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  Shefki Oct 24, 2008 at 07:21 UTC - 0 likes

  Will be fixed by any release after 256.

  This bug has existed for a long time. Basically the problem is the horizontal bars setting alters the maximum number of visible bars based on this formula: bars_visible = ceil(32/horiz_bars) * horiz_bars

  e.g. 3 horizontal bars leads to only 30 of the maximum 32 bars visible.

  However, when the 2.0 compatibility was done the buttons could no longer be parented to the bar frames and had to be parented to dummy frames used to represent the bags in order to allow Blizzard's code to be used for using items since using an item is a protected function while in combat.

  Whoever made this change then never bothered to re-implement the proper hiding mechanism for the bars and so bars greater than the visible bars would end up continuing to show and with unpredictable positioning because the addon was no longer trying to position the buttons.

  Any horizontal bar count that 32 does not evenly divide by will cause clipped bars. Items assigned to these bars will be hidden. Users will need to expand out to a horizontal bar count that does evenly divide by 32 and reassign categories assigned to the bars that will be hidden to other bars (4 or 8 are good options for the bar count).

  While this is a return to the proper behavior for the addon it is very likely not the behavior that users expect. A future rework of the layout engine will result in this behavior changing and a partially populated rows being allowed. The same rework will likely remove the limitation of 32 bars.