Quartz

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Quartz is a modular approach to a casting bar addon. An overview of (hopefully most of) the modules:

*Player
The core of Quartz is lightweight implementation of a standard casting bar, with configurable size, text and icon positioning, and colors.

*Target/Focus
Implementation of target and focus casting bars in similar fashion to the player cast bar.

*Buffs
Display of target and focus buffs and debuffs as duration bars.

*Flight
Hooks into FlightMap or InFlight to display the current flight progress on your casting bar.

*Global Cooldown
Displays a tiny spark-bar to show your Global Cooldown near the cast bar. Helpful for those who'd rather not squint at their action bars to see when they can cast again.

*Interrupt
Changes the color and text of your casting bar to help show that your cast has been interrupted (and show who interrupted it).

*Latency
Displays the amount of time spent between cast send and start events, in the form of a bar at the end of your casting bar, with optional text that displays the actual duration of the lag. This helps in canceling casts when they will not actually be interrupted, especially for users with consistently high pings.

*Mirror
Shows the 'basic' timers such as breath and feign death, as well as some 'odd' ones such as party invite time, resurrect timeout, and arena game start, and a framework for injecting custom timers into the bars.

*Range
Recolors the casting bar when your cast target moves out of range mid-cast.

*Swing
Displays a swing timer for your melee weapon as well as hunter autoshot.

*Timer
Allows for creating custom timers displayed on the mirror bars.

*Tradeskill Merge
Merges multiple casts of the same tradeskill item into one big cast bar.

Use /quartz to bring up the configuration menu.

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Posted Mar 29, 2010
Question for the new quartz. Is it still possible to have more then 1 digit showing on the casting bar? As an example, I would like to see 1.423 instead of just 1.4.

Thx for the help

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Posted Mar 28, 2010
I'm trying to have it replace ecastingbar but its not doing specific things that are simple that I want it to. quartz max width is 1500 with some modding i made it 2000 because i want it to span my entire screen and i have a 1920x1080 monitor i only needed 1700 with my ui scale to make it the entire length but even if i set it at 2000 it seems to constrain itself to the screen resolution which is fine but on the left it touches the screen just right and on the right side of the screen its 10 pixels in and refuses to touch the right side of the screen <s>also i was positioning it over my pitbull 3d portrait and lining it up so that the targets casting bar went over his 3d portrait but it pops up behind the portrait and i would like an option to move it in front i know some addons have like background, front, dialog, top and different options</s> <s>same with my mirror bar for breath i was having it over my players 3d portrait which also shows up behind it never mind that i changed the strata of pitbull instead after coming across it all of a sudden in the settings</s>

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Posted Mar 27, 2010
the main function of quartz that I used was the latency area, to the right of the cast bar.
Im a healer so I could time when I could release the heal and start a new one when the cast bar was in the red latency area.
The latency area is now on the left hand side of the cast bar with no way to move it to the right that I can see.
Is there any way to fix this or is this working as intended?
I have been using quartz for many years now, I really dont want to have to hunt down new cast bars. :(

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Posted Mar 27, 2010
under the lag or latency section on the options uncheck the embed option

what that option does is includes it in the cast so when it reaches the end then you can cast and its pretty accurate for me

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Posted Mar 27, 2010
Ok, so I just installed the new patch and I've had problems logging in. So I had removed all of my addons. Now that I reinstalled Quartz3 and have had lesser logging in problems, the bars for quartz are all resetting to their original positions. Is this normal? Is there a fix for this? Is there anyone else having this problem?

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Posted Mar 26, 2010
Great I'm trying to have it replace ecastingbar but its not doing specific things that are simple that I want it to.

its max width is 1500
with some modding i made it 2000 because i want to to span my entire screen and i have a 1920x1080 monitor

i only needed 1700 with my ui scale to make it the entire length but even if i set it at 2000 it seems to constrain itself to the screen resolution which is fine but on the left it touches the screen just right and on the right side of the screen its 10 pixels in and refuses to touch the right side of the screen

also i was positioning it over my pitbull 3d portrait and lining it up so that the targets casting bar went over his 3d portrait but it pops up behind the portrait and i would like an option to move it in front i know allot of addons have like background front dialog top and different options so i think its in a framework somewhere.

