v4.4.3-alpha.2

DandersFrames Changelog

[Unreleased]

New Features

• (Targeted Spells) On-frame targeted spell icons are back for party frames — an icon appears on the party member an enemy is casting at, so you can spot incoming danger at a glance. Works in dungeons, arenas, and the open world; enable it under Indicators → Targeted Spells. Party members who share the same class, role, race, and sex can't be told apart and won't show an icon — you'll be warned by name when that happens. Technique credit to Ellesmere (EllesmereUI). Raid frames aren't supported.
• (Aura / Text Designer) New Designer Presets — save named presets of your Aura Designer and Text Designer setups and choose which one each mode uses. Each Party / Raid tab gains a Preset selector plus New / Duplicate / Rename / Delete (a non-deletable Default is always available), so you can build different setups — a focused tank layout vs a minimal one, say — and switch between them without rebuilding. Raid auto-layouts can point at their own preset, and editing a preset updates every consumer using it. (by Krathe)
• (Pinned Frames) You can now have more than two pinned sets — up to four, and Party and Raid are independent (e.g. four sets in raid, one in party). The set editor gains a + Add button to create a new set and an × on the active tab to remove one (the last set can't be removed). A counter shows how many sets are defined and how many are currently active, since each enabled set is a live frame group. Use Copy Pinned Frames if you want both modes to match.
• (Pinned Frames) New per-set Hide Auras and Hide Status Icons toggles — strip the buff/debuff (and Aura Designer) display or the status icons from a pinned set for a clean, health-only highlight. (by Krathe)
• (Pinned Frames) New Exclude Self option per pinned set — keeps you out of that set's Auto-add (Tanks/Healers/DPS), handy for Augmentation Evoker and other buff-others playstyles. Works in groups and solo. (by Krathe)
• (Pinned Frames) New Disable in PvP toggle (on by default) — pinned frames stay dormant in arena and battlegrounds, where the constant unit churn could otherwise hurt performance. Turn it off to highlight teammates there. (by Krathe)
• (Pinned Frames) Each pinned set can now choose its own Aura Designer and Text Designer preset — pick one in Frame Style, or leave it on Inherit to follow the mode's preset. Lets a highlighted set show a different aura/text layout from your normal frames. (by Krathe)
• (Pinned Frames) Pinned frames are now independently customisable per party/raid mode: a Frame Style section with a Based on selector (Party / Raid, defaulting to their own mode) sets the inherited look, and the settings that also exist on your main frames — Width, Height and Scale — inherit the chosen frames' value and can be overridden per set, each showing a star and a reset button, just like an auto-layout override. An Override Border toggle lets a set take its own border/glow (snapshotted from the chosen frames, then fully editable, with a one-click reset to re-inherit) to make highlighted players stand out. A party-only Show in Solo Mode toggle keeps them visible when you're not grouped. (by Krathe)

Improvements

• (Pinned Frames) Pinned frame settings are now global per party/raid mode and no longer saved into auto layouts — a raid auto layout only controls whether each pinned set is shown for that layout. This removes the stale/blank pinned data and editor mismatches that came from pinned settings being stored per-layout, and pinned edits now take effect live. (by Krathe)

Bug Fixes

• (Arena) Fixed teammates who load in late sometimes staying missing from your frames for the whole round, and the frame order breaking after a reload mid-match. (by Krathe)
• (Arena) Fixed your frames staying hidden after a reload during a match. (by Krathe)
• (Range) The frame border (and other element borders) now reliably fade out of range, preserved across border re-renders. (by Krathe)
• (Missing Buff) The missing-buff icon no longer flags a cross-faction group member in the open world as needing a buff you can't actually cast on them — it only appears where the buff is castable (e.g. inside instances). (by Krathe)
• (Defensive Icon) The defensive cooldown icon and its border now render above auras and stay co-planar with the icon. (by Krathe)
• (Role Icons) Show Tank / Healer / DPS toggles now apply live without a /reload, and are properly decoupled from the Hide-in-Combat gate. (by Krathe)
• (Raid Frames) Fixed missing frames for players who are still loading in, such as battleground backfills joining mid-match. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) Text-only icons no longer draw a leftover border (static or expiring). (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) Aura icon and square borders from older profiles keep their original look after the border rework, instead of appearing thinner or floating in a gap. (by Krathe)
• (Buff/Debuff) Icon borders from older profiles no longer float in a gap after the border rework — they hug the icon as before. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Filters) Removed the "Important Spells" buff and debuff filter, which Blizzard removed from the game.
• (Click Casting) Fixed Target Unit and the unit menu not working when bound to a keyboard key or an extra mouse button since the 12.0.7 patch (left and right click were unaffected). Known issue: this still doesn't work on Blizzard's default frames — a fix is in progress. Technique credit to Ellesmere (EllesmereUI).

[4.4.1]

Bug Fixes

• (Text Designer) Fixed the Text Designer being left out of the 4.4.0 release, which left its settings page empty and could make frame text disappear. It is now included and working.

[4.4.0]

New Features

• Text Designer is now available in all versions (previously alpha-only) — add any number of custom text elements to your unit frames, each with its own font, size, colour (or class colour), anchor and position. Elements can show live data: identity (name, class, level, race, faction, group number, custom text), health, power, shields & heals, dead/offline status, threat and range. Find it under the Text tab.
• (Frames) Unified border system — every border (frame, buff/debuff icons, aura bars, defensive icons, missing-buff, resource bar, pet frames, targeted spells) now runs through one engine with consistent Style / Colour / Alpha / Gradient controls. (by Krathe)
• (Borders) Added optional border animations — 10 effects (pulse, wipe, ripple, segment reveal, sides/corners-only, proc glow, dash, and more), available wherever a border is drawn. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) Status icons now use crisp modern Blizzard atlas art (ready check, summon, resurrect, phased, vehicle, main tank/assist, AFK), with automatic fallback to the legacy texture. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) Each status-icon section header now shows a live preview — the icon swatch, or its status text when "Show as Text" is on. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) New BG objective carrier icon — lights up a friendly party/raid member carrying a battleground objective (flag or orb). (by Krathe)
• (Role Icon) Custom role icons — choose Blizzard, DF, or your own external texture per role (Tank / Healer / DPS). (by Krathe)
• (AFK Icon) Dedicated Timer Text controls for the elapsed-time counter (font, size, outline, colour, offset). (by Krathe)
• (Fonts) Bundled Roboto Mono (SemiBold/Bold) — a monospaced option for perfectly static countdown text. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) New in-combat indicator — a small crossed-swords icon lights up when a unit is in combat. Off by default, with its own position and size controls. (by Krathe)
• (Auto Layouts) Added /df clearoverride <key|prefix|all> to remove a stuck per-layout override the settings UI can't reach. (by Krathe)
• (Nicknames) New Nicknames feature — show custom names on your party and raid frames. Build a prioritised list from your friends, guild and group, or type names in by hand, and choose how matches are made. Optionally mark nicknamed players with brackets (or other styles) and share your own nickname with the group. Find it under General → Nicknames. (by Maelareth)
• (Nicknames) The Add from lists (friends, guild, group, Battle.net) put online members first, and you can favourite people with the star to pin them to the very top. (by Maelareth)
• (Resource Bar) Added a Color Mode (Power Type / Class / Custom) with a custom-colour picker, and a Texture dropdown so the resource bar can use any statusbar texture. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) New Background Color effect — colour a frame's background when an aura is active (Replace or Tint), with the same Expiring colour override, Pulsate and out-of-range handling as the other effects. (by Krathe)
• (Missing Buff) The missing-buff border can now use Class or Role colour instead of a single fixed colour. (by Krathe)

Improvements

• (Performance) The expiring-border ticker now throttles and staggers per entry to cut overhead when many borders are expiring at once. (by Krathe)
• (Defaults) Tuned some new-profile defaults — buff icon sizing/spacing, stack-count offsets, text outline shadows, and indicator border insets. (by Krathe)
• (Reduced Max Health) The bar's default colour is now a translucent grey instead of opaque black so it reads clearly on a dark health bar; profiles still on the old default are migrated automatically. (by Krathe)
• (Boss Debuffs) Border Scale can now go negative to hide the icon border. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) Reorganised every status-icon's settings into collapsible Settings / Appearance / Position boxes, and changes now apply to live frames instantly — no /reload. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) Renamed "Raid Target Icon" → "Target Marker Icon", with a header preview showing the four common...

v4.4.3-alpha.1

DandersFrames Changelog

[Unreleased]

