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Bongos2

Version: 1.10.1

by: Tuller [More]

I have written a new action bar addon, called Dominos, and am no longer supporting this one. Please feel free to try it out, along with Trinity Bars, and Bartender 3

Bongos is an action bar replacement designed to be both low memory, and easy to setup. It is not as feature rich as other bar mods, but should include the features most commonly used.

Version History
A Brief Guide

Included Addons

Bongos2: The core addon.
Bongos2 ActionBar: Breaks up the main action bar into movable parts
Bongos2 Stats: A display for latency, framerate, and memory usage
Bongos2 RollBar: Makes the frame for rolling on items movable
Bongos2 CastBar: A movable casting bar, with the ability to show cast time
Bongos2 XP: A movable experience bar
Bongos2 MapBar: A movable mapbar
Bongos2 Options: A dynamically loaded options menu for Bongos

Features

Every Bongos bar can be moved, hidden, and have its scale and opacity altered
Sticky bars - Each bar can be anchored to any other bar
120 action buttons, which can be setup in any number of bars
Both macro and key binding text on action buttons can be hidden
Customizable stance transitions for each bar

General Settings

To bring up the options menu: type /bongos menu
To unlock bars: uncheck the lock bars option in the main options menu
To hide or show a bar: unlock bars, then middle click or shift right click it
To move a bar: unlock bars, and then click and drag it with the left mouse button
To bring up a bar's configuration menu, right click it

Key Bindings

Bindings for the Bongos action bar should only be done via the bindings menu in Bongos
To bind keys, open the main options panel, and select the bindings option. Hover over a button, then press a key to bind it to that button

Action Bar Settings

Accessing general action bar options: open up the main options window (/bongos menu) and select the action bars panel
Adjusting the layout of a given bar: unlock bars and right click the bar you want to adjust to bring up its configuration menu
Moving buttons: Hold down the key for moving buttons (shift by default), and drag a button. Alternatively, unlock button positions by shift right clicking the mini map button, or unchecking the option in the main options menu
Making a bar bigger: You can increase the maximum size of a given bar by reducing the number of action bars. To do so, adjust the action bars slider on the action bar panel of the main options menu. This option will reset the settings of your action bars

Stances and Paging

Stances and paging are configured via a bar's right click menu. With bars unlocked, right click the bar you want to change,

Slash Commands

All commands start with either /bongos, /bob, or /bgs
<barList> can have a possible value of an actionbar number, menu, bags, pet. class, or all
You can also specify a group or range of bars, the command /bo scale 1-3 class 1.2 will scale action bars 1 2 3, and the class bar to 120% of their normal size.
/bongos - Shows the options menu, if present
/bongos lock - Toggles locking bars positions
/bongos show <barList> - Shows <barList>
/bongos hide <barList> - Hides <barList>
/bongos toggle <barList> - Toggles <barList>
/bongos scale <barList> <scale> - Sets the scale of <barList> to <scale>
/bongos setalpha <barList> <opacity> - Sets the opacity of <barList> to <opacity>
/bongos set <profile> - Sets the current character to use <profile>
/bongos copy <profile> - Copies all settings from <profile>
/bongos delete <profile> - Deletes <profile>
/bongos reset - Loads default settings
/bongos version - Displays what version of bongos you're running
/keybound - Toggles keybinding mode

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01-05-07, 11:12 PM

Tuller

A Warpwood Thunder Caller

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Originally posted by Fingolfin_SS
Excellent, any release date for it?

I have a beta on the other mod websites right now, I expect to have a release by Sunday if everything goes well.

01-05-07, 07:18 AM

Fingolfin_SS

A Kobold Labourer

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Originally posted by Tuller
Its fixed in my version.

Excellent, any release date for it?

01-05-07, 07:02 AM

Amanna

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Re: Re: How to setup action bars for form changes

Originally posted by Bladewraith
A quick and dirty:

On the Stance page, you most likely are going to only change 1 bar (your main hotbar) so leave the "1 - 1" alone. That's for the pages you are going to change; 1 - 2 would change both bar 1 and bar 2. On the next field, place how many pages to count to replace the bar, i.e.; if you're going to swap bar 10 in for bar 1 (this is how I do it on a default bar count setup) put 9 in the field (1 + 9 = 10). Under visibility, uncheck bar 10 to keep it hidden.

Rinse and repeat for each druid form. The same applies to warrior stances.

