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ReAction

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AddOn for World of Warcraft

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Current Version: 0.31 (alpha)
flickerstreak@8: Released: 02 Feb 2007
flickerstreak@7: WoW Version Compatibility/TOC: 2.0.6 / TOC 20003

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The Basics

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ReAction is a replacement for the default Blizzard action bars. It allows you flickerstreak@7: redefine your action button layout any way you like.

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Features

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Move, resize, create, and arrange as many action bars as you want. Each flickerstreak@7: bar can contain any number of buttons arranged in a grid layout of any size flickerstreak@7: and spacing. The full complement of 120 action slots is supported.
Works with all types of actions, including abilities, items, and macros
Layout is done with the mouse, by dragging bars and bar edges on screen. flickerstreak@7: Automatically anchor bars to each other or the screen edges by holding shift flickerstreak@7: down as you drag.
Context menus provide independent configuration options for each bar.
Point and click keybinding interface.
Supports multiple 'pages' per bar, configured independently. Automatic stance, flickerstreak@7: form, and stealth switching among pages is supported, including Shadowform.
Pet action bar is fully supported and configurable.
Settings can be saved per account, realm, character, class, or independent flickerstreak@7: profile.
Compatible with OmniCC
Various configurable display options

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ReAction is built using the Ace2 flickerstreak@7: development framework.

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Using ReAction

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Installation

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To install ReAction, drag the ReAction folder to World of Warcraft/Interface/AddOns. flickerstreak@7: Exit World of Warcraft if it's running, then restart.

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Welcome to ReAction

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When you first enter World of Warcraft with ReAction installed, it will look flickerstreak@7: very similar to the default Blizzard UI, depending on what other AddOns are flickerstreak@7: installed. Any keybindings you have made to the action bars, however, are not flickerstreak@8: in effect. Also, only the main menu bar is shown by default. Other bars can flickerstreak@8: be created as desired.

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If you have FuBar installed, on the left side you should see the ReAction plugin flickerstreak@7: icon and label. If not, there should be a button on your minimap. In either flickerstreak@7: case, that button (the ReAction Control Button) is the gateway to configuring flickerstreak@7: ReAction.

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ReAction has three modes of operation:

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Normal ("locked")
Configuration ("unlocked")
Keybinding

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You can toggle Configuration mode by shift-clicking the ReAction Control Button flickerstreak@7: and toggle Keybinding mode by alt-clicking the button. Global configuration flickerstreak@7: options are also available by right-clicking the ReAction button. There are flickerstreak@7: also a limited set of console commands that can be accessed with the "/reaction" flickerstreak@7: or "/rxn" slash-commands. Type /rxn in the chat box to print a list flickerstreak@7: of commands.

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You can also set key bindings to toggle Configuration and Keybinding modes, flickerstreak@7: in the standard UI keybindings panel.

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Configuring ReAction

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Start by shift-clicking the ReAction button to enter Configuration mode. All flickerstreak@7: bars, including hidden bars, are shown in this mode and normal button click flickerstreak@7: operation is disabled (though keybindings still work). Mouse over the bars, flickerstreak@7: edges, and corners to see tooltip instructions for moving, resizing, and rearranging flickerstreak@7: them. Right click each bar for a menu of options pertaining to that bar. For flickerstreak@7: example, to change a hidden bar to a visible bar, right-click on a bar and choose flickerstreak@7: Visibility -> Always Visible. Tooltips for each menu option provide details.

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When you're done configuring ReAction, shift-click the ReAction button again flickerstreak@7: to go back to Normal mode.

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Configuration mode is not available if you are in combat, and is automatically flickerstreak@7: cancelled if you enter combat.

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Setting Keybindings

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ReAction buttons don't use the regular keybindings of the default UI. flickerstreak@7: In order to get your buttons to use hotkeys, enter ReAction Keybinding Setup flickerstreak@7: mode by alt-clicking the ReAction Control Button (or choosing 'keybinding mode' flickerstreak@7: from the right-click menu). ReAction button keybindings are not available flickerstreak@7: from the standard keybindings menu! You must use the ReAction keybinding flickerstreak@7: interface.

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Like configuration mode, normal button operation is disabled while in keybinding flickerstreak@7: mode (though again, any hotkeys you have assigned will work).

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With the keybinding interface out, you can mouseover any ReAction button to flickerstreak@7: see what its current keybinding is. You can set the keybinding on a button by flickerstreak@7: pressing the key, then clicking the button. To clear a keybinding from a ReAction flickerstreak@7: button, right-click the button. If you've set up bars with multiple pages, you flickerstreak@7: can also bind a key to the page up/down buttons on a per-bar basis. Just make flickerstreak@7: sure the buttons are showing (they can be hidden later) and assign the keybinding flickerstreak@7: like any other ReAction button.

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Keybindings are saved on a per-character basis. Keybinding mode is not available flickerstreak@7: if you are in combat, and is automatically cancelled if you enter combat.

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Playing with ReAction

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Once you get your keybindings and configuration set up, you're ready to go. flickerstreak@7: The buttons behave just like regular Blizzard buttons. However, at any time flickerstreak@7: when you're not in combat, you can quickly switch to configuration mode and flickerstreak@7: create a new bar, rearrange bars, hide/show a special-use bar, etc. Perfect flickerstreak@7: for when you get some goofy quest item that has to be used temporarily, or get flickerstreak@7: a new skill that doesn't fit on your current layout.