New Features

• (Targeted Spells) On-frame targeted spell icons are back for party frames — an icon appears on the party member an enemy is casting at, so you can spot incoming danger at a glance. Works in dungeons, arenas, and the open world; enable it under Indicators → Targeted Spells. Party members who share the same class, role, race, and sex can't be told apart and won't show an icon — you'll be warned by name when that happens. Technique credit to Ellesmere (EllesmereUI). Raid frames aren't supported.
• (Aura / Text Designer) New Designer Presets — save named presets of your Aura Designer and Text Designer setups and choose which one each mode uses. Each Party / Raid tab gains a Preset selector plus New / Duplicate / Rename / Delete (a non-deletable Default is always available), so you can build different setups — a focused tank layout vs a minimal one, say — and switch between them without rebuilding. Raid auto-layouts can point at their own preset, and editing a preset updates every consumer using it. (by Krathe)
• (Pinned Frames) You can now have more than two pinned sets — up to four, and Party and Raid are independent (e.g. four sets in raid, one in party). The set editor gains a + Add button to create a new set and an × on the active tab to remove one (the last set can't be removed). A counter shows how many sets are defined and how many are currently active, since each enabled set is a live frame group. Use Copy Pinned Frames if you want both modes to match.
• (Pinned Frames) New per-set Hide Auras and Hide Status Icons toggles — strip the buff/debuff (and Aura Designer) display or the status icons from a pinned set for a clean, health-only highlight. (by Krathe)
• (Pinned Frames) New Exclude Self option per pinned set — keeps you out of that set's Auto-add (Tanks/Healers/DPS), handy for Augmentation Evoker and other buff-others playstyles. Works in groups and solo. (by Krathe)
• (Pinned Frames) New Disable in PvP toggle (on by default) — pinned frames stay dormant in arena and battlegrounds, where the constant unit churn could otherwise hurt performance. Turn it off to highlight teammates there. (by Krathe)
• (Pinned Frames) Each pinned set can now choose its own Aura Designer and Text Designer preset — pick one in Frame Style, or leave it on Inherit to follow the mode's preset. Lets a highlighted set show a different aura/text layout from your normal frames. (by Krathe)
• (Pinned Frames) Pinned frames are now independently customisable per party/raid mode: a Frame Style section with a Based on selector (Party / Raid, defaulting to their own mode) sets the inherited look, and the settings that also exist on your main frames — Width, Height and Scale — inherit the chosen frames' value and can be overridden per set, each showing a star and a reset button, just like an auto-layout override. An Override Border toggle lets a set take its own border/glow (snapshotted from the chosen frames, then fully editable, with a one-click reset to re-inherit) to make highlighted players stand out. A party-only Show in Solo Mode toggle keeps them visible when you're not grouped. (by Krathe)

Improvements

• (Pinned Frames) Pinned frame settings are now global per party/raid mode and no longer saved into auto layouts — a raid auto layout only controls whether each pinned set is shown for that layout. This removes the stale/blank pinned data and editor mismatches that came from pinned settings being stored per-layout, and pinned edits now take effect live. (by Krathe)

Bug Fixes

• (Arena) Fixed teammates who load in late sometimes staying missing from your frames for the whole round, and the frame order breaking after a reload mid-match. (by Krathe)
• (Arena) Fixed your frames staying hidden after a reload during a match. (by Krathe)
• (Range) The frame border (and other element borders) now reliably fade out of range, preserved across border re-renders. (by Krathe)
• (Missing Buff) The missing-buff icon no longer flags a cross-faction group member in the open world as needing a buff you can't actually cast on them — it only appears where the buff is castable (e.g. inside instances). (by Krathe)
• (Defensive Icon) The defensive cooldown icon and its border now render above auras and stay co-planar with the icon. (by Krathe)
• (Role Icons) Show Tank / Healer / DPS toggles now apply live without a /reload, and are properly decoupled from the Hide-in-Combat gate. (by Krathe)
• (Raid Frames) Fixed missing frames for players who are still loading in, such as battleground backfills joining mid-match. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) Text-only icons no longer draw a leftover border (static or expiring). (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) Aura icon and square borders from older profiles keep their original look after the border rework, instead of appearing thinner or floating in a gap. (by Krathe)
• (Buff/Debuff) Icon borders from older profiles no longer float in a gap after the border rework — they hug the icon as before. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Filters) Removed the "Important Spells" buff and debuff filter, which Blizzard removed from the game.
• (Click Casting) Fixed Target Unit and the unit menu not working when bound to a keyboard key or an extra mouse button since the 12.0.7 patch (left and right click were unaffected). Technique credit to Ellesmere (EllesmereUI).

[4.4.1]

Bug Fixes

• (Text Designer) Fixed the Text Designer being left out of the 4.4.0 release, which left its settings page empty and could make frame text disappear. It is now included and working.

[4.4.0]

New Features

• Text Designer is now available in all versions (previously alpha-only) — add any number of custom text elements to your unit frames, each with its own font, size, colour (or class colour), anchor and position. Elements can show live data: identity (name, class, level, race, faction, group number, custom text), health, power, shields & heals, dead/offline status, threat and range. Find it under the Text tab.
• (Frames) Unified border system — every border (frame, buff/debuff icons, aura bars, defensive icons, missing-buff, resource bar, pet frames, targeted spells) now runs through one engine with consistent Style / Colour / Alpha / Gradient controls. (by Krathe)
• (Borders) Added optional border animations — 10 effects (pulse, wipe, ripple, segment reveal, sides/corners-only, proc glow, dash, and more), available wherever a border is drawn. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) Status icons now use crisp modern Blizzard atlas art (ready check, summon, resurrect, phased, vehicle, main tank/assist, AFK), with automatic fallback to the legacy texture. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) Each status-icon section header now shows a live preview — the icon swatch, or its status text when "Show as Text" is on. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) New BG objective carrier icon — lights up a friendly party/raid member carrying a battleground objective (flag or orb). (by Krathe)
• (Role Icon) Custom role icons — choose Blizzard, DF, or your own external texture per role (Tank / Healer / DPS). (by Krathe)
• (AFK Icon) Dedicated Timer Text controls for the elapsed-time counter (font, size, outline, colour, offset). (by Krathe)
• (Fonts) Bundled Roboto Mono (SemiBold/Bold) — a monospaced option for perfectly static countdown text. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) New in-combat indicator — a small crossed-swords icon lights up when a unit is in combat. Off by default, with its own position and size controls. (by Krathe)
• (Auto Layouts) Added /df clearoverride <key|prefix|all> to remove a stuck per-layout override the settings UI can't reach. (by Krathe)
• (Nicknames) New Nicknames feature — show custom names on your party and raid frames. Build a prioritised list from your friends, guild and group, or type names in by hand, and choose how matches are made. Optionally mark nicknamed players with brackets (or other styles) and share your own nickname with the group. Find it under General → Nicknames. (by Maelareth)
• (Nicknames) The Add from lists (friends, guild, group, Battle.net) put online members first, and you can favourite people with the star to pin them to the very top. (by Maelareth)
• (Resource Bar) Added a Color Mode (Power Type / Class / Custom) with a custom-colour picker, and a Texture dropdown so the resource bar can use any statusbar texture. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) New Background Color effect — colour a frame's background when an aura is active (Replace or Tint), with the same Expiring colour override, Pulsate and out-of-range handling as the other effects. (by Krathe)
• (Missing Buff) The missing-buff border can now use Class or Role colour instead of a single fixed colour. (by Krathe)

Improvements

• (Performance) The expiring-border ticker now throttles and staggers per entry to cut overhead when many borders are expiring at once. (by Krathe)
• (Defaults) Tuned some new-profile defaults — buff icon sizing/spacing, stack-count offsets, text outline shadows, and indicator border insets. (by Krathe)
• (Reduced Max Health) The bar's default colour is now a translucent grey instead of opaque black so it reads clearly on a dark health bar; profiles still on the old default are migrated automatically. (by Krathe)
• (Boss Debuffs) Border Scale can now go negative to hide the icon border. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) Reorganised every status-icon's settings into collapsible Settings / Appearance / Position boxes, and changes now apply to live frames instantly — no /reload. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) Renamed "Raid Target Icon" → "Target Marker Icon", with a header preview showing the four common markers. (by Krathe)
• (Test Mode) The separate Status / Ready and Role / Leader ...

v4.4.2

DandersFrames Changelog

[4.4.2]

Bug Fixes

• (Aura Filters) Removed the "Important Spells" buff and debuff filter, which Blizzard removed from the game.
• (Click Casting) Fixed Target Unit and the unit menu not working when bound to a keyboard key or an extra mouse button since the 12.0.7 patch (left and right click were unaffected). Known issue: this still doesn't work on Blizzard's default frames — a fix is in progress. Technique credit to Ellesmere (EllesmereUI).

[4.4.1]

Bug Fixes

• (Text Designer) Fixed the Text Designer being left out of the 4.4.0 release, which left its settings page empty and could make frame text disappear. It is now included and working.

