Default Actionbars ftw - help needed though!

[Fuzzyboy]

I've just yesterday converted from Macaroon to the default action bars. Since the default actionbars are big and ugly, I'm currently using:

http://www.wowinterface.com/download...MouseOver.html

It does all I need, which is hiding the default actionbars unless the mouse is over them. It's an old add-on however, and it's buggy. After playing for a while, the bars will disappear completely and I have to /reloadui to get the to reappear. I'm not good with LUA, so I can't fix the code (although the add-on is really simple - like 30 lines of code).

Does anyone here know a good add-on which does the same thing, but works?

[Fuzzyboy]

I found:

http://www.wowinterface.com/download...BarStyler.html

Which is a temporary solution, but still looking for something that just hides on mouseover - nothing else :-)

[alcattle]

I know Titan-bars make them a lot smaller, not sure about hiding

[Flekkie]

[Edit: aah, yeah, if BarStyler is too many features for you, then Dominos is too, sorry]


I am in the middle of converting away from Macaroon myself atm.

I went for Dominos, because it trys not to stray at all far from the existing interface (a K.I.S.S. approach, explicitly to be more robust and easier for the author to update).

It does allow to hide except for mouseover, as you are looking for, but also does all the scaling and moving around, hiding the griffins, keybinds, and bar swaps for possession/vehicles, which I don't think you wanted.

Still, the /click macros seem to be the same as for the standard interface (eg I will be using "/click ActionButton1" just as if it were the normal interface), so it certainly seems that he is re-using the standard built-in stuff wherever possible. So far, it does seem robust to me.

[Fuzzyboy]

Default is nice once I've gotten used to it. rActionBarStyler is really nice and even if it breaks, my UI will still work (it'll just be uglier). Which was the point in the first place. I don't want any add-ons that interfere with the default key mappings, so dominos isn't for me :-)

[Edit: aah, yeah, if BarStyler is too many features for you, then Dominos is too, sorry]


I am in the middle of converting away from Macaroon myself atm.

I went for Dominos, because it trys not to stray at all far from the existing interface (a K.I.S.S. approach, explicitly to be more robust and easier for the author to update).

It does allow to hide except for mouseover, as you are looking for, but also does all the scaling and moving around, hiding the griffins, keybinds, and bar swaps for possession/vehicles, which I don't think you wanted.

Still, the /click macros seem to be the same as for the standard interface (eg I will be using "/click ActionButton1" just as if it were the normal interface), so it certainly seems that he is re-using the standard built-in stuff wherever possible. So far, it does seem robust to me.

[Fuzzyboy]

Current UI (with rActionBarStyler):



With mouseover on actionbar:

[Liquidity]

What are all the mods you use?

Thanks!

[Oswyn]

I went from Bartender4 to default interface about a year ago. It's not as sexy or flexible, but you get used to it and it works. When patch day comes, you're not hostage to updates. If you need to play on a friend's computer, you don't feel like your lost without your interface.

In the video options there is a UI scale box, where you can make the default interface smaller. I have it down to the lowest setting which frees up some space.

edit: and it pisses me off that I'm in agreement with fur on more and more things these days.

[Fuzzyboy]

What are all the mods you use?

Thanks!

Hehe, quite a few - too many to list. The GUI ones are pitbull4, rActionBarStyler, omnicc, cooldowns2, elkbuffbars, prat, squeenix, recount, omen and fubar :-)

[Ualaa]

I'm using the default bars too.

Most of us are using windowed mode, well the software boxers are probably at any rate.
With the UI Scale slider, the default bars take up a very small portion of the screen.