Bug: Bar Options settings lost

[Bjond]

The setting for Bar-Options "Side Bar Setup" button is not saved and must be reselected every time you boot up; ie. the button that puts one vertical bar on the left and one on the right like the old "Side Bar" module must be pressed at every login to split the bars one to each side.

BTW, I love the bar options module -- great work. Waited a bit to post this since it was obviously still being worked on. All the other bugs have vanished, but this one little detail remains. I think it's just an overlooked setting that doesn't have it's state saved and reapplied at innitialization.

[cosmosjunkie]

Seeing the same thing as well, - Love the feature though - it's worth the extra few seconds to fix it at log in.

Thanks for putting it in despite Blizz trying to do it on their own.

FYI - Quest minion is STILL far superior to Blizzard's attempt!

Looking forward to seeing the new version.

[FoPJester]

I'd like to add that the bars also reset after each long range travel which requires loading (eg: teleportation, ships. etc.).

[Mullzy]

I don't have the long range travel problem, but I do have to reset all my BarOptions totally every time I log in. (i.e. Click "SideBar Setup", click off "Use Alternate ID Ranges" and then extend the number of buttons shown using the slider)

Very annoying!!

[Bjond]

This bug still has not been fixed. Just in case you don't know what the precise problem is, let me recap:

To reproduce:

ESC, Cosmos Options, Bar Options, Side Bar Setup.

Note that the bars are on the left and right sides of the screen now.

Logout.

Login.

Note that the bars are both back on the right side of the screen; ie. the "side bar setup" option is not being saved.

[lemacs]

I have this problem as well, It is pain in the butt!!! :shock:

[nomad_wanderer]

There is also a significant problem with Baroptions and memory use. I'm stuttering consistently every 30-40 seconds (from Garbage Collection), with BarOptions turned on, and every 3-4 minutes with Baroptions turned off.

BarOptions needs some development love.

[Bjond]

Noticed the patch to Bar-Options today.

Noticed the patch did NOT fix the settings bugs listed above.

[Damodar]

From Cosmos.txt:
r1396 | mugendai | 2005-04-27 00:19:32 -0500 (Wed, 27 Apr 2005) | 7 lines

BarOptions: It was broght to my attention that when BarOptions was enabled that as much as 100Kgc's more per second are caused, thats essentially trippling the amount of garbage collection that the game has without BO.
I've discovered the issue is that some of the code in the HookHandler in Sea is inefficient. And BO calls some of it's hooks several thousand times a second(This is actually done just as much in the normal UI, but the normal UI doesn't use the hook function)
As a result I have manually overridden some of the functions that BO overrides(specifcally the ones that were called several times every second). This has resulted in an almost complete elimination of the addional GCs caused by BO.

To put it simply.. BO is WAY WAY more efficient now.

And also delete or disable SideBars addon..

[Bjond]

More changes to bar-options today.

Bug still not fixed. Setup still isn't being saved. Refer to other posts in this thread above for details.

[dsdranor]

The fix that was put in last night was for people who didn't have the side multibars turned on prior to using Sidebar Setup. While the button would enable the sidebars it wasn't saving that it had done so, it does now.

The problem that you are having is that both bars show up on the right side after you log out/back in correct?

[Hafir]

The problem that you are having is that both bars show up on the right side after you log out/back in correct?


Yes, this is the problem I am having. I'll have your baby if you fix this. :shock:

[Bjond]

Yes, that is the problem.

Noticed an update to bar-options a couple of days ago.

Bug still not fixed. Bug was never fixed (not ever in any patch since bar-options was released).

[dsdranor]

The BarOptions problem will be resolved after the upcoming 1.5.0 patch which allows things to be set as user placed.

[Hafir]

Good news. Is there an approximate date for this?

[dsdranor]

No idea, whenever blizzard decides its done.

[Hafir]

This still doesn't work for me. Is there something I need to do, or did 1.5 not fix it after all?

[Sinaloit]

It should be resolved, as long as you're using the latest alpha.
If you look in your BarOptions.lua file near the top there should be a $Rev: # $ tag.

That number needs to be at least: 1757

[Bjond]

Revision 1757 does NOT fix the problem.

[Sinaloit]

Aha looked at the code, I had accidentally only made the required change to DefaultSetup. Added the correct change to SidebarSetup as well. 1779 or later will have this fix.

[Bjond]

Fixed. Thanks. :)