FlashPress

FlashPress plays a short star animation on an action button the moment it fires, so every input is easy to read at a glance — useful when you are learning a rotation, recording, or simply want your bars to feel responsive.

Supported bars

• Main bar and bars 2 to 8
• Pet bar and stance bar
• Vehicle and possess bars
• Extra action button and zone ability buttons
• Spell flyouts
• Pet battles
• Bartender4 and ElvUI bars (via LibActionButton-1.0)
• Dominos bars

Options

Settings live in the standard interface options panel, under FlashPress.

• Appearance — class color or a custom color, opacity, base size, growth, duration, rotation and easing curve
• Triggers — fire on keybindings, on mouse clicks, or both
• Minimum bar opacity — buttons more transparent than this are skipped, so faded or mouseover-only bars stay quiet
• Profile — a preview button and a one-click reset

Slash commands

Under the hood

FlashPress is built to stay out of the way. It is fully event-driven with no OnUpdate loop, reuses a small pool of frames instead of creating them on the fly, caches its settings so a key press costs almost nothing, and never calls a protected function or works around a Blizzard restriction. Mouse hooks are installed out of combat; if a bar appears mid-fight, it starts flashing as soon as combat ends.

Feedback

Bug reports and suggestions are welcome in the comments. If you hit a Lua error, please include the full error text and the list of bar addons you use.