The eagerly awaited 1.8 Content Patch is now live! Of immediate interest to the UI Modding community are the following changes:
User Interface
- To speed up game loading and reduce memory usage, several portions of the UI have been converted to add-ons. These are completely transparent to the player, but custom add-ons may need to be updated.
- You can now search for random suffixes such as "of the Monkey" in the Auction House.
- Items that are in your action bar and are equipped will now display a green border around them so it's easy to tell which of your action bar items are equipped and therefore usable.
- The Reputation tab will now display on mouseover exactly how many reputation points you need to attain the next reputation level with that faction.
- When you gain reputation, the combat log message will now display the numeric value of how much reputation you gained as well as the previous relative message.
- There is now an option in the interface window to put a translucent pane behind the portraits and health/mana of other party members for easier visibility.
- When you place an auction up on the Auction House, the auctions tab now displays your minimum bid and buyout price even if there are no bids on the item.
- Players should no longer miss loot rolling messages when they're outside of the immediate area.
You can read the full patch notes here
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