AutoBar by Toadkiller (official thread)

[Azethoth]

This is now the official thread for AutoBar. If you have errors with the old AutoBar, note that it is no longer supported.

Official STABLE releases & docs for the current version: http://code.google.com/p/autobar/

How to Use AutoBar http://code.google.com/p/autobar/wiki/Usage.

Debugging: Don't be noob, please follow http://www.wowace.com/wiki/Debugging b4 you post.

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Beta

The beta is now live on the SVN. Yes, you will need to make some changes:



Notes:

• You need ButtonFacade to skin AutoBar
• You need the latest cyCirled if you use it to skin other mods
• You double click on the AutoBar fuBar icon or minimap icon or type "/atb" to bring up the config
• If you report errors with this make sure you also post the version as displayed in the config window title.
  

How do I wrangle my bars?
You can hide a new bar by shift clicking on the AutoBar button on the minimap or FuBar. This makes it green & draggable. Click on it to cycle it between red and green. Drag it around to move it where you want it. Red BArs are hidden, this is different from disabling them. If you shift click on the AutoBar button again then all the red bars disapear and any "green" bars remain. If you use Bartender3 you should be familiar with this process.

How do I herd my buttons?
You can move buttons by control clicking on the AutoBar button on the minimap or FuBar. This shows all buttons on the bar and you can drag & drop them to rearrange them. The Bars will have a purple background and active Buttons will be bordered in green, disabled in red, and inactive in blue.

See Docs for the beta http://code.google.com/p/autobar for full details.

[Azethoth]

Reserved 1

[Azethoth]

Reserved 2. Probably stick some pictures in here sometime.

[OrionShock]

so... your google svn is empty.. so is this going to be by zip file alpha/beta testing only ?

[Azethoth]

The Invisible Man Release
See first post for details.

Originally Posted by OrionShock

so... your google svn is empty.. so is this going to be by zip file alpha/beta testing only ?

No, real soon now the alpha will be usable enough to move into beta & thus onto wowace SVN. Meanwhile I use Perforce on my local machine so I do not miss out on revision control.

[OrionShock]

might i suggest for the sake of sanity, that you up the Major version.. ie AutoBar2 if your going to be making life changing changes to this new version

[Seerah]

I think that is a good idea. There are *a lot* of changes between this and the previous version.

[Azethoth]

Originally Posted by Seerah

I think that is a good idea. There are *a lot* of changes between this and the previous version.

There are a lot of changes. I am hoping setup & use is easier than before. The layered prefs was just impossible to explain or get a good ui for. Clicking enable / disable on a list of buttons seems easier to me. I will be looking at Rock or whatever other new config tools emerge as an update over waterfall which is a bit dated in comparison or at least not seeing active development.

Don't really want to call it AutoBar2, it will remain AutoBar. The actual mod's functionality is not changing, just getting better with a different config. The version scheme is basically blizzards with an extra field tagged on. I like it because it gives you an idea of what version of WoW it is tracking.

[doxxx]

I think the point is that there have been a few major version releases of other addons recently where the upgrade process was not invisible. In fact, in some cases it was downright backwards incompatible leading to some very irate users who lost their painstakingly configured settings.

If you are going to keep it AutoBar, please make sure that the user's config is properly converted or at least preserved so that they can switch back.

[siesta]

2nd bar question, this may be a path you don't care to go down, but
is it possible to rename and edit a couple of files to make it have
a new name/saved variables,new directory.. basically make a new clone
add thereby having 2 bars till you get that feature in the main add..

1) Best- list of files to rename and edits to make..
2) next- yes it is doable and would work but you are on your own.
3) last- because of some programing api issues etc..., this would not work...

Of course I would assume anyone doing this would be on their own and you
would not support it.

My apologies if this is not the appropriate place to bring this up but didn't
seem to go in bug report section. Just installed yesterday and is a great
add!