BetterExtraActionButton
With the 2.0 update, you will have to readjust (possibly reset) the position of your button. The saved position has changed to the center of the frame since it can now show multiple buttons. Sorry!
Makes the ExtraActionButton used in instances and quests and the ZoneAbility button used for Garrison and Covenant abilities moveable.
For all the various boss fights and quests with an extra power bar that pops up check out BetterPowerBarAlt
There is no config. Right click on the area around the button to make it movable, then drag it to where you want and right click again to lock it in place. While it is unlocked, you can also use your mouse wheel over the frame to adjust it's scale and reset it back to its default scale by pressing the middle mouse button.
The clickable area to lock/unlock the button is the artwork surrounding the button, not the button itself. While unlocked, the artwork is shown and you can use it to drag the button around.
You can skin the button with Masque and you also have the option to turn off the background artwork with /beab togglebg
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/beab toggle
to show/hide the frame so you can move it around.
If you find the frame some place it shouldn't be, you can type /beab reset
to move it to the center of screen.
Also, if you're having issues with the button moving around or ignoring changes, look at some of your other addons to see if they have a setting for positioning it.
Using this addon by itself is fine. Using it with ElvUI causes art for the button itself to be covered. I'm trying to figure out why and have come up with nothing. I'm referring to the artwork for the button itself and not the artwork outside of the button. This is not the issue. I'd like to actually see what is inside that lovely border instead of a grey box. Any ideas?
I posted my comment on BetterPowerBarAlt by mistake, it was meant for this addon. I have noticed that BetterExtraActionButton is preventing the Masquerade button from appearing in Suramar City and others like with the Withered Wrangling to also not appear on screen. Disabling this app allows them to reappear.
Does it work if every addon except BEAB is disabled? Does it show if you toggle it? Most issues are because multiple addons try to move the button, so check any other addons that might be doing that.
OmniCC seems does not work with this addon, can you make it working?
Works for me (I do nothing to disable it from working). Check your OmniCC settings?
Hello, would it be possible to hide the keybind key? I've got all my keybinds hidden on all other icons and would like to keep up the motif. Thank you!
@chkarrer
There is already a keybind for this under "Action Bar", the command is "Extra Action Button 1"
Would it be possible to keybind that extra button?
I know I'm a bit late, but why is everyone having issues with this addon? I've been using it for a long time and it's still working fine. For anyone viewing this as of 9/23/13;
Use /beab toggle
Right-click on the area immediately outside of the button itself. This will change the "PH" tags from red to grey. You can now left-click on the area immediately outside of the button itself, allowing you to freely move it to where you want it. Right-clicking will then lock it into position.
In reply to Recktqt:
well, I was thinking this was exactly what I was looking for but upon further tinkering, it isnt.
it hides the artwork pretty well but looks like everyone and their brother are having problems moving the thing, or keeping the thing where they set it. I was no exception. it was an exciting addon for all of the 20 minutes I tried to find a way to move it.
It's not moving anymore. I tried toggling it, reset it. But what happened then was it got stuck in the middle of the screen and its still unmoveable. This needs to be fixed soon.
It still works. Once you toggle it if you click slighly outside any of the corners you should be able to move it. In order to lock it I just reloaded ui.
Im struggling to move the button. I've managed to hide background, but in no way in the world I can move the button itself. I toggle lock by right clicking, just like described by author, but it wont move. I read comments and tried dragging it by the upper right corner, then left one, then the bottom ones, literally all parts of the frame, but IT JUST WONT MOVE. Honestly, I'm not even sure if it's already unlocked, maybe it fails to unlock in the first place, hence moving not working? PErhaps it could be handy to make it show in the general frame like "BEAB unlocked. You can move it by dragging it with your mouse." or something.
Love this addon. Just wish there was a way to keep the button always visable. You have to re-toggle it whenever you zone and I aways forget to toggle it untill after the fight (that I need the button in) starts and at that point, the client won't let me toggle it (I assume for Taint reasons).
NOTE: I use a Action Bar replacment (Ion) that seems to hide all (and replaces most) of blizz's action bars and buttons... except it doesn't replace the Extra Action button. So this addon is the only way I can make the Extra Action button to be visable.
Thanks again for the addon,
ChaGrin
Isn't moving. At all.
Toggled it, trying to drag it, doesn't move. Disabled all my other addons, refuses to budge.
When you Toggle it (and unlock it, see how to unlock it in the description section above) ther is a small area you have to click in to get it to move. Upper right of the button, if I remeber correctly. Took me a bunch of trys till I got it in just the right spot.
man that is one tiny clickable area, could use a command line option to lock/unlock
Exactly what I was looking for, thank you very much for this addon.
During combat I keep getting lua errors saying it's trying to call the protected function :SetPoint() on a few different frames (stance, etc)