Depotstu --
I saw your post last night, actually, and I've been thinking on it but I haven't really come up with any solutions. The action bars in nUI, at present, are designed to model the Bliz action bars for functionality and I can't think of an easy solution to your problem with that in mind.
The only thoughts I really have are to tie the extra button to your shift key and then use your mousewheel to page (shift-mousewheel will page the main action bar) which would give you much faster access to the two primary action bar pages. In Beta2 it will give you access to all six pages. But even that is a sloppy solution.
You can, if you like, hack the v1.08 to get it to give you all six action bar pages, as well. Exit WoW and edit
Interface -- AddOns -- nUI -- nUI.lua with notepad or any plain text editor and look for the line
SetActionBarToggles( 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 );
It should be around line 1505 or so. Comment that line out as follows
--SetActionBarToggles( 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 );
After you have done that, save the file and log back into WoW. Go to the WoW interface options menu, select "Action Bars" and turn off the bottom left, bottom right, right 1 and right2 action bars then exit the options menu. The main action bar will now page all 6 pages.
At some point it is my intention to greatly enhance the functionality of the action bar including making it adaptive based on whether you have a friendly target, a hostile target or no target and supporting things like key-bound bar paging, etc. However, that is not in the near future.
My own personal solution to this is that I have changed all of the default Bliz keybindings to use my number pad on my keyboard. I use the keyboard only for typing, the mouse only for movement and targeting and the number pad for all of my action buttons. I have access to 34 different action bar buttons with one hand that way.
I'm afraid that's the best I've got for now.
Originally Posted by depotstu
OK...I am a freak. I have somewhere near to 300 addons. Yes, I can still see my screen. Every once in a while I nuke my UI and start over. I always start with a comp and screw it up from there. Seeing your screen shots and the overall beauty and integration of everything, I am very impressed and I plan to delete my interface folder and start over with your UI if I can get past my one issue. I don't use my keyboard to play...I only use it for typing. I have a separate controller for playing, as such I don't have a string of 10-12 buttons I use for my main action bar...I have 4, but I use two pages. Several action bars on each character have two pages (unless I am on a character that needs more like a druid or warrior.) is there a way to make your action bars only have two pages? I have one button I can dedicate to page swapping, and blizzard won't let me just have two pages. I bind page uo to a button and I have to go through 5 pages to get back to page 1. So far Bongos and maybe Trinity are the only ones that let me do that...one way or another.
Got any suggestions?
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