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Last Update:	July 20, 2008 (1 month ago)
Category:	Unit Frames
Tags:	castbar, ecastingbar, and ecb
Project Manager:	Neuro_Medivh
Current Version:	eCastingBar for WoW 2.0 eCastingBar 2.4.3 (for World of Warcraft 2.4.3)
Downloads Today:	436
Downloads Total:	408,761
Favorites:	1,718
Comments:	155

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Created On:	Dec. 10, 2006

Authors

Neuro_Medivh

(Project Manager)

About eCastingBar for WoW 2.0

A castingbar replacement mod Version 2.0+ reworked by: Neuro (neuro_tx@yahoo.com) Original Author: elvendawn (c0elvenn@yahoo.com) Reworked by Repent (repent@kc.rr.com) Additional Coding by: Bitz (Bitz@dreamwiz.com) Localization by: Bitz (Korean), Malkoms (Francais)

eCastingBar is a movable and configurable casting bar replacement. It includes a Mirror Bar that handles Breathing, Feign Death, and Exhaustion, as well as a new Target Bar, showing what your target is casting. eCastingBar was originally written by elvendawn, and then re-written by Repent. Since patch 2.0.1, eCastingBar has been maintained by Neuro, who has rewritten about 25% of the base code, with contributions by Bitz.

Much thanks go out to Bitz of Korea, who added a much-improved Options Window, Spell Ranks, and Localization for Korea. Thanks also go out to Malkoms for his French Localization, and especially to elvendawn and Repent for coding eCastingBar in the first place.

New in 2.00.06: A new Focus Bar, the ability to set the Alpha level of the bars, and French localization

New in 2.00.05: Use Flight Timer and Flight Timer color options (only works with FlightMap addon)

New in 2.00.04: Spell Rank support, revamped Options Window (both thanks to Bitz), and Spell Icons now available.

New in 2.00.03: Textures! No longer restricted to just Perl, eCastingBar now has 15 New Textures! Check the options page to see them in action! There is an example bar on the options page, it is set to mimic the color Casting Bar Spell, Target Bar Spell, and Mirror Bar Breath, respectively. Change those colors to see the example bar in a different color.

Most of these Textures were obtained from Thunder12 at WoWInterface. Special thanks to Banto for Banto texture, Moonmaster for his texture, and Tem for helping me find a few others. Some textures were obtained from Bigwigs and ag_UnitFrames, many thanks to these fine Addons. To add your own texture, read the file "AddingTextures.txt".

Please report any bugs or problems to Neuro_tx@yahoo.com.

Slash Commands: /castingbar or /ecb config help

The Mirror Bar is used for the Blizzard Timers (Feign Death, Breath, Exhaustion)

Changes: 2.02.00 - Updated TOC for WoW 2.2

2.01.00 - Updated TOC for WoW 2.1

2.00.06 - A Focus Bar has been added. - A new option, Background Alpha, added. Set to adjust the transparency of the individual bars. - Added smaller font sizes for bar text. - Fixed an issue with Target Bar not reporting the correct color. - Re-wrote the entire Event Handler to be more efficient and consistant with Blizzard castbar. This rewrite fixed several issues involving calculating delay and spelltimes. This also removed reporting the "delay" for Channeled spells, which wasn't very accurate. - Fixed an issue where disabling the main castbar disabled the target and mirror bars as well. - Fixed a minor graphical issue with the background being slightly larger than the Status Bar if you selected the Hide Border option.

2.00.05 - Fixed an issue with the Halcyon texture being misspelled. (Fixed last release, but upgrading to 2.00.04 if you were previously using Halcyon would bug the addon, fixed now) - Fixed an issue with Target Bar not showing Delay properly - Changed FlightMap support to use the Mirror Bar instead of Casting Bar. In addition, the countdown is done in minutes:seconds now. - Added option to turn off Flight Map support. If you are in-flight, it won't kick in till the next flight. - eCastingBar will now turn off Bongo's CastBar when enabled, and turn it back on when disabled (doing so mid-cast might give you very strange results). - The example bar in the Options Menu will now match whatever bar color you selected last. Only works with full bar colors (Spell Color, Channel Color, Breath Color, etc)

2.00.04 - Spell Icon Support added. Select Left, Right, or Hidden from the Options Page to select your preference. - Options Window revamped to be much easier to work with (Thanks to Bitz of Korea for this) - Bar can now show Spell Rank if desired (Again, credit to Bitz) - Spell Justify has been replaced with "Show Spell Name" (Bitz as well) - Texture setup has been changed slightly. Read "Adding Textures.txt" for details. - Re-added Flight Map support. I went ahead and fixed a Flight Map bug while I was at it.

