This addon displays a very large attention-getting warning window in the center of your screen when it detects certain event (trigger) messages.
The addon comes with some pre-defined warnings for certain "bomb" style debuffs. These are debuffs where you either want to run away from everyone else, or stop whatever you are doing immediately.
There are options to play a sound, make the warning blink, display a timer, and to change the opacity, scale, and colours of the warning. Each warning can be individually enabled, and there are test buttons to try them out at any time.
The warning window will not prevent you from clicking on something behind it. You can either leave the warning on screen until the warning's timer counts down to zero, or you can click on the close button to hide the warning.
The pre-defined warnings that currently come with the addon are:
- Burning Adrenaline (Vaelastrasz the Corrupt, Blackwing Lair)
- Corrupted Healing (Nefarian, Blackwing Lair)
- Flame Wreath (Shade of Aran, Karazhan)
- Lava Wall (Sartharion, Obsidian Sanctum)
- Living Bomb (Baron Geddon, Molten Core)
- Mutating Injection (Grobbulus, Naxxramas)
- Plague (Anubisath Defender, Temple of Ahn'Qiraj)
- Threatening gaze (Bloodlord Mandokir, Zul'Gurub)
- Water spout (The Lurker Below, Serpentshrine Cavern)
- Wrath of the Astromancer (High Astromancer Solarian, The Eye)
Command summary:
/ekbomb -- Show/hide the EkBomb window.
/ekbomb help -- Display this command summary.
/ekbomb reset -- Reset position of all EkBomb windows.
/ekbomb test -- Test bomb warning window.
Version 2.14 (2009-08-14)
- Updated for the WoW 3.2 patch.
Version 2.13 (2009-04-13)
- Updated for the WoW 3.1 patch.
Version 2.12 (2009-04-01)
- Added warning for Sartharion's lava wall (Obsidian Sanctum)
Version 2.10 (2008-10-13)
- Updated for the WoW 3.0.2 patch.
Version 2.03 (2008-03-26)
- Updated for the WoW 2.4.0 patch.
- Due to the combat log changes introduced in WoW 2.4, custom warnings and the option to display a chat frame event link have been disabled for now.
- The addon will no longer show a warning if you are already dead.
- The pre-defined warnings have been modified to use the new WoW 2.4 combat log events.
Version 2.02 (2008-03-08)
- Added warning for Water spout (The Lurker Below).
- Fixed the Anubisath Defender, Baron Geddon, Vaelastrasz, and Grobbulus warnings so that they should now work with EkBomb 2.x.
- Added warning for Flame Wreath (Shade of Aran).
- Added warning for Wrath of the Astromancer (High Astromancer Solarian).
Version 2.00 (2007-11-14)
- Updated for the WoW 2.3.0 patch.
- If a warning is too wide to display on the screen using the scale you have set, the addon will automatically resize the warning so that it fits on the screen.
- You can now reposition the warning window by clicking one of the "Test" buttons and then dragging the warning that is displayed. The test button on the options window ignores the warning's duration in order to allow you more time to position the warning or change options.
- Tabs have been added to the bottom of the EkBomb window (options, pre-defined, custom).
- The new "Pre-defined" tab allows you to view the warnings that come with the addon.
- The new "Custom" tab allows you to add your own general or character specific warnings.
- Warnings are checked for in this order: custom character, custom general, pre-defined.
- A "Default" button has been added to the color selection windows.
- Added a new option: "Show detailed help tooltips". This enables the display of detailed tooltips.
- Added a new option: "Show tooltips by the mouse pointer". This allows you to choose whether to show the detailed tooltips by the mouse pointer, or in the game's default tooltip location.
- Added a new option: "Capture chat frame events and show event link". This records chat frame events and adds an [E] event link on each chat line. Clicking the link opens an event details window, which can be used to automatically create a warning based on the event.
- Added a new option: "Size of chat event history". This allows you to adjust how many chat frame events are remembered by the addon.
- The command "/ekbomb" now toggles the EkBomb window instead of just opening it.
- Updated the documentation file (index.html
Version 1.49 (2007-09-29)
- Updated for the WoW 2.2.0 patch.
Version 1.48 (2007-06-04)
- Updated for the WoW 2.1.0 patch.
Version 1.47 (2007-01-10)
- Updated for the WoW 2.0.3 patch.
Version 1.46 (2006-12-05)
- Updated for the WoW 2.0.1 patch.
Version 1.44 (2006-08-22)
- Updated for the WoW 1.12 patch.
