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Old 03/20/07, 7:07 AM   #1
Athinira
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Action bar addons recommendations

Bartender3, which i have used for the last month, has in the last few days for some strange reason (no new addons installed etc.) startet to behave strangely in regards to keybindings, so strange that i actually had to replace it.

Thing is, i kind find a good replacement.

Even with the latest versions, most addons are a hell to configure for a druid with stance bar, and several of them are despite being updated more or less bugged.

Currently i had bad luck with TrinityButtons and Bongos, Bongos simply refuses to acknowledge Page changing upon form change, trinity had a few setup problems as well that ended up with the minimap button disappearing (and not coming back even after i deleted the saved variables files for trinity, all configuration done with all other addons disabled btw).

If anyone has a suggestion for an easy to configure action bar addon (I would prefer to avoid Nurfed as well), and i certainly wouldn't mind it workable with cyCircled though not a requirement, please write here with your suggestions.

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Old 03/20/07, 7:43 AM   #2
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Have you tried raising your problems with Bartender3 on the wowace forum?

I have used other bar mods in the past but Bartender3 is by far the best.

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Old 03/20/07, 7:59 AM   #3
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I'm using the latest version of bongos, the keybindings are all in the default wow keybindings page are they not? Is it possible you updated some of the ace plugins it depends upon?

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Old 03/20/07, 8:04 AM   #4
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I was coming in here to post about Bongo's but Ruro beat me to it. (Frickin' aussies and their future time!)

But anyway, yeah, Bongo's is pretty much the best non-Bartender bar mod I've ever seen. It's not Ace-d, but it's just as lightweight as any Ace mod I've come across, and extremely easy to setup.

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Old 03/20/07, 8:14 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by Gonkish View Post
I was coming in here to post about Bongo's but Ruro beat me to it. (Frickin' aussies and their future time!)

But anyway, yeah, Bongo's is pretty much the best non-Bartender bar mod I've ever seen. It's not Ace-d, but it's just as lightweight as any Ace mod I've come across, and extremely easy to setup.
Problem is that the mod simply isn't working with stance pages, it simply has configuration issues in options in this regard. Overall the option menu looks like it makes it easy to set it up for page switch on stance pages, but it seems bugged with latest version and i gave up on the configuration after 3 savedvariables deletions as well as 1 hour of constant work with it.

This is the latest version btw.

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Old 03/20/07, 8:16 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by Durza View Post
Have you tried raising your problems with Bartender3 on the wowace forum?

I have used other bar mods in the past but Bartender3 is by far the best.
While i indeed believe that Bartender3 is the best mod around atm. (though the best ever was Discord Action Bars IMO), this is annoying the crap out of me.

However, your suggestion is valid and i will of course take it to the wowace forums.

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Old 03/20/07, 8:33 AM   #7
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Actually are you using embedded libraries or standalone?

And if you are using embedded libraries are all your Ace mods up to date? Or is it possible one of them uses older libraries (this happens when a mod hasn't been updated for a while). This can sometimes cause weird errors.

The above is one of the main reasons why I use standalone libraries.

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Old 03/20/07, 8:35 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by Durza View Post
Actually are you using embedded libraries or standalone?

And if you are using embedded libraries are all your Ace mods up to date? Or is it possible one of them uses older libraries (this happens when a mod hasn't been updated for a while). This can sometimes cause weird errors.

The above is one of the main reasons why I use standalone libraries.

Standalone.

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Old 03/20/07, 8:44 AM   #9
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Well, something has to have changed in the past few days to cause the issue. If no new mods were installed, did you perhaps update your ace libraries/addons using wowaceupdater? Have you tried clearing the various cache directories to see if that has an effect?

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Old 03/20/07, 8:59 AM   #10
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Also sometimes the newest version don't work correctly (I've had that issue several times). Try using an older version of Bartender.
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Old 03/20/07, 9:29 AM   #11
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Are you using all the bars? For warriors, bars 7-10 are not useable due to stance changes. I use bars 1-6 as needed and have flexbar2 for pots and other items I have hotkeyed (shadowmeld, professions, fishing, hearthstone, etc).

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Old 03/20/07, 10:02 AM   #12
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Originally Posted by ruro View Post
Well, something has to have changed in the past few days to cause the issue. If no new mods were installed, did you perhaps update your ace libraries/addons using wowaceupdater? Have you tried clearing the various cache directories to see if that has an effect?
No updates, nothing.

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Are you using all the bars? For warriors, bars 7-10 are not useable due to stance changes. I use bars 1-6 as needed and have flexbar2 for pots and other items I have hotkeyed (shadowmeld, professions, fishing, hearthstone, etc).
The bars are configureable in Bartender3, 7-10 isn't locked, you can change it to 1-3 or even 4,6,9 if you like.

No other suggestions for alternatives?

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Old 03/20/07, 10:04 AM   #13
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You may may have gotten the same problem I get once in a while, on both my Warlock and my Warrior.

I'll be playing and everything is fine. Then all of a sudden I hit a keybinding, and the wrong spells go off. I unhide my bars (all my bars are hidden and every action keybound) and notice that almost every action has changed positions and/or bars. And this issue is usually on my Warlock, who obviously doesn't have stance changing. When this happens, I simply Alt+F4 out of the game since the settings won't be saved and come back in.

If you're having keybinding issues between multiple characters, make sure to check "Use Character specific keybindings" at the top of the Keybinding frame.

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Old 03/20/07, 10:09 AM   #14
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Trinity Bars all the way

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Old 03/20/07, 10:48 AM   #15
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Originally Posted by Saethar View Post
You may may have gotten the same problem I get once in a while, on both my Warlock and my Warrior.

I'll be playing and everything is fine. Then all of a sudden I hit a keybinding, and the wrong spells go off. I unhide my bars (all my bars are hidden and every action keybound) and notice that almost every action has changed positions and/or bars. And this issue is usually on my Warlock, who obviously doesn't have stance changing. When this happens, I simply Alt+F4 out of the game since the settings won't be saved and come back in.

If you're having keybinding issues between multiple characters, make sure to check "Use Character specific keybindings" at the top of the Keybinding frame.
Bartender3 used to have (used to, since I can't reproduce it right now, they might've removed it, I update weekly) that it switched bars with shift+#. So lets say I had all my shouts on bar 3 and my melee on bar 1, I accidentally press shift+3 when going for alt+3 or whatever cause of sausage fingers and it'd switch so my main bar (1) would be replaced with my shout bar (3), which was incredibly highly annoying. Other than that tidbit, I haven't had any problems with bartender, a bit annoying when they removed the cooldowncount and keybinding settings from their config menu, but easy to set up and has always worked flawless with all my stances.

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