2.00.03 - Fixed a bug with Target Bar sometimes popping up when it was disabled. - Fixed an issue with Fonts not scaling properly. (Thanks to SilverSurfR at WoWInterface for this fix) - Fixed a bug with Spell Justify not working properly. - Fixed an issue where the Target Bar was not properly displaying spellcast delays. - Added: Several New Textures, See details above.

2.00.02 - Fixed small bug with Localization load path

2.00.01 - Fixed a bug with Enabling/Disabling the Target Bar.

2.00.00 - Rewrote for 2.0 Compatibility - Added Target Bar - Removed the FlightMap stuff - Changed how variables were stored

1 Installation Guide
2 Translations
3 TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)
4 Mac Support
5 Directory Structure

Installation Guide

Exit "World of Warcraft" completely
Download the mod you want to install
- Make a folder on your desktop called "My Mods"
- Save the .zip/.rar files to this folder.
- If, when you try to download the file, it automatically "opens" it... you need to RIGHT click on the link and "save as..." or "Save Target As".
Extract the file - commonly known as 'unzipping'
Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!
- Windows
  - Windows XP a built in ZIP extractor. Double click on the file to open it, inside should be the file or folders needed. Copy these outside to the "My Mods" folder.
  - WinRAR: Right click the file, select "Extract Here"
  - WinZip: You MUST make sure the option to "Use Folder Names" is CHECKED or it will just extract the files and not make the proper folders how the Authors designed
- Mac Users
  - StuffitExpander: Double click the archive to extract it to a folder in the current directory.
Verify your WoW Installation Path
That is where you are running WoW from and THAT is where you need to install your mods.
Move to the Addon folder
- Open your World of Warcraft folder. (default is C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\)
- Go into the "Interface" folder.
- Go into the "AddOns" folder.
- In a new window, open the "My Mods" folder.
- The "My Mods" folder should have the "Addonname" folder in it.
- Move the "Addonname" folder into the "AddOns" folder
Start World of Warcraft
Make sure AddOns are installed
- Log in
- At the Character Select screen, look in lower left corner for the "addons" button.
- If button is there: make sure all the mods you installed are listed and make sure "load out of date addons" is checked.
- If the button is NOT there: means you did not install the addons properly. Look at the above screenshots. Try repeating the steps or getting someone who knows more about computers than you do to help.

Translations

When you download a mod, please be sure that the mod is compatible with your translation of wow. Some mods only work on the US versions, while some only work on some of the various European versions. These variations are called "Localizations".

TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)

When Blizzard patches WoW, they change the Interface number. This means that all mods will be "out of date" unless or until the author releases a new version for that interface. Some people go into the .toc files and update the numbers themselves, but this is STRONGLY advised against as it will cause problems locating possible incompatibilities addons. When you log into WoW after a patch, you DO NOT have to delete your interface directory. All you have to do is simply tell WoW to ignore the interface numbers and load all the mods anyway. All you have to do is, while at the "character select" screen, look in the lower left corner and click on the "addons" button. A window will pop up listing all your installed mods.

If you look in the upper left corner of that window there should be a box that says "Load Out of Date AddOns". You want to CHECK this box. Now simply go into WoW normally and all your mods should load. As of the 1.9 patch, you will have to do this after EVERY patch/update that Blizzard posts! If you encounter any problems with a mod after a patch, please be sure to let the author of the mod know so they can fix it.

Mac Support

WoW addons are not platformed based. As such, they can be used on either Mac or PC. You can extract both .zip and .rar files on a Mac using StuffitExpander.

Directory Structure

World of Warcraft
    |_ Interface
        |_AddOns
            |_*AddonName*
                |_ *AddonName*.toc
                |_ *AddonName*.xml
                |_ *AddonName*.lua
                |_ (possibly others as well)...

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nintendofan09 said
Aug. 6, 2008, 04:56AM (3 weeks, 3 days ago)
It seems to be really jittery when casting for some reason. It just started doing this today. I disabled all other mods as well.

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strai said
July 4, 2008, 10:31PM (1 month, 3 weeks ago)
Can I lock casting bars so cant be accidentally moved by mouse click, if I want enabled outline?

