Description
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myMainBar is a World of Warcraft AddOn. It makes the Main Bar at the bottom of the
screen smaller. This small version hides the Main Menu button, the help button and
the latency meter and replaces the bags buttons by an "All Bags" button.
Install
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Extract the files into your ..\World of Warcraft\Interface\AddOns directory.
Features
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* Smaller Main Bar
* Main Menu button, help button, latency meter and keyring button hidden
* "All bags" button replacing the bags buttons
* Key binding to switch between small and standard Main Bar
* Localization (english, french, german)
* Low memory usage (~0.02MB)
* myAddOns support
Usage
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The small Main Bar is the default one. You can switch between the small and the
standard versions with the "Small/Standard Main Bar" key binding.
Known Issues
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* None
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.
See also: About "Out Of Date AddOns"
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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cokeandrum saidHey, instead of making the mainbar smaller, can you make the right side of the main bar usable for action buttons?
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Scheid saidThis is a rapid easy implementation of a smaller bar. It's not configurable but it's better than the default one ^o^ There are a lot of other bar AddOns that you can play with to have more buttons, more bars, etc... (as Samasnier mentioned). myMainBar won't have these features.
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Samasnier saidThere's an addon to do that, IPopBar. You can find it on wowui or wowace.
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Mariachei saidWhat happens to the buttons on top of the bar when you change it? Do they just become smeller?
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Scheid saidSwitching between bar sizes only hides some buttons. The buttons are the same size ^o^
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Scheid saidmyMainBar is working fine with the patch 2.3 so I just updated the toc number.
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Scheid said@arsiz: I don't really understand what you mean. The additionnal action bars cannot be shorten since they only have action buttons. So I guess you would like to see it relocated? Anyway the answer is:I modified the main bar only sorry ^o^
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arsiz saidNice work m8 but why isint "show bottom Right Actionbar" in same size?
as the bar? sry my english =)
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Scheid saidmyMainBar v1.9 is working fine with the latest patch 2.2 so I just updated the toc number.
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zedusk saidIt would be awesome if developers would take a picture of how it actually looks as a whole and stop with the obscure images that really tell me nothing, forcing me to install the addon, turn my others off, load up the game, discover it's crap and undo everything. I'm not implying that this is crap. I don't know. I'm not going to take to time to see.
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Jegge saidi see how it looks, if you dont you should go and get glasses.
kthxbye
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dubiduh saidunless this is the one, which one is almost the same except it shows all the bags and latency bar and everything else it used to but still with the gryphons showing?
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Shadoweos said@juan305 Tell WOW to load out of date addons
@Scheid Excellent addon but I have 2 issues you might want to try and fix. 1. my blizzard stock left and right bars anchor on the leaft of your new bar pushing some buttons off the schreen to the right. 2. this is also a problem for the petbar. can you make it so these bars a centered in the screen? Thanks
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Scheid saidmyMainBar v1.9 is working fine with the latest patch 2.1 so I just updated the toc number.
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juan305 saidhow do i get it to work because it aint working,well none of my add-ons are working so can someone who is reading this please help me install add-ons
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Scheid said@CYPSYAN & ToranBrades: customization would be very nice but this is a whole lot of work. So I cannot provide this for now sorry :/
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Scheid saidmyMainBar v1.9 is working fine with the latest patches and TBC so I just updated the toc number.
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ToranBrades saidI support that request for customization - allowing me, for example, to disable the xp bar also would be very appreciated by me!
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CYPSYAN saidany change of getting a customisable version???coz id like to get bakc the key ring and erase main button like talent charac social quest and stuff like that so i can put item rack there
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Scheid saidI finally created a version without the gryphons for all of you gryphon haters! You don't need any other AddOn to remove the Gryphons. myMainBar will remove them on the small bar and on the standard bar. Enjoy!