Change Log:
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5.2.12 - 5th April 2013
Added an option to the system menu to prevent option panel taint.
This option and my concerns around Blizzard's addon panel can easily be misunderstood so I will explain.
If you install any addon which uses Blizzard's options panel, your UI can very easily become tainted. The most obvious symptom of UI taint is that you are unable to use the glyph panel until you reload your UI.
Installing addons which use Blizzard's addon panel is not the only way to taint your UI, but it's one of the most obvious ways and one which Blizzard could very, very easily have avoided if they had isolated the addon panel from the options panel.
This new option in Leatrix Plus does exactly that. It removes the addon panel completely from the Blizzard options panel meaning that your UI will no longer be tainted from installing addons which use the panel. I have seen good results with the (limited number of) addons that I have tested this with.
The obvious negative side to the new option is that you can no longer configure addons which use the panel while the option is enabled, you have to temporarily disable the option to do that.
I would like to stress that the tainting is not caused by Leatrix Plus. Blizzard's addon panel is where the fault lies and a small amount of recoding to isolate the panel would solve the problem for everyone. Blizzard may never allocate developer time to do that so this is a simple workaround.
Addons which use their own options panel do not suffer from the tainting issues caused by Blizzard's addon panel because they run in their own isolated environment. This is the primary reason why Leatrix Plus uses it's own panel for configuration. So if you only use addons which use their own panels and don't use Blizzard's addon panel, you have no need to worry about this problem at all.
I personally use Bartender, CTBuffMod and Leatrix Plus. None of these addons use Blizza...
Description:
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An addon for World of Warcraft by Leatrix
8708654What does it do?
Leatrix Plus contains over 100 things which make Wow better. It's modular, fast and efficient.
Here's some of the things that it does.
World Map - Reveal unexplored areas, rescale the map, show coordinates, change position and opacity, click quest objectives to see quest details.
Minimap - Rescale the minimap, show or hide various features, use the mousewheel to zoom.
Tooltip - Add color coding to tooltip elements (such as class color and level color), show target of target, anchor tooltip to the cursor (with offsets), rescale the tooltip, hide the tooltip during combat.
Viewport - Create a viewport consisting of either simple borders or a resized game world.
Frames - Move and rescale a selection of frames, hide certain Blizzard frames (such as the stance bar).
Automation - Lots of automation for party management, blocking, death, summon, repair (with guild funds option), sell grey items, accept and turn-in quests.
Accessibility - Change quest detail text size, mail text size and rescale many frames to make them easier to see.
Convenience - Add controls to the character sheet (such as durability report, volume control and show helm/cloak).
UI Enhancements - Add useful controls to the auction house, prevent bags from opening/closing automatically, save the achievement privacy setting account-wide.
Game Enhancements - Remove raid restrictions, save dungeon roles with your talent spec, show coordinates in...
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5.2.12 - 5th April 2013
Added an option to the system menu to prevent option panel taint.
This option and my concerns around Blizzard's addon panel can easily be misunderstood so I will explain.
If you install any addon which uses Blizzard's options panel, your UI can very easily become tainted. The most obvious symptom of UI taint is that you are unable to use the glyph panel until you reload your UI.
Installing addons which use Blizzard's addon panel is not the only way to taint your UI, but it's one of the most obvious ways and one which Blizzard could very, very easily have avoided if they had isolated the addon panel from the options panel.
This new option in Leatrix Plus does exactly that. It removes the addon panel completely from the Blizzard options panel meaning that your UI will no longer be tainted from installing addons which use the panel. I have seen good results with the (limited number of) addons that I have tested this with.
The obvious negative side to the new option is that you can no longer configure addons which use the panel while the option is enabled, you have to temporarily disable the option to do that.
I would like to stress that the tainting is not caused by Leatrix Plus. Blizzard's addon panel is where the fault lies and a small amount of recoding to isolate the panel would solve the problem for everyone. Blizzard may never allocate developer time to do that so this is a simple workaround.
Addons which use their own options panel do not suffer from the tainting issues caused by Blizzard's addon panel because they run in their own isolated environment. This is the primary reason why Leatrix Plus uses it's own panel for configuration. So if you only use addons which use their own panels and don't use Blizzard's addon panel, you have no need to worry about this problem at all.
I personally use Bartender, CTBuffMod and Leatrix Plus. None of these addons use Blizza...
Description:
--------------------
An addon for World of Warcraft by Leatrix
8708654What does it do?
Leatrix Plus contains over 100 things which make Wow better. It's modular, fast and efficient.
Here's some of the things that it does.
World Map - Reveal unexplored areas, rescale the map, show coordinates, change position and opacity, click quest objectives to see quest details.
Minimap - Rescale the minimap, show or hide various features, use the mousewheel to zoom.
Tooltip - Add color coding to tooltip elements (such as class color and level color), show target of target, anchor tooltip to the cursor (with offsets), rescale the tooltip, hide the tooltip during combat.
Viewport - Create a viewport consisting of either simple borders or a resized game world.
Frames - Move and rescale a selection of frames, hide certain Blizzard frames (such as the stance bar).
Automation - Lots of automation for party management, blocking, death, summon, repair (with guild funds option), sell grey items, accept and turn-in quests.
Accessibility - Change quest detail text size, mail text size and rescale many frames to make them easier to see.
Convenience - Add controls to the character sheet (such as durability report, volume control and show helm/cloak).
UI Enhancements - Add useful controls to the auction house, prevent bags from opening/closing automatically, save the achievement privacy setting account-wide.
Game Enhancements - Remove raid restrictions, save dungeon roles with your talent spec, show coordinates in...