AddOn: LeftSideBars

[Fahrenheitrkg]

I'm working on a SideBar replacement. I know that a lot of people (myself included) have become frustrated with trying to get both SideBar and Blizzard's own right-side bars to work together. Turning just the left side bar on doesn't work, since it still tries to shift the bag locations back to the "normal" place - making the bags lay over the Blizzard action bars.

So.

I'm taking the SideBar code as an example (OK, I'm stealing at least half of my stuff from there), and creating a Left-side only sidebar. Basically, think of SideBar's 2 6-button bars, but on the left hand side, the second one can be turned on/off independantly of the first, and it will move the party member frame the appropriate amount (depending on whether you have one or two bars). Bags on the right side won't be touched.


So far, this is just a "Me and my girlfriend" Mod; but if there is interest expressed, I'll see if I can make it cosmos-compatable.

[Marsman]

Not needed now. Cosmos has replaced the sidebar and second bar code with BarOptions which uses the new blizzard bars to simulate the functionality of the old code. Check it out in the latest Alpha.

[Shark]

BarOptions is in no way a replacement for Sidebar, it's a bad substitution. Sidebar can be placed exactly, BarOptions bar cannot. Additionally Cooldowncount works on Sidebar, not on the BarOptions bar.

[Marsman]

BarOptions bars can be placed even more precisely than sidebars could because it is a movable frame with MobileFrames. SideBars could only adjust vertical movement whereas MobileFrames let you literally put it anywhere.

[karconn]

BarOptions bars can be placed even more precisely than sidebars could because it is a movable frame with MobileFrames. SideBars could only adjust vertical movement whereas MobileFrames let you literally put it anywhere.

I'm trying desperately to be a 'team player' on this one, but am having some problems getting my bars to move? I disabled the old 'SideBars' addon (just in case) and clicked the 'SideBar Setup' button. I went to MobileFrames and turned 'Enable Mobile Side Multi Bars' on (hope this is the right one?).

I went back to Bar Options and turned the artwork on (small bug, if you turn the artwork on and the slots is set to less than 12, it shows all 12, until you go fidget with the number of slots sliders, then it fixes itself), because I figured I'd need to see that to be able to drag them.

I can't seem to drag them, for some reason, so I'm assuming something is wrong. Another odd thing, I had 'lowered' my left side bar in SideBars and even though that's disabled, the left bar is at the same location my old left SideBar was. Do you suppose I have a section of settings in my SavedVariables.lua I need to clean out?

The last little problem I'm having is it seems like everytime I logout or zone, I have to go click the 'SideBar Setup' button again to get my buttons to show up. Something is causing them to turn off.

Thx :D

[karconn]

woops, figured out the moving thing...forgot to mention I've never used mobile frames before, finally got the whole anchor thing squared away :)

[Shark]

BarOptions bars can be placed even more precisely than sidebars could because it is a movable frame with MobileFrames. SideBars could only adjust vertical movement whereas MobileFrames let you literally put it anywhere.

I don't use mobile frames because it's causing too many problems.

[Underhill]

I have a lot of problems also with ghosting of the bag slots but if you just use mobile frames and the anchors to move them to where you want then disable all in mobile frames it works fine.