You'll need to create 4 stances if you have 4 forms (Caster, Bear, Cat, Aquatic), for instance. The one for caster should be a 0, so it places bar 1 in that position. This is from memory, you understand. I've not set up my warrior in awhile.

I've found that with characters with multiple stances, I'm just not left with enough bars to do everything, and the swapped out bars are "wasting" empty buttons. My solution is to figure out how many buttons max I need to swap out on my main bar, then calculate out how many bars I can make of that length max. For instance, on my rogues, I set it for 17 bars (I lose 1 button total). This allows me plenty of bars to swap out for the main bar as well as a lot of free buttons and bars to lay around the screen for 1, 2, or only 3 buttons, as can be seen in my ss on a previous post.

I hope that helps.

Thanks Bladewraith - that helps. I didn't get a chance to play around wih it last night, but your overview clears some things up for me I think. So when Bongos says you can have up to 120 action bars, it really means there are 120 buttons available that can be used to create action bars, correct?

Also, your explanation on the bars to replace and pages to look ahead makes sense. So the first setting is the range of bars I want to replace when changing to the stance, and the page setting is merely an amount that is added to each "current" bar to find the replacement bar. Is that correct? So if I wanted to replace bars 2-4 with bars 5-7 then my first setting would be 2-4 and the page setting would be 3. I think that sounds right.

That leaves me with the question of what if I want to replace 2 or 3 bars in caster form with one bar in bear form?

Thanks for all your help. I'm looking forward to trying this all out over the weekend.

01-05-07, 06:00 AM
Lazhar A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 1 Uploads: 0	is it possible to force a page change depending on the current target's status (friendly / hostile) ? i'd like to have my offensive bars pop-up automatically for the latter and my healing spells for the former. thanks in advance.

01-04-07, 01:49 PM

Bladewraith

A Murloc Raider

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Re: How to setup action bars for form changes

Originally posted by Amanna
Just downloaded the mod last night. It looks very good, but I could really use some help understanding and setting up how bar and page changing works when switching Druid forms. Are there instructions or a guide out there somewhere?

Thanks in advance.

A quick and dirty:

On the Stance page, you most likely are going to only change 1 bar (your main hotbar) so leave the "1 - 1" alone. That's for the pages you are going to change; 1 - 2 would change both bar 1 and bar 2. On the next field, place how many pages to count to replace the bar, i.e.; if you're going to swap bar 10 in for bar 1 (this is how I do it on a default bar count setup) put 9 in the field (1 + 9 = 10). Under visibility, uncheck bar 10 to keep it hidden.

Rinse and repeat for each druid form. The same applies to warrior stances.

You'll need to create 4 stances if you have 4 forms (Caster, Bear, Cat, Aquatic), for instance. The one for caster should be a 0, so it places bar 1 in that position. This is from memory, you understand. I've not set up my warrior in awhile.

I've found that with characters with multiple stances, I'm just not left with enough bars to do everything, and the swapped out bars are "wasting" empty buttons. My solution is to figure out how many buttons max I need to swap out on my main bar, then calculate out how many bars I can make of that length max. For instance, on my rogues, I set it for 17 bars (I lose 1 button total). This allows me plenty of bars to swap out for the main bar as well as a lot of free buttons and bars to lay around the screen for 1, 2, or only 3 buttons, as can be seen in my ss on a previous post.

I hope that helps.

Last edited by Bladewraith : 01-04-07 at 01:57 PM.

01-04-07, 08:08 AM
Amanna A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 3 Uploads: 0	How to setup action bars for form changes Just downloaded the mod last night. It looks very good, but I could really use some help understanding and setting up how bar and page changing works when switching Druid forms. Are there instructions or a guide out there somewhere? Thanks in advance.

01-03-07, 11:44 PM

Bladewraith

A Murloc Raider

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Originally posted by Tuller
My version means the version I'm working on, not the version that's current available for download.

Oh cool! lol Okay, thank you. I appreciate it and I didn't mean to sound...off or mad, or anything like that. It's just so frustrating that the otherwise (IMHO) VERY best action bar system anyone's done (and I'm a big Ace2 mods fan and prefer Bongos to Bartender3) to have that one imperfection in an also otherwise perfect system.

I can now rest confortably using Bongos until your next update.

/me is now a very happy rogue.

01-03-07, 11:10 PM
Tuller A Warpwood Thunder Caller Forum posts: 91 File comments: 1740 Uploads: 17	My version means the version I'm working on, not the version that's current available for download.

