CombatMonitor2

As advertised, I am one of the world's worst bloggers. That goes back to my vast preference to sit down with people over something tasty to eat or drink and actually just talk face to face but that's neither here nor there in the world of the Internets. My theory work has been set to the side in favour of addons in the past several months. Getting the new StatusWindow and Satrina Buff Frame releases out the door, and updating our guild's DKP and attendance tracking addons to reflect changes in guild policy have taken a lot of time. All that has meant that I have nothing profound to say here so there you go, radio silence.

Anyway! I have things to say about CombatMonitor 2 which I know a bunch of people are waiting for news of, so I figure that's a good blog post. I've been putting some good hours in on CM2 over the holidays, and even more lately.

One of the most fundamental things is that the Ace3 framework is now in late beta and quite stable. It's a lot lighter weight than Ace2 and brings several features I can use, I took the time to convert CM2 to use it. This means that once I get CM2 to a release state, I will put it in the Ace code repository and it will be available through the various Ace updaters. That should please a lot of people.

About two weeks ago, I had one of those falling asleep epiphanies about data presentation for CM2. It's not cutting-edge stuff that nobody's ever done before but I think it will make it easier for the user to see and digest the data. It will also make CM2 pretty nifty visually - which I wouldn't have thought anyone would give a rat's ass about, but I would have through wrong apparently, based on feedback to the initial beta! Once I get it in a decent state, I'll get some screenshots up for feedback.

There's still a lot of work to be done. I plan to release beta 2 once I've got the core functionality of beta 1 up to date with Ace3 and the new display plan. From there will be beta releases fixing bugs and introducing features from the list here: http://www.theoryspot.com/forums/use...html#post50715.

Satrina Buff Frame 2.8 and StatusWindow 2.0 are in late beta and I'm doing almost entirely bug fixes on them at this point, so 95% of my current available coding time is dedicated to CM2. I am resisting the urge to start coding another addon whose inspiration made me go ooo shiny! a couple of days ago, so that I keep my focus in one place. I'll keep you all up to date as it goes and I'll use this blog to do it probably, so that I don't look like a deadbeat compared to everyone else!