WowAce

v2.9.1 on retail

I have a bar ("death") that is supposed to overlay over an entire frame whenever that person dies (-> death assigned as status and color). The width of that overlaying bar is proportional to the alpha value used in the color assigned to that bar.

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This has been driving me mad for years. I have always used .9 opacity for every frame and couldn't figure out why there is a small background colored bar the right whenever someone died. I set up a complete fresh install of grid2 and randomly found out I could replicate the problem as described above. 

This doesn't apply to all statuses. I can replicate it with the health-low status but not the mana status for example. 

That is working as intended, alpha value is used in bar indicators if the active status does not provide a Percent value.

If you want a overlayed rectangle, dont use a bar indicator, you can use a square indicator (with the rectangle option enabled, to be able to set differents widths and heights).