BAB Bars Alpha

[Duugu]

This thread is for feedback/discussion to BAB Bars Alpha.

BAB Bars is a complete new action bar approach. It implements 'bendable' and 'flexible' action bars that are not limited to the standard 'rectangle' shape of action bars and action buttons.
BAB Bars creates fully functional (additional) action bars in the form of curves, circles, waves, and any other shape.
With this alpha release I'm asking for your feature requests, comments, and feedback for the further development. Do you see any benefit in it at all? What options, etc. would you like to see? Are there any features that would be useful?

Quickstart
BAB Bars shows up with a single new bar with 12 buttons (above the Blizzard standard bars) in configuration mode at first start up.
Type /bab to close the configuration mode. Type /bab to switch back into configuration mode.
Have a look at the new bar. There are 4 'control points' (2 green ones and 2 red ones). If you can't see them click somewhere on the grey bar anchor (left of the first button for example) to select the bar. The control points and the bar anchor will be highlighted. Use the grey bar anchor to drag the bar around.
The control points are working like a Bézier curve tool in Photoshop. Drag them around to change the bar shape. The two green control points are the bar ends. The red control points are for manipulating the curve. Just try to play around. It's not that hard to understand.

Alpha
Please keep in mind that this is an early alpha version for reviewing/feedback. It is WIP, it is full of bugs, and it is incomplete. It provides only the most basic functionality.

Why is the download that big? Does the addon need that much memory?
No, it does not. BAB Bars depends on custom versions of all icon textures to work. All borders of all textures must be translucent. This is not the case with the default wow icon textures. The download contains modified versions of all standard icon textures. A big download does not mean that the addon needs that much memory ingame. The additional textures a loaded on demand only. The will not significant blow up the memory usage by default.

Masque support
BAB Bars does support Masque.
BUT: as with the icons (see above) it depends on special Masque skins. All Masque skin textures must have a transparent border (at least 1 pixel). If a Masque skin has no transparent border you'll have to edit them to use them with BAB Bars.

Incomplete bug / todo list
- add talent spec pofiles
- add a couple of default skins for Masque
- add support for smaller curve radius
- create a better Background with more configuration Options
- add round button shape support
- button placement is not correct (padding to small/big for some buttons)
- multiple sections are not displayed as expected (button shape/rotation on section transitions is wrong)
- cooldown texture is not shaped