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A button bar helper thingy.

• The latest version broke on 2008-05-26, and I had a note to instead use the archived 1.2b

Configuration ∞

General ∞

If you’ve done this before, then type /bongos, go to Profiles, click ‘Default’ and click ‘Set’. Then select your old profile and click ‘delete’.

/bongos

Profiles >

• click ‘Save’ > type “Default”

• click the old entry > click ‘delete’.

ActionBars >

• Lock ActionBars (un-check)

Action Bars ∞

/bongos config

• ‘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

  • I recommend you not install this bongos component.

• ‘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.

  • I recommend you not install this bongos component.
• ‘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 recommend you not install this bongos component.

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• ‘pet’ (bottom, middle) – drag it up out of the way in the middle somewhere.

make your action bars

• Action Bar 1 is there by default, at the bottom-middle.
• Make 2 – Hold alt then click above action bar 1. Drag your mouse to make a 1×12 box.
• Make 3 – Hold alt then click above action bar 2. Drag your mouse to make a 1×12 box. So now you should have three bars. I use these three bars for hotkeys 1 through =, then shift 1 through shift = then alt 1 through alt =. These days I only do shift and alt up to 5 or 6 since I use my left hand for those hotkeys.
• Make 4 – on the left out of the way. I use this bar for hotkeys. Middle-click to hide it when you’re done.

• make 5 – as a 2×6 near the bottom right-hand corner. Don’t snap it to the right side though. I use this bar for misc. crap like food/water.

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• ‘pet’ (bottom, middle) 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 config

Key Bindings ∞

/keybound or /kb

Be Certain that ‘Character Specific Key Bindings’ is selected!

To add a hotkey, hover your mouse over an action bar and then press the hotkey.

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.