Does this addon exist or something with similar capabilities.

[nissen]

Hi this is my first post and sorry for just bashing in like this.

I have just started testing some clicktrough regions in isboxer and its great.

One thing that i would love to do , but have not found a addon to do what i want for is the following:

I have taken the basis in the mod buffwatch to show what i want to accomplish. here is some screenshots which i hope will clarify what i want to do.

http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/428/isboxerregions.th.png (http://img294.imageshack.us/i/isboxerregions.png/)

http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/6981/isboxerbuffwatchscreen.th.png (http://img301.imageshack.us/i/isboxerbuffwatchscreen.png/)

Here i have created a region which is isboxer mouse click through region for each char,so that f.ex when i click on the self buff
Ice armor on Ixena , ixena will cast this self buff on herself, and when i click on Xiphus ice armor he will cast that on himself etc.

so far so good , but i would like to have a more of a customizable bars where i can place actions in a fixed position (showing cd's for each char , also if its a ability that should be casted on the masters target , check if it is in range etc.) f.ex a button with counter spell so that i can watch the cooldown for each char and just click on that chars "counter spell" button and it will get passed through to the correct slave.

For things like iceblock f.ex i would like to right click on Xiphus and cancel his iceblock f.ex , so it should be work for both abilities,macros?,aurus ,showing cooldowns and if that char can cast that abiltiy on the masters target etc.

So here is the main question , does a mod like this exist , or a mod which has similar functionality that i can use as a starting point ,if i am not missing anything all this should be doable alltough alot of work and that is why i ask here first, so i don't start on something that is available somewhere already as a addon( or if similar functionality could be implemented in another way )

cheers.

( edit: thinking more about it , if innerspace/isboxer could show portions of another screen as a overlay on the master screen ( if at all possible ) , i could just use the standard button bars? thats alot of if's , but it would have been some super functionality :) )

[Ualaa]

With wow macro's a lot of this is easy to accomplish.
However you're then clicking with the keyboard.
I suppose you could use something like Domino's to place a bar somewhere, with only a button or two on it.
Which would then be clickable wherever you wanted.
Not sure if you can cancel a buff, by clicking on an action bar. Clique has actions based on unit frame clicks.
But putting a macro to cancel a specific aura on a button works too.

For example
#show Ice Block
/cancelaura Ice Block

I'm pretty sure that's the syntax for /cancel aura.
The problem with mouse clicking on the buff itself, buffs aren't always in the same position on every toon.
But you could have a button (UI Element) positioned the same for each toon.
And go with a repeater region quite easily.

I usually have self buffs on Shift D for each toon.
In a mixed group it might be...
/castsequence reset=5 Inner Fire, Null
/castsequence reset=5 Fel Armor, Null
/castsequence reset=5 Water Shield, Flametongue Weapon, Null

An addon like Smart Buff.
With a repeater region going to each client from every client over the button would work too.

[nissen]

Thanks for the answer , some good ideas i will use.

Didnt quite found the exact addon i was looking at so i started working on my own addon.

Its basically a button addon which:

1.Displays Auras gained,Spell Cooldowns,Ability ready for all toons on a button( this will get synced between all clients running this mod ).
2.Be able to hook up macros to that button.( so f.ex a proc can light up when on in a fixed position and then i can l/rclick it to perform a macro.
3.Show as button rows , 1 for each toon and it should be placed the same on all screens( so that it is simple to create repeater regions )

A screen to show how this alpha mod works:
http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/6149/boxbuttonalpha1.th.png (http://img405.imageshack.us/i/boxbuttonalpha1.png/)

A video where i shows its usage , should make it abit clearer what i want to do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFDwtjt-SvY&hd=1
(http://%3Cbr%20/%3E%0Ahttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFDwtjt-SvY&hd=1%3Cbr%20/%3E)

This is still very alpha and not really ready for public yet , missing options dialogs , config options and sortof hackis at places , but if there is some interest in the idea of a mod like this , i can try to polish it up for a public release.

[Ualaa]

I like that it shows several abilities with cooldowns, and what the cooldowns are for the others, on your main window.

It seems to take up a fair bit of screen real estate.
Perhaps if you could scale the size.
I suppose I've gone with UI Scale on mine, so everything seems smaller but I have a lot more screen real estate.

[nissen]

Cheers , will look at having it all scaled in the config, the buttons are way to big now :P, but nice for testing atm. other things i was thinking about to save some screen estate and would be to remove the name column atleast and find a way to define how you group of buttons.( 1 row for each char , or 3x3 rows for each etc. should be configurable. )

Another thing i am looking at now is to make the buttons cue you in a better way, imitating how blizz shows buffs running out, visual flash on the buttons when spell or aura is "on" are ready. even adding sounds should be possible(ofcourse it should be configurable. ) . also i should add a cooldown timer for the buffs ( they just show if they are available or not atm ).

Anyways i will try to polish it a bit and fix it up so that it is configurable and ready for alpha testing :P

[nissen]

edit: played abit with the scale ( lowest scale ingame and sat my buttons to 0.75 of that again )

http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/2356/boxbuttonsscaled.th.jpg (http://img690.imageshack.us/i/boxbuttonsscaled.jpg/)

[Ualaa]

You have a ton of real estate with UI scale set that way.
I'm running wow at 1600x2560 with UI Scale almost all the way across.

