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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 Apr 25, 2010
to fix the Stretching problem:
open CastBarTemplate.lua with a pure text editor(notepad for example), move to line 400 and delete(or comment out, add "--" before these lines) the 2 lines:
self.Bar:GetStatusBarTexture():SetHorizTile(false)
self.Bar:GetStatusBarTexture():SetVertTile(false)

the castbar texture will be go back to old style("uncover", not "stretch")

same problem also exists in modules\Buff.lua, modules\Mirror.lua, modules\Swing.lua, you may search for SetHorizTile/SetVertTile and delete/comment out them to change the behavior of corresponding module

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Posted Apr 24, 2010
DO NOT DOWNLOAD that automining executeable
just fools would do that!

i expect this last message by that moron to be deleted soon!

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Posted Apr 23, 2010
Not sure if it's a bug, but the bar texture is now being stretched as you cast.

I like this, please don't fix it, or make it an option for those who don't like it.

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Posted Apr 22, 2010
I was wondering if there was a way to disable showing the time countdown on a spell while still showing the overall cast time? Since the whole bar works better as a countdown, could you unlink these 2 text options in a future update?

Being able to checkbox the "Hide Time Text" and leave "Hide Cast Time" unchecked would be great :) Unless there's a way to do this that I just haven't discovered yet...

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Posted Apr 18, 2010
Is there an option to reverse the direction of the player or target castbars?

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Posted Apr 18, 2010
I would love to know this, too. I can't find out anywhere!

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Posted Apr 22, 2010
No. If you'd read something in the version notes, it says why.

Quartz was completely rewritten from Ace2 to Ace3.
All settings are lost and can not be imported.

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Posted Apr 18, 2010
In the past when i updated Quartz all my settings where saved, but when i update to the last version everything is back to default state and it looks ... well its not how i use it ;)
My question is if i can save my settings and then when i update to version 3.0.3 i can just load my previous settings ?
I already tried to backup my LUA and BAK files in my savedvariables and then after update replace them, but nothing seems to work perfectly.

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Posted Apr 16, 2010
Hi, the swing bar will disappear when I'm equipping double two-hand weapons with my warrior, anybody other encounter the same problem?

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Posted Apr 26, 2010
Same problem. Any idea to fix this ?

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Posted Apr 13, 2010
Since I upgradet, I have the problem that the status of the castbar does not always update at the end of the cast. Most of the time, the bar just disappears instead of becoming green for a short period. The same happens with an interrupted cast. If I move during healing, the bar disappears in 90% of the cases. Only in 10% of the cases, the castbar turns red before fading out.

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Posted Apr 12, 2010
I upgraded to the new version and didnt have this problem yet. Might been just the former version that had this bug. Thanks for updating.

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Posted Apr 12, 2010
i too have the "Stretching" problem.

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Posted Apr 12, 2010
Having the same issue as Szilla also when I move the target castbar on my alt it also moves it for my main anyway to fix this ?

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Posted Apr 12, 2010
Where did the "Bar position" option on the player, target etc. go?? I can only see it on swing, which I don't even use :P. It's a pain to try and position the bar by typing the X and Y offset values manually.

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Posted Apr 15, 2010
In the main options, a new button's been added called something like 'toggle bars', much better than the older way IMHO ;)

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Posted Apr 11, 2010
I too have been using Quartz, and must say I love it. But upon updating yesterday, I also noticed that my cast bar textures are no longer getting "uncovered" but are "stretching" as the cast progresses...I personally do NOT like the "stretch" and was just wondering if there could be some way of adding an option or something to toggle "stretching" or "unmasking" of the chosen texture.

TY in advance for any and all changes, <3 this add-on, keep up the awesome work :D

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Posted Apr 11, 2010
Minor issue here although I might be imagining things... I'm pretty sure since the last update the castbar art doesn't actually get unmasked horizontally while casting now, it actually stretches the artwork to fill the bar (using the healbot texture in case that's any help).

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Posted Apr 11, 2010
Hi

My problem is, how i use a texture (runes) that isn't unicolor at horizontal. Quartz now dont manage properly this kind of textures, becouse now draw across all texture, not hiding or recoloring the expired part of cast bar. this was good on previous versions.

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Posted Apr 11, 2010
The new version got me several errors. These probably had to do with enemy's cast bar. I can paste an error if you want, but it's a wall of text.

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