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Geist

Category: Action Bar Mods

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Author:	Cidrei [More]
Version:	30200.1
Date:	08-06-2009 12:11 AM
Size:	9.05 Kb
Downloads:	23,047
Favorites:	225
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Geist

Geist provides a twenty-five button action bar that displays under the mouse cursor at a keypress for quick and convenient access.

How to use: Bind a key to Geist using the keybinding interface in the menu. Geist will display whenever that key is pressed with the mouse over the center button.

ButtonFacade support can be enabled with an optional addon.

Change Log - Geist

! - Feature Addition
* - Feature or Code Change
^ - Bug Fix
% - Known Bug

Version 30200.1 - 2009-08-05
! - Toggle mode. Enabling this allows you to leave Geist open. (Thanks Tepel!)
* - ToC bump.
* - No longer requires UI reload for the guide.
* - Miscellaneous internal code changes. This sucker needs a rewrite.
% - The German translation is out of date.
% - Disabling toggle mode while Geist is open will cause the open/close behaviour to reverse.

Version 30100.3 - 2009-06-10
! - Added WoWI MMOUI Minion tag to ToC.
^ - Finally, finally fixed the scale bug on new installs. Srsly. Defaults to 1 instead of user scale.
* - ButtonFacade support removed for the time being, pending rewrite. If anyone wants to write it in, feel free.

Version 30100.2 2009-04-23
^ - Finally fixed the scale bug on new installs.

Optional Files - Geist

File Name	Version	Size	Author	Date	Type
Geist: ButtonFacade	30200.1	21kB	Cidrei	08-06-2009 12:20 AM	Addon

Archived Versions - Geist

File Name	Version	Size	Author	Date
Geist	30100.3	9kB	Cidrei	06-10-2009 03:31 PM
Geist	30100.2	9kB	Cidrei	04-23-2009 07:01 PM
Geist	30100.1	9kB	Cidrei	04-23-2009 04:04 PM
Geist	30000.4	9kB	Cidrei	11-17-2008 06:16 PM

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01-22-2010, 07:15 AM
rjwilson01 A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 1 File comments: 2 Uploads: 0	Make Geist appear on top I use grid for healing and then I pop Geist up to do other stuff can you add (as a fetaure/option) How can I set it so Geist always appears ON TOP of everything? TIA

01-06-2010, 12:58 AM

Cidrei

Premium Member

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Quote:

Originally posted by Isoliat
Oooh, this has caused me no end of embarrassment a couple times when I queued up for a heroic, charged in to tank the first trash mobs, and boosh! No buttons on the main bar! Hehe. I was in the process of writing an unfavorable comment on the Dominos page when it occurred to me that both times this happened I had cleared Geist out, because for some reason it was filled with warrior abilities. >.>

Buttons 1-12 on my priest and lock are Button IDs 96-107. The same buttons on my warrior are 1-12, which I'm assuming correspond to Blizzard's main bar IDs.

[Snip fix for brevity. Keep praise for ego.]

Love the addon! Keep up the good work! ~Iso

Despite the fact that I use Dominos myself, I actually write and test Geist with the default interface only. For better or worse it's the base standard I know all people will have, so I try to work around it accordingly.

The warrior action buttons in the default interface are just downright bizarre though. Numbers 1-12, used by every other class in the game as the default set, are completely unused by warriors, with numbers 73-84 being used for (the default) battle stance. I have no idea why this was done, but it seems like a waste. If you open GeistButtons.lua in a text editor, there's a list of the default Blizzard action slot IDs in a comment at the top.

Sometime in the future (read: never), I'd like to use or write a custom button setup that would rectify the problem of shared action IDs once and for all. This creates a whole new set of problems of its own, but it's a nice goal.

By the by, if you're comfortable mucking around in lua, it's much easier/quicker to edit the Geist SavedVariables to rapidly reassign a mass of buttons. I really need to make the interface more user friendly.

Last edited by Cidrei : 01-06-2010 at 01:03 AM.

01-04-2010, 07:53 AM

Isoliat

A Kobold Labourer

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Quote:

Originally posted by Cidrei
Geist's default buttons are based on what buttons the default UI uses. The default IDs used for druids and (especially) warriors are a compromise because of the default form and stance bars. You can change the IDs Geist uses, although I'll readily admit it's not the easiest thing to do with the commands.

Oooh, this has caused me no end of embarrassment a couple times when I queued up for a heroic, charged in to tank the first trash mobs, and boosh! No buttons on the main bar! Hehe. I was in the process of writing an unfavorable comment on the Dominos page when it occurred to me that both times this happened I had cleared Geist out, because for some reason it was filled with warrior abilities. >.>

Buttons 1-12 on my priest and lock are Button IDs 96-107. The same buttons on my warrior are 1-12, which I'm assuming correspond to Blizzard's main bar IDs.

The fix is to type the following, one line at a time. (I copy/pasted '/geist assign' and filled in the numbers 12 times. Took about 30sec)

Code:

/geist assign1 96
/geist assign2 97
/geist assign3 98
...etc, all the way to /geist assign12 107
/console reloadui

As long as you don't use more than 96 actionbar buttons, you should be in the clear.

Love the addon! Keep up the good work! ~Iso

12-09-2009, 08:54 PM

Cidrei

Premium Member

Forum posts: 6

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Uploads: 11

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Originally posted by kimboslice
No errors so far on 3.3

Indeed. I'm happy since I didn't actually test this one on the PTR.