As long as the window is big enough to differentiate the buttons from each other.
And can be made larger/smaller, so you can read everything when learning it...
Or shrink it once you've read all the options.
It will work out well.

[Chilaxx]

This really looks nice!

I would love to have this addon imo, hope you keep developing it so you can modify the look n feel a lot.

Gj man

[TheFallenOne]

I'd definitely use this if it saw the light of day. :D

[nissen]

I am cleaning up the code now and working on the configuration options , so hopefully i can get something out during the weekend :)

[nissen]

Small update , havent really gotten to play with this again untill today ( yay weekend :) )

But for the design , i have gone for creating movable individual frames for each toon, you can specify orientation ( vertical , horizontal ), scale for each frame ( will do scale for each button in the future , but trying to keep it simple for now ), also added number of columns so you can create a button group of say 3 columns wide , with 3 rows for 9 buttons ). also buttons need not to be the same "watched cooldown or aura" or in the same order on the each toon , each button is configurable for each toon. theory is that you configure a repeater area for each toon and add whatever macro,( aura/spell cooldown ) in that spot and it will be in the same position for each char for each toon so when you click it will do that toons macro.

biggest issue i am looking at atm is the syncing between all of the toons , still i hope to get a release done soonish.

screenshot of the layout things ( only horizontal,vertical and scale , not number of columns )

http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/4523/bobuttonsorientation.th.png (http://img525.imageshack.us/i/bobuttonsorientation.png/)

[TheFallenOne]

One note on positioning and scaling, with the vertical button alignment, you could move the toon name above the buttons (instead of left of them) and save a lot of screenspace. :)

[nissen]

cheers :P

Was seing myself blind on having the nametags on the left side. heres how it looks now , finished with all the functional code so all the syncing between chars so you can define a setup on one client for all the other clients and just push it over.

heres how it looks atm.

http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/1953/boxbuttonsnew.th.png (http://img263.imageshack.us/i/boxbuttonsnew.png/)

still need to get some configuration screens done tough.

[Chilaxx]

again, looks very nice man!

I'm not sure if it's possible to achieve, but it would be nice that you have a button that could do an action at once for your whole team. for example all your chars ice block at the same time or elemental totem for all my shamans.
And when one char has it's ability on cooldown, all the rest still use it.

Hope this is something that's easy to implement, but it probly isn't :p


Gl with ur addon m8!


Edit:
Well, I guess you can still use a repeater region for that kind of functionality :p so nvm that!

Quick question:
Is it posible to add macro's to the bars? So that I can have a specific macro for each char and such?

[nissen]

Is it posible to add macro's to the bars? So that I can have a specific macro for each char and such? yes, the macros are defined individually per "Toon"

F.ex this is how i define a Toon in my code atm:
-----------------------------------------------------------
1.Create a toon, where you define its name of character , layout , position,scale of the frame.
2.For that toon you add Auras to watch for on off
3.For that toon you add spells to watch cooldowns on.
4. For each of the Watched auras and spells you add 1 or more buttons
5. On each button you then define the icon that should be displayed ,the macro text and what order it should have on the toons frame.

[QuantumX]

This looks really good.

I'm looking forward to a General beta release

[nissen]

Thanks for the good feedback :) , didn't quite make it this weekend ,but ill aim for the end of next one for a beta.

[Toned]

This addon looks sick.

[nissen]

cheers , still working on it tough , taking abit longer than expected( pretty new to lua so much to learn :P ) , so i think my schedule is it will be released when its ready.

working on the configuration of all this now and this is some semi functional config screen i just created.
( you define , team , add toons , add watches( auras on or off , or cooldowns ) to those toons. then you either drag a existing macro into a toons button and it gets copied to the button or create a new one ( still working on this tough ) where you define everything from scratch.

http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/2307/bbtempconfigscreen.th.png (http://img265.imageshack.us/i/bbtempconfigscreen.png/)

[Jafula]

How's it going? I'm keen to use this addon if you ever release it. Will save me having to write my own!

[nissen]

How's it going? I'm keen to use this addon if you ever release it. Will save me having to write my own!

I am almost finished( lol where have i heard that before :P ,didnt really wanted to set a date in stone, but i am optimistic at getting the rest done this weekend, will update if it drags out any longer than that)

edit: 7/12. slipped again ofc :(. hoping for something next weekend again ( i know this sucks and if people like jafula wants to work on something like this , i would more than be happy to ( after my first release atleast to chip in and help if wanted ) . i dont want to hemper development in something i think would be a nice addon just by my unability to find free time to work on this as much as i want.. , one thing i wont do is to release anything even alpha to the community if it is not ready , but i am getting closer i think for whats its worth. I will update next week about the progress if it slips again.

here is a screen on what is functioning at the moment atleast as a update: ( retarded decision of mine to create a seperate designer for the buttons , but that is how it is now ,you can drag the buttons around in the designer , drag spells , macros , items etc and it will create default macros for those , right click drag to copy a button ,also added cooldowns to auras )
http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/9809/bblatest.th.png (http://img196.imageshack.us/i/bblatest.png/)

[TheFallenOne]

Looking good, keep up the good work! :) Can't wait to use this on my mages.

Figured I'd give this a bump to the front page so I could harass you about it after the weekend. ;)

[Mindfly]

Would like to know status on this addon, is anyone working on it or is it done?