I am not using MoveAnything (due to errors generated from it), but don’t know whether there are remnants anyway. But the various popups like for special chest loot or troop recruitment or such cover up the special action button except one pixel line that is understandably difficult to hit and they pretty much completely cover up the cast bar. This bothers me to no end, and I would not be surprised if this was official design.
I need a solution for that.
You can use /fstack to identify which frame is causing it, then we can help.
Someone mentioned that in the past, but that was not much help. No particular frame is shown in that area. It’s inconclusive.
There’s the world frame and the center bit.
I cannot test this while those popups are appearing because I don’t have good opportunities to test that and they tend to vanish quickly anyway.
There’s some detail info on both said frames, but I’m not sure what about that is useful.
Then we’ll need a screenshot. Print Screen on your keyboard and post a link to it on the forums between code tags </> on the edit toolbar.
What does it tell you if fstack just confirms it is the frames I mentioned?
I mean, I said the cast bar is being covered up, and would you know it, fstack says it’s the “CastingBar”.
So the other frame with the popups will have a name, too, but it’s a well-known UI element, so what does it tell you if I give you the name of what is covering up the cast bar?
Do you need to know possible modifier addons and such? Then I’d still have to catch a moment with a popup. Got any suggestions for easily available tests for that?
EDIT: I just realized WQs trigger that frame.
http://f.dowlphin.de/games/wow_ui_fstack.jpg
Many of the things (positions / sizes) that the MoveAnything addon let you change, will indeed survive removal of the Addon.
You could try deleting the file:
WoW directory \ WTF \ Account \ account \ realm \ character \ layout-local.txt
Just make sure wow isn’t currently running while you do, and also make a backup of your entire WTF directory beforehand.
Alternatively, you could probably reinstall the MoveAnything addon and use its “Reset” feature on the problematic frame(s).
How do cast bar, special action button and alert frame behave in the unmodified UI?
I meant a screenshot of your full UI with the problem displayed so we can see what’s going on, not a screenshot of fstack.
The cast bar appears just above your bottom bars, extra action button I believe is above that (haven’t used default bars in forever).
The loot popup etc. (which I believe is what you’re having an issue with) appear near the top of the screen, growing downward.
Ah, I didn’t expect it to be that different, but it makes sense. Then I will definitely try means of UI reset. Because my popup anchor is towards the bottom, extending upwards. (Unless that’s a setting somewhere.)
UPDATE: When I use MoveAnything to reset the alert frame, it put it on the bottom. That seems to be the Blizzard default. I put it at the top now, but I suspect it will stack towards the top, outside of the screen. I could find no option to change that behavior in MoveAnything.
I also found the layer priority settings and have set cast bar and special action button a layer above the alerts. As long as that works, it’s not so bad if the alerts are at the bottom.
EDIT 2: I disabled Bartender4 and Shadowed Unit Frames and the UI still behaves the same way. And layer order settings aren’t obeyed, have no effect.
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