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Better Tracked Bars

Better Tracked Bars skins Blizzard's native Tracked Bar rows and supports multiple tracked bars at once.

Description

Better Tracked Bars

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Features

  • Automatic discovery and handling of all Blizzard Cooldown Manager tracked bars.
  • Per-bar Edit Mode control with style/layout overrides and deterministic auto anchor-chain behavior.
  • Integration-aware anchoring to Blizzard/external addon frames and other Better Tracked Bars rows.
  • Smooth addon-owned active bars with configurable Bar Visibility modes (Always, In Combat, Active Only) and empty-state display when tracked cooldowns are not active.
  • Configurable bar drain direction for active bar visuals.
  • Expanded typography controls for ability name, empty-state text, duration timer position/color/tenths, and application-count color plus percent/point-size sizing.
  • Per-layout saved positions for detached bars across Edit Mode layout swaps.
  • Optional opt-in specialization-profile switching with explicit per-spec assignments.
  • Profile import/export sharing plus single-bar import/export for per-bar layout/style portability.
  • Edit Mode profile switching and bar-to-bar settings copy using the currently selected bar as the target.

Configuration Flow

  1. Configure which cooldowns are in Blizzard Tracked Bars (Cooldown Manager settings).
  2. Open Edit Mode and move/configure each Better Tracked Bars row, switch profiles, or copy settings from another discovered bar.
  3. Use Settings -> AddOns -> BetterTrackedBars for profile style defaults (bar visibility, texture/font/colors, ability name behavior, timer behavior, application-count styling) and minimap visibility.
  4. Use Settings -> AddOns -> BetterTrackedBars -> Profiles for profile management, specialization-profile assignments, profile sharing, and bar settings import/export.

While Edit Mode or Blizzard Cooldown Viewer settings are open, BTB shows preview bars for all discovered tracked bars.

Installation

  1. Download from CurseForge or Wago
  2. Extract to World of Warcraft/retail/Interface/AddOns/
  3. Restart WoW or run /reload

Dependencies

Bundled libraries:

  • LibStub
  • CallbackHandler-1.0
  • AceAddon-3.0
  • AceDB-3.0
  • AceSerializer-3.0
  • LibDeflate
  • LibEditMode
  • LibDataBroker-1.1
  • LibDBIcon-1.0

Optional:

  • LibSharedMedia-3.0 (expanded font/texture dropdown lists)

License

MIT License

Author

Silverbrit