Claw Frames
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Classic-style player, target, target-of-target and party frames for WoW: Forever, with class icons in place of portraits, a thicker health bar, and combo points.
A rogue in a party: class icons in place of portraits, a thicker health bar with percent and value, target of target, a party member, and two combo points lit on the target's ring.
Description
Claw Frames replaces Blizzard's player, target, target-of-target and party frames with classic-styled ones: the older art, a health bar thick enough to read without looking directly at it, and a class icon where the portrait was.
What it changes
- Player and target frames, in classic art, with a thicker health bar. Health reads as a percentage on the left and a value on the right.
- Class icons instead of portraits for players, so you know what you are looking at before anything starts casting.
- Class-coloured health bars for players, optional and off by default.
- Target of target, with its own border so it does not read as part of the target frame.
- Combo points, driven correctly even when the client refuses to tell an addon what the count is.
- Party frames, replacing Blizzard's, with an option to keep them on screen inside a raid — Blizzard's hide, which suits raiders and does not suit a five-man guild run that happens to be flagged as one.
- Move any frame, and scale everything between 50% and 200%.
Settings
/claw opens the settings window, and the addon registers itself under
Options > AddOns. Every setting is reachable from chat as well, so the window
is a convenience rather than a requirement.
/claw arttest draws Blizzard's raw frame textures at known coordinates. It is
a developer tool left in on purpose: it is how the art was fitted, and it is
how you would check it on a resolution nobody has tried yet.
Requirements
None, strictly. BLib is an optional dependency — install it and you get the
settings window; leave it out and the frames behave identically while /claw
configures them from chat. It will not error either way.
Version support
Built for and used on WoW: Forever. All future development targets Forever; TBC Anniversary is not a development target and will receive no further work.
This is a 0.x, and means it
Claw Frames is used every day, but by a handful of people on a handful of setups, which is not the same as being tested. Frame positions, art fitting and the party frames are the parts most likely to want work on a UI it did not grow up on. Reports are genuinely useful, and small ones are the most useful.
Credit
Named for Highclaw, who asked for them and has used every build.
Claw Frames Team
