Comments on: Keybinding: A Cluttered UI’s Best Friend

By: Button Real Estate « Procrastination Amplification

Button Real Estate « Procrastination Amplification — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:45:42 +0000

[...] Worgens and Goblins and Naga — Oh My! But today is not that day. I recently stumbled upon this post by Hafengrim over at NoStockUI that deals with using keybindings to save screen real [...]

By: Hafengrim

Hafengrim — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:52:21 +0000

(Super late response. I should get notification emails or something to be more useful. )

Definitely going to give Macaroon a look see. Thanks for the tips.

@Grendalsh: Because I’ve spent so long using keybindings, I use the same general keys across all of my characters for the same general purpose. X is crowd control, R is debuff, Z is for my instant-cast mana-reducing cooldowns (Inner Focus, Tidal Focus, etc), Ctrl-Z is for my superpower me cooldowns (Power Infusion, Heroism), C is for cookie, and so on. I’ve established habits through longterm use that enable me to hide all the bars for my abilities.

I still have a few low opacity bars for consumables, trade skills, mounts, quest items, etc.

By: Zelgo

Zelgo — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 18:34:41 +0000

just use the defult UI, drag abilities and keybind them on the extra action bars, and then hide them. This way keybinds transfer between computers and UI wipes. Way better

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:40:24 +0000

I use KeyBoundExtra to bund my keys:
http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/key-bound-extra-1-0.aspx

It’s very simple. write /kb, hoover over the spell you want to keybind (on your action bar, spellbook or macro interface), then press the key or key combination you want to bind it to.

Can’t get more simple then that!

By: cpbjr

cpbjr — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:49:07 +0000

macroon! ftw. love that addon

By: Grendalsh

Grendalsh — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 05:27:34 +0000

Circumventing the actionbars has the benefit of removing clutter from the screen. However, it also means not having a visual guide to those keybinds. I’m curious how the OP knows where obscure or rarely used abilites are bound without opening the binding interface..?
I’ve recently taken to shrinking my Dominos bars down to 75%. Just big enough to still make out the icons, but small enough I can have 5 actionbars in 3×4 grids across the bottom of the screen between the chat bar and the bag/menu bars. As they’re all bound through the n52te, they server more as visual mapping, Cooldown counters, and placeholders than as actual ‘click’ buttons.
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By: Psynister

Psynister — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:40:26 +0000

Hmm, perhaps I’ll become a keybind junky afterall.

Very useful information.
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By: camo

camo — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:40:35 +0000

Hmm I think Bindpad wasn’t able to bind mounts or something like that. I went back to bartenders binding because I sometimes want a bar to click :D.

By: Gravity

Gravity — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 08:01:15 +0000

Macaroon’s keybinding interface requires you use Macaroons too, although I see the point that it looks like a pretty smooth way to do bindings.
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By: Upyursh

Upyursh — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:11:24 +0000

I just use dominos key bindings, if I want to have some hidden binding I use of the many bars I dont use and set opacity to 0. This has the advantage of allowing you to quickly see all those binding if you set a mouseover opacity too.
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