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TreborCG

Posted 12:46PM, Tuesday, June 15, 2010 (1 year, 7 months ago) #0

I'm having a problem with the key bindings display in CT_BarMod on one of my toons. I am using all the bars and when I initially bring up CT_BarMod, the key bindings are displayed. If I scroll down past Group 4, they suddenly disappear and now, in all Groups 1 thru 10, key bindigs are replaced by "None". The actual key bindings are still in effect. It sounds like an index gone crazy. Do you have any idea what toon user file is being corrupted and how I can fix this? I don't want to have to reassign all 10 groups AND I'm doubtful that would work as I have tried to do that with 1 group and the problem will happen again if I scroll up then back down. I do not have this problem on any of my other 9 toons and my mage also uses all 10 groups. Last updated by TreborCG

dargen

Posted 08:21PM, Tuesday, June 15, 2010 (1 year, 7 months ago) #1

1) Make sure you have the current version of CT_BarMod, which is 3.302. The version number can be seen in the CTMod Control Panel (/ctmod). 2) Try disabling all addons except for CT_BarMod, and then check for the problem. If the problem goes away, then the issue is occurring when one of your other addons is loaded at the same time as CT_BarMod. If the problem still occurs with only CT_BarMod enabled, then there isn't a conflict with another addon. 3) The CT_BarMod settings for each character are stored in the following file: "World of Warcraft\WTF\Account\account_name\SavedVariables\CT_BarMod.lua" Exit the game, rename the file that contains the saved settings for CT_BarMod, restart the game, and check for the problem. If the problem goes away, then there is probably something wrong with the settings file. If the problem still occurs then the settings file is ok. When you're finished checking, you can exit the game, delete the new settings file that the game just created, and rename the original one back to CT_BarMod.lua. You could also try using the reset options button in the CT_BarMod options window. That will get rid of all of the CT_BarMod settings for the current character. 4) The game keeps track of all of your key bindings in one or more files, each named "bindings-cache.wtf". Each line in these files tells the game what key to bind and what it should do when the key is pressed. The game stores account key bindings in the following file: "World of Warcraft\WTF\Account\account_name\bindings-cache.wtf" The game stores character specific key bindings in the following file: "World of Warcraft\WTF\Account\account_name\server_name\character_name\bindings-cache.wtf" You could examine the contents of these file to see if they look ok. You could try renaming the appropriate file (exit the game before renaming) to see if it has any impact on the problem. Are you using character specific key bindings for any of your characters, or are they all using the account-wide key bindings?

TreborCG	Posted 12:20PM, Wednesday, June 16, 2010 (1 year, 7 months ago) #2
	Thank you for your response. I will do some investigation as per your instructions. The key bindings are toon specific as I make extensive use of macros. I greatly appreciate your work. I have been using CT_Mod almost from the time I started playing WoW five years ago. Grats!! Last updated by TreborCG

TreborCG

Posted 02:28PM, Saturday, June 19, 2010 (1 year, 7 months ago) #3

Ok, this really makes me feel stupid but I did find out what the problem was and it wasn't any of the above files per se. What I had done was to create about 10 macros which were variations of spells. The fly in the ointment was that, on some, I had added a "#showtooltip" line with the name of the actual spell I wanted to cast. So when the macro icon was loaded into a bar, the name associated on a 'mouseover' was the name in the showtooltip command rather than the macro name. So if my macro was named "Cast Immolate", it has a '#showtooltip Immolate' command in the macro. Mousing over the icon would show Immolate in the tooltip. This does something bad to CT_BarMod when you display the key bindings. The first time you hit one of these 'duplicate' named tooltips, it wacks the whole keybinding list. You wind up with "38 None F12" and no matter where you scroll from there the Icon name on the left is always 'None'. I have no idea how important this 'bug' is but it was very confusing and frustrating. I don't know if you can fix it or if you even want to as I would guess that it isn't a common occurrance:-) Maybe just file it away in case someone else has this mystifying experience.

dargen	Posted 03:00PM, Saturday, June 19, 2010 (1 year, 7 months ago) #4
	Good to hear you've resolved your issue. I tried to duplicate what you described by creating some macros like those and putting them on the bars, but everything still displays correctly for me when I scroll through the list of key bindings.

TreborCG

Posted 05:51PM, Saturday, June 19, 2010 (1 year, 7 months ago) #5

Here's just a brief example of what I was talking about: Let's say that in Group 2, I have icons for Curse of Agony and Shadow Bolt assigned. So the appropriate icons are dragged from the spell book down to whatever spots in Group 2. In CT_BarMod, I would assign Curse of Agony to F1 and Shadow Bolt to F2. In the CT_BarMod display for Group 2, you would see something like "13 Curse of Agony F1" and "14 Shadow Bolt F2". Now lets generate two macros as follows: (macro name = Clk CoA) as #showtooltip Curse of Agony /castsequence reset=target Curse of Agony,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, and (macro name = Clk Shadow Bolt) as #showtooltip Shadow Bolt /castsequence reset=target Shadow Bolt,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Take the icons for these 2 macros and assign them to some slots in Group 4, use and assigning keys 'F3' and 'F4'(choosing group 4 so that display from group 1 has scrolled out of the CT_BarMod window). Close and reopen CT_BarMod. Mousing over Group 4 icons will show tooltips identical to the ones in Group 1. Open CT_BarMod and scroll down to the Group keybinding window. The display for Group 2 should be fine. If this example behaves like my problem (unfortunately, I've not tested this little example), when the window is scrolled down to show the bindings for Group 4, all the text the icon names will be replaced by 'None'. The 'F' key assignment will still be there corresponding to the icon position in the group. If you scroll back up and look at group 2, the icon names should also be replaced with 'None'. I've tried to explain exactly how the situation occurred and I hope it is understandable. I don't know exactly what trauma that #showtooltip xxxxxxxx line caused but I simply deleted that line from my macros and everything was ok. Last updated by TreborCG

dargen

Posted 08:16PM, Saturday, June 19, 2010 (1 year, 7 months ago) #6

Thanks for the example. However, as was the case with my previous attempt to duplicate the issue, the key binding list in CT_BarMod once again displayed correctly for me. Are you using a tooltip addon of some sort? Perhaps one that alters the appearance or contents of tooltips? If so, which addon is it? Could you try adding #showtoolip back to one or more of the macros on the character that was having the problem, to see if the issue reappears? Were you using #showtooltip on the characters that were not having problems? If you were not using it, could you try it on one of those other characters to see if the same thing happens?

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