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A button bar helper thingy.

A bit rough in some cases but definitely usable and has some really awesome functionality. It’s also a hotkey manager! AWESOME. You can set hotkeys right from your spellbook. Also your macros, but make sure your macros don’t move around.. =/

/bongos for the gui, or /bongos menu for the text menu.

Configuration ∞

• ‘minimap’ (top-right)

  • drag it down a bit so that interacting with it won’t show the top Fubar bar.
  • right-click, and de-select all of: Show Zoom Buttons, Show Day/Night Indicator, Show Map Button, Show Time.
• ‘roll’ (left) – drag it to the right so that it wouldn’t be overtop of your party UnitFrames.
• ‘xp bar’ (top thin bar) – middle-click it to hide it
• ‘stats’ (top, right area) – carefully mouseover it (Fubar un-hiding may get in the way) and drag it under the xp bar where you can see it. It will “snap” and middle-align itself automatically. Then middle-click it to hide it. It’s mostly-useless except for filing a gm report. To do that, type /bongos then un-lock your bars, middle-click the menu bar to show it, lock your bars, then click the “?”. Yes, it’s a pain and I’m open to better suggestions. I wonder if bongos has slash commands to make this easier or if I could make a macro+hotkey.
• ‘bags’ (bottom, right) – drag it under your ‘stats’ bar at the top-middle. Then middle-click it to hide it. It is obsoleted by Baud Bag and assigning the b key to open all of your bags.
• ‘menu’ (bottom, right) – drag it under your ‘bags’ bar at the top-middle. Then middle-click it to hide it.
• ‘cast’ (middle) – drag it under your ‘menu’ bar at the top-middle. Then middle-click it to hide it. It is obsoleted by “Quartz” I believe.
• ‘ActionBar 1’ (middle) – This is a huge mass of action bars. Don’t panic. Drag the first one down to the bottom-middle area. If your ‘roll’ bar moves with it, get your roll bar back into its original position.
• ‘ActionBar 2’ (middle) – move left and down a bit.
• ‘ActionBar 3’ (middle) – move underneath ‘ActionBar 1’. Then middle-click to hide it. You will interact with bars 1-6 by pressing shift-cursor up / shift-cursor down to select it, then dragging icons to it as usual.
• ‘ActionBar 4’ (middle) – move underneath ‘ActionBar 2’. Then middle-click to hide it.
• ‘ActionBar 5’ (middle) – move underneath ‘ActionBar 3’. Then middle-click to hide it.
• ‘ActionBar 6’ (middle) – move underneath ‘ActionBar 4’. Then middle-click to hide it.
• ‘ActionBar 6’ (middle) – move underneath ‘ActionBar 5’. Then middle-click to hide it.
• ‘ActionBar 7’ (middle) – move underneath ‘ActionBar 6’. But move it down a bit further so you can see the separation between 6 and 7. Then middle-click to hide it. You will interact with bar 8 by typing /bongos then un-lock your bars, middle-click this menu bar to show it, lock your bars again, interacting with those bars, then locking it again.
• ‘ActionBar 8’ (middle) – move above ‘ActionBar 1’.
• ‘ActionBar 9’ (middle) – move above ‘ActionBar 8’.
• ‘ActionBar 10’ (middle) – right-click it > change columns to 6. Then drag it to the bottom-right but not touching that right edge.
• ‘pet’ (middle) – drag it above ‘ActionBar 9’. Notice how it snaps but leaves a space? That’s because this bar is reduced in size. I like to drag the bottom-right corner out a bit to scale it up a bit so it matches my other bars better and my hotkeys are more visually intuitive.

• After all the above mess, type /bongos

  • General > lock bars
  • ActionBar > Lock Button Positions (un-check)
  • Profiles > click ‘Save’ > type “Default” > click the new entry for “Default” > click Set > click the old entry > click ‘delete’.
  • Bindings > Be Certain that ‘Character Specific Key Bindings’ is selected!. I set up my three rows of action bars with 1 through to = then shift 1 through to shift = then alt 1 through to alt =. Now I almost never use hotkeys past 5 but the option is there and it seems very intuitive to me. To add a hotkey, hover your mouse over an action bar and then press the hotkey.

Notes ∞

• This interferes with RicoMiniMap because Bongos also has some minimap features..