Infraction for Dromedary: Grammar

Kaubel · 07/08/08, 12:44 PM

Post: What keeps you using FuBar?
User: Dromedary
Infraction: Grammar
Points: 1

Administrative Note:

Message to User:

Your post needs capitalization.

Original Post:

i'll try and make an attempt at answering your questions and going a step further to delve into things you seem to care about but did not ask.

i use fubar because it's configurable, i can put as many or as little on the screen as i like, i can change the colors/textures/alpha of it as well. i like it because i can make it very small and minimal in order to do what i want to do. i like it because so many addons support it and i can quickly and easily move things around on it. i like it because i HATE minimap clutter. i think blizzard clutters your minimap too much as it is, when you start getting addon clutter it just gets that much worse. i like fubar because it uses the wowace library so therefore has less of a memory footprint (well, depending on how you look at it but whatever you get the point). i like fubar because i can move it out of the way if it's covering something.

what i wish fubar had... a way to manipulate all minimap icons. afterall, fubar essentially is a replacement for most minimap icons with the added bonus of being able to display more data more readily. i wish fubar had a way to quickly and easily show/hide icon sets, such as opening a box of 10 icons that i never use. or perhaps opening a box, or area or whatever which would allow you to access icons of a certain type. another similar desire would be for it to have the ability to have a different makeup for different functions (soloing, pvp, and raiding, for instance) and to get fancy the ability to detect which mode it should be in automatically. generally, fubar does meet most of my needs. i would prefer it if it were even less resource intensive and it would be great if it didn't have its oddities as well, but there is no huge compelling reason for me to ditch it at the moment. that said, i'm the type of person who has NEVER believed in the saying 'don't fix what isn't broken', so i'm definitely open to trying new things and alternatives.

edit: nearly forgot my biggest wish for fubar. i'd _really_ like to have the ability to make my own 'plugs' for it easily without much effort. for example, one could use the system mirc used for right click menus to implement such a thing. it should be rather self explanatory.

SomeAddon
.options1
..options1 sub item 1:/command goes here
..options1 sub item 2:/whatever you like to put here
.options2
-
.command:/command here

i hope this explains it well enough. it would look like a right click menu, someaddon as the main title (like on fubar would be named "SomeAddon", and that would be the text you would click). options1 would open up a new menu with options1 sub item 1 and 2 in it, options2 would do nothing at all, - would be either a bar break or just a space break between the sets, and command would do /command here.

i hope i haven't confused too much, and further i hope that what i'm talking about is even somewhat feasable. i don't know anything about addon creation, i've never used lua, so i have no clue of its limitations.