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Nihlo said
June 17, 2008, 12:22PM (2 months, 1 week ago)
Message: ..\AddOns\eCastingBar\eCastingBar.lua line 308:
attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'endTime' (a nil value)
Debug:
[C]: ?
eCastingBar\eCastingBar.lua:308: eCastingBar_OnEvent()
[string "*:OnEvent"]:1:
[string "*:OnEvent"]:1

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BaudSargeras said
May 12, 2008, 09:15PM (3 months, 2 weeks ago)
this mod really needs an update, it is one of a kind and wouldbe a shame if it stopped workingin a future patch

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BaudSargeras said
May 12, 2008, 09:13PM (3 months, 2 weeks ago)
this mod really needs an update. it is one of a kind, and it would be a ashame for it to stop working in some future patch.

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SkyRanger said
May 11, 2008, 05:55PM (3 months, 2 weeks ago)
it would be nice to get an update.

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pacientK said
May 6, 2008, 03:42AM (3 months, 3 weeks ago)
any chance of update? or any official site of this great addon?

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Baragu said
April 21, 2008, 01:23AM (4 months, 1 week ago)
I wrote this macro to block deaden in the RoS fight (Black Temple).

Click it once after each time you logon or after you reloadui to activate it.
```
/script ECBT_OE = eCastingBarTarget_OnEvent function eCastingBarTarget_OnEvent() if UnitCastingInfo(this.unit) ~= "Deaden" then ECBT_OE() end end
```
/script ECBT_OE = eCastingBarTarget_OnEvent function eCastingBarTarget_OnEvent() if UnitCastingInfo(this.unit) ~= "Deaden" then ECBT_OE() end end

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Aezay said
March 22, 2008, 01:40AM (5 months, 1 week ago)
I came across this same issue when I made my own casting bar addon AzCastBar.
The casting bar lag is caused by the status bar time being based on the uptime of Windows. When this value becomes high enough, it seems the progress bars starts to cut off decimals for some reason.
The workaround for this is to set the low value for the status bar to zero and the high value to the cast time, instead of setting it to the values that UnitCastingInfo() return.
The same flaw is seen on the default Blizzard UI casting bar.

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ddavenport said
Feb. 12, 2008, 06:58PM (6 months, 2 weeks ago)
I have been having the same issue as Kronos; It isn't necessarily breaking the mod, but it would still be nice if there were some sort of fix for this. Great mod still, so thanks!

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Kronos said
Feb. 4, 2008, 05:41AM (6 months, 4 weeks ago)
For some reason my casting bar animation is no longer smooth as it travels across. It is still accurate, but it's very jumpy as it moves across. My brother said the same thing has happened to him in the past but he does not know what causes it. Has anyone else experienced this? I've tried deleting and installing it again, but I cannot fix it.

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NeckLicKhia said
Jan. 27, 2008, 03:25PM (7 months ago)
i get these errors.

Date: 2008-01-27 00:16:23
ID: 50
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ..\AddOns\eCastingBar\eCastingBar.lua line 308:
attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'endTime' (a nil value)
Debug:
[C]: ?
eCastingBar\eCastingBar.lua:308: eCastingBar_OnEvent()
[string "*:OnEvent"]:1:
[string "*:OnEvent"]:1
AddOns:
Adapt, v1.6
ArenaCalculator, v1.6.3
Assessment, vr54978
Atlas, v1.10.3
AtlasBattlegrounds, v1.10.3
...

any news about an update yet?

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BBR said
Dec. 28, 2007, 02:49PM (8 months ago)
Latest version gives an error in framexml.log
As was stated earlier.

It doesn't so much cause issues in game, but the blizzard UI still seems to find it important enough to add to the error log.

Could you look into your framexml.log to see if you can reproduce it ?