same with my mirror bar for breath i was having it over my players 3d portrait which also shows up behind it.

if you want i can take some screenshots and show you what i mean

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Posted Mar 26, 2010
Sorry, this might be a stupid noob question but I really don't understand what any of the optionsin the Quartz menu mean. I play a rogue, and basically I just want all the stuff that Quartz does to show up ALL the time. For example, I like the StunWatch-esque timer bars that show up while I'm targeting a mob in combat. However, some stuff (Slice and Dice, etc.) only shows up if I target MYSELF in combat. What use is that? I want ALL the stuff to show up ALL the time. How do I do that? The Quartz menus are just about the dumbest and most confusing things ever...

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Posted Mar 26, 2010
I don't think there is a way to do that. If there is, I couldn't find it. I wanted to use it as an overall replacement for my buffs. Unfortunately it seems that you can only get buff bars to show for your current target and focus, IIRC (at work atm). Having a set of buff bars for the player would be super helpful.

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Posted Mar 30, 2010
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Posted Mar 24, 2010
There's a incremental build posted on WoWAce that sounds like it might fix the 3.3.3 issues:

http://www.wowace.com/addons/quartz/files/819-3-0-2-4-g2648fc2/

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Posted Mar 25, 2010
This seems to have worked for me. Thanks for the link!

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Posted Mar 24, 2010
Same here... but it's not just in Quartz, it's in almost every "Bar"-Addon... like BigWigs, ag_UnitFrames, ClassTimer, etc.

What the heck?

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Posted Mar 25, 2010
I had this same problem after 3.3.3. However, I don't think it is an issue with the addon. I am willing to bet you are using the "blizzard" texture for your bar. I think bliz changed their texture. I set my texture to a different one and the 3 tone cast bar was gone.

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Posted Mar 24, 2010
I updated it yesterday and since this new version the bars looks different to what they used to look. No problem with that, they look like in 3d I actually like it more. But what I don't like at all is that the bar's color seems to change a bit every 25% or so of a cast (it becomes darker) how do I disable or change this?

Screenshot of what I'm saying: http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/4995/castbar.th.jpg

Notice the new "3d" bar style (that's cool) but how the cast bar color changes to a darker tone as it progresses (not cool, want to change it/disable it)

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Posted Mar 24, 2010
Sorry didn't check that the image was too small. Hold ctrl and scroll up/down to zoom and see better

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Posted Mar 24, 2010
The bar textures can't stretch beyond 365 without repeating. Not sure if there is a fix for this but I'm positive it didn't do it in q2. From memory I think in q2 you had to use >1 scaling to get it larger than 365 which worked fine, but with the changes in q3 this is no longer an option.

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Posted Mar 22, 2010
In arena when i get interrupted im getting an error on screen, sometimes from quartz and sometimes just blank..

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Posted Mar 21, 2010
There a way of changing the texture on the mirror bars?

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Posted Mar 17, 2010
I wish the color of the debuff cooldown bars on a target were colored by name instead of type. Is something like that possible? it would make two types of curses, for instance, easier to distinguish when casting.

Did I say that right? =D

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Posted Mar 17, 2010
I keep getting this error from Quartz. It usually happens during PvP (BGs, Arenas, etc), but will occasionally happen in raids as well.

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[12:21:26]2. Quartz-3.0.2\CastBarTemplate.lua:227: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'startTime' (a nil value)
Quartz-3.0.2\CastBarTemplate.lua:126: in function <Interface\AddOns\Quartz\CastBarTemplate.lua:124>

Locals:
self = Quartz3CastBarPlayer {
0 = <userdata>
fadeOut = true
lastNotInterruptible = false
parent = {
}
unit = "player"
stopTime = 10910.515
locked = true
startTime = 10908.183
Icon = <unnamed> {
}
Spark = <unnamed> {
}
endTime = 10909.618
Text = <unnamed> {
}
backdrop =
{
}
Bar = <unnamed> {
}
TimeText = <unnamed> {
}
config =
{
}
targetName = "Merlanifrost-Antonidas"
localizedName = "Player"
casting = true
delay = 0
modName = "Player"
}
event = "UNIT_SPELLCAST_START"

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