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The button in the Ultraxion and Madness of Deathwing encounters is not the same as the power bars in previous raids! This addon will do nothing for those. Luckily I do have another addon (BetterExtraActionButton) for moving that button :p

Makes the PlayerPowerBarAlt frame movable. This is the frame for quests and instance encounters that show a power bar specific to the event. This includes sound on Atramedes, corruption on Cho'gall, Lord Rhyolith's direction, and feathers on Alysrazor as well as the counter and timer bar used in Dark Moon Faire games.

There is no config. Right click on the frame 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.

You can toggle showing the status text by holding shift and left clicking on the frame. By default the status text will show when mousing over the bar.

To adjust it outside of a raid encounter, you can type /bpba toggle and it will show a fake bar so you can set it up how you like it.

If you find the frame some place it shouldn't be, you can type /bpba reset to move it to the center of screen.

And if you find yourself accidentally clicking on it all the time, you can type /bpba lock to make it ignore clicks.

A quick note: Unit frame addons like to disable the bar (to show on your player frame), so if you're not seeing it, that's more than likely why.

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_ForgeUser17303
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Posted Jul 3, 2011
Does this work without problems with Patch 4.2?

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Posted Jul 3, 2011
it does! i just apparently forgot to tag a release after updating the TOC version

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Posted May 25, 2011
Is there any way of saving the positioning you choose? I move and lock the powerbar at the start of both the Atramedes encounter and Cho'Gall each week, but have to do it again with each new reset. It may seem like I am being trivial, but I would like to save those seconds where I am unlocking-moving-relocking the powerbar away from the center of my screen while trying to get in the right position at the same time with the bosses. (I am also hoping I haven't completely neglected a feature that would allow me to do what I am asking, and if I haver overlooked something-I sincerely apologise for my stupidity :D)

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Posted Jun 21, 2011
really wish curse would email me about comments. anyway, it does save the position (/dump BetterPowerBarAltDB), so my guess is something else is sabotaging you.

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Posted Apr 11, 2011
Maybe you could add a player-list like in:
http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/atramedes.aspx
maybe at mouseover or optional always visible at a certain level.

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Posted Apr 15, 2011
Monitoring everyone in the raid is out of the scope of this addon. Atramedes works fine to that end, I see no need to reimplement it.

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Posted Mar 29, 2011
is there any chance to show and move frames without necessity to start combat with certain boss?

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Posted Mar 31, 2011
As I suggested in the description: you can fly into the Maw of Madness in Twilight Highlights and move the "Digestive Acids" bar around.

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Posted Dec 4, 2011
Is this bar present once you've completed the quest chain through the Maw of Madness? I see no bar like this when in there.

::: And if not, is there another location to test this?

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Posted Dec 4, 2011
It will still show up (I tested it on chars that have all finished the maw quest chain), try flying all the way down and dismounting, it can be touchy sometimes.

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Posted Dec 5, 2011
It decided to work immediately when I headed back out several hours later. /shrug

Thanks, looking forward to testing it on bosses.

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Posted Mar 9, 2011
I like the idea of this addon. It's just that when I activate this addon, the bar drops to the bottom of my screen (where I can't click on it). Without the addon, the bar is shown more to the center of the screen.

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Posted Mar 11, 2011
That's rather curious as the placement of the frame is done by the layout cache.

You can reset the position so you can move it with:
/run PlayerPowerBarAlt:ClearAllPoints() PlayerPowerBarAlt:SetPoint("CENTER")

or by going to the character's WTF directory and removing the "Frame: PlayerPowerBarAlt" entry from layout-local.txt

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Posted Mar 11, 2011
I added a slash command /bpba reset to easily reset it's position uncase something bad happens.

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Posted Mar 14, 2011
Thank you. Tried it on Cho'gall and the reset works. Now it was easy to right-click it and move it around. However, I had to mouse-over the bar to see the percentage.

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Posted Mar 15, 2011
I added a note about that in the description: 4.0.6 added an option to show the status text (Interface -> Status Text -> Alternate Resource), so you can change the setting there or toggle it by holding shift and left clicking on the frame.

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Posted Feb 18, 2011
Yes! I hate that you can only see the exact value on a mouseover, especially for Atramedes - DBM displays members with more than 50%, but once you start working on Silence is Golden, 50% is already way too much.
We killed him again last night, so it'll take a while till I can try out this addon, but thanks in advance anyway! Saves me the hassle of writing up this change on my own :P

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