[quote]
12/28 15:42:43.765 Loading add-on eCastingBar
12/28 15:42:43.765 ** Loading table of contents Interface\AddOns\eCastingBar\eCastingBar.toc
12/28 15:42:43.765 ++ Loading file Interface\AddOns\eCastingBar\eCastingBar.xml
12/28 15:42:43.765 Couldn't find relative frame: eCastingBarDragButton
12/28 15:42:43.765 Couldn't find relative frame: eCastingBarTargetBarDragButton
12/28 15:42:43.765 Couldn't find relative frame: eCastingBarFocusBarDragButton
12/28 15:42:43.765 ++ Loading file Interface\AddOns\eCastingBar\eCastingMirrorBar.xml
12/28 15:42:43.765 Couldn't find relative frame: $parentDragButton
12/28 15:42:43.765 Couldn't find relative frame: $parentDragButton
12/28 15:42:43.765 Couldn't find relative frame: $parentDragButton
12/28 15:42:43.765 ++ Loading file Interface\AddOns\eCastingBar\eOptions_Menu.xml
12/28 15:42:43.765 Couldn't find frame parent: eCastingBarMenuControlTemplate
12/28 15:42:43.765 ++ Loading file Interface\AddOns\eCastingBar\eOptions.xml
12/28 15:42:43.765 Error loading Interface\AddOns\eCastingBar\eCastingBar_Settings.lua
12/28 15:42:43.765 eCastingBarWidthEditBox: FontString element overriding font ChatFontNormal
12/28 15:42:43.765 eCastingBarHeightEditBox: FontString element overriding font ChatFontNormal
12/28 15:42:43.765 eCastingBarLeftEditBox: FontString element overriding font ChatFontNormal
12/28 15:42:43.765 eCastingBarBottomEditBox: FontString element overriding font ChatFontNormal
12/28 15:42:43.765 eCastingBarMirrorWidthEditBox: FontString element overriding font ChatFontNormal
12/28 15:42:43.765 eCastingBarMirrorHeightEditBox: FontString element overriding font ChatFontNormal
12/28 15:42:43.765 eCastingBarMirrorLeftEditBox: FontString element overriding font ChatFontNormal
12/28 15:42:43.765 eCastingBarMirrorBottomEditBox: FontString element overriding font ChatFontNormal
12/28 15:42:43.765 eCastingBarTargetBarWidthEditBox: FontString element overriding font ChatFontNormal
12/28 15:42:43.765 eCastingBarTargetBarHeightEditBox: FontString element overriding font ChatFontNormal
12/28 15:42:43.765 eCastingBarTargetBarLeftEditBox: FontString element overriding font ChatFontNormal
12/28 15:42:43.765 eCastingBarTargetBarBottomEditBox: FontString element overriding font ChatFontNormal
12/28 15:42:43.765 eCastingBarFocusBarWidthEditBox: FontString element overriding font ChatFontNormal
12/28 15:42:43.765 eCastingBarFocusBarHeightEditBox: FontString element overriding font ChatFontNormal
12/28 15:42:43.765 eCastingBarFocusBarLeftEditBox: FontString element overriding font ChatFontNormal
12/28 15:42:43.765 eCastingBarFocusBarBottomEditBox: FontString element overriding font ChatFontNormal
12/28 15:42:43.765 eCastingBarSaveNameEditBox: FontString element overriding font ChatFontNormal
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mitchrapp said
Dec. 9, 2007, 07:24AM (8 months, 3 weeks ago)
This mod is freakin' awesome.

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Sueisfine said
Nov. 21, 2007, 04:33PM (9 months, 1 week ago)
Thanks a lot for your excelent addon Neuro_Medivh !! Been using it for a long time now and it's awesome!

I'd like to ask if you are planning on supporting the pet bar aswell. I'm playing a Priest and when I mind control a humanoid the Blizzard cast bar is shown whenever I make that humanoid cast a spell, so it gets kinda ugly :) Would be awesome to have also that cast bar in eCastingBar style !

Thanks a lot again for your work !

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spr808 said
Nov. 20, 2007, 07:51PM (9 months, 1 week ago)
Love this mod!!

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

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catch22atplay said
Nov. 18, 2007, 06:58PM (9 months, 2 weeks ago)
Neuro i'm not sure if i even have issues. But checking my framexml log when using the mod i get all those errors. It seems to work fine though. Well except for a bit of lag. But that may be caused by other mods, i dunno. But there are problems that need to be resolved. Error log shouldn't look like that. Appreciate your updating this mod after others stopped working on it. But it still looks like there's a bit more work to do.

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Revje said
Nov. 17, 2007, 03:01PM (9 months, 2 weeks ago)
God, how rude people can be yelling: FIX THIS! Like the authors are your frikkin' pets. For those people: Be glad they let you use it. -.-

My way of saying thanks:
Thanks ;) Using it as I did before!

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Neuro_Medivh said
Nov. 17, 2007, 10:12AM (9 months, 2 weeks ago)
Dreadwar, it IS updated for 2.3.

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Dreadwar said
Nov. 16, 2007, 10:47AM (9 months, 2 weeks ago)
Hoping this gets updated for 2.3 Live!!!

Love this Mod!

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