply to cardmaster_rooks:
In reply to Elkano:
Having the same issue in retail. Unable to cancel any buffs. All addons except EBB have been disabled, in town, not in combat. Shift or Alt clicking a buff don't do anything. I am able to alt-click the anchor itself to enter configuration mode. All options for the buff frame are default, including leaving "Disable Mouse" unchecked. There are no other frames in the way when inspecting via fstack
Edit: Looks like i found a fix/workaround. I had to register RightButonUp on line 595 of ElkBuffBars.lua to get canceling of buffs to work.
595: button:RegisterForClicks("LeftButtonDown", "RightButtonDown", "RightButtonUp")
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Posted Nov 2, 2022A great find! Now if only it was possible to get the tracking button to work... This might help.
There is also a way to expand tracking options: /console minimapTrackingShowAll 1
I was messing around and changed 1 to 2. One of these commands gave me all the old options back! /console minimapTrackingShowAll 2
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Posted Nov 5, 2022In reply to Popachi:
Seems like they now also use the ActionButtonUseKeyDown CVar in SecureActionButtons, which would also explain why it didn't break for everybody but just some. So r205 should fix that with an approach similar to yours.
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Posted Oct 25, 2022On live 10.0, today:
5x Interface/AddOns/ElkBuffBars/ElkBuffBars.lua:431: attempt to index global 'TemporaryEnchantFrame' (a nil value)
[string "@Interface/AddOns/ElkBuffBars/ElkBuffBars.lua"]:431: in function `HandleFrame_Blizzard_TemporaryEnchantFrame'
[string "@Interface/AddOns/ElkBuffBars/ElkBuffBars.lua"]:409: in function `PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD'
[string "@Interface/AddOns/ElkBuffBars/ElkBuffBars.lua"]:344: in function <Interface/AddOns/ElkBuffBars/ElkBuffBars.lua:304>
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Posted Oct 26, 2022In reply to durandal42:
There are multiple things that seem to be broken (TEnch, Tracking, ...) so it will likely be some days until everything is fixed. 😥
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Posted Oct 26, 2022In reply to Elkano:
Thank you for all your hard work. Take your time, do it right.
Even though I can't really play without EBB anymore I'll wait patiently. :D
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Posted Oct 26, 2022Double post
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Posted Oct 26, 2022In reply to Elkano:
Thank you Elkano, we'll wait patiently until you've sorted everything!
Appreciate your work!
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Posted Oct 26, 2022In reply to durandal42:
r204-alpha should fix at least the obvious stuff for now.
Please tell if you run into any more issues.