Enhanced Widget Control 2.17.3

This release adds several major widget integrations, new appearance controls and a broad reliability pass. The complete update is described below so you do not need to visit an external changelog.

Season update safety and discovery

• Fixed a new Retail Lua error on the Prey Hunt progress tooltip adapter.
• Prevented EWC bar decorations from tainting Blizzard map event and quest tooltip widgets during hover updates.
• Tooltip widgets still keep safe visual styling without changing Blizzard-controlled tooltip layout and bounds.
• Improved auto-detected widget discovery by cleaning Blizzard formatting codes out of live widget names before they are stored.
• Added smarter default names and menu groups for newly discovered supported widgets, making new season and raid bars easier to identify in Selected Widgets.
• Expanded widget details so unknown widgets now show a suggested name and grouping, which makes future hardcoding and support passes much easier.

ElvUI compatibility and tooltip fixes

• Added support for current ElvUI development builds whose version strings include commit suffixes.
• The Overview page now displays the detected ElvUI version and whether it is a stable or development build.
• Prevented duplicate EWC option registration during ElvUI initialization.
• Limited automatic widget detection to recognized gameplay and tooltip containers so unrelated Blizzard panels are not modified.
• Fixed World Map event and quest tooltips being distorted when they contain Blizzard widget bars.
• Tooltip bars can still inherit EWC textures, colors, backgrounds, borders, glows, opacity and text styling.
• Blizzard now retains control of tooltip dimensions, scale, font size and all widget, bar and text anchors, preventing text from moving outside or overlapping the tooltip box.

New known widgets

• Added a built-in list of important widgets, making them easy to find and customize even before they have appeared during gameplay.
• Added named entries for:
  • Delve Companion XP
  • Prey Hunts
  • Prey Hunts Available
  • Prey Hunt Progress
  • Nebulous Voidcores Transmuted
  • Ascendant Nilhammer
• Reorganized the widget list into Known Widgets, Auto-detected Widgets and Saved / Unknown.
• Added Delves, Prey and Voidforge categories.
• Known widgets are protected from cleanup, while new supported widgets are still detected automatically.

Delve Companion XP

• Added full EWC styling support for the companion XP bar shown above Delve companions such as Valeera.
• Added Always visible while targeted, allowing the XP bar to remain visible whenever the companion is your target.
• The bar now keeps a consistent on-screen size instead of shrinking when the companion moves farther away.
• Hovering the bar switches between percentage and exact current / maximum XP, matching Blizzard's original behavior.
• Fixed the value text changing color depending on how the bar appeared.

Prey Hunt support

• Added a dedicated EWC status-bar layout for Blizzard's Prey Hunt Progress widget.
• Added support for Cold, Warm, Hot and Final hunt states.
• Added configurable Prey value formats and a separate Prey size multiplier.
• Added the option to keep Blizzard's original Prey display instead of using the EWC bar.
• Preserved the original tooltip and click behavior.
• Added support for both the active Prey Hunt display and the Hunts Available bar.
• Fixed appearance settings being lost when a hunt advances to another stage or changes to Hunts Available.
• Prevented Blizzard's original Prey icon and animations from briefly flashing during progress updates.
• Prevented duplicate Prey bars from supported third-party UI modules while the EWC replacement is active.

New appearance controls

• Added optional dynamic Class Color for:
  • Bar color
  • Background color
  • Border color
  • Glow color
  • Main text color
  • Value text color
• Class colors update automatically when you play another class.
• Added a new Masque-inspired border system with pixel and SharedMedia border styles.
• Added border texture previews, size and spacing controls.
• Added a matching custom glow system with selectable media, color, strength, edge size and spacing.
• Improved per-widget overrides so a new override starts with the current global appearance.
• Disabling an override still preserves its custom values in case you want to enable it again.

Preset improvements

• The Presets page now shows which preset is currently active.
• Added a modified indicator when your current settings no longer match the selected preset.
• Improved active-preset tracking when presets are applied, updated, saved or deleted.

Reliability and performance

• Improved reapplication of size, scale, position, textures, colors, backgrounds, borders, glows, fonts and text placement after Blizzard rebuilds or updates a widget.
• Blizzard's current status-bar color is captured during setup, so original widget colors remain correct whenever custom bar color is disabled.
• Added short, bounded stabilization passes for complex widget state transitions without using permanent background polling.
• Position changes delayed by combat are now reapplied automatically after combat ends.
• Fixed a Retail 12.1 Lua error caused by Blizzard's updated tooltip API.
• Added peer-to-peer version detection. EWC warns once in chat if another EWC user is running a newer version.
• Version announcements are throttled, and normal widget processing remains event-driven to minimize resource usage.

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