BindPad
by Tageshi
WHAT IS "BindPad"?
BindPad is an addon to make key bindings for spells, items, and macros. You no longer need actionbar slots just to make key bindings for your macros etc.
The BindPad addon provides many icon slots in its frame. You can drag and drop anything into one of these slots, and click the slot to set key bindings.
HOW TO USE "BindPad"?
-
Type /bindpad or /bp to display the BindPad frame. (Also you can find a
Toggle BindPad
key binding command in the standard key bindings frame of the Blizzard UI.) -
Open your spellbook frame (
P
), your bag (B
), or the macro panel (/macro
). (Also you can use three mini-icons on the BindPad frame to open these windows.) -
Drag an spell icon, item icon, or macro icon using
Left Mouse Button
and drop it onto the BindPad window. (You may need to pressShift Key + Left Mouse Button
to drag if your action bars are locked.) -
Now you see the icon placed on BindPad frame. Click it, and a dialog window that asks you to
Press a key to bind
will appear. -
Tap a key to bind to the spell and click the
Close
button. -
When you want to remove icons from BindPad frame, simply drag away the icon and press right click to delete it.
Note that key bindings itself will not be unbinded when you delete the icon.
To unbind it, click the icon and click the Unbind
button on the dialog window.
Also you can simply override key bindings with different ones.
HOW TO USE TABS
SLOT TABS
There are four tabs called slot tabs at the top of the BindPad frame:
-
General
slots are common icons used for every character and every spec. -
Character Specific
slots are for icons specific to the current character and current spec. -
[2] and [3] (aka. 2nd and 3rd character specific slots) will act in the same way as
Character Specific
slots.
Note that you can only use the Character Specific
tab after clicking
the Character Specific Key Bindings
checkbox.
PROFILE TABS
There are another three tabs on the side of BindPad frame.
Different Profiles can hold different contents in Character Specific
slots.
You can click a profile tab to switch your current profile, and your choice of
profile is saved for each talent spec and automatically reverted to former
profile when you change talent specs. If you choose the same profile for both
talent specs this automatic change will not happen.
Note that General
slots are not effected by a profile change, as all
contents of the General
tab are common to all characters AND all specs.
If you change your profile while the General
tab is shown,
BindPad will automatically show the Character Specific
slots tab of
the specified profile.
CAN I SWITCH PROFILE IN COMBAT? ON STANCE CHANGE?
No, you cannot.
If you need different skills bound for different stances/forms, simply use the stance condition to decide on what skill to use.
Example: /cast [stance:1/2] Berserker Stance; [stance:3] Intercept
Where [stance:1/2]
is conditioning the macro for you to be in Battle Stance
or Defensive Stance
and [stance:3]
is conditioning you to be in Berserker Stance
.
This works for all classes with stances (Including Rogues for Stealth
([stance:1]
)
and Shadow Dance
([stance:2]
) or none of the previous [stance:0]
).
Druid example: /cast [stance:1] Bash; [nostance:1] Healing Touch
[nostance] = Caster, [stance:1] = Bear, [stance:2] = Aquatic, [stance:3] = Cat, [stance:4] = Travel, [stance:5] = Tree/Moonkin if available else Flight, [stance:6] = Flight if Tree/Moonkin is not available.
"You want to convert this icon into a BINDPAD MACRO?"... What?
"BindPad Macro" is a new feature from BindPad version 1.8.0 ; which allow you to make almost unlimited number of virtual macro icons.
Older versions of BindPad just let you save your limited action bar slots. This new BindPad will let you save your limited macro slots on the standard "Create Macro" panel.
Usage: - Click the small red "+" icon to create an empty BindPad Macro. - Right-click an existing spell/item/macro icon on BindPad to convert it into a BindPad Macro. - Right-click the "BindPad Macro" to edit macro-text. - ...and you can use left-click to set keybindings as usual.
Note that BindPad Macro will only exist within the BindPad frame; You can drag-and-drop them within BindPad, but you cannot drop them outside.
