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CompactBars

 
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Project Updated:
Files Updated: Sat, Apr 25 2009
Supports Game Version: 3.1.0
Category: Buffs & Debuffs, Caster, Combat, Damage Dealer, and Tank
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Project Manager: Eggi
Additional Authors: No additional authors
Current Version: RC8_1
License: GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3)
Development Site: CurseForge
Avg Daily DL (last 30 days): 1
Downloads Total: 3,200
Favorites: 8
Comments: 13
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  • About CompactBars
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CompactBars - General

CompactBars is an addon that is designed to create bars for nearly everything. The difference to the other bar addons is that it does not eat up your screen space. It displays the bars in a very compact way as you can see in the following screenshots.

Cooldowns:

http://static.curseforge.net/uploads/19/13/495/Cooldowns.jpg

Internal Cooldowns:

http://static.curseforge.net/uploads/19/13/500/InternalCD__Eclipse_.jpg

AOE (Hurricane):

http://static.curseforge.net/uploads/19/13/493/aoe_hurricane.jpg

Everything combined (has bossmods included):

http://static.curseforge.net/uploads/19/13/496/everything.jpg

Explanation: (starting with the bar next to the scale)

  • First bar: Shows the duration of buffs
  • Second bar: Shows the cooldowns
  • Third bar: Shows bossmods
  • Bars that come after the first three: Show negative effects on different targets

It is possible to display the following things:

  • DoTs
  • Debuffs
  • CCs
  • Short buffs (short means that it is not designed for things like Power Word: F.)
  • Cooldowns
  • Internal cooldowns (like Eclipse or from items)
  • Bossmods (needs BigWigs or Deadly Bossmods (the first one is the better option because it uses icons for nearly every bar!)

DoTs

The addon is able to display dots from multiple targets. This means that is able to show a bar for rain of fire on every target!

What is so special?

You may ask yourself why you should choose this addon over another bar addon. A few points which are different to other bar addons:

  • You are able to compare everything with only a short look at the bars, because they all use the same size for one second.
  • Time your abilities exactly to match boss abilities.
  • Easily compare your cooldowns with your buffs.
  • Uses very little space on your screen (only one bar per target and a maximum of three bars for yourself).
  • Possibility to use a logarithmic scale and a normal scale (if you don't know what a logarithmic scale is you can find a good description here.)
  • Vertical bars are possible!

Vertical bars:

http://static.curseforge.net/uploads/19/13/505/vertical_left.jpg

IMPORTANT NOTE

The addon does NOT use a logarithmic scale by default (because of a user request) but it has now nearly EVERY spell included. So for example the deathknight has Army of the Dead which has a 20 minute cooldown. If the addon uses the default value it will create very very long bar! So go in the options to the logartihmic scale option and type in the time of your longtest spell. You can also split it up in more segments and type 100, 200 (if you want to add 300 seconds at the end of the bar). You can find a tutorial here

  • Downloads (7)
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File Name Release Type Game Version Downloads Date
Addon Curse.com Beta 2.3.3 0 9/29/2008
  File Name Release Type Game Version Downloads Date  
  CompactBars RC8_1 Release 3.1.0 1,902 4/25/2009
  CompactBars RC8 Release 3.1.0 498 4/14/2009
  CompactBars RC7_2 Release 3.0.9 35 4/14/2009
  CompactBars RC7_1 Release 3.0.9 35 4/13/2009
  CompactBars RC6 Release 3.0.9 33 4/12/2009
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  • MrSmeagol said

    This addon is a bit out of date, it has lot of bugs when it comes to configuration. I suggest everyone reading this topic to check out addon named ForteXorcist - It does almost the same stuff as this addon, and is much easier to configure and also has more configuration options :) And also it's up to date.

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  • Eggi said

    And your idea with making it dynamically is already implemented for most of the spells. But it is NOT possible to get the duration of something that you don't have targeted. The system you describe is only usable in a single target environment which is not the aim of this addon. This addon is able to track for example poison applications through fan of knives and also bars for every target that is affected by rain of fire.

    Although the druid module has a few spells in a static format which should be always single targeted and so they can be changed to the dynamic version which will be changed in the next release.

    To the trinkets:
    I already tried to fix the problem with the equip but haven't finished it. Maybe I have some time left today to finish the item cooldowns fix.

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  • ryttingm said

    The amount of time added to moonfire when you hit with starfire(glyphed) should be 3 seconds but it seems to be adding quite a bit more. This is happening on a target dummy.

    One suggestion, you should take a look at SpellReminder. I absolutely love your front end presentation, but SpellReminder has implemented an automatic method of parsing new spells that could save you a ton of headaches. You don't have to create "static" spell definitions which are prone to bugs.

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  • ryttingm said

    I've fixed the moonfire problem. I've switched moonfire to use your GTD function and all is well. Again, the presentation on this mod is fantastic! As a side, I'm having a hard time getting the cooldown to show on my trinkets.

