Castbars

Castbars Examples

Castbars is a lightweight and efficient enhancement of the Blizzard castbars, including both the Player/Vehicle Castbar, the Pet Castbar and the Mirror Timerbars, with the following added features:

• Spell Icon: Adds an (optional) spell icon on the left side of all castbars.
• Timer: Adds a timer, showing the time left of the cast on the right side of castbars.
• Latency: Adds a latency meter, showing the exact latency at the time of spell cast.
• Global Cooldown: Adds a global cooldown spark that runs along the top edge of the Player Castbar, or on top of a thin transparent bar when the Player Castbar is not visible but the global cooldown is active (typically because of instant cast spells).
• Target Name: Show the target name of the spell being cast on the Player Castbar (optional).
• Channeling Spell: Substitutes the "Channeling" text with the name of the actual spell being channelled on the Player Castbar.
• Range: Recolors the Player Castbar if the target of the spell moves out of range while casting a spell.
• Visual Customisation: All Castbars can be resized (width/height), recolored and freely repositioned.
• Target/Focus: An extra independent and freely movable Target Castbar as well as a Focus Castbar is added, which shows the spell your current target and focus is casting, making it easier to time interrupts, by enabling you to put the castbar in an appropriate place. If the spell cannot be interrupted, the bar appears with a silver shield around it (optional) and the bar colour changes to silver.
• Mirror Timers: Enhances the Mirror Timerbars to allow repositioning and customization of visual options (texture, border, width/height, font, colour) like the normal castbars.
• SharedMedia: Support for LibSharedMedia-3.0 to allow configurable bar texture and border as well as font.
• ConfigMode: Support for ConfigMode to allow quick and easy repositioning of bars. Try out OneButtonConfig to make it easier to reposition visual elements of addons that support ConfigMode.
• Profile support: By default, all settings are per character, but it is easy to set up profiles that can be shared between characters.

Castbars works by modifying the existing Blizzard Castbars and Mirror Timerbars and makes heavy reuse of the existing Blizzard code for driving all frames. This saves memory and reduces the overhead but can lead to problems with other addons that tries to hide the Blizzard frames. Castbars is passively protected against this kind of behaviour, and has no known conflicts. However, if you experience problems with bars not appearing when running together with other addons, please provide feedback so the protective measures can be improved.

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  xbeeps

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  • VisualHeal
  • Castbars
  • UnitPrice
  • LibHealComm-3.0
  • XpGainNotify

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r75 | xbeeps | 2009-10-30 14:40:03 +0000 (Fri, 30 Oct 2009) | 1 line
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Tagging as 2.27
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r74 | xbeeps | 2009-10-30 14:39:25 +0000 (Fri, 30 Oct 2009) | 1 line
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Remove the error which occurs on level 1 warriors.
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r72 | xbeeps | 2009-10-25 14:47:09 +0000 (Sun, 25 Oct 2009) | 1 line
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Add option to disable global cooldown spark
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r70 | xbeeps | 2009-10-20 21:03:57 +0000 (Tue, 20 Oct 2009) | 1 line
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Drastically improved performance of global cooldown spark without sacrificing animation smoothness. Only the spark is moved every OnUpdate (based on current time), most of the rest is handled in ACTIONBAR_UPDATE_COOLDOWN event handler, and coefficients are precalculated once before showing based on the return value of GetSpellCooldown. Furthermore, the background opacity is only set every 0.1s instead of every OnUpdate. This avoids expensive calls to GetSpellCooldown, among others, in the OnUpdate handler.
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r68 | xbeeps | 2009-10-19 20:29:31 +0000 (Mon, 19 Oct 2009) | 1 line
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Add global cooldown spark.
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r66 | xbeeps | 2009-10-17 20:35:56 +0000 (Sat, 17 Oct 2009) | 1 line
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Don't show the current target name for spells cast by the player that don't have a target.
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r65 | xbeeps | 2009-10-17 20:26:37 +0000 (Sat, 17 Oct 2009) | 2 lines
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Add option to show total cast time.
Make the config mode bar colour the same as the selected colour in the options instead of plain green.
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r63 | xbeeps | 2009-10-17 19:44:34 +0000 (Sat, 17 Oct 2009) | 1 line
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Make the Player Castbar show the right spell name and remove the latency display for effects that do not trigger the UNIT_SPELLCAST_SENT event (summoning, and possible others that are triggered off objects in the game world).
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r61 | xbeeps | 2009-10-12 19:05:16 +0000 (Mon, 12 Oct 2009) | 2 lines
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Make spell target display optional.
Enlarge the Player Castbar to make more space for spell target.
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r59 | xbeeps | 2009-10-11 19:53:39 +0000 (Sun, 11 Oct 2009) | 2 lines
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Fix some issues with the latency.
Add spell target name to Player Castbar (need to add option to enable/disable).
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r58 | xbeeps | 2009-10-11 17:26:15 +0000 (Sun, 11 Oct 2009) | 1 line
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Make the latency indicator optional (on by default).
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r57 | xbeeps | 2009-10-11 16:54:07 +0000 (Sun, 11 Oct 2009) | 1 line
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Improve accuracy of latency measurement.
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r56 | xbeeps | 2009-10-10 06:23:54 +0000 (Sat, 10 Oct 2009) | 1 line
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Protect against addons that override the Show method. This is specifically to protect against oUF, but will work in general if other addons use the same insane method.
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r54 | xbeeps | 2009-10-08 20:37:10 +0000 (Thu, 08 Oct 2009) | 1 line
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Double the maximum configurable width/height of all bars.
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r52 | xbeeps | 2009-10-01 18:51:26 +0000 (Thu, 01 Oct 2009) | 1 line
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   M /trunk/Castbars.lua

Prevent other addons from modifying event registrations. This ensures compatibility with addons that try to disable the Blizzard cast bars by unregistering events.
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