BobsToolbox

The goal of BobsToolbox is to combines all the really great and needed addons into one very efficient addon. The three main modules in BobsToolbox are the player frame, raid / party frame and pet / vehicle frame.

Player Frame:

The player frame is the unit frames. This will contain the players, target, target of target, and pet / vehicles information. The unit's health will be on the left and the mana, focus, rage, etc. will be on the right. The bars listed from the inside out are as follows: pet / vehicle, player, target. The player frame has an option that will allow the health / mana bars to hide when at 100%. This allows for a very clean interface and removes all unnecessary information from the screen. Just turn off this feature if you want the bars on screen at all times. The player frame will show a heal button at the top of the player frame if your current target has a target. This heal button works just like the buttons contained on the Raid and Pet frames. The player frame also will show how many people in your party / raid is targetting your target. This feature will only be inabled if you are in a party / raid. This is a great feature to have as a DPS to ensure you are targetting what the members of your party / raid is targetting. You don't want to be pulling aggro from you tank do you? You will also see the RAID icon assigned to your target. This give you really clear indication that you are targetting "skull" when you should be.

Raid / Party Frame:

The raid / party frame allow you to monitor your whole raid in a very small area. The width and height of each button is configurable so you can have the frame at just the right size. You can also arrange the raid members by group or you can simply state how many members per row. It also allows monitoring of the raid / party for your buffs. If someone is missing your buff then a exclamation [ ! ] mark will appear next to their name. Currently this feature is only useful for mages and priest. See what's next in the FAQ.

Pet / Vehicle Frame:

This pretty much does the same thing as the Raid / Party frame but for pets and vehicles. The pet frame does have it's own settings so you can for instance place the pet frame in the upper left hand corner of the screen and set a smaller button size. See Raid / Party frame for more information.

Dual Spec Settings:

BobsToolbox supports dual spec settings that allows different configuration for each spec. This would allow a Priest to hide the raid frame in shadow spec but have it enabled in holy spec. So just by changing specs, the addon would automatically hide or show the raid frame.

FAQ

Q. What's is BobsToolbox?

A. BobsToolbox is an addon created by Bobby Cannon just for fun. A lot of my time spent playing WoW is actually spent working on my addon.

Q. What's with the name?

A. My name is Bobby Cannon and I play a level 80 Undead Priest named BobTehBuildr on the server Firetree. I created my addon to help me BobTehBuildr so I thought what would be a name for my set of tools. Then I thought well a set of tools go in a box and BobTehBuildr should have a toolbox so lets name the addon BobsToolbox.

Q.Why was BobsToolbox created?

A. I'm a software developer by profession so the addon capability of WoW really intrigues me so I decided to created my own.

Q. Why does BobsToolbox look a lot like other addons?

A. I know there are plenty of really great HUD, Raid Frame, and Healing mods out there but I wanted to create my own. I pulled plenty of inspiration from other mods like Ice Hud and Healbot but all the code in my addon is new. The only code copied from other addons or website is code functions like rounding numbers or hiding default UI objects.

Q. Are you just copying / combining other MODs?

A. See question "Why does BobsToolbox look a lot like other addons?".

Q. What's next?

A. I sure many bug fixes but I would like to add a buff monitor like Buffalo. I really like Buffalo but I would like to see BobsToolbox contain this feature. I also want to support buff notification on both the raid and pet frame for more classes. Currently the buff notification only works for Priest and Mages.