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  • Eggi said

    The problems that occured with a few classes should be fixed now

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  • lindalas said

    I get the three errors relating to CompactBars when I try to load it... the first one is in the core:

    [2009/04/15 13:22:34-299-x1]: CompactBars-1.0\core.lua:393: attempt to index field 'db' (a nil value)
    CallbackHandler-1.0-3 (Ampere):146: in function
    :"safecall Dispatcher[1]":4: in function <[string "safecall Dispatcher[1]"]:4>
    : ?
    :"safecall Dispatcher[1]":13: in function `?'
    CallbackHandler-1.0-3 (Ampere):91: in function `Fire'
    AceEvent-3.0-3 (Combuctor):119: in function <...\AddOns\Combuctor\libs\AceEvent-3.0\AceEvent-3.0.lua:118>

    ---

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  • Eggi said

    The timer idea sounds not bad, but I will also add a abbreviation of the next spell.

    So something like 3.0 SnD (when there are 3 seconds left on SnD) and with some additionals options to only show the text when there is only set amount of seconds left.

    The thing about offset sounds not so bad but you could try to increase the size of the bar which decreases the possibility that they are exactly over each other.

    I also have to say that I have canceled the animation idea as it is to much for this addon. It does not look very good and mainly it happens to often that the animations overlap.

    The problem with the sorting when bars have exactly the same time (causes them to flicker) should be hopefully fixed in the next release.

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  • Taerot said

    That sounds great Eggi, I hadn't thought of increasing the width of the bars. Good idea. The way you propose for the timers sounds perfect. Thanks!

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  • Taerot said

    Eggi,
    The only thing that I have found "not quite perfect" is that I have a hard time seeing exactly which debuffs are stacked on top of each other. I have sometimes 5 or 6 at a time on a given target. You may be just the one to solve that problem. I hesitate to ask for additions because the efficiency of the mod is important too.

    I've considered so many possible ways to get there and the only way that I can think of is this:

    An option to offset the icons so that the ends of the bars are visible, so we can tell exactly how much space is between them. I would suggest offsetting the icons to the side away from the scale. Maybe just by half the width of the bar? This is really nice when you have multiple targets, multiple types of spells, multiple bosses.... you get the idea. Keeping the bars narrow allows for more bars and less screen space. By the way, if this is already in there I am going to be so embarassed.

    And one little "man it would be nice if.." request :) Could you show the time left, in seconds, of the next spell to expire. Maybe show it on the side closest to the scale, with an option to set it horizontal or vertical, independent of the orientation of the scale. I would prefer to only see it on just one spell, but there may be reasons for something more.

    Thanks Eggi, I am really enjoying the addon. I can think of several addons that I could ditch if these things were possible :)

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  • Bronzeburn said

    Absolutely love this addon, both for my druid, priest and dk!

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  • Eggi said

    If you have any suggestions on how to "tweak" the addon please let me know about them.

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  • gcmillwood said

    Can you add an option to allow for the full text on the bars, instead of the abbreviations?

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  • Eggi said

    The problem with using the long texts is that the tend to overlap which does not look very good, but if you really want to see the full texts it is no problem to add that feature.

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  • gcmillwood said

    Yeah, I saw the overlapping in the dotit beta, and whilst I agree it isn't ideal abbreviations like "CIC" just don't mean anything to me. Just seeing a part of the overlapped text used to be enough for me to work it out.

    As a possibly better (but more complicated) alternative, could you make it so that when you mouseover an icon it shows the full text, similar to the way a tooltip works? Ideally the text for whichever icon I was hovering over would display on the bar itself, but above all the other bars so it was readable (until I moved my mouse off the icon).

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  • Taerot said

    When I first saw this addon I thought meh, dumb idea but I'll give it a try. I absolutely LOVE it. What a great and innovative idea. Very good, Eggi. Sure it may need a bit of tweaking here and there (what addon doesn't?) but I think you have a real good handle on how to do that.

    I play a warlock and the DoT tracking is just wonderful. Thank you for the addon, and for taking the time to think up something so useful.

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  • Eggi said

    @Zegalles and everyone who had problems with the last version: The problem that bars did not appear or had incorrect timing is fixed with Fix 11.

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  • Eggi said

    Please post the error here as I personally have no problems with the latest version (could be maybe related to the changes that were done to insect swarm and moonfire).

    The other spells that you are posting here are not in the default config.

    If you tried to insert them please tell me what you did and I can help you... have to write a tutorial on how to insert spells.

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  • storm513 said

    great addon , i like it very much ... but it would be much better, when all the spell ID's would be allready included ('cause i'm a little bit lazy to do it myself :D)

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  • Wimpface said

    Such a nice idea, it needs a bit of tweaking though but i can't put my finger on what...

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  • VigilEredar said

    Very nice addon! Love it already more than Classtimer, here are a few suggestions:

    Make the logarithmic scaling option more user friendly (perhaps in-game explanation) and on by default

    On my feral druid, glyphed Mangle and glyphed Rip aren't tracked. 2 set bonus 4 sec on Rip probably cause the same thing.

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