AddOn Replacement Time
So, as per the patch, the following AddOns aren't working properly:
1) Fubar 2) pMinimap 3) XPerl These are some key mods in my custom UI!! Does anyone know of any plans to update and/or fix them? Does anyone know of any suitable replacements that can boast the same features or better and are just as easy to use? (That "easy to use" bit is particularly important for an XPerl replacement. I'm a lazy scrub, and customizing XPerl is work to me. :p) Fubar is pretty self-explanatory as far as its features go, but I'll list what I liked so much about the other two to give you guys a feel for what kind of replacements would fit me well. pMinimap - perfectly square, resizeable, armor damage in the border, built-in coords, built-in clock, zoomable with my m3 button XPerl - 3d animated toon images, target displays spec if player character, target displays mob type if npc, lots of customization options for each individual panel, easy-to-navigate customization interface, requires nothing but itself for full functionality Thank you guys in advance for pointing me the right direction and sharing your informobits with me. :D |
But I replaced X-perl last night with Pitbull4. Some initial configuration but man Pitbull4 is nice! :D tl;dr - Patience grasshopper! |
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I personally left X-Perl for AG_Unit Frames, then not long ago left AGU for PitBull4 (not PitBull3, PitBull4) it simplifies PitBulls old (3 and below) customization system so you no longer need a degree.
(Sarcasm, and my personal opinion, if anyone feels that the old one is easy, good for you.) I like it a lot, and noticed a considerable drop in it's memory footprint from previous versions, if you're willing to experiment while waiting for X-Perl I highly recommend it. As for FuBar I moved from that long ago for LDB. I use DockingStation myself and love it, it's a little more complicated than other LDB displays but I like to customize greatly. |
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X-perl is a great UI and I like it very much still and recommend it to my friends who play but don't care about indepth UI customization. Pitbull4 also is probably the most easy of the Pitbull UFs to configure too. It's very nice. Switching to it also cut my load times by about a 3rd too. :D Quote:
oUF was a choice for a while but most of the decent layouts are stuck in Lua editing hell that for some reason many people love (I think so they don't have to write a Gui config for it. :p ) but I can't make head nor tails out of. To each their own for sure but Pitbull4 does it for me. P.S. Goodbye cartographer, I loved you very much but you are now neglected and forgotten (And I hope you take Rock with you into hell). Hello Mapster/Tomtom! ;) |
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I may take up the recommendation for ChocolateBar as it would seem that it works as an easy and perfect replacement for FuBar. We'll see how that works out. ^^ Quote:
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:p (Clearly, I jest.) |
OK, regarding DockingStation/ChocolateBar. They are both the same type of mod, a LibDataBroker (also known as "LDB" or just plain ol' "Broker") display. This means, they are a front end display for mods that use the LibDataBroker framework. Plug-ins for a Broker display can be "Launchers" or "Data Feeds". A launcher is simply that, a button to launch a config screen or drop down menu. A data feed displays data of some kind (such as DPS or your reputation with a given faction). Frequently a Broker plug-in functions as both a Launcher and a Data Feed.
The trend over the last year or so is away from FuBar/Titan only mods and toward Broker plug-ins, Why? Simple, for the author, they just have to write once and their mod can be displayed on any number of bars/bins/other types of displays. Broker mods are typically smaller in their footprint (both CPU and memory) as the libraries they use are smaller and generally more efficent. You will be suprised at the number of mods that have Broker feed/launchers baked into them. If the mod in question does not have a Broker feed/launcher baked in, then chances are that someone else has written a Broker feed/launcher for it. Major mods that I know that have Broker support included Pitbull4, Skada, Omen, many of Tekkub's mods, BugSack, Dominos, Bartender4, TomTom plus many more. Other mods like Recount and Macaroon have Broker launchers/feeds written for them. FuBar can display Broker mods with Broker2FuBar while Titan Panel has Broker support baked in. Broker displays can use most older FuBar mods with the mod FuBar2Broker. The beautiful thing about LDB is you can use any display you want, even multiple displays. I personally use DockingStation for those Feeds that I want in view all the time and Carousel for Feeds/Launchers that I want access too, but I don't need displayed all the time. |
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funkydude's minimap addon, "BasicMiniMap", updated last night. I used it for a while, but it didn't have ENOUGH config options for me. *laugh* I dropped it in favor of pMinimap, but it does it's job well enough. Square minimap with coords, movable, lockable, scalable. Just not my preferred minimap addon. :)
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It's a little more involved than pMinimap, but take a look at Chinchilla. Hasn't been updated recently, but still works perfectly well for me.
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I really should be sleeping. It's 7am in the morning of a day off and i've been answering forum posts about 3.2 all night. I'm sooo tired I'm starting to feel faint.
But then I saw a post from us-mr funny numbers man and just had to post .. Alrighty Minimap = Don't recall getting errors with Sexymap. Try the GetQuestDifficultyColor fix below Xperl stopgap fixes : http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...10020989&sid=1 Fixing issues with RockLib : http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/th...15572248&sid=1 General : Wowace list of addon changes (ie what to change to get em to work) http://forums.wowace.com/showthread.php?p=284732 Replace all occurences of "GetDifficultyColor" with "GetQuestDifficultyColor" seems to be the biggest fix of the day. It's personally cleared about 12 lua errors i was getting :D Now bed *thunk* [/img EDIT O_O wrong icon sorry zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz |
simpleMinimap has the configuration options I like, and seems to work fine.
Another vote for DockingStation (v. FuBar). |
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You're my hero for pointing me the direction to a fix!! I'm going to go manipulate me some code. Thanks to you, I may be back to needing a minimap more quickly than I thought! :eek: You get bananas! :banana::banana::banana: |
I use sexymap for my minimap and mapster for my main map. I no longer use fubar or broker mods and have just recently started trying to find a better unit frame mod.
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EDIT: Looking at the mod page, I can see that I can at least fade the whole map. I can't, however, fade out the superfluous ocean bits. I'll wait for a Cartographer update. I wasn't using the GoogleAzeroth nonsense they were doing, and Cart was doing fine, so if they can update Cart2, I'll stick with that. If it doesn't happen, though, Mapster wins. |
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