Release Postmortem

May 5, 2008 | by Tuller | Tags: bongos3

Bongos3 has been out for a week or so now, and so far has been relatively bug free.

Bongos3 is not perfect. Not every single setup that was possible in Bongos2 is possible with Bongos3, since I've added a restriction that prevents buttons from being repeated between bars. For me, this is not a game breaker, but I'm sure it is for others. Its honestly something I should have anticipated, and I'd love to hear about examples of where this is truly a gamebreaker for people.

Its not easy with Bongos3 to keep some sort of parity with the stock actionbar interface, and I really have no intention on making it easy I found, that even with Bongos2, it was difficult for me to revert back to the stock actionbar interface.

These issues always make me think that I should have implemented Bongos3 as an infinite actionbar addon. That would resolve the mirroring issue by allowing repeated buttons, and also the parity issue via allowing one to use Bongos3 only as a supplement. Bongos3 actually started out with the intent of being an infinite action bar addon, but I found a showstopper along the way that prevented me from implementing it as one.

Hrm, this probably makes me sound like I dislike 3. That's not the case :) I'm actually quite happy with it, but frustrated that I cannot satisfy everyone :P

Sage is likely next on my list of addons to update. Also, Iron Man is awesome.

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2 days, 19 hours ago

Nice redesign- love the dragbox solution to sizing and placing actionbars. Worked straight out of the box for my Druid.

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4 days, 20 hours ago

i have a trouble... bongos 3 does not combain whith a Cycircled, whitch changes frames wiew... only pet bar changes...

my addons
http://deathwings.ucoz.ru/qwerty.JPG
(i dont use perl, ag_UnitFrames)

my Interface
http://deathwings.ucoz.ru/WoWScrnShot_051208_170024.jpg

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1 week, 1 day ago

I have a situation where having a button on more than one bar is essencial. I page between bars when I change stances on my warrior, and if I cannot repeat buttons between bars, then I will not have axcess to some key moves in certain stances

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1 week ago

Do you have a screenshot? :)

My initial reaction is that you could use a modifier bar, or you could have a second bar for those skills you need to see in all stances.

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1 week, 2 days ago

I want to see Iron Man. Going to check it out this weekend. Hope it's as good as everyone say!

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1 week, 3 days ago

Iron man was indeed awesome ;)