[4.4.0]

New Features

• Text Designer is now available in all versions (previously alpha-only) — add any number of custom text elements to your unit frames, each with its own font, size, colour (or class colour), anchor and position. Elements can show live data: identity (name, class, level, race, faction, group number, custom text), health, power, shields & heals, dead/offline status, threat and range. Find it under the Text tab.
• (Frames) Unified border system — every border (frame, buff/debuff icons, aura bars, defensive icons, missing-buff, resource bar, pet frames, targeted spells) now runs through one engine with consistent Style / Colour / Alpha / Gradient controls. (by Krathe)
• (Borders) Added optional border animations — 10 effects (pulse, wipe, ripple, segment reveal, sides/corners-only, proc glow, dash, and more), available wherever a border is drawn. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) Status icons now use crisp modern Blizzard atlas art (ready check, summon, resurrect, phased, vehicle, main tank/assist, AFK), with automatic fallback to the legacy texture. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) Each status-icon section header now shows a live preview — the icon swatch, or its status text when "Show as Text" is on. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) New BG objective carrier icon — lights up a friendly party/raid member carrying a battleground objective (flag or orb). (by Krathe)
• (Role Icon) Custom role icons — choose Blizzard, DF, or your own external texture per role (Tank / Healer / DPS). (by Krathe)
• (AFK Icon) Dedicated Timer Text controls for the elapsed-time counter (font, size, outline, colour, offset). (by Krathe)
• (Fonts) Bundled Roboto Mono (SemiBold/Bold) — a monospaced option for perfectly static countdown text. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) New in-combat indicator — a small crossed-swords icon lights up when a unit is in combat. Off by default, with its own position and size controls. (by Krathe)
• (Auto Layouts) Added /df clearoverride <key|prefix|all> to remove a stuck per-layout override the settings UI can't reach. (by Krathe)
• (Nicknames) New Nicknames feature — show custom names on your party and raid frames. Build a prioritised list from your friends, guild and group, or type names in by hand, and choose how matches are made. Optionally mark nicknamed players with brackets (or other styles) and share your own nickname with the group. Find it under General → Nicknames. (by Maelareth)
• (Nicknames) The Add from lists (friends, guild, group, Battle.net) put online members first, and you can favourite people with the star to pin them to the very top. (by Maelareth)
• (Resource Bar) Added a Color Mode (Power Type / Class / Custom) with a custom-colour picker, and a Texture dropdown so the resource bar can use any statusbar texture. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) New Background Color effect — colour a frame's background when an aura is active (Replace or Tint), with the same Expiring colour override, Pulsate and out-of-range handling as the other effects. (by Krathe)
• (Missing Buff) The missing-buff border can now use Class or Role colour instead of a single fixed colour. (by Krathe)

Improvements

• (Performance) The expiring-border ticker now throttles and staggers per entry to cut overhead when many borders are expiring at once. (by Krathe)
• (Defaults) Tuned some new-profile defaults — buff icon sizing/spacing, stack-count offsets, text outline shadows, and indicator border insets. (by Krathe)
• (Reduced Max Health) The bar's default colour is now a translucent grey instead of opaque black so it reads clearly on a dark health bar; profiles still on the old default are migrated automatically. (by Krathe)
• (Boss Debuffs) Border Scale can now go negative to hide the icon border. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) Reorganised every status-icon's settings into collapsible Settings / Appearance / Position boxes, and changes now apply to live frames instantly — no /reload. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) Renamed "Raid Target Icon" → "Target Marker Icon", with a header preview showing the four common markers. (by Krathe)
• (Test Mode) The separate Status / Ready and Role / Leader preview toggles are now a single Icons toggle, matching the live status-icon grouping. (by Krathe)
• (Auto Layouts) The override tooltip and /df overrides now read clearly — each changed setting shows as a breadcrumb path with its value, and the override counts agree everywhere. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) Expiring health-bar highlights now pulse in unison across all frames instead of each frame pulsing on its own timing. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) The health-bar indicator's Tint mode has a new Tint Entire Bar option — tint the whole bar including the missing-health portion. (by Krathe)
• (Text) The built-in Name, Health, and Status text settings are now handled entirely by the Text Designer — the older text pages are hidden and your existing text is converted to Text Designer elements automatically. Customise all frame text under the Text tab.
• (Resource Bar) Added Maelstrom and Pain to the per-power resource colour options, so Shaman and Vengeance Demon Hunter resource bars can be recoloured. (by Krathe)
• Moved Pixel-Perfect Scaling to General → Settings, since it applies globally to both party and raid. (by Krathe)
• (Nicknames) Northern Sky Raid Tools compatibility — when NSRT is also set to put nicknames on DandersFrames frames, a one-time prompt lets you choose which addon decides the names shown on your frames (changeable later under General → Nicknames → Name precedence). (by Maelareth)
• (Aura Designer) Alert sounds now play on the Master channel by default, so they stay audible even with Sound Effects or Music muted; a new Channel dropdown lets you pick a different channel. (by Krathe)
• Ready for patch 12.0.7 — the addon-compartment tooltip and the frame mover's Ready Check action keep working on the new patch. (by Krathe)

Bug Fixes

• (Pinned Frames) Fixed a freeze ("script ran too long") when entering an arena or battleground; pinned frames now stay dormant in instanced PvP, with an option to re-enable them. (by Krathe)
• (Sorting) Group frames no longer reshuffle mid-fight when members share the same sort position, and hidden unit information during Mythic+ encounters no longer causes errors. (by Krathe)
• (Status Icons) Fixed an error from AFK tracking during Mythic+ encounters. (by Krathe)
• (Resource Bar) The colour now updates correctly when your power type changes (for example, on shapeshift). (by Krathe)
• (Auto Layouts) While in a raid you can now only edit the active layout, so editing no longer disturbs your live raid frames. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) Fixed frame-level effects sometimes missing from the live preview. (by Krathe)
• (Defensive Icons) Fixed icon positions drifting from where test mode shows them at non-default icon scales. (by Krathe)
• (Reduced Max Health) The reduced-max-health overlay now follows the health bar's orientation, including vertical bars. (by Krathe)
• (Range) Frame and element borders — including Aura Designer border effects — now reliably fade out of range. (by Krathe)
• (Missing Buff) No longer flags a cross-faction group member in the open world for a buff you can't cast on them. (by Krathe)
• (Defensive Icon) The defensive cooldown icon and its border now render above auras. (by Krathe)
• (Role Icons) Show Tank / Healer / DPS toggles now apply live without a /reload. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) Indicators are torn down when the Aura Designer is disabled, and re-applied on profile swap. (by Krathe)
• (Targeted Spells) The targeted list no longer appears in test mode when the feature is disabled. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) Replace-mode health-bar highlight fixes — no more flicker on phased or out-of-range units, no bleeding over the frame border, and the expiring Pulsate option now works. (by Krathe)
• (Test Mode) Replaced several test-mode buff/debuff preview icons that pointed at art removed in Midnight, so they no longer render blank. (by Krathe)
• (Designers) The Aura/Text Designer preview now rebuilds to the frame size of the auto layout being edited, and edits keep applying to test-mode frames after switching between auto layouts. (by Krathe)
• (Frames) Bars referencing a texture you don't have installed now fall back to the bundled default with a one-time notice, instead of rendering black. (Requires WoW 12.0.7.) (by Krathe)

[4.3.12]

New Features

• (Heal Prediction) Added a "Show Heals From" option — All Incoming, My Heals, Others' Heals, or Split — letting you choose which incoming heals the bar shows. Split draws your heals and other healers' heals as separate coloured segments. (PR #109 by Krathe)
• Added a /df attached command that lists other addons attaching castbars, cooldowns or auras to your frames — handy for telling apart DF features from another addon's. (PR #104 by Krathe)
• (Click Casting) Added a "Target unit when click-casting" option — click-casting a spell on a frame can now also make that unit your ta...

v4.4.2-alpha.2

DandersFrames Changelog

[Unreleased]

Bug Fixes

• (Aura Filters) Removed the "Important Spells" buff and debuff filter, which Blizzard removed from the game.
• (Click Casting) Fixed Target Unit and the unit menu not working when bound to a keyboard key or an extra mouse button since the 12.0.7 patch (left and right click were unaffected). Technique credit to Ellesmere (EllesmereUI).

[4.4.1]

Bug Fixes

• (Text Designer) Fixed the Text Designer being left out of the 4.4.0 release, which left its settings page empty and could make frame text disappear. It is now included and working.

