Secure Ability Toggle... in reverse!

[duhwhat]

Would it be possible, via add ons, to give DE toggle protection to abilities, or in effect, retoggle prevention. When trying to cancel Burning Rush or Blade Flurry, I often end up retoggling the ability. Just as Secure Ability Toggle gives you a minicooldown on the ability to prevent immediate canceling, I need something that will give me a mini cooldown after canceling the effect, so as to prevent immediate reactivation.

[Duugu]

With default action bars? Or bound to a key? Or click casting?

[semlar]

You couldn't really do this securely because you can't get any time information in the secure environment.

You could block the mouse from being able to click on the button temporarily after you de-activate it or you could probably intercept all key presses briefly after canceling the buff by auto-focusing an edit box.

It might be a better idea to just bind /cancelaura to something if you only want to remove the buff.

[duhwhat]

This would be a keybind yes. I realize that this is hard or even impossible to implement. Yes, the cancelaura is a solution, but unfortunately requires an extra bind. Oh well. So close, yet so far away. Interested in a proof of concept semlar?

[Tonyleila]

Originally Posted by duhwhat Would it be possible, via add ons, to give DE toggle protection to abilities, or in effect, retoggle prevention. When trying to cancel Burning Rush or Blade Flurry, I often end up retoggling the ability. Just as Secure Ability Toggle gives you a minicooldown on the ability to prevent immediate canceling, I need something that will give me a mini cooldown after canceling the effect, so as to prevent immediate reactivation.

Blade Flurry has an 9 sec CD after you disable it I don't know about Burning Rush thought

If you write a macro with the /cast and rewrite the abilitie as often as possible it will add a very short (only some ms) cooldown to it.

[sirann]

/cast [nomod] !Blade Flurry
/cancelaura [mod:shift] Blade Flurry

Spammable macro to turn it on, shift modifier to turn it off. That's what I do, as for a one key solution, that could be a lot trickier/nigh on impossible.

[duhwhat]

Originally Posted by Tonyleila Blade Flurry has an 9 sec CD after you disable it I don't know about Burning Rush thought If you write a macro with the /cast and rewrite the abilitie as often as possible it will add a very short (only some ms) cooldown to it.

Basically, if I have blade flurry active and I want to cancel it, and I am a little twitchy (admittedly) so the keypress to cancel the effect will sometimes end up being a double tap, thereby turning it back on when I wanted to turn it off. Hence, I need secure ability toggle in reverse: prevent an ability from being activated for a short time (think burning rush's pseudo gcd) after being cancelled.

[sirann]

The problem(s) you're running into would probably just be easiest to alleviate by using a different hot key to cancel it.

[semlar]

Originally Posted by duhwhat Interested in a proof of concept semlar?

Can't really test anything with the servers down but something like this..

local ShouldBlock = { -- [spellID] = spellName, List of spells to activate on
    [111400] = 'Burning Rush',
    [13877] = 'Blade Flurry',
}
 
local LOCKDOWN_LIMIT = 0.2 -- Seconds to block keypresses after casting a spell on the list
local Lockdown = CreateFrame('Frame')
Lockdown:Hide()
Lockdown:SetPropagateKeyboardInput(false)
 
local TimeSince = 0
Lockdown:SetScript('OnUpdate', function(self, elapsed)
    TimeSince = TimeSince + elapsed
    if TimeSince >= LOCKDOWN_LIMIT then self:Hide() end -- Stop blocking input
end)
 
Lockdown:SetScript('OnKeyDown', function() end)
 
Lockdown:SetScript('OnEvent', function(self, unitID, spellName, _, _, _, spellID)
    if ShouldBlock[spellID] then -- We just cast a spell on the list
        TimeSince = 0
        self:Show() -- Start blocking input
    end
end)
Lockdown:RegisterUnitEvent('UNIT_SPELLCAST_SUCCEEDED', 'player')

Should briefly block ALL key presses after you successfully cast one of the spells on the list.

Won't prevent mouse buttons though, if that's a problem.

[duhwhat]

I'm curious, could it block key presses after an arbitrary command? Such as execute /cancelaura blade flurry? Also, this will still allow mouse running during the block?

[duhwhat]

Originally Posted by sirann The problem(s) you're running into would probably just be easiest to alleviate by using a different hot key to cancel it.

Of course... But this adds an extra bind.

[semlar]

Originally Posted by duhwhat I'm curious, could it block key presses after an arbitrary command? Such as execute /cancelaura blade flurry? Also, this will still allow mouse running during the block?

Yes, the problem is it blocks all key presses, which generally is going to interfere with gameplay.