DETAILS AND MORE INFORMATION
BindPad addon utilizes basic functions from the WoW API.
You can use these functions (and many others) in any addons or macros.
lua
GetBindingKey("command")
SetBinding("KEY", "command")
SetBindingSpell("KEY", "Spell Name")
SetBindingItem("KEY", "itemname")
SetBindingMacro("KEY", "macroname"|macroid)
Just don't forget to save changes by calling
SaveBindings(GetCurrentBindingSet())
.
There are some other similar addons by other authors. Try them and choose what you like.
Also you can visit Wowpedia for more information about keybindings and macros.
Can you update for WoW Classic Season of mastery version 1.4.2? Would be awesome, thanks a lot!
Hey, since using thew addon I no longer have binds for the buttons when I am in some machine or catapult. Is there a solution to this?
In reply to lubogk:
Put this into your 1-4 macros:
Change 1 to 2, 3 and 4 for each macro
I know that one of Bindpad's primary purposes is to get people to use keybinds and not depend on dragging macros to your action bars. But there are some cases where I have some Bindpad macros I would like to have on my action bars that I normally would click on and don't bind a hotkey to. When I tried to drag a Bindpad macro to my action bar is just disappears from the cursor. Is it not possible?
I know that I could just take my Bindpad macro and convert it back to a normal macro. But it would be nice to be able to keep it all in one place since Bindpad allows for so many more macros per character.
@here
i found this fork for Bindpad Classic, which even is has an issue for displaying the overlay when binding, seems to work just fine: Release Bindpad-Classic-bcc-c0.2 · hepkat/BindPad-Classic-bcc (github.com)
Yes that's my fix. I can't host it on curseforge because the original bindpad has an "all rights reserved" license and the author is a ghost.
Anyone found a solution (editing XML or otherwise) to the error message "SetBackdropBorderColor returns a nil value" ? I love Bindpad because it lets me drop in my current macros, but I get this error every time i log in and there's no background or border color on the "press key to bind" window. I don't mind the aesthetic part, but the error on log-in is painful!
needed very badly for tbc classic
needed for TBC classic
Any update for TBC Classic?
Will there ever be support to export and import binds?
Can you somehow connect this addon to let's say Bartender or Dominos and not save my binds to Blizzards Keybindings interface?
.
Does anyone have a solution for pet battles. The main keys 1-3 for me are not on a bar and I can't use them during pet battles. Any known macros for pet battles?
I'll upload a fixed version once the pre patch is live
I too hope that this addon will be maintained for Shadowlands... I've tried so many different keybind profile addons, but this has been the only one I've stuck with.
There are some errors happening with BindPad on the PTR, and most notably the keybinds are not actually changing/saving when you switch specs, even though you'll get a chat message saying that a profile has been loaded.
On the PTR Shadowlands prepatch It looks like there is one error code for the backdrop boarder color and background. I hope this is being updated for shadowlands I been using this forever.
ERROR MESSAGE
Message: [string "BindPadMacroFrameTextBackground:OnLoad"]:1: attempt to call method 'SetBackdropBorderColor' (a nil value)
Time: Wed Aug 19 11:26:13 2020
Count: 1
Stack: [string "BindPadMacroFrameTextBackground:OnLoad"]:1: attempt to call method 'SetBackdropBorderColor' (a nil value)
[string "*:OnLoad"]:1: in function <[string "*:OnLoad"]:1>
Locals: self = BindPadMacroFrameTextBackground {
0 = <userdata>
}
(*temporary) = nil
(*temporary) = BindPadMacroFrameTextBackground {
0 = <userdata>
}
(*temporary) = 1
(*temporary) = 1
(*temporary) = 1
(*temporary) = "attempt to call method 'SetBackdropBorderColor' (a nil value)"
In reply to Uputz:
any solution you found to this error?
Heya guys, i use this addon for years now, i was wondering if it's still maintained ? for beta ? thanks a lot :)
great addon! any thoughts on adding keybinds to the profiles as well?