[4.4.0]

New Features

• Text Designer is now available in all versions (previously alpha-only) — add any number of custom text elements to your unit frames, each with its own font, size, colour (or class colour), anchor and position. Elements can show live data: identity (name, class, level, race, faction, group number, custom text), health, power, shields & heals, dead/offline status, threat and range. Find it under the Text tab.
• (Frames) Unified border system — every border (frame, buff/debuff icons, aura bars, defensive icons, missing-buff, resource bar, pet frames, targeted spells) now runs through one engine with consistent Style / Colour / Alpha / Gradient controls. (by Krathe)
• (Borders) Added optional border animations — 10 effects (pulse, wipe, ripple, segment reveal, sides/corners-only, proc glow, dash, and more), available wherever a border is drawn. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) Status icons now use crisp modern Blizzard atlas art (ready check, summon, resurrect, phased, vehicle, main tank/assist, AFK), with automatic fallback to the legacy texture. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) Each status-icon section header now shows a live preview — the icon swatch, or its status text when "Show as Text" is on. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) New BG objective carrier icon — lights up a friendly party/raid member carrying a battleground objective (flag or orb). (by Krathe)
• (Role Icon) Custom role icons — choose Blizzard, DF, or your own external texture per role (Tank / Healer / DPS). (by Krathe)
• (AFK Icon) Dedicated Timer Text controls for the elapsed-time counter (font, size, outline, colour, offset). (by Krathe)
• (Fonts) Bundled Roboto Mono (SemiBold/Bold) — a monospaced option for perfectly static countdown text. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) New in-combat indicator — a small crossed-swords icon lights up when a unit is in combat. Off by default, with its own position and size controls. (by Krathe)
• (Auto Layouts) Added /df clearoverride <key|prefix|all> to remove a stuck per-layout override the settings UI can't reach. (by Krathe)
• (Nicknames) New Nicknames feature — show custom names on your party and raid frames. Build a prioritised list from your friends, guild and group, or type names in by hand, and choose how matches are made. Optionally mark nicknamed players with brackets (or other styles) and share your own nickname with the group. Find it under General → Nicknames. (by Maelareth)
• (Nicknames) The Add from lists (friends, guild, group, Battle.net) put online members first, and you can favourite people with the star to pin them to the very top. (by Maelareth)
• (Resource Bar) Added a Color Mode (Power Type / Class / Custom) with a custom-colour picker, and a Texture dropdown so the resource bar can use any statusbar texture. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) New Background Color effect — colour a frame's background when an aura is active (Replace or Tint), with the same Expiring colour override, Pulsate and out-of-range handling as the other effects. (by Krathe)
• (Missing Buff) The missing-buff border can now use Class or Role colour instead of a single fixed colour. (by Krathe)

Improvements

• (Performance) The expiring-border ticker now throttles and staggers per entry to cut overhead when many borders are expiring at once. (by Krathe)
• (Defaults) Tuned some new-profile defaults — buff icon sizing/spacing, stack-count offsets, text outline shadows, and indicator border insets. (by Krathe)
• (Reduced Max Health) The bar's default colour is now a translucent grey instead of opaque black so it reads clearly on a dark health bar; profiles still on the old default are migrated automatically. (by Krathe)
• (Boss Debuffs) Border Scale can now go negative to hide the icon border. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) Reorganised every status-icon's settings into collapsible Settings / Appearance / Position boxes, and changes now apply to live frames instantly — no /reload. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) Renamed "Raid Target Icon" → "Target Marker Icon", with a header preview showing the four common markers. (by Krathe)
• (Test Mode) The separate Status / Ready and Role / Leader preview toggles are now a single Icons toggle, matching the live status-icon grouping. (by Krathe)
• (Auto Layouts) The override tooltip and /df overrides now read clearly — each changed setting shows as a breadcrumb path with its value, and the override counts agree everywhere. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) Expiring health-bar highlights now pulse in unison across all frames instead of each frame pulsing on its own timing. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) The health-bar indicator's Tint mode has a new Tint Entire Bar option — tint the whole bar including the missing-health portion. (by Krathe)
• (Text) The built-in Name, Health, and Status text settings are now handled entirely by the Text Designer — the older text pages are hidden and your existing text is converted to Text Designer elements automatically. Customise all frame text under the Text tab.
• (Resource Bar) Added Maelstrom and Pain to the per-power resource colour options, so Shaman and Vengeance Demon Hunter resource bars can be recoloured. (by Krathe)
• Moved Pixel-Perfect Scaling to General → Settings, since it applies globally to both party and raid. (by Krathe)
• (Nicknames) Northern Sky Raid Tools compatibility — when NSRT is also set to put nicknames on DandersFrames frames, a one-time prompt lets you choose which addon decides the names shown on your frames (changeable later under General → Nicknames → Name precedence). (by Maelareth)
• (Aura Designer) Alert sounds now play on the Master channel by default, so they stay audible even with Sound Effects or Music muted; a new Channel dropdown lets you pick a different channel. (by Krathe)
• Ready for patch 12.0.7 — the addon-compartment tooltip and the frame mover's Ready Check action keep working on the new patch. (by Krathe)

Bug Fixes

• (Pinned Frames) Fixed a freeze ("script ran too long") when entering an arena or battleground; pinned frames now stay dormant in instanced PvP, with an option to re-enable them. (by Krathe)
• (Sorting) Group frames no longer reshuffle mid-fight when members share the same sort position, and hidden unit information during Mythic+ encounters no longer causes errors. (by Krathe)
• (Status Icons) Fixed an error from AFK tracking during Mythic+ encounters. (by Krathe)
• (Resource Bar) The colour now updates correctly when your power type changes (for example, on shapeshift). (by Krathe)
• (Auto Layouts) While in a raid you can now only edit the active layout, so editing no longer disturbs your live raid frames. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) Fixed frame-level effects sometimes missing from the live preview. (by Krathe)
• (Defensive Icons) Fixed icon positions drifting from where test mode shows them at non-default icon scales. (by Krathe)
• (Reduced Max Health) The reduced-max-health overlay now follows the health bar's orientation, including vertical bars. (by Krathe)
• (Range) Frame and element borders — including Aura Designer border effects — now reliably fade out of range. (by Krathe)
• (Missing Buff) No longer flags a cross-faction group member in the open world for a buff you can't cast on them. (by Krathe)
• (Defensive Icon) The defensive cooldown icon and its border now render above auras. (by Krathe)
• (Role Icons) Show Tank / Healer / DPS toggles now apply live without a /reload. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) Indicators are torn down when the Aura Designer is disabled, and re-applied on profile swap. (by Krathe)
• (Targeted Spells) The targeted list no longer appears in test mode when the feature is disabled. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) Replace-mode health-bar highlight fixes — no more flicker on phased or out-of-range units, no bleeding over the frame border, and the expiring Pulsate option now works. (by Krathe)
• (Test Mode) Replaced several test-mode buff/debuff preview icons that pointed at art removed in Midnight, so they no longer render blank. (by Krathe)
• (Designers) The Aura/Text Designer preview now rebuilds to the frame size of the auto layout being edited, and edits keep applying to test-mode frames after switching between auto layouts. (by Krathe)
• (Frames) Bars referencing a texture you don't have installed now fall back to the bundled default with a one-time notice, instead of rendering black. (Requires WoW 12.0.7.) (by Krathe)

[4.3.12]

New Features

• (Heal Prediction) Added a "Show Heals From" option — All Incoming, My Heals, Others' Heals, or Split — letting you choose which incoming heals the bar shows. Split draws your heals and other healers' heals as separate coloured segments. (PR #109 by Krathe)
• Added a /df attached command that lists other addons attaching castbars, cooldowns or auras to your frames — handy for telling apart DF features from another addon's. (PR #104 by Krathe)
• (Click Casting) Added a "Target unit when click-casting" option — click-casting a spell on a frame can now also make that unit your target. Set it globally in the Click Casting profiles panel, or override it per-binding...

v4.4.2-alpha.1

DandersFrames Changelog

[Unreleased]

New Features

• (Targeted Spells) On-frame targeted spell icons are back for party frames — an icon appears on the party member an enemy is casting at, so you can spot incoming danger at a glance. Works in dungeons, arenas, and the open world; enable it under Indicators → Targeted Spells. Party members who share the same class, role, race, and sex can't be told apart and won't show an icon — you'll be warned by name when that happens. Technique credit to Ellesmere (EllesmereUI). Raid frames aren't supported.
• (Aura / Text Designer) New Designer Presets — save named presets of your Aura Designer and Text Designer setups and choose which one each mode uses. Each Party / Raid tab gains a Preset selector plus New / Duplicate / Rename / Delete (a non-deletable Default is always available), so you can build different setups — a focused tank layout vs a minimal one, say — and switch between them without rebuilding. Raid auto-layouts can point at their own preset, and editing a preset updates every consumer using it. (by Krathe)
• (Pinned Frames) You can now have more than two pinned sets — up to four, and Party and Raid are independent (e.g. four sets in raid, one in party). The set editor gains a + Add button to create a new set and an × on the active tab to remove one (the last set can't be removed). A counter shows how many sets are defined and how many are currently active, since each enabled set is a live frame group. Use Copy Pinned Frames if you want both modes to match.
• (Pinned Frames) New per-set Hide Auras and Hide Status Icons toggles — strip the buff/debuff (and Aura Designer) display or the status icons from a pinned set for a clean, health-only highlight. (by Krathe)
• (Pinned Frames) New Exclude Self option per pinned set — keeps you out of that set's Auto-add (Tanks/Healers/DPS), handy for Augmentation Evoker and other buff-others playstyles. Works in groups and solo. (by Krathe)
• (Pinned Frames) New Disable in PvP toggle (on by default) — pinned frames stay dormant in arena and battlegrounds, where the constant unit churn could otherwise hurt performance. Turn it off to highlight teammates there. (by Krathe)
• (Pinned Frames) Each pinned set can now choose its own Aura Designer and Text Designer preset — pick one in Frame Style, or leave it on Inherit to follow the mode's preset. Lets a highlighted set show a different aura/text layout from your normal frames. (by Krathe)
• (Pinned Frames) Pinned frames are now independently customisable per party/raid mode: a Frame Style section with a Based on selector (Party / Raid, defaulting to their own mode) sets the inherited look, and the settings that also exist on your main frames — Width, Height and Scale — inherit the chosen frames' value and can be overridden per set, each showing a star and a reset button, just like an auto-layout override. An Override Border toggle lets a set take its own border/glow (snapshotted from the chosen frames, then fully editable, with a one-click reset to re-inherit) to make highlighted players stand out. A party-only Show in Solo Mode toggle keeps them visible when you're not grouped. (by Krathe)

