Binding keys directly to actions such as spells, items and macros directly saves you action bar space and frees up your screen for more important information. Although there's no blizzard interface that allows you to do this a number of addons provide ways of utilising this functionality. The trouble is though, I didn't like any of them; they either didn't play nicely and overwrote the bindings of other addons, had poor interfaces, didn't allow you to swap between different setups of bindings (for example using different keybinds for your different dual-specs) or were incomplete.
KeyChange:
- Has an intuative UI
- Uses profiles so you can switch between often used setups
- Doesn't bully other addons into dropping their bindings
- Is nearly complete. As well as editing bindings for spells, items and macros you can also edit and include in profiles those bindings in the blizzard Key Bindings panel.
Todo:
- Work on memory usage and performance optimisation.
- Add click-to-cast bindings.
- Please submit abuse and tickets for more features and fixes.
Help:
- You can make the Blizzard configuration window resizable with this addon: BetterBlizzOptions
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r14 | fakeh | 2009-07-22 17:15:03 +0000 (Wed, 22 Jul 2009) | 1 line
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~fix for a bug when passing an incorrect bagId to getcontainernumitems()
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r13 | fakeh | 2009-07-22 14:38:04 +0000 (Wed, 22 Jul 2009) | 1 line
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Removing a debug print
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r12 | fakeh | 2009-07-22 14:35:18 +0000 (Wed, 22 Jul 2009) | 1 line
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M /trunk/.pkgmeta
M /trunk/core.lua
M /trunk/embeds.xml
Optimsations: Using AceBucket for often firing events(items, spells), only scaning the bag that's updated from BAG_UPDATE, reusing tables in UpdateOptions (needs more work to track down where memory is leaking from in this function).
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r11 | fakeh | 2009-07-14 16:39:47 +0000 (Tue, 14 Jul 2009) | 1 line
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Stopping the config window opening at load.
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r9 | fakeh | 2009-07-14 16:27:43 +0000 (Tue, 14 Jul 2009) | 1 line
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M /trunk/locales/enUSandGB.lua
v0.1-RC1-beta
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r8 | fakeh | 2009-07-14 11:41:38 +0000 (Tue, 14 Jul 2009) | 1 line
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M /trunk/locales/enUSandGB.lua
Keybinds for Items + automatic updates for spells, macros and items. Beginnings of blizzard bindings.
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r7 | fakeh | 2009-07-13 21:40:44 +0000 (Mon, 13 Jul 2009) | 1 line
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Category ordering & companions (commented because bind SPELL compaionSpell doesn't work right?)
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r6 | fakeh | 2009-07-13 18:01:52 +0000 (Mon, 13 Jul 2009) | 1 line
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Added macros
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r5 | fakeh | 2009-07-13 17:25:56 +0000 (Mon, 13 Jul 2009) | 1 line
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New profile creation now works
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r4 | fakeh | 2009-07-13 17:03:22 +0000 (Mon, 13 Jul 2009) | 1 line
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M /trunk/locales/enUSandGB.lua
Profile switching works. Confirmations before overwritting in both modes.
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A /trunk/locales/enUSandGB.lua
+Locale +basic profile support (no 'set bindings' yet)
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r2 | fakeh | 2009-07-13 11:27:13 +0000 (Mon, 13 Jul 2009) | 1 line
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A /trunk/.pkgmeta
A /trunk/KeyChange.toc
A /trunk/core.lua
A /trunk/embeds.xml
Semi working version including basic UI for spells and automatically updating bindings on external events
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r1 | root | 2009-07-12 12:50:16 +0000 (Sun, 12 Jul 2009) | 1 line
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"keychange/mainline: Initial Import"
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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)...
