TL;DL Summary:

• Performance improvements - reduced mem usage and GC pressure
• Class + Stat visual mode - class colors as bar foregrounds, stat (column) colors as bar background
• Example/mock data mode
• Settings layout simplified
• Drag to change column widths

Detailed Changelog:

v0.4.8

Performance

• Throttled combat refreshes — damage meter events now set a dirty flag instead of triggering immediate full UI refreshes; the existing 0.5s timer picks up changes, reducing refresh rate from 100+/sec to 2/sec during raid combat
• Eliminated per-refresh closures — bar click handler moved from render loop to bar creation (one closure per bar lifetime, not per refresh)
• Reused tooltip data tables — tooltip metadata tables are recycled instead of reallocated every refresh cycle
• Cached single-column table — GetEffectiveColumns() reuses a cached table in single-column mode
• Cached encounter name lookup — encounter name for the scope button is cached instead of querying the full encounter list every refresh
• Pre-allocated rank strings — rank labels ("1.", "2 v", etc.) are built once at load time instead of concatenated per bar per refresh

Changes

• Removed Stripes visualization — the "Stripes" option for Class+Stat color mode has been removed along with 23 stripe texture files; Class+Stat now uses only the Background visualization (foreground/background toggle remains)
• Class+Stat is now the default color mode — new installs default to Class+Stat instead of Class
• Codebase restructure — split large files into focused modules: UI.lua (2,700→_{950 lines), Settings.lua (1,208→}830 lines), DataStore.lua (575→~410 lines). New files: MockData.lua, Bars.lua, Dropdowns.lua, Columns.lua, SettingsWidgets.lua. No functional changes.

v0.4.7

Features

• Draggable column resize — drag borders between column headers (including the name/stat border) to resize columns; double-click to reset to default widths; widths persist across sessions
• Memory Usage toggle — optional memory usage display in the title bar (Settings → Fonts & Frame → Memory Usage)
• Example Data mode — /tm mock populates the UI with fake player data for visual testing without needing a live combat session

Bug Fixes

• Fixed "table index is nil" error when adding Enemy Damage Taken as a column (mobs can have nil sourceGUID)
• Fixed column header flicker during drag (periodic refresh was resetting column widths mid-drag)
• Fixed name column drag shifting spell breakdown rows to the right
• Fixed Settings Example Data button not updating when mock mode disabled via title bar or slash command

v0.4.6

Features

• "Class + Stat" color mode — new third color mode combining class and stat colors on each bar
• Visualization modes — choose between "Stripes" (diagonal stat-colored stripes over class base) or "Background" (one color for bar fill, the other for the empty background area)
• Foreground/background toggle — in Background viz mode, swap which color is the fill vs the background
• Stripe settings — configurable Stripe Angle, Stripe Width, Stripe Ratio (duty cycle), and Stripe Opacity
• Redesigned settings window — two tabs ("Bars & Colors", "Fonts & Frame") with horizontal tab bar, scrollable content, and thin scrollbar

Bug Fixes

• Fixed combat error ("attempt to compare secret value") when measuring player name widths with showCombatNames enabled
• Fixed stat-colored backgrounds and stripe overlays leaking into spell breakdown rows in Class + Stat mode

Changes

• Settings reorganized from 4 tabs to 2: Bars + Colors merged, Fonts + Frame merged
• Stripe overlay uses sheared vertical-stripe textures for clean diagonal rendering at any angle
• Stripe Ratio controls duty cycle via per-step texture files (0-100% in 5% increments)
• Version number now read from .toc metadata at runtime (single source of truth)
• Release packaging now includes the textures/ directory

v0.4.5

Features

• Color mode toggle — switch between Class and Stat bar coloring in the new unified Colors tab; applies to both single-column and multi-column layouts
• Customizable class colors — 13 class color pickers in the Colors tab, alongside the existing 11 stat color pickers
• Combat name toggle — optionally show player names during combat instead of "???", with a warning icon explaining accuracy limitations
• Scrollable Colors tab — Colors settings now scroll to fit all 26 color pickers plus the color mode dropdown

Changes

• Removed "Class Colors" checkbox from the Frame tab (replaced by Color Mode dropdown in Colors tab)
• Multi-column bars now respect the color mode setting (previously always used stat colors)