nUI 6.04.03.03 Alpha released...

[spiel2001]

Release News
(v6.04.03.03 Alpha Release)

This is an alpha pre-release of nUI6 for testing use only. Please note that it is early production code and is both (a) incomplete and (b) certain to contain errors.

Redistribution of this code to anyone, by any means, for any purpose is strictly prohibited!

This alpha release should be installed *WITH* nUI5 disabled and inactive.

A preview of the unit frames and action bars in this alpha release can be found here...

Solo and idle standing in Iron Forge: click here

In combat in a 40 man raid in AV: click here

The purpose of this alpha release is to continue testing the unit frame data engine and the basic unit frame layout as well as the basic functionality in the action bars, pet bar, shape shift bar, possession bar and micro menu bar. With that in mind, much of the unit frame and action bar display functionality is intentionally omitted in this release in order to get a good test of the data collection engine without the overhead of all of the graphics rendering and to prove taint stability and action execution without conflict from added features

You will *not* be able to manually change unit frame panels in the alpha... this is on purpose to fully test the panel auto switching function. The manual switching will be enabled at a later time.

In addition, this alpha does not contain auras (buffs/debuffs) on purpose as both are graphics rendering intensive. With that in mind, the default Blizz player, pet and target unit frames are enabled along with their aura displays.

This alpha does not include combo points or runes, so the default Blizzard options have been enabled for both.

This alpha contains unit frame panels for solo questing, five man parties and ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty-five and forty man raids. It does not contain arena panels.

All action bars are present and should function normally for casting spells and macros. They do not contain cooldown timers, aura durations, etc.

What I am and am not asking the alpha testers for...

Do not tell me about things that were in nUI5 and are not in nUI6. That's intentional and expected... the only thing we are concerned with is the base functionality of the nUI6 unit frames and action bar themselves.

I do want to know what your experiences are with the performance of the new frames, memory usage for nUI6, any nUI6 errors that are generated (including taint) and any data errors you see in terms of health, power, etc.

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

The current support level for nUI is... 5.9% of this month's target goal The previous month's support level was... 33.4% of the goal Please donate today!

Best regards...

K. Scott Piel
Author of nUI

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

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Version 6.04.03.03 (Alpha)
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* Split nUI6 and nUI5 development paths -- they no longer should run together

* Added automatic detection and disabling of nUI5 when nUI6 is enabled

* Fixed right-click menu bug on unit frames

* Fixed minimap scaling and anchoring bug

* Added action bars (simplified functionality for the time being)

* Added pet bar

* Added shapeshift bar

* Added possession bar

* Added micro menu

* Added quest watch frame

[svar]

Looks ok so far, but I miss the XP bar, is it gone or is it yust me?

[spiel2001]

This alpha does not contain any elements other than the unit frames, action bars (including the pet bar, shape shift bar, possession bar and micro menu) and the quest watch frame... all of the other "missing" parts will get added after this portion has been tested.

[svar]

Oki-Doki
Work Work.

(peon talk)

[spiel2001]

Yeah... unfortunately... I have to drag myself off to work. Would love to take the day to work on nUI6 some more and play with Cata... not happening though. /sigh

[svar]

Cant you yust tell the boss what an peon told me?:
"Im bussy, leave me alone (zzzzz)"

heeh

Or maybe youre boss got an booterang?

[spiel2001]

~roflmao~

[ChevyFlo]

Hey^^

im using nui+ already a bit time and im rly happy with that, cuz i dont need many addons just this one and some additional addons.

but as i see nui 6 now i get a bit scared...and that is because im not using a whide screen monitor. i run with a screen solution of 1024 x 786. with nui5+ it was all "small" but i could see the important things... but in nui6 all seems to be smaller than bevore, i dont know if you can make it possible to make nui6 to fit to many screensolutions and even to outdated-monitor sizes like mine.

my wish would be that you get a older monitor and leave all that mega widescreen 1000:9 future-monitors alone.

greetings

[spiel2001]

nUI6 is not "smaller" -- the dashboard art you see is identical to the art in nUI5... exact same size. I'm not sure why you get the impression it's smaller now.

[Seer]

The unit frames are different. It could give the impression things are smaller since they have different aspect ratio I think.