nUI 6.04.03.08 Alpha released...

[spiel2001]

Release News
(v6.04.03.08 Alpha Release)

My apologies to all for the low profile for the better part of the last week... I've been down sick. I made it out of bed Monday only to find myself back in bed Tuesday. I'm feeling better and back at the grind.

With that in mind, this is a heads up that updates on nUI6 should start coming fast and furious. I'm going to do my level best to get out an update a day if I can. My goal is to be in full beta well before the end of this month. At this point, while incomplete, most folks should find the alpha playable. I have not yet moved it to beta because there are still missing pieces parts and I have yet to include the configuration options. As soon as I can get the missing parts into alpha and get the configuration screen into test, we'll move into Beta testing.

In the meantime, your feedback is important. I need to hear what you're seeing problems with. If you're not afraid to take test code for a drive around the block, I ask that you download the current nUI6 alpha and try it out.

Here are the things I know don't work...

• nUI6 does not have info panels yet... you can use Recount, Omen, etc, with nUI6, they just won't go into the info panel space on their own. I hope to have info panels into nUI6 by the end of this week or Monday.
• nUI6 does not yet manage the chat frame... you will have to manually unlock the chat frame and drag and size it in the location you want. I expect this to be fixed this week.
• nUI6 does not have its own aura system. For now, the default Blizzard player and target unit frames are displayed so you can see your buffs and target debuffs. You can, if you so choose, use a third party buff mod with nUI6 until this gets remedied. I hope to have this partly functional before this weekend.
• nUI6 does not have its own combo points, rune bar, shard bar, holy power bar or eclipse bar. For now you'll find them on the default Blizzard frames. I expect to add these items next week.
• nUI6 does not have FPS meter or latency meter, but does show latency in the cast bars. You can see memory use, latency and frame rate by mousing over of the computer icon in the micro-menu.
• nUI6 does not have a location bar under the minimap or server/local time display at this time. Soon(tm)
• You cannot manually change unit frame panels or HUD modes at this time
• There is currently no configuration options system implemented as slash commands or GUI.

Again... I expect to be out of Alpha testing within the next couple of weeks and into full beta. Your input and bug reports will be greatly appreciated.

If you have any comments, bug reports or other information to post on this alpha, please do so at the nUI support forum... http://forums.nUIaddon.com

The alpha can be downloaded by nUI+ users in the "nUI+ Full Version" download section at http://files.nUIaddon.com -- If you are subscribed to the nUI e-mail update service this update has already been sent to you as a separate attachment.

The current support level for nUI is... 1.2% of this month's target goal The previous month's support level was... 20.3% of the goal Please donate today!

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Best regards...

K. Scott Piel
Author of nUI

kscottpiel@nUIaddon.com
http://www.nUIaddon.com

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Version 6.04.03.08 (Alpha)
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* Automated disabling of TitanPanel adjustment of the minimap via a new API call added
to Titan for the purpose (required the next update to Titan, due out in the next
couple of weeks)

* Fixed a bar naming error on the left action bar

* Added raid target icons (charms) to unit frames

* Added "In Combat" indicator to unit frames

* Added "Resting" indicator to player unit frames

* Removed pet bar while bonus action bar is active on the main bar (duplicate bars)

[todd3835]

I'm thinking of setting some time aside today or tomorrow to checkout the latest alpha. Do I still need to have the latest 5.0 installed and disabled? one of the previous alphas said that, but this one does not. Just curious.

[Xrystal]

Nope the last few alphas work alone .. just need to add in some other addons to replace the missing options while you test it.

[todd3835]

Originally Posted by Xrystal Nope the last few alphas work alone .. just need to add in some other addons to replace the missing options while you test it.

I know that the HUD isn't in still, but other than that what is missing? I personally don't even typically use a HUD. Certainly not needed on my healer, but even on my DPS I don't typically use one. My biggest concern would be auras (HoTs/Disease+Magic Dispellables). Other than that, I'm pretty simple =]

[Xrystal]

Read the post Scott made .. he tells you what is and isn't in there

[Telepavarion]

Originally Posted by spiel2001 * Automated disabling of TitanPanel adjustment of the minimap via a new API call added to Titan for the purpose (required the next update to Titan, due out in the next couple of weeks)

Running cool with the newest Titan Version.

The frame rate is also very cool. Tested today in a 25 man raid at Atramedes and seeing wonderful every cast bar and other things.

What I noticed as Bug is that the Noise square is pulling directly over the action bar and with raidmechanicmove I can only move that in horizontal direction not in vertical. This I see in nUI5 too and I think this was posted already and Xrystal made a fix for nUI5. See this today in nUI6 as well.

All other things looking really wonderfull.

[rossman]

Should the nUI 6 actionbars work with addons that enhance the default Blizzard actionbars? I am looking at addons that provide advanced paging options.
Thanks

[Xrystal]

They probably won't work with some of them if they specifically use the names of blizz's action bars as they aren't being used in nUI.

[spiel2001]

Xrystal is correct... I would not expect them to work with nUI.

[rossman]

Will nUI 6 provide advanced paging functions? Something like the addon paging.

[spiel2001]

Can you be more specific?

What paging functions are you looking for? I have ideas what I want the bars to do (that they don't already) -- but rather than color your comments, I'd rather hear what it is that you want the bars to do.

[rossman]

I would like to be able to have one main action bar and have it swap between 1 or 2 other hidden bars when i push my modifier key (crtl,Alt) and when i release the mod key it goes back the the main bar. The bindings would also work the same as well. 1 on page 1. ctrl-1 on page 2. alt-1 on page 10.
I also like the idea of conditional swapping. When you target a friendly unit it would swap to a bar that would have your healing spells.

[spiel2001]

Okay... we're on the same page then... You will find both of these in the nUI6 action bars as soon as I finish getting all of the basic functionality in place. Hopefully before I go back to the 9-5 on March 1st.

The goal is for the action bars to support advanced functions past just the current defaults. This would include a different action based on your current form/stance including support for druid kitty stealth, based on whether your target is help or harm, you have a focus, key modifiers and mouse click (i.e. left click to apply to target, right-click to self, middle click to focus or whatever).

I *hope* to have an intuitive GUI tool for setting all of that up... we'll see.

[rossman]

One more thing.
What is the eta of the info panel in V6?
Thank You

[spiel2001]

I expected to have it already, but the 4.0.6 patch broke stuff I didn't expect to get broken. This weekend I hope.

[Tithulta]

Tested V6 alpha for most of the morning an into this afternoon. Using ym hunterI encountered few issues. TBH i didnt receive a single bug via swatter( I assume it will pick them up as it's what ive used in the past).

Frame rate were WONDERFUL for most of the morning, dunno it was my system or not but it seemed to degrade after a few hours. Went from 40ish fps to 20ish. Restarting now to see if that clears it up or not. ( wasn't planning to atm but since i d/ced while tabbed out...)

Just wanted to say AWESOME and look forward to seeing it fleshed out. Dang how fast time flies...March 5th and back to grind? Was hoping that you'd get to wave bye to them an make a living working on NUI and your other interest. Well I'm on a monthly recurring now and I will slip in a few extra donations as i can. Do what i can for one Father to another to help spend more time with our Daughters.

[spiel2001]

Many thanks for the status report, the kind word and the support... all truly appreciated.

[rossman]

Should the keybindings work in this version?

[spiel2001]

Yes... sort of. They should be copying the key bindings from the Blizzard bars when you log in.

[Tithulta]

my key binding worked fine, i use dominos(and several other addons) when not using NUI . I know in V5 it seemed like they never copied. However I haven't used NUI5 since last summer.