BetterPowerBarAlt
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.
Updated this for Cataclysm Classic.
Temporary source and package for testing: https://github.com/Road-block/BetterPowerBarAlt/releases/latest
@nebula169 Helllo there , i think the bar keep resetting location with the new Editmode can you push update for this , ty
Any updates?
Thanks for this. The sanity bar is really annoying for the visions szenarios. Now I can finally move it out of the way.
Btw, the link to your other addon in the description above doesnt work.
Can't work since wow8.2
I have move to Custom location When PlayerPowerBarAlt show it's will set to default location
sweet! works like a charm.
thank you very much, sir!
2 things:
1) Can you put in the description it needs to be "right clicked first" to unlock to move.
2) Highlight in bold the last tiny comment you have about other unit frames and addons messing with this. This worked fine for me at first install, but after tweking my UI a little I wanted to re-adjust but oh no. Could NOT get it to show up until I disabled all addons but this to make it work again.
Quite frustrating IMO for Blizz to have these extra options littered around the screen and force addons to tweak them all the time.
Did Blizzard break something with the text on this bar? No matter what I do I can't seem to get numbers to always show.
The Blizzard option got removed in the great cvar purge (I just updated the description), but shift-clicking the frame should still toggle between show always and on mouseover
not sure if this is what it's suppose to do but I did Assault on the Pit right after downloading and it wasn't showing the progress bar (0/100) for the Assault but it was showing the Ammunition to be used for the quest. I need the bar that shows progress because for some reason mine just wont show up and as far as I know there is no way to disable it.
It doesn't seem to to save where I move it. Every time it goes away It reset back to the defult spot.
I downloaded this today because the bar on Kilrogg is covering some raid frames I need, but the bar isn't even showing up now. Any ideas?
I'm using z-perl, Bartender, DBM in case that helps.
I use bartender 4 to (latest version),
it seems that bartender hides and places the actual extraactionbar button Outside your screen.!
Even if you lock the location you set it, as soon as you do something... the button disappears and get placed outside. (with moveanything you can see were it is, it appears again when you select the option to prefend the button to go off-screen.)
BUT... the extraactionBar that you can configure, when you select /bt4 and unlock, than you will see that the bar is still at the position you placed it.
Several other things change to, even when you lock them or choose dual profile.
it's a Bratender issue. not from this addon.
(I found this because I decided to move on from Bartender. Hate to move, cause I have my interface completely customized with it. lol.)
Thanks!!! :)
Omg update :3
Need a Patch 6.1 update.
The race icon keeps resetting every time you start a race. Other than that seems to work fine. Thanks.
Hi, could you make the bar "really-lockable" - so that even my rightclick doesn't "unlock" it? I like to move my camera with left as well as rightclick, and accidentally rightclicking the bar instead of moving the camera is not so nice / not necessary as a downside of an addon. Suggestion: Just add a short command like for better extra action button "/beab toggle" so here /bpba toggle?
Otherwise nice work!
i'll one up your request and finally add a "config mode" toggle to position it out of combat along with adding lock :p (/bpba toggle and /bpba lock)
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. By default the status text will show when mousing over the bar.
=) looks like I may have toggled that off hopefully that fixes the text issue i was having
I can only see bar text when i Mouse over the bar . For heroic spoils for example it becomes a pain having to mouseover each time to see the energy amount . Is there a way to make text show full time on all fghts