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Release Postmortem

Posted Sep 19, 2008 by Tuller
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Bongos3 has been out for a week or so now, and so far has been relatively bug free.

Bongos3 is not perfect. Not every single setup that was possible in Bongos2 is possible with Bongos3, since I've added a restriction that prevents buttons from being repeated between bars. For me, this is not a game breaker, but I'm sure it is for others. Its honestly something I should have anticipated, and I'd love to hear about examples of where this is truly a gamebreaker for people.

Its not easy with Bongos3 to keep some sort of parity with the stock actionbar interface, and I really have no intention on making it easy I found, that even with Bongos2, it was difficult for me to revert back to the stock actionbar interface.

These issues always make me think that I should have implemented Bongos3 as an infinite actionbar addon. That would resolve the mirroring issue by allowing repeated buttons, and also the parity issue via allowing one to use Bongos3 only as a supplement. Bongos3 actually started out with the intent of being an infinite action bar addon, but I found a showstopper along the way that prevented me from implementing it as one.

Hrm, this probably makes me sound like I dislike 3. That's not the case :) I'm actually quite happy with it, but frustrated that I cannot satisfy everyone :P

Sage is likely next on my list of addons to update. Also, Iron Man is awesome.

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  • net said 
    Mon, May 5 2008 4:36 PM ()

    Iron man was indeed awesome ;)

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  • Zyuu said 
    Mon, May 5 2008 4:36 PM ()

    I want to see Iron Man. Going to check it out this weekend. Hope it's as good as everyone say!

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  • ifritto said 
    Mon, May 5 2008 4:36 PM ()

    I have a situation where having a button on more than one bar is essencial. I page between bars when I change stances on my warrior, and if I cannot repeat buttons between bars, then I will not have axcess to some key moves in certain stances

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  • Tuller said 
    Mon, May 5 2008 4:36 PM ()

    Do you have a screenshot? :)

    My initial reaction is that you could use a modifier bar, or you could have a second bar for those skills you need to see in all stances.

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  • Nimeo said 
    Mon, May 5 2008 4:36 PM ()

    i have a trouble... bongos 3 does not combain whith a Cycircled, whitch changes frames wiew... only pet bar changes...

    my addons
    http://deathwings.ucoz.ru/qwerty.JPG
    (i dont use perl, ag_UnitFrames)

    my Interface
    http://deathwings.ucoz.ru/WoWScrnShot_051208_170024.jpg

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  • Immaterial said 
    Mon, May 5 2008 4:36 PM ()

    Nice redesign- love the dragbox solution to sizing and placing actionbars. Worked straight out of the box for my Druid.

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  • Nimeo said 
    Mon, May 5 2008 4:36 PM ()

    why author comment nothing about my problem?

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  • Tuller said 
    Mon, May 5 2008 4:36 PM ()

    Comments here are not the appropriate channel for reporting issues with my addons, unless I specifically request them.

    CyCircled issues are related to CyCircled, and should be brought up with the author of that addon. I don't write any code in Bongos for CyCircled support..

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  • BEAROFLIGHT said 
    Mon, May 5 2008 4:36 PM ()

    blizzard has not tried to make everyone happy and look at what they have going for them. the addon at it's core is killer (and i stopped having to wipe my wtf file with bongos 2 so i could attack people) it seems a little cleaner and does what i need to do.

    the only thing i would suggest is layout schemes for people that are not sure how they want it to look.

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  • synfin said 
    Mon, May 5 2008 4:36 PM ()

    I also have a need for the same button on more than one bar, for the same reason mentioned above. I loved bongos2 and unfortunately this is a showstopper for me. Sadly moving on to FlexBar

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  • ultirz7 said 
    Mon, May 5 2008 4:36 PM ()

    hi!
    wouldya ever consider having a macro system, kind of like trinity bars 2, or Infini bars 2 have?

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  • oridan said 
    Mon, May 5 2008 4:36 PM ()

    I havent found a need to use the same button across multiple bars, infact i spent time on creating a single profile to support all 9 classes, which is working fine for me (Main actionbar which pages per stance, also pages to an "alternative" using the alt key or when you target a friendly, used for healing bar mainly, but also cc, summons, pet actions, etc with other chars), two sidebars with a lower scale, what am i babbling about, heres a screenshot. http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/2200/wowscrnshot060808144521iz1.jpg (friendly target, so its showing my alt bar, non-friendly target == damage bar)

    To sum up, Bongos3 is perfect for me and i'm sure its perfect for a lot of other people too. Its impossible to meet the requirements of everyone, so dont be disheartened!

    Keep up the good work!

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  • manic_half said 
    Mon, May 5 2008 4:36 PM ()

    bongos3 is perfect for me. ive never had any trouble with 3 or 2.

    blizz would make everyones life a lot easier if they would just add a minimalistic option for the UI and have all the frames movable! but i imagine the UI is on the last of their priorities at present heh heh.

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