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Limitations

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Due to a lack of certain functionality being made available by Blizzard, flickerstreak@7: dragging and dropping actions onto action bars while in combat is a little flickerstreak@7: funky. You have to click the destination button rather than just release drag flickerstreak@7: on it.
You can't configure the pet bar unless you actually have a pet out at the flickerstreak@7: moment.
No support for shapeshift/stance bar (yet)
If you have a bar with empty buttons, even though they're invisible they flickerstreak@7: still block mouse input from reaching whatever might be under the button. flickerstreak@7: This is a workaround so that you can drag and drop actions onto hidden slots flickerstreak@8: during combat. This workaround can be disabled via a configuration option, flickerstreak@8: but then you can't drag and drop actions onto slots during combat. Pick your flickerstreak@8: poison, it's a limitation of Blizzard's protection scheme.
If you hide the default main menu bar, there is no substitute for the XP flickerstreak@7: bar, bag bar, or micro menu bar (although the hotkeys for them still work)

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Known Issues

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There may or may not be a particular case in which turning off a pet's attack flickerstreak@7: while using Eyes of the Beast doesn't work. Further investigation (and leveling flickerstreak@7: a hunter to get Eyes of the Beast :-P) is required.
The initial mapping of action IDs for shapeshift forms doesn't exactly match flickerstreak@7: Blizzard's mapping. When first starting up as a warrior, druid, or rogue, flickerstreak@7: you will probably need to move your actions around.
Action IDs may not always be laid out in sequence, meaning that similar flickerstreak@7: layouts on different machines may put the actions in a different order.
Keybindings are only saved per character, which causes problems when switching flickerstreak@7: profiles.
There seems to be a big performance hit when first dragging a bar after flickerstreak@7: entering configuration mode, and when first enabling keybinding mode.

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Future Plans

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Use override bindings for the keybindings, and automatically switch with flickerstreak@7: profiles. Also "steal" bindings from the default UI on first run flickerstreak@7: so that they're populated with something reasonable.
Add support for bag bar, shapeshift bar, and micro menu bar. May also add flickerstreak@7: XP bar to default unit frames for those who don't want to use a unit frame flickerstreak@7: addon to get the XP bar back.
More dynamic bar support: auto show/hide/fade on stance switch, in combat, flickerstreak@7: key pressed, etc.
"pop-up" bar support, in which a single button shows/hides a bar flickerstreak@7: when moused over
Better and more flexible interface for defining page transitions on stance/form flickerstreak@7: shift
Provide a method for normalizing the action ID layout, permitting better flickerstreak@7: compatibility when used on different computers.
Provide some additional console commands so that enterprising users can flickerstreak@7: macro certain configuration functionality (notably hiding and showing individual flickerstreak@7: bars)
Yet more configurable button display options (disable cooldown flash, different flickerstreak@7: borders, etc)
Localization

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Version History

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Version 0.31:

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Fixed a bug where action IDs > 120 were being configured and allocated flickerstreak@8: in certain cases
Fixed a bug where hidden paging controls were reappearing when switching flickerstreak@8: pages
Fixed a script error that was popping up in certain conditions when starting flickerstreak@8: keybinding mode, and causing some buttons not to be bindable
Applied a fix that will (hopefully?) eliminate errors saying ACTIONBAR_UPDATE_STATE flickerstreak@8: was not registered (be on the lookout for recurrences of that one). Hopefully flickerstreak@8: this fix will eliminate several other intermittent errors that I think are flickerstreak@8: part of the same cause.
Added new options for controlling the opacity of buttons (which should now flickerstreak@8: actually work). Previous opacity settings (if any) will be lost and will need flickerstreak@8: to be re-applied after updating. There is also now a toggle to hide (rather flickerstreak@8: than alpha-zero) empty buttons, at the expense of not being able to drag actions flickerstreak@8: onto them during combat.
Action IDs now appear/disappear automatically when bars are unlocked. There flickerstreak@8: is no longer a menu item to show/hide them.
Changed the default startup bar configuration to only be the paged main flickerstreak@8: bar. This allows a default startup to create new bars without having to delete flickerstreak@8: some first. Will probably simplify even further in a future patch. Note this flickerstreak@8: doesn't fix the action-rearrangement setup headaches with warriors, druids, flickerstreak@8: and rogues.

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Version 0.3

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Complete rewrite of the innards for better modularity
Lots of bug fixes
Multi-paged bar support
Pet bar support
Auto stance/form/stealth switching
Lots and lots of new configuration options

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Version 0.2

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Bug fixes from 0.1
new keybinding interface

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Version 0.1

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Initial concept, button arrangement

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Credits

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Huge credit to the Ace 2 development team, flickerstreak@7: whose framework provides a level of functionality that I consider critical to flickerstreak@7: the success of this addon.

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Similarly, enormous credit goes to ckknight, flickerstreak@7: whose Dewdrop menuing system and FuBar plugin system are ridiculously easy to flickerstreak@7: use.

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Finally, thanks to my alpha testers and stalwart adventuring companions: Deor, flickerstreak@7: Nogrim, Sorabel, and Yngvi.

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Copyright

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You are free to distribute this AddOn package without notice to the author, flickerstreak@7: as long as the package is unmodified, this readme.html file accompanies the flickerstreak@7: distribution, and no claim of authorship of the contents of the package is made. flickerstreak@7: Derived works are expressly permitted but must be clearly labeled as not the flickerstreak@7: work of the original author and packaged separately, with credit given to the flickerstreak@7: original author. Inclusion of this package within a compilation is expressly flickerstreak@7: permitted.

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The author expressly disclaims any warranty of any kind for the material contained flickerstreak@7: in this package. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.

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All files in this package under the 'libs/' directory are libraries made available flickerstreak@7: by WoWAce, and are not the work of this flickerstreak@7: author.

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World of Warcraft is a registered trademark of Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.

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