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.
great addon! any thoughts on adding keybinds to the profiles as well?
Great addon, very useful. Made my life a LOT easier. Thanks for such an amazing tool.
However, I'm facing a little issue. Got two macros, both area-targeted, as you can see. Strangely, one of them works perfectly when keybound via BindPad, but the other one does not, although their syntax is almost identical. Could someone please help me? Am I doing something wrong here?
#showtooltip
/cast [@cursor] Shadowfury - works
#showtooltip
/cast [@cursor] Summon Infernal(Guardian) - doesn't.
is there a way via command line to save my binds happens that if wow dc binds are different in my specs please let me know
Is there a way to or would you consider adding a way to import spec profiles? Right now when I make a new say Frost Mage I have to add all the binds but it would be great if I could just import a specs binds. Or even better if there was a way to make global spec binds so I can just edit the Frost Mage binds and that change would apply to all the frost mages on my account.
Thank you for the time and effort you have put into this project. Bindpad has been a great help with making the game more enjoyable in its ease of assigning keys to just about anything. There is only one item that would improve the addon, in my humble opinion, that is either adding sub profiles to the specs or allow the creation of profiles (stored in a drop down maybe) where the user would select an active profile. The addon could even communicate with talent set manager, or the like, to automatically set the active profile. I am a priest. With the new system, I am constantly changing from mythics to raids to PvP in both heal and dps specs. Which leaves me updating key binds to spells with every spec change. If there is another way other than making a macro for each key bind that cast spells or uses items per its respected spec I will be happy to try it.
Advice to users:
I've used this addon for many years for my alt army and it's been very helpful and more stable than others I've tried.
However, take note that on occasion I've had to go into the Saved Variables lua file and search and replaced keybinds. The addon variables itself take over default keybinds, so you can easily get into a situation where you can't simply, say, change the binds for bags from the default UI.
Not perfect, but doable.
Can we expect an update for 8.3?
Maybe I'm misunderstanding it, but am I doing something wrong here? When I create a general BindPad macro, give it a hotkey, and select "For all characters", the hotkey doesn't in fact carry over to other characters. All of the macros are still there, but I have to log onto each toon and individually set the hotkeys for them. All of my characters have character specific profiles that I manage with another addon, if that makes a difference.
If this is intended, I'd like to request some way to have the keybinds just be global overrides, perhaps. I wrote a binding addon a while ago that I've been using, but I never finished it or intended to release it and I just made the binds all override bindings as my intention was to have certain binds that were the same for all characters without having to actually mess with each character and change their binds. I can just change it all at once. Anyway, I just wanted to discard mine and go with something that is finished and maintained and I thought this one could do the same.
The addon is convenient, but I don’t understand how to configure two keys for one ability. The fact is that there are 2 language keyboard layouts, and I need the binds to work on both layouts. Otherwise, abilities may not work during the battle, because the wrong language layout was selected.
In the standard settings of the game, it is possible to bind two different buttons to one slot, can this be done through this add-on?
I would love this for classic.
In reply to Mo0rbid:
https://www.curseforge.com/linkout?remoteUrl=https%3a%2f%2fwww.wowinterface.com%2fdownloads%2finfo25196-0.1.html%23comments
Will BindPad be updated for classic? It's such a staple. I don't think i can live without it tbh.
In reply to Konjunktur:
same
In reply to Konjunktur:
Would love to see BindPad on WoW Classic !
In reply to Konjunktur:
Rumor has it that someone made a Classic version and uploaded it to a rival addon database. ;)
In reply to jukx:
https://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info25196-0.1.html
In reply to jukx:
Thanks, I tried it. Works okay, doesn't handle ranks properly though - a critical feature in classic! Hopefully it'll get fixed soon :)
I got this lua error message. don't know what wrong with addon, the addon still working
Message: Interface\AddOns\BindPad\BindPad.lua:117: script ran too long
Time: Fri Aug 9 11:36:48 2019
Count: 1
Stack: Interface\AddOns\BindPad\BindPad.lua:117: script ran too long
Interface\AddOns\BindPad\BindPad.lua:117: in function `BindPadFrame_OnLoad'
[string "*:OnLoad"]:1: in function <[string "*:OnLoad"]:1>
Locals: (*temporary) = BindPadFrame {
0 = <userdata>
numTabs = 4
}
(*temporary) = <function> defined =[C]:-1
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Can we get an update please?
In reply to Similarion:
About what? What is not working for you?