01-03-07, 03:59 PM

Bladewraith

A Murloc Raider

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Originally posted by Tuller
Its fixed in my version.

You lost me, I'm afraid...

I'm using the latest version from here...the one posted 12/14... Is there a different one I should be using?

Edit: Perhaps I am misstating what's happening.

I have the stance set up to swap page 6 in for page 1 when I'm in stealth. Then under Visibility, I hide bar 6 (since it has the buttons for stealthed abilities only). Once all my bars are in place, I lock it all and uncheck "Show Empty Buttons". Whenever I just simply change in and out of stealth, all hidden empty buttons stay hidden. However, if I de-stealth while in combat, or as a matter of course enter combat (ambush/cheap shot/resisted pickpocket), all my empty buttons display, as can be seen here (the circles are from cyCircled, and it happens regardless of that mod running/installed or not), until combat is over with, at which time the empty buttons hide again.

(further note: 2 weeks ago, I reinstalled windows on my machine after a complete hdd wipe and system rebuild...it's not artifact data from an older version...it can't be, as on the hdd after the llformat, it's only ever had the 12/14 version, so there's no older version saved data causing this. I'm trying to be very thorough, as everyone I've recommended bongos to has reported the same issue.)

Last edited by Bladewraith : 01-03-07 at 04:35 PM.

01-03-07, 01:50 PM

Tuller

A Warpwood Thunder Caller

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With Stealth stance configured (and it does work properly, so those saying stances are broken are incorrect). However, when I cone out of stealth in combat, the empty buttons don't hide until I exit combat. Simply switching stances/stealth hides them correctly. This is only stance switching/destealthing in(to) combat.

Any thoughts?

Its fixed in my version.

Can you save keybindings for different profiles? When I change my keybindings and save a profile, all the profile's keybindings are changed too.

Check the "Use Character Specific Keybindings" option on the bindings panel.

01-03-07, 05:26 AM

Bladewraith

A Murloc Raider

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Originally posted by Teriyaki
There is a weird bug in this program, whenever I am in combat and switch bars the empty buttons show up when I have show empty buttons off. Is there a remedy for this?

Tuller,

I'd like to echo this person's issues.

I run a "clean" ui and only show buttons/features the character can use. Hidden buttons are a must for me.

With Stealth stance configured (and it does work properly, so those saying stances are broken are incorrect). However, when I cone out of stealth in combat, the empty buttons don't hide until I exit combat. Simply switching stances/stealth hides them correctly. This is only stance switching/destealthing in(to) combat.

Any thoughts?

Last edited by Bladewraith : 01-03-07 at 05:27 AM.

01-02-07, 01:41 PM
nykwan A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 1 File comments: 1 Uploads: 0	Can you save keybindings for different profiles? When I change my keybindings and save a profile, all the profile's keybindings are changed too. Last edited by nykwan : 01-02-07 at 01:45 PM.

01-01-07, 01:01 PM

noEMO`

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Originally posted by Dreamerion
Got the same issue, simple workaround i found: After arranging your buttons save them to a profile. If the buttons wander again, reload the settings from the profile. Eventually they will stay at their desired location, at least until the next rearrangement.

Hmm, I'll have to try that out, I tried saving the settings to a profile before, and when I clicked on Load, nothing changed, but hopefully you're solution will fix it. =)

01-01-07, 11:57 AM

Dreamerion

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Originally posted by noEMO`
My bars keep moving from the position I had them set at everytime I reload the screen, like if I go into an instance or if I log out and log in, or if I exit game and come back in, anytime the screen changes, my bars change their positions a little bit

Got the same issue, simple workaround i found: After arranging your buttons save them to a profile. If the buttons wander again, reload the settings from the profile. Eventually they will stay at their desired location, at least until the next rearrangement.

Edit: I experimented a little bit, and it seems to be somehow connected to the sticky bars feature, though I found no distinctive pattern to nail down a bug. But turning off the sticky bars right before saving the profile seem to do the trick.

Last edited by Dreamerion : 01-01-07 at 06:56 PM.

01-01-07, 10:30 AM
noEMO` A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 2 Uploads: 0	My bars keep moving from the position I had them set at everytime I reload the screen, like if I go into an instance or if I log out and log in, or if I exit game and come back in, anytime the screen changes, my bars change their positions a little bit, see, here's my set up regularly: http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/3...7110305mo7.jpg Then, after I might exit out and come back in, it's like this: http://img389.imageshack.us/img389/8...7111930db8.jpg Anyone know how to fix this?

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