Quartz

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Quartz is a modular approach to a casting bar addon. An overview of (hopefully most of) the modules:

*Player
The core of Quartz is lightweight implementation of a standard casting bar, with configurable size, text and icon positioning, and colors.

*Target/Focus
Implementation of target and focus casting bars in similar fashion to the player cast bar.

*Buffs
Display of target and focus buffs and debuffs as duration bars.

*Flight
Hooks into FlightMap or InFlight to display the current flight progress on your casting bar.

*Global Cooldown
Displays a tiny spark-bar to show your Global Cooldown near the cast bar. Helpful for those who'd rather not squint at their action bars to see when they can cast again.

*Interrupt
Changes the color and text of your casting bar to help show that your cast has been interrupted (and show who interrupted it).

*Latency
Displays the amount of time spent between cast send and start events, in the form of a bar at the end of your casting bar, with optional text that displays the actual duration of the lag. This helps in canceling casts when they will not actually be interrupted, especially for users with consistently high pings.

*Mirror
Shows the 'basic' timers such as breath and feign death, as well as some 'odd' ones such as party invite time, resurrect timeout, and arena game start, and a framework for injecting custom timers into the bars.

*Range
Recolors the casting bar when your cast target moves out of range mid-cast.

*Swing
Displays a swing timer for your melee weapon as well as hunter autoshot.

*Timer
Allows for creating custom timers displayed on the mirror bars.

*Tradeskill Merge
Merges multiple casts of the same tradeskill item into one big cast bar.

Use /quartz to bring up the configuration menu.

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Posted Mar 29, 2009
ACE3?

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Posted Mar 27, 2009
ive really liked quartz, but i cannot use the newer versions, so im forced to use a VERY old version, and i do not know why. i have an imac g5 and it seems alot of addons dont work. eg. DBM4 and this one. any help would be nice

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Posted Mar 18, 2009
is there a way to disable that bar in the middle of your screen the grey one (not the casting bar) i have no idea what it is does/is.

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Posted Mar 17, 2009
@Nitrius - Works fine for me on my DK. Have to enable it though, it's disabled by default I think. Also, if you're using a profile from a class that doesn't need a swing timer, you might have the swing timer module turned off to save memory. See if its turned on.

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Posted Mar 17, 2009
Hey, thanks a lot for updating this one :) I was starting to give up on my old favourite :)

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Posted Mar 17, 2009
I just notice that my old favourite is back on wowace.com. Keep it up, please :)

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Posted Mar 15, 2009
>>> Hooks into FlightMap or InFlight to display the current flight progress on your casting bar.

Quartz shows progress bar for only a second (as if it was a really short flight) and then InFlight progress bar appears for the duration of the flight.

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Posted Mar 13, 2009
how can i have quartz show me a countdown for the 5sr?

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Posted Mar 13, 2009
I tried to install quartz but it didn't show up in the addons box at the toon screen. What am I doing wrong?

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Posted Mar 12, 2009
Best way to fix it is just to stop Skinner from skinning Quartz altogether. Just remove the Quartz file from the SkinMe directory.

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Posted Mar 12, 2009
I really like the mod have been using it for years now, but i think i have a few ideas that might improve it. Been using event horizon with it and it has given me some of these ideas.

The option to set the direction of the cast bar. As a sp i find it increasingly annoying the cast bar goes in different directions if i do a channelled spell over otherwise. It seems like it would be a lot better if all spells went right to left or configurable.

Channelled spells with ticks like mind flay should automatically have ticks show up in the cast bar. I know sp's and mages both clip some channelled spells, i know you can change the skin but that is at best a weak fix, if event horizon can track it why not this?

why not treat gcd like a spell cast, i mean we watch this to see how soon we can cast our next spell, gcd is the same for instant spells, so if the spell is lets say 3 sec cast there would be a thick line at 1.5 secs saying when gcd was up, would be useful in reverse too. for example my mind blast blood lusted and berserked is .8 secs but that is kinda useless because my gcd won't go below 1 sec so instead of a cast bar of .8 secs it should be 1 sec with the spell dropping out at .8 secs.

fixed bar time spells range dramatically in cast time, maybe have it so you could make it fixed window of time going to a line like event horizon, with the lag of the spell hanging off the back side of the line?

Once again this mod is great and has done a lot for my dps over the years. And i should stop complaining and just learn how to code.

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Posted Mar 11, 2009
You're right, it is Skinner. It's weird though, it does have a settings for statusbars - but setting it has no effect, Quartz's texture stays the wrong one. Except when I disable Skinner entirely. :-)

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Posted Mar 10, 2009
Really? I never had that problem with Skinner. Good to know though.

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Posted Mar 10, 2009
Nearyan, are you using Skinner? Skinner will overwrite your Quartz texture settings on load.

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Posted Mar 9, 2009
It's locked - I always have them locked.

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Posted Mar 9, 2009
I think the problem is that your bar isn't "locked" and therefore, since you haven't changed settings or cast anything, the texture hasn't loaded. Just my thought, never have this problem with locked bars, but I unlocked them and logged in and out, and yes, this happens. Try locking the bars to see if it goes away for you.

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Posted Mar 9, 2009
The texture of the casting bar doesn't seem to persist through sessions. After I login, it always shows the default texture, 'Blizzard' - then when I change anything in my preferences, not nessecarily the texture itself, it shows the texture that I chose.

Am I the only one to have this problem? Any ideas how to fix it?

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Posted Mar 9, 2009
The setting of the texture is succesfull in the sense that Quartz.modules.Player.castBar:GetStatusBarTexture() does return the right texture. Setting it at any time works like it should, except at loading time. Also, I don't seem to have this problem on the PTR (on which I have only a small number of addons enabled).

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Posted Mar 15, 2009
And then what? Can't seem to grab the window.

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Posted Mar 8, 2009
Is there any way of moving the buff bars around?

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