Quite a lot of people use InterruptBar around here. What most people don't know is how to modify it, and add/remove spells that are being tracked. Since I don't have anything better to do this morning, I thought I'd enlighten you on the subject. Do me a favor and read through the guide before you start asking questions.
First off, you'll obviously need the addon, which you can find here.
Warning: This is some random Russian site. If you're not comfortable with clicking this link, then don't.
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Edit:
Alternative download from wowinterface.com
Note: If you use this download, you'll have to modify the lua, because it's modified for Mists of Pandaria.
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Second, you'll need the spell id and the cooldown time of the spell(s) you want to add.
If you don't know how to find the spell id, go to this site and search for the spell in question. When you've located the spell, you'll see the spell id up in the adress bar, listed at the end of the url.
I'll use Shadow Word: Death as an example.
So as you can see, the spell id of Shadow Word: Death is 32379, and I know the cooldown is 12 sec. I have no idea why they don't list the cooldown on the site, but you can just check it in-game if you don't already know it.
Now you'll need to open the InterruptBar.lua file located in the addon folder (...\World of Warcraft\Interface\Addons\InterruptBar). You'll need to open it with notepad, which you can do by right-clicking it and select Open with... . If notepad isn't listed, press Browse... and go to C:\\Windows and you'll find it there.
Once you've got the file open, it should look like this.
If it doesn't, try to open Format in the notepad menu, and select Word Wrap.
First, we'll add the spell id. This is where we tell the addon which spell to track, and what cooldown the spell has. It should be listed like this:
[spell id] = cooldown
Since we're adding Shadow Word: Death, it should be listed as [32379] = 12. Just add it to the list by following the same pattern as all the other spells are listed. Don't forget the comma and the space. You don't have to worry about which order the spells are listed as.
Note: All cooldowns should be listed in seconds.
Now we're going to tell InterruptBar in which order the spell(s) will be listed in-game.
Above the highlighted list there's another list with all the spell id's of the other spells currently tracked by the addon. If you want, you could add more spell id's to this list, but it's not necessary. This is just a memo to make it easier to identify which spell is which.
In the highlighted list you'll find all the spell id's currently tracked by the addon. They're listed in the order by which they're shown in-game. As you can see, the first spell id listed is 6552. This is the id of Pummel (which you can see in the list above.) Since it's the first id listed, Pummel is the first ability shown in the order of spells listed in-game. After Pummel comes 2139, which will make Counterspell the second spell listed in-game. Since we're adding Shadow Word: Death (32379), we'll have to add it to this list as well, otherwise the addon won't know where to list it, and it won't show up once an enemy uses it. Since it's a priest spell, I'll add it after Psychic Scream. If you look at the spell id list, the id of Psychic Scream is 10890. In the local order, it's listed as the ninth spell, which would mean that I'd have to add Shadow Word: Death as the tenth. All you have to do here is add the id after Psychic Scream, following the same pattern the other spells are listed.
Once you're done with this, save the document and you're all done.
This is how the lua file should look once Shadow Word: Death is added as I've described.
And this is how it'll look in-game.
If you're adding more spells, InterruptBar will obviously take up more and more space on your screen. A tip is to write /ib hidden in-game to hide the addon. Once a cooldown is used, InterruptBar will only show the cooldown in question. This will save you the trouble of having a cluttered ui.
Hopefully this guide helped you. If you have any questions, just ask.
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Edit:
Cube wrote:InterruptBar downloadZatYo wrote:is it possible to make it in 2 columns on tbc?
Found a fix. Download this one instead, and modify it as you wish. If you already have all the spells added that you want, then you can just copy the spell id's and settings from your old lua into this one.
In game, you write /ib columns X, where the X is the amount of columns you want. So if you have twelve spells tracked, and write /ib columns 6, you'll get two rows with six spells in each.
Keep in mind that this InterruptBar is modified for retail, so there's a lot of wierd shit in it. So you'll have to manually modify the spell id's if you want it to work. But if you do, it works just fine.
It's wierd though, because the column command works fine in my wrath version, but if I use the same lua with modified spell id's in tbc, the addon works, but the command doesn't. Not that it matters, this one works just fine.
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Forgot to mention that when you've written the column command you have to reload your ui, which you do by writing /reload ui in-game.
