Quartz
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.
I'm not sure if it applies to all timers but the mirror timer thing that comes up counting down the start of a battleground or arena match appears to be counting down too quickly. I notice that every time the chat frame pops up the Arena start time (at the 30 and 15 sec, at least) the timer has to readjust back up to 30 or 15 seconds.
Do I need an additional addon to load it?
Thank you in advance for your assistance.
- gm
Localizations?
I've noticed since 3.2 Quartz will not save my custom bar settings. Everytime I log in it's in the same spot but the texture has been reset to default. I have to go into the settings and copy from the default profile (even if it's set to default profile) to restore my prefered texture and look to the bar.
EDIT: One time during this copy from default procedure the thing got a bit messed up and the latency red section actually extended into the border of the bar instead of just the bar itself. I actually found that look preferable I just wish it would do it again.
I've noticed a little different behavior. Single rune abilities trigger the GCD spark, but Death Strike does not.
Overall, the GCD seems to lag quite a bit, but then again, this is only while in unholy presence, so it may be a CPU issue.
But i have an issue, buff bars dont seem to work correctly. When i target myself bars show my own buffs like overkill (rogue) or arcane intelect/ice armor, and some food buffs. But buffs casted by other players like Fortitude etc dont work, but when i target anyone else quartz show no buffs at all!!! (from berserking till shadow form). But my unitframes show those buffs correctly, so maybe anyone know how to solve the problem?
Such as Hunter's mark