Forever Cooldown Manager

v0.8.0 (2026-09-26)

Full Changelog Previous Releases

• 0.8.0: per-character profiles, combined icons, fade out of combat
• Combine icons into one; fade the bars out of combat
  Both requested on CurseForge.
  • Combined icons: on the Buffs and Debuffs bars an entry can be joined to
    the one above (+ in the Bars card). A run of joined entries draws as
    one icon, lit by whichever spell is up: seals, auras, aspects, stings.
    In combat the member cast last takes the icon, so a new seal replaces
    the old one even though the old one's removal cannot be seen. Stings
    remember per target which one was cast. The lists stay plain spell ID
    lists; db.links holds the joins, per profile and in the macro.
  • Removing the first entry of a combined icon keeps the rest together
    instead of joining the icon before; the first entry of a bar is never
    joined. All list edits in the settings window go through the core.
  • Fade: out of combat the bars can stay, fade (30%) or hide; they come
    back in combat, on an enemy target, and while unlocked or in Edit Mode.
  • tests/test_combine.lua (new, in CI), plus macro round trips and the
    Bars card button in test_persist / test_runtime.
• Tell characters apart by GUID, not name and realm
  On Forever two characters can share a first name on one realm (a hunter
  and a paladin both "Thunderz" on "Classic Beta PvE 2"), so keys and macro
  names built from name and realm made them share one profile and one
  settings macro.
  • profiles are keyed by the player GUID; a character's own profile is
    labelled "Name (Class) - Realm", numbered if two still collide
  • the settings macro is named after the GUID. A pre-0.8.0 macro, named
    after name and realm, is taken only when the character's spellbook has
    its spells, and moves to the GUID name on the first write
  • name keys from the interim build are dropped; their profiles wait for
    their owner like pre-profile lists (claimed by spellbook, renamed)
  • tests: characters are GUID identities, and the per-character tests use
    two characters that share a name
• Per-character profiles: each character keeps its own tracked lists
  SavedVariables are per account. While the beta never loaded them, each
  character's settings macro restored its own lists, so the setup was per
  character by accident. Once the saved table loads (build 70009, or any
  character switch within one launch) every character got the lists of
  whoever played last: a paladin opened on the hunter's bars.
  Builds on PR #2's named profiles:
  • profileKeys records which profile each character uses; a character
    without one gets its own, named "Name - Realm"
  • login order: its entry in the saved settings, then its own settings
    macro, then the pre-profile lists if its spellbook has those spells,
    else a fresh profile. Another character's lists are never shown while
    this is decided
  • the macro opt-in is per character, and a character's macro fills in
    its lists when the loaded settings have none for it
  • macro overflow sheds learned durations, then unused profiles, before
    keeping a stale copy; the profile name is written only when it is not
    the character's own, so existing setups keep their macro count
  • rename takes sharing characters along, delete refuses a profile another
    character uses, reset keeps other characters' profiles
• Merge PR #2 (named tracking profiles, shuyu42) for the per-character work
• Add named profiles for tracked cooldowns and auras