Blacksteel UI

Hey, thanks for the feedback! I haven't entirely finished with the sidebars just yet, and mouseover visibility is definitely something I could make happen there. Personally I don't even use them, I just have alt-mousewheel to scroll through the action bar pages on the main bar here, heheh!

But arranging the UI in separate modules, I don't think I'd do that. I could make some elements toggleable, such as disabling the minimap, but the UI is pretty deliberately designed to be rather tied together. The unit frames and the main action bar go very hand in hand, for instance, with the class resources anchored to the action bar. Plus it's a lot easier to maintain like this, and I'm not really sure if I want to see individual parts of the UI showing up in other packs and compilations.

I did that on purpose, actually. Long story short, ToggleGameMenu() calls on secure functions, so if I wanted to make that micro menu button open up the actual game menu I'd have to write my own ToggleGameMenu() function that excludes these protected calls. Planning to update the micro menu with more things in the future, at which point I'll probably do this particular bit as well.

Yeah, toggling the frame itself can be done without a taint, as can all the other frames be closed without a taint. The only reason why that function taints is because it stops all casting and targeting as well. I know that now and I know how I'm planning to do it, I just didn't know when I was working on the micro menu and in the aftermath of it I pretty much left it as it was.

Well that's what I did at first! But one problem I had was the fact that the main menu micro button is hardcoded to change textures based on latency and download rate, so if I were to do that I'd have to work around that somehow. And also work around the fact that the vehicle bar, which this UI still uses, uses the same buttons. And it doesn't look too good with these custom buttons, heheh.

There's definitely ways to make that work, but personally I'm not entirely sure what would be the more efficient way to do it! Set the original buttons to 0 Alpha and make the custom buttons click-through? Use the original buttons and HookScript a few events to swap textures back and forth?

No, I'm actually planning to keep the vehicle UI, I like the look of them! But weighing the different possibilities, it'd probably be just as well to have my own micro menu buttons and then use Blizzard's global strings for various localized text. It'd likely be tidier than having to worry about positioning and visibility for the original buttons.

Hey! I'm guessing you mean having the raid frames below the character, where the action bar is, or do you actually mean above? The most I've ever played a healer myself is in dungeons while levelling, but I definitely know the feeling of wanting to have them rather center-screen! The UI was built to put a lot of things in the centre, because I myself wanted to have everything clearly focused there and not have to look off to the sides or down bottom to keep on top of the action. Something that'd let me keep my eyes on the game itself and still be able to see both health bars and ability procs without trouble.

But I still want it to be a UI that suits numerous playstyles. At some future point I'm going to bring the configuration in-game, probably with a 1.0 release around Legion's pre-patch, and with it I want to add different layout profiles that can be switched between on the go. And while raid frames are one thing I probably won't add to the UI itself (everyone's using a dedicated raid frame replacement anyway), I'd like to do various ease of life improvement for different roles. Like alternate healer-centric party frames, if there turns out to be an interest for it.

Sure, seeing how people tweak and restyle things is a great way to get data on new things I could do with the addon itself!

Ohh, wow. That is actually quite a bit of space taken up by the raid frames! Haha. Though I gotta say that I actually kind of like seeing the micro menu like that. Yeah, now I'm thinking it could actually work to restyle it similarly to the main action bar, anchor it to the top like that. Making the bags a single button though, eugh, I'd have to still implement some kind of way to get to the bag buttons and handle them. Maybe I could make a bag button that can be right-clicked to pop-up the actual bag slots.

But, top or bottom micro menu, the more customization like that I do the more spaghetti the code's just going to get knowing my own habits, heh. Maybe in the long rung it'd be worth trying out. Still, now that I see it in action, I actually like the idea of putting the action bar up top. It'd save some space down below.

Also, the target castbar's interrupt shield is utterly bugged out. Been making a few tweaks and bugfixes, most likely going to push an update out today or tomorrow.