Dock (OPEN beta)

Kameril · 02/09/08, 10:50 PM

Thanks to everyone's support, especially here on the EJ boards. Dock is now ready for an open beta, let the bug finding commence.

You'll be able to find the latest 'stable' betas at:
WoWInterface Downloads : Ace: Interface Enhancements : Dock

Dock | World of Warcraft Addons | Curse

Work-in-progress, or experimental beta builds for the brave will be found at:
Index of /Dock/

For those of you going "huh, what's Dock?" here's the description:
Dock is an addon that, as the name suggest, allows you to shrink and dock other frames into it. On mouseover frames can be zoomed in letting you take a good look at their contents.

Features:
Virtually infinite amount of docks, or just one if you'd like
Practically any frame can be docked by just dragging and dropping
Highly customizable: colors, animations, orientations and more
Tabbing feature that lets docks be collapsed even further
Load on demand configuration, no reason to waste that memory

You can view a video of Dock here:
YouTube - Dock Preview 2

You can view a video of Dock's tabbing features here:
YouTube - Dock preview 3

The Dock wiki with FAQs is here:
http://www.wowace.com/wiki/Dock

Dock is still considered beta, please treat it as such. Report bugs as you find them.

Lotuseyes · 02/09/08, 10:54 PM

Excellent, I've been waiting for your open testing since you talked about the add-on in the revolution thread. Going to go have fun with it now

stayclean · 02/10/08, 12:57 AM

Working well so far (in tabbed mode too :P). Good job

Kameril · 02/10/08, 1:06 AM

If ya get any errors using the profile options make sure to grab the latest version. I missed some variables when I did a find/replace.

ravs · 02/10/08, 1:07 AM

I've been hanging out for this since you first mentioned you were working on it. Looks great so far!

Do you want bug reports in this forum, or somewhere else?

clairecakes · 02/10/08, 1:08 AM

Downloading a few things I've never had before (because of screen aesthetics) and Dock is handling it all wonderfully with no hit to FPS or memory. Fantastic mod and well worth the wait.

Kameril · 02/10/08, 1:50 AM

Originally Posted by ravs

Do you want bug reports in this forum, or somewhere else?

This forum, the wowace forum, pm, all work for now. Eventually I'll get a project setup on wowace's bug tracker.

ishellbulleti · 02/10/08, 2:17 AM

<3 I've been watching for this mod forever. Thank you.

ravs · 02/10/08, 2:26 AM

Originally Posted by Kameril

This forum, the wowace forum, pm, all work for now. Eventually I'll get a project setup on wowace's bug tracker.

Ok, sounds good.

Just related to elk buff mods, when you drag the bars into the dock, it'll only accept one until you drag the second in, but they're still tied together, so you end up with a big bar attached to your dock. I also managed to break it completely by somehow removing the buff monitor, I had to reload UI to get dock to accept new frames. I didn't get any error messages related to this.

Everything else looks good, just the elk buffs acting up. If someone with more technical acumen wants to play around with the same setup they might have more luck telling you exactly what went wrong, my expertise basically stops at "FING BROKEN!".

ishellbulleti · 02/10/08, 3:31 AM

So I believe its a bug, enabling tab mode and using "simple minimap" on a dock that gets tabbed has some weird results~

Like the minimap just sort of hangs out in a random spot where the dock is while untabbed and smaller then when it is in the dock

Also my friend suggested adding numerical boxes to the sliders so you can input exact values, although this really doesn't bother me : )

Thanks for probably the best mod i've seen in a long time

EDIT: so after messing around with it, it didn't seem obvious, is there a way to still be able to interact with chat frames while they are docked? like click / ctrl click items?

EDIT2: I keep losing assessment windows to dock. Like i go to restore them or more likely i hit the wrong button and i restore all frames during which i lose an assessment window.

Kenera · 02/10/08, 4:24 AM

So, I'm noticing that quite a few frames get the "This window is too large to fit into the dock" when Tab feature is selected, but when it's not there isn't an issue; the frames I experienced this problem with were the blizzard default chat frame, the Bongos bag frame, and the CTBuffmod window.

Other than that, major kudos to making this. It's already given me a TON of screen real estate and I'm sure as it gets updated/I learn how to fiddle with it it'll gain me even more.

ravs · 02/10/08, 4:45 AM

Another issue with Elk is that when you log out it'll move your buffs out of the dock again, and you have to move them back in.

Premixed · 02/10/08, 6:52 AM

Really been looking foward to this, thanks for all the hard work. I'll gladly give as much feedback as I can about it.

whut. · 02/10/08, 7:37 AM

Only thing I've found so far is closing a window while it is being animated closes the window but when the animation should be finished, it opens again.

I did this with the quest log.
Docked it.
While it was animating un-docking, I X'd it out.
Then when the animation would be finished it re-appeared.

Not sure if that's fix-able.

Also, great mod. Have been using it for about 15 minutes but I can already see my self using it forever.
Just trying to figure out the best way to optimize scrolling over the docked items to zoom in the most.

♦ Tecton · 02/10/08, 10:38 AM

Just seen this pop up on the wowace beta mods list, and rushed over here. Thanks for doing the work on this, it's going to be a great help!