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Version 1.2-30000 is for WoW 3.x -- it wont work on wow 2.x

RedRange is yet another addon which reds out standard ActionButtons when they're out of range, mostly useful if you've got the extra buttons enabled or if you dont notice just the shortcut key color change.

This is short and sweet and in theory very efficient (It follows the same guidelines as the standard UI with respect to update speed etc, though it's better on a bar switch than the standard UI).
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Old 08-31-2009, 08:33 PM  
LudiKalell
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It's because the Addon HAS to listen to the "ActionButton_OnUpdate" event, which is unfortunatley fired every frame. I don't know why, ask Blizzard.

In city e.g. on dummy you have ~60 FPS, but on raid 25man boss fight you normally have ~20 max (k with i7 you should have more), funny thing is: as you have lower FPS, there are also fewer "onUpdates", so CPU usage of this addon goes down in low FPS fights, so it's somewhat okish.

I will see if one can "throttle" the updates to somethin like "10 times a second".

As a tip right now: don't use multibar addons with this one, try to minimize the number of action buttons on screen to the bare minimum. With a normal action bar (10 icons) i don't have heavy CPU usage..

On the other hand, most CPU profiling addons show a percentage of the addons CPU usage across ALL addons, so when you see "RedRange 90%" it DOESN't mean RedRange is using 90% of CPU ressources. It means, redRange is using 90% of all CPU ressoruces the addons as a whole use, and that doesn't have to mean much. If it's the only addon registering for an "On_Update" event of some sorts, it most likely will show up "high".
For me (Core 2 Duo) RedRange only uses 5%, if using CPU heyva addons like DoTimer (don't!), and now after some better selection of addons, it's up at 12% of the share.

Afaik, there is no measurement to see how much %of CPU an addon uses, but I could be wrong.

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Old 08-23-2009, 03:40 AM  
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Okayyyyyyyyy......scratch my suggestion to use the new one. It was also using an obscene amount of CPU power. I use a i7 @ 3.40 and these two addons are actually single-handedly dropping my fps, they are eating so much CPU time.

Why does such a simple little addon use so much CPU power?

I'm bummed. I'm quite addicted to Redrange
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Old 08-22-2009, 06:50 PM  
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I've been using Redrange for as long as I can remember, but recently did CPU profiling on all addons and found that, standing still in IF with nothing targeted, RR was using an immense amount of CPU power and cycles. To put into perspective, the #2 CPU useage addon was Carbonite - which was using 10% as much CPU power as RedRange....

I shudder to think how much power it uses in combat. Needless to say, I've dropped it.

Here's a similar, and up to date, addon that will accomplish the same:

http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-a...ngecolors.aspx

Highly advise dropping RR - at least until the code is fixed.
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Old 04-28-2009, 11:50 PM  
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this addon with the lastest version of 3.1.1 when used with Dominos, is causing Dominos to have blank spell icons in your action bars.

you spell is still there but you can't see the icon which makes it really hard.
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Old 04-23-2009, 11:30 PM  
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I was waiting for this to be updated and then found ActionButtonColors which does the same thing and has been updated to work with 3.1. It seems to only be available on curse though at:

http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-a...tails/abc.aspx
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Old 04-22-2009, 08:49 PM  
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This addon works in 3.1, however, it is a CPU hog; it eats up a lot of your CPU.
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Old 04-21-2009, 12:34 PM  
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Originally posted by Gumurak
With dominos and buttonficade on, redrange causes buttons to disappear.
I use all three and I am not having an issues but more then willing to help with the troubleshooting.
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Old 04-19-2009, 12:12 PM  
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Originally posted by tralkar
I'm useing both and no problems here..
This problem is happening as well with me. However I have pin pointed it down do buttonficade. With dominos and buttonficade on, redrange causes buttons to disappear. Reload sometimes makes them appear sometimes not. Shutting off red range corrects the problem of course, but so does turning off button ficade.
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Old 04-16-2009, 05:39 PM  
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Originally posted by aequitas28
Red Range is creating a problem w/ Dominos. It makes every button invisible. when you /reload ui some come back, but all buttons w/ maros stay invis.
I'm useing both and no problems here..
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Old 04-15-2009, 11:28 PM  
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Pleaasseee update this mod, I can't game without it D:
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Old 04-15-2009, 10:25 PM  
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Red Range is creating a problem w/ Dominos. It makes every button invisible. when you /reload ui some come back, but all buttons w/ maros stay invis.
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Old 04-15-2009, 09:42 PM  
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Re: Re: Re: Re: how too make the blue disaper

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No it's not.
will there be an update for 3.1 ?
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Old 04-15-2009, 09:40 AM  
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Re: Re: Re: how too make the blue disaper

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Originally posted by drsmartazze
is this updated for 3.10 ?
No it's not.
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Old 04-15-2009, 04:36 AM  
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Question Re: Re: how too make the blue disaper

is this updated for 3.10 ?
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Old 03-30-2009, 09:28 PM  
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For all those people wondering why this addon has high cpu usage its because it uses the OnUpdate function. This means that RedRange updates its self and the range check etc every screen refresh, so the faster your screen refresh the more it updates, the greater the cpu usage (at least that was how it was explained to me when I asked about its high cpu usage). You have two options, one carry on using it like you were before you found out about the cpu usage (ignorance is bliss and this is the option I choose), or don't use it and try a different mod or use nothing.

Great mod keep the work up.
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