Improvements

• (Pinned Frames) Pinned frame settings are now global per party/raid mode and no longer saved into auto layouts — a raid auto layout only controls whether each pinned set is shown for that layout. This removes the stale/blank pinned data and editor mismatches that came from pinned settings being stored per-layout, and pinned edits now take effect live. (by Krathe)

Bug Fixes

• (Arena) Fixed teammates who load in late sometimes staying missing from your frames for the whole round, and the frame order breaking after a reload mid-match. (by Krathe)
• (Arena) Fixed your frames staying hidden after a reload during a match. (by Krathe)
• (Range) The frame border (and other element borders) now reliably fade out of range, preserved across border re-renders. (by Krathe)
• (Missing Buff) The missing-buff icon no longer flags a cross-faction group member in the open world as needing a buff you can't actually cast on them — it only appears where the buff is castable (e.g. inside instances). (by Krathe)
• (Defensive Icon) The defensive cooldown icon and its border now render above auras and stay co-planar with the icon. (by Krathe)
• (Role Icons) Show Tank / Healer / DPS toggles now apply live without a /reload, and are properly decoupled from the Hide-in-Combat gate. (by Krathe)
• (Raid Frames) Fixed missing frames for players who are still loading in, such as battleground backfills joining mid-match. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) Text-only icons no longer draw a leftover border (static or expiring). (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) Aura icon and square borders from older profiles keep their original look after the border rework, instead of appearing thinner or floating in a gap. (by Krathe)
• (Buff/Debuff) Icon borders from older profiles no longer float in a gap after the border rework — they hug the icon as before. (by Krathe)

[4.4.1]

Bug Fixes

• (Text Designer) Fixed the Text Designer being left out of the 4.4.0 release, which left its settings page empty and could make frame text disappear. It is now included and working.

[4.4.0]

New Features

• Text Designer is now available in all versions (previously alpha-only) — add any number of custom text elements to your unit frames, each with its own font, size, colour (or class colour), anchor and position. Elements can show live data: identity (name, class, level, race, faction, group number, custom text), health, power, shields & heals, dead/offline status, threat and range. Find it under the Text tab.
• (Frames) Unified border system — every border (frame, buff/debuff icons, aura bars, defensive icons, missing-buff, resource bar, pet frames, targeted spells) now runs through one engine with consistent Style / Colour / Alpha / Gradient controls. (by Krathe)
• (Borders) Added optional border animations — 10 effects (pulse, wipe, ripple, segment reveal, sides/corners-only, proc glow, dash, and more), available wherever a border is drawn. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) Status icons now use crisp modern Blizzard atlas art (ready check, summon, resurrect, phased, vehicle, main tank/assist, AFK), with automatic fallback to the legacy texture. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) Each status-icon section header now shows a live preview — the icon swatch, or its status text when "Show as Text" is on. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) New BG objective carrier icon — lights up a friendly party/raid member carrying a battleground objective (flag or orb). (by Krathe)
• (Role Icon) Custom role icons — choose Blizzard, DF, or your own external texture per role (Tank / Healer / DPS). (by Krathe)
• (AFK Icon) Dedicated Timer Text controls for the elapsed-time counter (font, size, outline, colour, offset). (by Krathe)
• (Fonts) Bundled Roboto Mono (SemiBold/Bold) — a monospaced option for perfectly static countdown text. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) New in-combat indicator — a small crossed-swords icon lights up when a unit is in combat. Off by default, with its own position and size controls. (by Krathe)
• (Auto Layouts) Added /df clearoverride <key|prefix|all> to remove a stuck per-layout override the settings UI can't reach. (by Krathe)
• (Nicknames) New Nicknames feature — show custom names on your party and raid frames. Build a prioritised list from your friends, guild and group, or type names in by hand, and choose how matches are made. Optionally mark nicknamed players with brackets (or other styles) and share your own nickname with the group. Find it under General → Nicknames. (by Maelareth)
• (Nicknames) The Add from lists (friends, guild, group, Battle.net) put online members first, and you can favourite people with the star to pin them to the very top. (by Maelareth)
• (Resource Bar) Added a Color Mode (Power Type / Class / Custom) with a custom-colour picker, and a Texture dropdown so the resource bar can use any statusbar texture. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) New Background Color effect — colour a frame's background when an aura is active (Replace or Tint), with the same Expiring colour override, Pulsate and out-of-range handling as the other effects. (by Krathe)
• (Missing Buff) The missing-buff border can now use Class or Role colour instead of a single fixed colour. (by Krathe)

Improvements

• (Performance) The expiring-border ticker now throttles and staggers per entry to cut overhead when many borders are expiring at once. (by Krathe)
• (Defaults) Tuned some new-profile defaults — buff icon sizing/spacing, stack-count offsets, text outline shadows, and indicator border insets. (by Krathe)
• (Reduced Max Health) The bar's default colour is now a translucent grey instead of opaque black so it reads clearly on a dark health bar; profiles still on the old default are migrated automatically. (by Krathe)
• (Boss Debuffs) Border Scale can now go negative to hide the icon border. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) Reorganised every status-icon's settings into collapsible Settings / Appearance / Position boxes, and changes now apply to live frames instantly — no /reload. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) Renamed "Raid Target Icon" → "Target Marker Icon", with a header preview showing the four common markers. (by Krathe)
• (Test Mode) The separate Status / Ready and Role / Leader preview toggles are now a single Icons toggle, matching the live status-icon grouping. (by Krathe)
• (Auto Layouts) The override tooltip and /df overrides now read clearly — each changed setting shows as a breadcrumb path with its value, and the override counts agree everywhere. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) Expiring health-ba...

v4.4.1

DandersFrames Changelog

[4.4.1]

Bug Fixes

• (Text Designer) Fixed the Text Designer being left out of the 4.4.0 release, which left its settings page empty and could make frame text disappear. It is now included and working.

[4.4.0]

New Features

• Text Designer is now available in all versions (previously alpha-only) — add any number of custom text elements to your unit frames, each with its own font, size, colour (or class colour), anchor and position. Elements can show live data: identity (name, class, level, race, faction, group number, custom text), health, power, shields & heals, dead/offline status, threat and range. Find it under the Text tab.
• (Frames) Unified border system — every border (frame, buff/debuff icons, aura bars, defensive icons, missing-buff, resource bar, pet frames, targeted spells) now runs through one engine with consistent Style / Colour / Alpha / Gradient controls. (by Krathe)
• (Borders) Added optional border animations — 10 effects (pulse, wipe, ripple, segment reveal, sides/corners-only, proc glow, dash, and more), available wherever a border is drawn. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) Status icons now use crisp modern Blizzard atlas art (ready check, summon, resurrect, phased, vehicle, main tank/assist, AFK), with automatic fallback to the legacy texture. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) Each status-icon section header now shows a live preview — the icon swatch, or its status text when "Show as Text" is on. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) New BG objective carrier icon — lights up a friendly party/raid member carrying a battleground objective (flag or orb). (by Krathe)
• (Role Icon) Custom role icons — choose Blizzard, DF, or your own external texture per role (Tank / Healer / DPS). (by Krathe)
• (AFK Icon) Dedicated Timer Text controls for the elapsed-time counter (font, size, outline, colour, offset). (by Krathe)
• (Fonts) Bundled Roboto Mono (SemiBold/Bold) — a monospaced option for perfectly static countdown text. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) New in-combat indicator — a small crossed-swords icon lights up when a unit is in combat. Off by default, with its own position and size controls. (by Krathe)
• (Auto Layouts) Added /df clearoverride <key|prefix|all> to remove a stuck per-layout override the settings UI can't reach. (by Krathe)
• (Nicknames) New Nicknames feature — show custom names on your party and raid frames. Build a prioritised list from your friends, guild and group, or type names in by hand, and choose how matches are made. Optionally mark nicknamed players with brackets (or other styles) and share your own nickname with the group. Find it under General → Nicknames. (by Maelareth)
• (Nicknames) The Add from lists (friends, guild, group, Battle.net) put online members first, and you can favourite people with the star to pin them to the very top. (by Maelareth)
• (Resource Bar) Added a Color Mode (Power Type / Class / Custom) with a custom-colour picker, and a Texture dropdown so the resource bar can use any statusbar texture. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) New Background Color effect — colour a frame's background when an aura is active (Replace or Tint), with the same Expiring colour override, Pulsate and out-of-range handling as the other effects. (by Krathe)
• (Missing Buff) The missing-buff border can now use Class or Role colour instead of a single fixed colour. (by Krathe)

