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BongosAdvanced
Advanced Bongos configuration (WIP)
Deprecated So, you've figured out what right click menus are, you can move and scale things like a champ, and you know how to get to the options window. Here's some more info to help you get the most out of Bongos: Making The Most Out Of Your Bindings (Paging)Paging is a feature that allows any one of your action bars to duplicate the buttons of another one of your action bars when in a given state (bear form, battle stance, stealth, etc), but keep the same hot keys. You can see this in the normal interface whenever you switch stances or manually page (more on that later). On a druid, for example, pressing 1 could cast Starfire when in caster form, but use Maul when in bear. Its a really useful way to reduce the number of bindings you need to remember. You can configure what bar to switch in when in a given state through that bar's right click menu (for information about how to get here, check out Bongos2 For Dummies). In the menu that will pop up, there will be options for stances, paging, and modifier. The stances tab contains sliders for class specific states: Druid forms, Warrior Stances, Rogue Stealth, Shadow Form on Priests, etc. Simply adjust the slider for a form The paging tab is for manual paging, a feature available in the standard interface, but not known about by most players. Manual paging allows you to assign bars to switch to when you press a certain hot key (shift+1 for page 1, shift+2 for page2, shift+3 for page3, etc up to 6, as well as shift + mouse wheel up or down). You can switch back to the standard bar by pressing shift + 1. Bindings for each page are configurable in the Blizzard bindings menu, under Action Page or Quick Page. The modifier tab is for paging whenever you hold down a modifier key (shift, alt, or ctrl on Windows). So, you can setup a bar1 to switch to bar 2 whenever you hold down alt. A Note About Paging: When you first install Bongos, your bindings will still reference the Blizzard action buttons. While it may seem as if your bindings are working properly when in your normal state (caster form, battle stance, etc), once you switch states your bindings will not update. To resolve this, bind your keys using KeyBound (for information about how to get here, check out Bongos2 For Dummies). Configuring things Faster (Slash Commands)The slash command handler in Bongos is there to do two things: Configure things fast, and Configure things precisely. Need the bags to be faded to exactly 30.5%? /bob setalpha bags 0.305 Need to hide bars 7 to 120? /bob hide 7-120 Also need to hide the bags? /bob hide 7-120 bags will do it. All bar specific slash commands take a barList. A bar list is an individual bar id (ex, bags), all for all bars, a range (1-120 for bars 1-120), or any combination of those separated by a space (ex, menu bags 1-10 for the menu and bag bars, as well as actionbars 1-10). If you understand that syntax, you can configure things very quickly. Now, for the commands:
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exactly where is it explained how to use paging?
its not, its a work in progress still :)
i can get everythign to work correctly on my lock and mage. but i cant get it to work properly with stealth for my rogue. what im trying to make happen is once i hit the stealth function the thumb button on my mouse, the bar #1 which is my main bar on the bottom of my screen would change with the stealth functions i need. what happens now it nothing. its doesn't "page" or "switch" at all. really frustrating.
Love this mod! Keep up the great work.
Leo, you need to set your paging in the bar configs. Set up your non-stealth bar (let's call it #1) as you want it (presumably in with non-stealth combat skills). Now, set up another bar (let's call it #6) with your stealth skills in button cells corresponding to those you populated the first bar. Now, go back to bar #1 and open the configuration. Go to the stances tab. Set it to Page to 6 when you are in stealth. When you're visible and go stealth, the #1 should change to #6. When you unstealth, it will switch from #6 to #1.
My question is this: How do I call for a paging via a macro?
Specifically, as a hunter, I would like to have a macro change my aspect and page to a specific bar. So, if I were to have a ranged aspect macro, like:
/cast Aspect of the Hawk /bongos Bar 1 Page 4
And, a melee aspect macro, like:
/cast Aspect of the Monkey /bongos Bar 1 Page to 3
And, a non-combat aspect macro, like:
/cast Aspect of the Cheetah /bongos Bar 1 Page to 1
This feature (if available) would provide paging options for all classes, not just those available to those with specific stances. I just haven't figured out if it's available or not. Thanks!
k nite ill try that. but i also dont want to see bar # 6 when its not being used.
K so i tried doing what you suggested nite. But i would always have the #6 bar showing, even when i was not stealthed. But to remedy this i had to (in the action bar tab in the bongos menu) select the number of bars i wanted to use, BUT "deselect" it iy in visibilty under the bongos options. so basically it was being used to switch too in stealth mode but wouldn't be visible otherwise. im glad i got it working.. so frustrating lol
sigh. this didnt work.ugh
The commands: /changeactionbar <page> and /swapactionbar <fromPage> <toPage>
leosalcedojr: By default the first actionbar is set to switch when you go into stealth. If it is not, then its an addon conflict.
I'll give that a go, thanks!
Sorry I couldn't be more help, leosalcedojr. :/
j85ason: "The commands: /changeactionbar <page> and /swapactionbar <fromPage> <toPage>"
Is there ANY way with bongos to get a different number of (possible) buttons on different bars? What i'm tryin to accomplish is having the default 10 bar - 12 button set up, and Also having a few bars with only 3 buttons and a few with 7 or so. The whole problem i'm having is not wasting all those other buttons by removing them from the bar.
Pretty much all i'm asking is if there is any way get get, lets say 14 total bars, with a range of 3 - 12 buttons, without wasting any button slots.
Thanks
Extra note: another way I could get things working would be to be able to remove 'x' ammount of buttons from one bar, and add them to a different bar.
take 3 buttons from bar A (to make 9), and add the 3 to bar B (to make 15)
I'm thinking that's how its going to work in the next major revision.
This is getting frustrating. How do I set hotkeys up for different forms? For example in cat form I want to set a hotkey up for button 1, but button 1 is already set up for a action in caster form. These stances and paging is VERY confusing. How do I set up individual hotkeys not the entire action bar? When I go to stances, it says cat form, then there is a slider that when I slide it it changes the action bar to a different number? , and all the spells I had on that is gone!? I'm about to go back to blizzard's UI, and least it makes sense.
I'm going to play with this some more, but a restoration shaman doesn't have any paging to do, yet the UI seems to think so. It's very frustrating to figure out!
I have a question, on my priest when I use Shadowform this doesn't switch my actionbar. How come? How do I fix this?
Patrick - if you use a macro to activate shadowform, you can also use the /changeactionbar <page> and /swapactionbar <fromPage> <toPage> macro commands to swap.
I don't have a priest with shadowform, so this may not be exact, but it would look something like this (assumptions: shadowform is a toggled ability and bar 1 is your normal bar, bar 6 is your shadowform bar) /cast Shadowform /swapactionbar 1 6
Just noticed the macro came out all on one line - each slash command there should be on a separate line.
There should also be a slider for shadowform in the given bar's right click menu.
How do I set my bar 1 to change to pet bar when I take control of a pet, i.e. Shartuul's transporter event @ Blade's Edge or Chess Event, or controlling a ghost @ Teron Gorefiend. I have a pet bar but I'd prefer these things to inherit my bar 1 bindings without macro'ing everything.
Basically, as done in the default interface?
My menu bar simply desappeared and I can't get it back... also, the map button won't appear and the /bongos command won't show the options...
Hello Tuller, Is there a way i can get the same configuration on two computers? (Moving it from one to the other)
Thanks, Pasco 70 Shaman Norgannon
Hi Tuller, I was looking for the same answer as gregzph -- how to move config between two computers. Thanks!