12-09-2009, 07:53 PM
kimboslice A Defias Bandit Forum posts: 3 File comments: 66 Uploads: 0	No errors so far on 3.3

11-23-2009, 06:48 PM

Cidrei

Premium Member

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Quote:

Originally posted by twistdshade
Having the same overlap issue on my druid with dominos.

I noticed the addon uses random action bar buttons.. it's not just buttons from the last couple of bars, so there's no way to completely avoid it by not using certain bars.

Anyways.. I'm using OPie.. Similar addon but it doesn't use existing buttons.

Geist's default buttons are based on what buttons the default UI uses. The default IDs used for druids and (especially) warriors are a compromise because of the default form and stance bars. You can change the IDs Geist uses, although I'll readily admit it's not the easiest thing to do with the commands.

11-23-2009, 06:43 AM

twistdshade

A Murloc Raider

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Originally posted by Cidrei
There are known overlap problems with Geist and default action buttons for several classes. This is unfortunate but unavoidable while still using action ids. To the best of my knowledge, the current setup avoids using buttons already in use by the Blizzard UI. Are you using a different action bar mod?

Having the same overlap issue on my druid with dominos.

I noticed the addon uses random action bar buttons.. it's not just buttons from the last couple of bars, so there's no way to completely avoid it by not using certain bars.

Anyways.. I'm using OPie.. Similar addon but it doesn't use existing buttons.

Last edited by twistdshade : 11-23-2009 at 06:43 AM.

10-21-2009, 02:59 PM

Cidrei

Premium Member

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Quote:

Originally posted by nightcracker
Hmm, I have problems with buttons on the actionbars being linked to geist with druid and warrior. Maybe you should take a loot at GeistButtons.lua?

There are known overlap problems with Geist and default action buttons for several classes. This is unfortunate but unavoidable while still using action ids. To the best of my knowledge, the current setup avoids using buttons already in use by the Blizzard UI. Are you using a different action bar mod?

10-21-2009, 04:51 AM
nightcracker An Onyxian Warder Forum posts: 354 File comments: 237 Uploads: 20	Hmm, I have problems with buttons on the actionbars being linked to geist with druid and warrior. Maybe you should take a loot at GeistButtons.lua?

09-15-2009, 01:55 AM
Cidrei Premium Member Forum posts: 6 File comments: 58 Uploads: 11	Which functionality was lost? The old method had the problem of not working with modifiers keys and was only implemented as a stopgap while a secure keybind method was unavailable.

09-13-2009, 07:24 PM

Spahut

A Flamescale Wyrmkin

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Quote:

Originally posted by Cidrei
It it makes you feel better there was at one time a keybinding interface directly in Geist that was later removed in favor of the Blizzard one.

Doesn't make me feel better, we lost a lot of functionality with that.

08-21-2009, 04:14 PM
Cidrei Premium Member Forum posts: 6 File comments: 58 Uploads: 11	It it makes you feel better there was at one time a keybinding interface directly in Geist that was later removed in favor of the Blizzard one. Last edited by Cidrei : 09-05-2009 at 07:29 PM.

08-19-2009, 07:42 PM

Zaru

A Kobold Labourer

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I cannot get this addon to work or do anything.

I have tried every function and it just keeps giving me the commands list.
I type /geist assignX and it gives me the commands list, I type /geist assignX Y and it gives me the commands list. I type the scale reset it says that it's reset but won't let me do anything at all.

I was using Bartender then switched to Dominos and same thing. I tried it with the stock Blizz bars and it's the same.

I searched the posts here and @Curse and found nothing that has helped.

Your instructions on how to key bind are not very clear at all and sound more like a riddle then an explanation...imo.

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How to use: Bind a key to Geist using the key binding interface in the menu. Geist will display whenever that key is pressed with the mouse over the center button.

I don't see the keybinding interface nor do I see a menu other than the one that keeps coming up in the chat box window. Since I cannot get the window to come up the second part is baffling to me.

I see no GUI at all, no boxes, nothing. any ideas on how to get this working?

EDIT - Never mind, I am an idiot apparently. I hadn't realized that I needed to set the key bind through the Blizzard Key binding menu accessed by pressing Escape...doh!

I thought I had to set the key bind through Geist...of course the simplest solution is correct...I am thoroughly embarrassed....sorry.

I'll leave this post in case anyone else has the same problem...

Last edited by Zaru : 08-19-2009 at 08:27 PM.

07-02-2009, 06:56 AM

bizzy100

A Kobold Labourer

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Quote:

Originally posted by Cidrei
How do you mean? The buttons follow the Blizzard option in that regard. If you have the buttons locked in the interface, they should be locked in Geist as well.

@Tepel: Thanks a lot! I'll stick that in the next version. Need to do some 3.2 testing anyway.

Thank you, I use Bartender and I totally forgot about the Blizzard option.

Great addon!

07-01-2009, 05:27 PM

Cidrei

Premium Member

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Originally posted by bizzy100
Can anybody tell me how to lock the buttons, please?

Thank you in advance.

How do you mean? The buttons follow the Blizzard option in that regard. If you have the buttons locked in the interface, they should be locked in Geist as well.

@Tepel: Thanks a lot! I'll stick that in the next version. Need to do some 3.2 testing anyway.

Last edited by Cidrei : 07-01-2009 at 05:28 PM.

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