Improvements

• (Performance) The expiring-border ticker now throttles and staggers per entry to cut overhead when many borders are expiring at once. (by Krathe)
• (Defaults) Tuned some new-profile defaults — buff icon sizing/spacing, stack-count offsets, text outline shadows, and indicator border insets. (by Krathe)
• (Reduced Max Health) The bar's default colour is now a translucent grey instead of opaque black so it reads clearly on a dark health bar; profiles still on the old default are migrated automatically. (by Krathe)
• (Boss Debuffs) Border Scale can now go negative to hide the icon border. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) Reorganised every status-icon's settings into collapsible Settings / Appearance / Position boxes, and changes now apply to live frames instantly — no /reload. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) Renamed "Raid Target Icon" → "Target Marker Icon", with a header preview showing the four common markers. (by Krathe)
• (Test Mode) The separate Status / Ready and Role / Leader preview toggles are now a single Icons toggle, matching the live status-icon grouping. (by Krathe)
• (Auto Layouts) The override tooltip and /df overrides now read clearly — each changed setting shows as a breadcrumb path with its value, and the override counts agree everywhere. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) Expiring health-bar highlights now pulse in unison across all frames instead of each frame pulsing on its own timing. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) The health-bar indicator's Tint mode has a new Tint Entire Bar option — tint the whole bar including the missing-health portion. (by Krathe)
• (Text) The built-in Name, Health, and Status text settings are now handled entirely by the Text Designer — the older text pages are hidden and your existing text is converted to Text Designer elements automatically. Customise all frame text under the Text tab.
• (Resource Bar) Added Maelstrom and Pain to the per-power resource colour options, so Shaman and Vengeance Demon Hunter resource bars can be recoloured. (by Krathe)
• Moved Pixel-Perfect Scaling to General → Settings, since it applies globally to both party and raid. (by Krathe)
• (Nicknames) Northern Sky Raid Tools compatibility — when NSRT is also set to put nicknames on DandersFrames frames, a one-time prompt lets you choose which addon decides the names shown on your frames (changeable later under General → Nicknames → Name precedence). (by Maelareth)
• (Aura Designer) Alert sounds now play on the Master channel by default, so they stay audible even with Sound Effects or Music muted; a new Channel dropdown lets you pick a different channel. (by Krathe)
• Ready for patch 12.0.7 — the addon-compartment tooltip and the frame mover's Ready Check action keep working on the new patch. (by Krathe)

Bug Fixes

• (Pinned Frames) Fixed a freeze ("script ran too long") when entering an arena or battleground; pinned frames now stay dormant in instanced PvP, with an option to re-enable them. (by Krathe)
• (Sorting) Group frames no longer reshuffle mid-fight when members share the same sort position, and hidden unit information during Mythic+ encounters no longer causes errors. (by Krathe)
• (Status Icons) Fixed an error from AFK tracking during Mythic+ encounters. (by Krathe)
• (Resource Bar) The colour now updates correctly when your power type changes (for example, on shapeshift). (by Krathe)
• (Auto Layouts) While in a raid you can now only edit the active layout, so editing no longer disturbs your live raid frames. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) Fixed frame-level effects sometimes missing from the live preview. (by Krathe)
• (Defensive Icons) Fixed icon positions drifting from where test mode shows them at non-default icon scales. (by Krathe)
• (Reduced Max Health) The reduced-max-health overlay now follows the health bar's orientation, including vertical bars. (by Krathe)
• (Range) Frame and element borders — including Aura Designer border effects — now reliably fade out of range. (by Krathe)
• (Missing Buff) No longer flags a cross-faction group member in the open world for a buff you can't cast on them. (by Krathe)
• (Defensive Icon) The defensive cooldown icon and its border now render above auras. (by Krathe)
• (Role Icons) Show Tank / Healer / DPS toggles now apply live without a /reload. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) Indicators are torn down when the Aura Designer is disabled, and re-applied on profile swap. (by Krathe)
• (Targeted Spells) The targeted list no longer appears in test mode when the feature is disabled. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) Replace-mode health-bar highlight fixes — no more flicker on phased or out-of-range units, no bleeding over the frame border, and the expiring Pulsate option now works. (by Krathe)
• (Test Mode) Replaced several test-mode buff/debuff preview icons that pointed at art removed in Midnight, so they no longer render blank. (by Krathe)
• (Designers) The Aura/Text Designer preview now rebuilds to the frame size of the auto layout being edited, and edits keep applying to test-mode frames after switching between auto layouts. (by Krathe)
• (Frames) Bars referencing a texture you don't have installed now fall back to the bundled default with a one-time notice, instead of rendering black. (Requires WoW 12.0.7.) (by Krathe)

[4.3.12]

New Features

• (Heal Prediction) Added a "Show Heals From" option — All Incoming, My Heals, Others' Heals, or Split — letting you choose which incoming heals the bar shows. Split draws your heals and other healers' heals as separate coloured segments. (PR #109 by Krathe)
• Added a /df attached command that lists other addons attaching castbars, cooldowns or auras to your frames — handy for telling apart DF features from another addon's. (PR #104 by Krathe)
• (Click Casting) Added a "Target unit when click-casting" option — click-casting a spell on a frame can now also make that unit your target. Set it globally in the Click Casting profiles panel, or override it per-binding under Advanced → Macro Options. (PR #116 by Krathe)
• (Fonts) Expanded text styling across every font setting: added Monochrome, Monochrome Outline, and Monochrome Thick Outline outline styles; a drop shadow can now be combined with any outline (each font now has its own Shadow checkbox) instead of being mutually exclusive; and a new **Crisp Font Rende...

v4.4.0

DandersFrames Changelog

[4.4.0]

New Features

• Text Designer is now available in all versions (previously alpha-only) — add any number of custom text elements to your unit frames, each with its own font, size, colour (or class colour), anchor and position. Elements can show live data: identity (name, class, level, race, faction, group number, custom text), health, power, shields & heals, dead/offline status, threat and range. Find it under the Text tab.
• (Frames) Unified border system — every border (frame, buff/debuff icons, aura bars, defensive icons, missing-buff, resource bar, pet frames, targeted spells) now runs through one engine with consistent Style / Colour / Alpha / Gradient controls. (by Krathe)
• (Borders) Added optional border animations — 10 effects (pulse, wipe, ripple, segment reveal, sides/corners-only, proc glow, dash, and more), available wherever a border is drawn. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) Status icons now use crisp modern Blizzard atlas art (ready check, summon, resurrect, phased, vehicle, main tank/assist, AFK), with automatic fallback to the legacy texture. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) Each status-icon section header now shows a live preview — the icon swatch, or its status text when "Show as Text" is on. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) New BG objective carrier icon — lights up a friendly party/raid member carrying a battleground objective (flag or orb). (by Krathe)
• (Role Icon) Custom role icons — choose Blizzard, DF, or your own external texture per role (Tank / Healer / DPS). (by Krathe)
• (AFK Icon) Dedicated Timer Text controls for the elapsed-time counter (font, size, outline, colour, offset). (by Krathe)
• (Fonts) Bundled Roboto Mono (SemiBold/Bold) — a monospaced option for perfectly static countdown text. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) New in-combat indicator — a small crossed-swords icon lights up when a unit is in combat. Off by default, with its own position and size controls. (by Krathe)
• (Auto Layouts) Added /df clearoverride <key|prefix|all> to remove a stuck per-layout override the settings UI can't reach. (by Krathe)
• (Nicknames) New Nicknames feature — show custom names on your party and raid frames. Build a prioritised list from your friends, guild and group, or type names in by hand, and choose how matches are made. Optionally mark nicknamed players with brackets (or other styles) and share your own nickname with the group. Find it under General → Nicknames. (by Maelareth)
• (Nicknames) The Add from lists (friends, guild, group, Battle.net) put online members first, and you can favourite people with the star to pin them to the very top. (by Maelareth)
• (Resource Bar) Added a Color Mode (Power Type / Class / Custom) with a custom-colour picker, and a Texture dropdown so the resource bar can use any statusbar texture. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) New Background Color effect — colour a frame's background when an aura is active (Replace or Tint), with the same Expiring colour override, Pulsate and out-of-range handling as the other effects. (by Krathe)
• (Missing Buff) The missing-buff border can now use Class or Role colour instead of a single fixed colour. (by Krathe)

