Action Bar Saver
Quick little mod, allows you to setup different profiles for your action bars. Mainly this is for hybrid classes that want to be able to respec without spending 10-20 minutes setting their action bars up. All you do is type /abs save <name> and it'll save the location of all your spells, macros and items.
For example, if you're currently a Feral Druid you can type /abs save feral then you can respec to Resto and setup your bars, then type /abs save resto once you go respec back to Feral you can then train all your spells again and type /abs restore feral and you'll get your feral setup without all the work of actually finding where you placed things.
Works with any custom interface like Bongos provided you're not using more then the standard 120 action buttons, ones that provided features to go past 120 will cause only the standard 120 to be saved/restored. This isn't a bug however, just a limitation in the WoW AP
I just had to say THANK YOU - it was such a nice surprise to see this updated! Your addon is one of the few that I almost reqiure in my toolkit when I play WoW. I have been using it for a few years now, even when it was classified as outdated. I can't tell you how much of a headache you've saved me when I am constantly changing UI layouts, action bars, and trees. I would have white hair by now otherwise, lol. ;-)
Thank you so much!
Thanks for updating. :) One thing I noticed: The addon does not save garrison spells, mounts or the random favorite mount button.
@phoo2
Seems to have worked, thank you! :)
Try editing actionbarsaver.lua and change
local MAX_MACROS = 54 local MAX_GLOBAL_MACROS = 36
to
local MAX_MACROS = 198 local MAX_GLOBAL_MACROS = 180
Hoping this will be updated for WoD / 6.0 I tested it on beta and it wouldn't save/restore macros properly.
Any idea how to get this to properly restore hunter trap items? It says they are in error when I do a restore. They copy to the bars just fine, but don't restore.
Heya, this is a much needed addon for myself. I tend to obsess over my UI being as identical as possible among all characters and specs and have doubles of several classes which cloning of the action bar setup is a must.
I was curious about two possible features:
1. The ability to save/load specific action bars, not just all of them globally. This would help a lot for keeping specific bars identical on both specs of a character. I often times update a bar on one spec and then need to switch specs and do the same, else they are not identical.
2. Possibly the ability to flag a profile for auto save/load on a per character/spec basis. This ability could also extend to suggestion 1 for auto save/load of specific bars instead of all bars. I imagine it works as so: Autosaves when ACTIONBAR_SLOT_CHANGED is fired. It then uses a savedvariable to record the timestamp of when the change occured. This timestamp is used as a reference point for the auto-restore feature to compare against the time stamp it records for the last time it loaded the profile. This is used to avoid unecessary restores. Auto-Restore checks can run on specific events like spec changes, and enter world events.
Anyways, I'm dreaming a little here, always on the pursuit of perfection from an addon. This one however, works as advertised and is wonderful. The above features would just be added bonuses. Thanks for your consideration and work on this addon.
Thank you for the mod, and the update! Use it all the time.
Any thoughts about making a small GUI for it, perhaps to list the saved profiles graphically, or to allow for automatic loading when your spec changes?
i have a worgen druid and want restore my save on elf druid it not work
likely the saves are in the saved variables which are different for each toon (in the WTF folder). just copy your saved variables from nelf into the worgen folder and it should work.
works like a charm
i just downloaded it and it works fine for me..
IT DOES NOT WORK.
works for me in 4.3.2 but not correctly in my feral: If I switch between Moonkin and feral (in connection with a respecc, cause main is always heal) for my feral it puts
feralswipe bear into the cat form bar (which wasn't like that before)
feralcharge cat into the bear for bar (which also wasn't like that before)
a little fix to this issue would be nice :))
Macro's could save you some time there. I know I end up placing some spells like skullbash off the primary bar. you can do a stance macro for it.
#showtooltip
/cast [stance:1]Feral Charge(Bear Form); Feral Charge(Cat Form)
#showtooltip [stance:1] Swipe(Bear Form); Swipe(Cat Form)
/cast [stance:1] Swipe(Bear Form)
/cast [stance:3] Swipe(Cat Form)
/startattack
#showtooltip [stance:1] Skull Bash(Bear form); Skull Bash(Cat Form)
/cast [stance:1] Skull Bash(Bear Form); [stance:3] Skull Bash(Cat Form)
Unable to use since 4.3.2. Anyone else having probs with it? Even though its loaded as out of date simple commands like /abs list or /abs load are getting no reply from the addon. Totally sucks cause this is my like one of my top 2 favorite addons. Update incoming?
Little bug: Or rather quirk: if a profle name has a space in front it considers it a new name. It can be confusing. e.g. if one doesn't know he may get both " frost" and "frost"(without a space).
You sir are my hero.
Now i can switch between Mouse-Keyboard and Joystick with ease.
AWESOME AWESOM AWESOME addon.