- Added warning for Mutating Injection (Grobbulus, Naxxramas).
- Fixed the issue of it not scaling the warning window unless you had opened the EkBomb options window at least once after logging in.
Version 1.42 (2006-07-03)
- Now shows the version number in the title of the EkBomb configuration window.
- Added an option to display (on the warning window's close button) the time remaining until the warning window automatically closes.
- Changed the name of the debuff warning for Bloodlord Mandokir from "Watched" to "Threatening gaze" on the options window.
- Changed the "Threatening gaze" warning timer from 30 to 10 seconds.
- If you are making an addon and want to use EkBomb to show a warning you can call the following LUA function: EkBomb_Show("bigText", "smallText", seconds)
- If you are making an addon and want to use EkBomb to hide the current bomb warning you can call the following LUA function: EkBomb_Hide()
- If you want to show a custom warning in a macro, you can type something like this: /script EkBomb_Show("bigText", "smallText", 30)
- If you want to hide the current bomb warning in a macro, you can type this: /script EkBomb_Hide()
Version 1.4 (2006-06-18)
- Updated for the WoW 1.11 patch.
- Added warning when being watched by Bloodlord Mandokir (Zul'Gurub).
Version 1.3 (2006-05-31)
- Added option to hide the background of the warning window so you just see the text.
- Added a slider to change the scale of the warning window.
- Added the ability to change the colour of the small text, large text, and background.
Version 1.2 (2006-05-29)
- Initial public release.
Installation Guide
- Exit "World of Warcraft" completely
- Download the mod you want to install
- Make a folder on your desktop called "My Mods"
- Save the .zip/.rar files to this folder.
- If, when you try to download the file, it automatically "opens" it... you need to RIGHT click on the link and "save as..." or "Save Target As".
- Extract the file - commonly known as 'unzipping'
Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!
- Windows
- Windows XP has a built in ZIP extractor. Double click on the file to open it, inside should be the file or folders needed. Copy these outside to the "My Mods" folder.
- WinRAR: Right click the file, select "Extract Here"
- WinZip: You MUST make sure the option to "Use Folder Names" is CHECKED or it will just extract the files and not make the proper folders how the Authors designed
- Mac Users
- StuffitExpander: Double click the archive to extract it to a folder in the current directory.
- Verify your WoW Installation Path
That is where you are running WoW from and THAT is where you need to install your mods.
- Move to the Addon folder
- Open your World of Warcraft folder. (default is C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\)
- Go into the "Interface" folder.
- Go into the "AddOns" folder.
- In a new window, open the "My Mods" folder.
- The "My Mods" folder should have the "Addonname" folder in it.
- Move the "Addonname" folder into the "AddOns" folder
- Start World of Warcraft
- Make sure AddOns are installed
- Log in
- At the Character Select screen, look in lower left corner for the "addons" button.
- If button is there: make sure all the mods you installed are listed and make sure "load out of date addons" is checked.
- If the button is NOT there: means you did not install the addons properly. Look at the above screenshots. Try repeating the steps or getting someone who knows more about computers than you do to help.
Translations
When you download a mod, please be sure that the mod is compatible with your translation of wow. Some mods only work on the US versions, while some only work on some of the various European versions. These variations are called "Localizations".
TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)
When Blizzard patches WoW, they change the Interface number. This means that all mods will be "out of date" unless or until the author releases a new version for that interface. Some people go into the .toc files and update the numbers themselves, but this is STRONGLY advised against as it will cause problems locating possible incompatibilities addons. When you log into WoW after a patch, you DO NOT have to delete your interface directory. All you have to do is simply tell WoW to ignore the interface numbers and load all the mods anyway. All you have to do is, while at the "character select" screen, look in the lower left corner and click on the "addons" button. A window will pop up listing all your installed mods.
If you look in the upper left corner of that window there should be a box that says "Load Out of Date AddOns". You want to CHECK this box. Now simply go into WoW normally and all your mods should load. As of the 1.9 patch, you will have to do this after EVERY patch/update that Blizzard posts! If you encounter any problems with a mod after a patch, please be sure to let the author of the mod know so they can fix it.
See also: About "Out Of Date AddOns"
Mac Support
WoW addons are not platformed based. As such, they can be used on either Mac or PC. You can extract both .zip and .rar files on a Mac using StuffitExpander.
Directory Structure
World of Warcraft
|_ Interface
|_AddOns
|_*AddonName*
|_ *AddonName*.toc
|_ *AddonName*.xml
|_ *AddonName*.lua
|_ (possibly others as well)...