Improvements

• (Performance) The expiring-border ticker now throttles and staggers per entry to cut overhead when many borders are expiring at once. (by Krathe)
• (Defaults) Tuned some new-profile defaults — buff icon sizing/spacing, stack-count offsets, text outline shadows, and indicator border insets. (by Krathe)
• (Reduced Max Health) The bar's default colour is now a translucent grey instead of opaque black so it reads clearly on a dark health bar; profiles still on the old default are migrated automatically. (by Krathe)
• (Boss Debuffs) Border Scale can now go negative to hide the icon border. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) Reorganised every status-icon's settings into collapsible Settings / Appearance / Position boxes, and changes now apply to live frames instantly — no /reload. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) Renamed "Raid Target Icon" → "Target Marker Icon", with a header preview showing the four common markers. (by Krathe)
• (Test Mode) The separate Status / Ready and Role / Leader preview toggles are now a single Icons toggle, matching the live status-icon grouping. (by Krathe)
• (Auto Layouts) The override tooltip and /df overrides now read clearly — each changed setting shows as a breadcrumb path with its value, and the override counts agree everywhere. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) Expiring health-bar highlights now pulse in unison across all frames instead of each frame pulsing on its own timing. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) The health-bar indicator's Tint mode has a new Tint Entire Bar option — tint the whole bar including the missing-health portion. (by Krathe)
• (Text) The built-in Name, Health, and Status text settings are now handled entirely by the Text Designer — the older text pages are hidden and your existing text is converted to Text Designer elements automatically. Customise all frame text under the Text tab.
• (Resource Bar) Added Maelstrom and Pain to the per-power resource colour options, so Shaman and Vengeance Demon Hunter resource bars can be recoloured. (by Krathe)
• Moved Pixel-Perfect Scaling to General → Settings, since it applies globally to both party and raid. (by Krathe)
• (Nicknames) Northern Sky Raid Tools compatibility — when NSRT is also set to put nicknames on DandersFrames frames, a one-time prompt lets you choose which addon decides the names shown on your frames (changeable later under General → Nicknames → Name precedence). (by Maelareth)
• (Aura Designer) Alert sounds now play on the Master channel by default, so they stay audible even with Sound Effects or Music muted; a new Channel dropdown lets you pick a different channel. (by Krathe)
• Ready for patch 12.0.7 — the addon-compartment tooltip and the frame mover's Ready Check action keep working on the new patch. (by Krathe)

Bug Fixes

• (Pinned Frames) Fixed a freeze ("script ran too long") when entering an arena or battleground; pinned frames now stay dormant in instanced PvP, with an option to re-enable them. (by Krathe)
• (Sorting) Group frames no longer reshuffle mid-fight when members share the same sort position, and hidden unit information during Mythic+ encounters no longer causes errors. (by Krathe)
• (Status Icons) Fixed an error from AFK tracking during Mythic+ encounters. (by Krathe)
• (Resource Bar) The colour now updates correctly when your power type changes (for example, on shapeshift). (by Krathe)
• (Auto Layouts) While in a raid you can now only edit the active layout, so editing no longer disturbs your live raid frames. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) Fixed frame-level effects sometimes missing from the live preview. (by Krathe)
• (Defensive Icons) Fixed icon positions drifting from where test mode shows them at non-default icon scales. (by Krathe)
• (Reduced Max Health) The reduced-max-health overlay now follows the health bar's orientation, including vertical bars. (by Krathe)
• (Range) Frame and element borders — including Aura Designer border effects — now reliably fade out of range. (by Krathe)
• (Missing Buff) No longer flags a cross-faction group member in the open world for a buff you can't cast on them. (by Krathe)
• (Defensive Icon) The defensive cooldown icon and its border now render above auras. (by Krathe)
• (Role Icons) Show Tank / Healer / DPS toggles now apply live without a /reload. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) Indicators are torn down when the Aura Designer is disabled, and re-applied on profile swap. (by Krathe)
• (Targeted Spells) The targeted list no longer appears in test mode when the feature is disabled. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) Replace-mode health-bar highlight fixes — no more flicker on phased or out-of-range units, no bleeding over the frame border, and the expiring Pulsate option now works. (by Krathe)
• (Test Mode) Replaced several test-mode buff/debuff preview icons that pointed at art removed in Midnight, so they no longer render blank. (by Krathe)
• (Designers) The Aura/Text Designer preview now rebuilds to the frame size of the auto layout being edited, and edits keep applying to test-mode frames after switching between auto layouts. (by Krathe)
• (Frames) Bars referencing a texture you don't have installed now fall back to the bundled default with a one-time notice, instead of rendering black. (Requires WoW 12.0.7.) (by Krathe)

v4.4.0-alpha.8

DandersFrames Changelog

[Unreleased]

New Features

• Text Designer is now available in all versions (previously alpha-only) — add any number of custom text elements to your unit frames, each with its own font, size, colour (or class colour), anchor and position. Elements can show live data: identity (name, class, level, race, faction, group number, custom text), health, power, shields & heals, dead/offline status, threat and range. Find it under the Text tab.
• (Frames) Unified border system — every border (frame, buff/debuff icons, aura bars, defensive icons, missing-buff, resource bar, pet frames, targeted spells) now runs through one engine with consistent Style / Colour / Alpha / Gradient controls. (by Krathe)
• (Borders) Added optional border animations — 10 effects (pulse, wipe, ripple, segment reveal, sides/corners-only, proc glow, dash, and more), available wherever a border is drawn. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) Status icons now use crisp modern Blizzard atlas art (ready check, summon, resurrect, phased, vehicle, main tank/assist, AFK), with automatic fallback to the legacy texture. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) Each status-icon section header now shows a live preview — the icon swatch, or its status text when "Show as Text" is on. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) New BG objective carrier icon — lights up a friendly party/raid member carrying a battleground objective (flag or orb). (by Krathe)
• (Role Icon) Custom role icons — choose Blizzard, DF, or your own external texture per role (Tank / Healer / DPS). (by Krathe)
• (AFK Icon) Dedicated Timer Text controls for the elapsed-time counter (font, size, outline, colour, offset). (by Krathe)
• (Fonts) Bundled Roboto Mono (SemiBold/Bold) — a monospaced option for perfectly static countdown text. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) New in-combat indicator — a small crossed-swords icon lights up when a unit is in combat. Off by default, with its own position and size controls. (by Krathe)
• (Auto Layouts) Added /df clearoverride <key|prefix|all> to remove a stuck per-layout override the settings UI can't reach. (by Krathe)
• (Nicknames) New Nicknames feature — show custom names on your party and raid frames. Build a prioritised list from your friends, guild and group, or type names in by hand, and choose how matches are made. Optionally mark nicknamed players with brackets (or other styles) and share your own nickname with the group. Find it under General → Nicknames. (by Maelareth)
• (Nicknames) The Add from lists (friends, guild, group, Battle.net) put online members first, and you can favourite people with the star to pin them to the very top. (by Maelareth)
• (Resource Bar) Added a Color Mode (Power Type / Class / Custom) with a custom-colour picker, and a Texture dropdown so the resource bar can use any statusbar texture. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) New Background Color effect — colour a frame's background when an aura is active (Replace or Tint), with the same Expiring colour override, Pulsate and out-of-range handling as the other effects. (by Krathe)
• (Missing Buff) The missing-buff border can now use Class or Role colour instead of a single fixed colour. (by Krathe)

Improvements

• (Performance) The expiring-border ticker now throttles and staggers per entry to cut overhead when many borders are expiring at once. (by Krathe)
• (Defaults) Tuned some new-profile defaults — buff icon sizing/spacing, stack-count offsets, text outline shadows, and indicator border insets. (by Krathe)
• (Reduced Max Health) The bar's default colour is now a translucent grey instead of opaque black so it reads clearly on a dark health bar; profiles still on the old default are migrated automatically. (by Krathe)
• (Boss Debuffs) Border Scale can now go negative to hide the icon border. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) Reorganised every status-icon's settings into collapsible Settings / Appearance / Position boxes, and changes now apply to live frames instantly — no /reload. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) Renamed "Raid Target Icon" → "Target Marker Icon", with a header preview showing the four common markers. (by Krathe)
• (Test Mode) The separate Status / Ready and Role / Leader preview toggles are now a single Icons toggle, matching the live status-icon grouping. (by Krathe)
• (Auto Layouts) The override tooltip and /df overrides now read clearly — each changed setting shows as a breadcrumb path with its value, and the override counts agree everywhere. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) Expiring health-bar highlights now pulse in unison across all frames instead of each frame pulsing on its own timing. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) The health-bar indicator's Tint mode has a new Tint Entire Bar option — tint the whole bar including the missing-health portion. (by Krathe)
• (Text) The built-in Name, Health, and Status text settings are now handled entirely by the Text Designer — the older text pages are hidden and your existing text is converted to Text Designer elements automatically. Customise all frame text under the Text tab.
• (Resource Bar) Added Maelstrom and Pain to the per-power resource colour options, so Shaman and Vengeance Demon Hunter resource bars can be recoloured. (by Krathe)
• Moved Pixel-Perfect Scaling to General → Settings, since it applies globally to both party and raid. (by Krathe)
• (Nicknames) Northern Sky Raid Tools compatibility — when NSRT is also set to put nicknames on DandersFrames frames, a one-time prompt lets you choose which addon decides the names shown on your frames (changeable later under General → Nicknames → Name precedence). (by Maelareth)
• (Aura Designer) Alert sounds now play on the Master channel by default, so they stay audible even with Sound Effects or Music muted; a new Channel dropdown lets you pick a different channel. (by Krathe)
• Ready for patch 12.0.7 — the addon-compartment tooltip and the frame mover's Ready Check action keep working on the new patch. (by Krathe)

Bug Fixes

• (Pinned Frames) Fixed a freeze ("script ran too long") when entering an arena or battleground; pinned frames now stay dormant in instanced PvP, with an option to re-enable them. (by Krathe)
• (Sorting) Group frames no longer reshuffle mid-fight when members share the same sort position, and hidden unit information during Mythic+ encounters no longer causes errors. (by Krathe)
• (Status Icons) Fixed an error from AFK tracking during Mythic+ encounters. (by Krathe)
• (Resource Bar) The colour now updates correctly when your power type changes (for example, on shapeshift). (by Krathe)
• (Auto Layouts) While in a raid you can now only edit the active layout, so editing no longer disturbs your live raid frames. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) Fixed frame-level effects sometimes missing from the live preview. (by Krathe)
• (Defensive Icons) Fixed icon positions drifting from where test mode shows them at non-default icon scales. (by Krathe)
• (Reduced Max Health) The reduced-max-health overlay now follows the health bar's orientation, including vertical bars. (by Krathe)
• (Range) Frame and element borders — including Aura Designer border effects — now reliably fade out of range. (by Krathe)
• (Missing Buff) No longer flags a cross-faction group member in the open world for a buff you can't cast on them. (by Krathe)
• (Defensive Icon) The defensive cooldown icon and its border now render above auras. (by Krathe)
• (Role Icons) Show Tank / Healer / DPS toggles now apply live without a /reload. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) Indicators are torn down when the Aura Designer is disabled, and re-applied on profile swap. (by Krathe)
• (Targeted Spells) The targeted list no longer appears in test mode when the feature is disabled. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) Replace-mode health-bar highlight fixes — no more flicker on phased or out-of-range units, no bleeding over the frame border, and the expiring Pulsate option now works. (by Krathe)
• (Test Mode) Replaced several test-mode buff/debuff preview icons that pointed at art removed in Midnight, so they no longer render blank. (by Krathe)
• (Designers) The Aura/Text Designer preview now rebuilds to the frame size of the auto layout being edited, and edits keep applying to test-mode frames after switching between auto layouts. (by Krathe)
• (Frames) Bars referencing a texture you don't have installed now fall back to the bundled default with a one-time notice, instead of rendering black. (Requires WoW 12.0.7.) (by Krathe)

v4.4.0-alpha.7

DandersFrames Changelog

[Unreleased]

New Features

• Text Designer is now available in all versions (previously alpha-only) — add any number of custom text elements to your unit frames, each with its own font, size, colour (or class colour), anchor and position. Elements can show live data including: Identity — Name, Class, Level, Race, Faction, Group Number, Custom Static Text; Health — Current HP, Max HP, HP Percent, HP Deficit, Max HP Reduction %; Power — Current Power, Power %, Power Deficit, Power Type; Shields & Heals — Absorb Amount, Heal Absorb Amount, Incoming Heal; Status — Dead / Offline / Ghost; Threat & Range — Aggro Flag, Threat on Current Target, In-Range / Out-of-Range text. Find it under the Text tab.
• (Frames) Unified border system — every border (frame, buff/debuff icons, aura bars, defensive icons, missing-buff, resource bar, pet frames, targeted spells) now runs through one engine with consistent Style / Colour / Alpha / Gradient controls. (by Krathe)
• (Borders) Added optional border animations — 10 effects (pulse, wipe, ripple, segment reveal, sides/corners-only, proc glow, dash, and more), available wherever a border is drawn. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) Status icons now use crisp modern Blizzard atlas art (ready check, summon, resurrect, phased, vehicle, main tank/assist, AFK), with automatic fallback to the legacy texture. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) Each status-icon section header now shows a live preview — the icon swatch, or its status text when "Show as Text" is on — greyed out when the icon is disabled. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) New BG objective carrier icon — lights up a friendly party/raid member carrying a battleground objective (flag or orb), so you can spot the carrier on your frames. (by Krathe)
• (Role Icon) Custom role icons — choose Blizzard, DF, or your own external texture per role (Tank / Healer / DPS). (by Krathe)
• (AFK Icon) Dedicated Timer Text controls for the elapsed-time counter (font, size, outline, colour, offset). The countdown is zero-padded MM:SS, left-justified and stays steady as it ticks. (by Krathe)
• (Fonts) Bundled Roboto Mono (SemiBold/Bold) — a monospaced option for perfectly static countdown text. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) New in-combat indicator — a small crossed-swords icon lights up when a unit is in combat, so you can spot who's engaged at a glance. Off by default, with its own position and size controls. (by Krathe)
• (Auto Layouts) Added /df clearoverride <key|prefix|all> to remove a stuck per-layout override directly — for overrides the settings UI can't reach (e.g. a pinned-players override while not in a raid). (by Krathe)
• (Nicknames) New Nicknames feature — show custom names on your party and raid frames. Build a prioritised list from your friends, guild and group, or type names in by hand, and choose how matches are made. Optionally mark nicknamed players with brackets (or other styles) and share your own nickname with the group. Find it under General → Nicknames. (by Maelareth)
• (Nicknames) The Add from lists (friends, guild, group, Battle.net) now put online members first, and you can favourite people with the star to pin them to the very top — so the people you nickname most are always right there. (by Maelareth)
• (Resource Bar) Added a Color Mode (Power Type / Class / Custom) with a custom-colour picker, and a Texture dropdown so the resource bar can use any statusbar texture. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) New Background Color effect — colour a frame's background when an aura is active (Replace or Tint), with the same Expiring colour override, Pulsate and out-of-range handling as the other effects. (by Krathe)
• (Missing Buff) The missing-buff border can now use Class or Role colour instead of a single fixed colour. (by Krathe)

Improvements

• (Performance) The expiring-border ticker now throttles and staggers per entry to cut overhead when many borders are expiring at once. (by Krathe)
• (Defaults) Tuned some new-profile defaults — buff icon sizing/spacing, stack-count offsets, Stack/Duration outline shadow, and a flush expiring-border inset. (by Krathe)
• (Reduced Max Health) The reduced-max-health bar's default colour is now a translucent grey (50% @ ~80% alpha) instead of opaque black, so it reads clearly on a dark health bar; profiles still on the old solid black are migrated automatically (a customised colour is left alone). (by Krathe)
• (Boss Debuffs) Border Scale can now go negative to hide the icon border, with a wider range, a step of 1, and an explanatory tip. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) Reorganised every status-icon's settings into collapsible Settings / Appearance / Position boxes (matching the Aura Designer layout), so each section is easier to scan. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) Status-icon font, size, colour and position changes now apply to live frames instantly — no /reload. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) Renamed "Raid Target Icon" → "Target Marker Icon", and its header preview now shows the four common markers (square / cross / triangle / circle). (by Krathe)
• (Test Mode) The separate Status / Ready and Role / Leader preview toggles are now a single Icons toggle, matching the live status-icon grouping. (by Krathe)
• (Auto Layouts) The override tooltip and /df overrides now read clearly — each changed setting shows as a breadcrumb path with its value, only values that differ from global are listed, Text Designer elements show their names, and the override counts agree across the badge, status line and chat. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) Expiring health-bar highlights now pulse in unison across all frames — and tint and replace modes share one pulse engine — instead of each frame pulsing on its own timing. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) The health-bar indicator's Tint mode has a new Tint Entire Bar option — tint the whole bar including the missing-health portion, instead of only the filled part. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) Added breathing room between an effect's trigger list and its Priority slider so the frame-level effect panels no longer look cramped. (by Krathe)
• (Text) The built-in Name, Health, and Status text settings are now handled entirely by the Text Designer — the older text pages are hidden and your existing text is converted to Text Designer elements automatically. Customise all frame text under the Text tab.
• (Resource Bar) Added Maelstrom and Pain to the per-power resource colour options, so Shaman and Vengeance Demon Hunter resource bars can be recoloured. (by Krathe)
• Moved Pixel-Perfect Scaling to General → Settings, since it applies globally to both party and raid. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) New icon and square indicators now default their border inset to 0, flush with the icon edge, matching the other indicator types. (by Krathe)
• (Auto Layouts) Saved layouts are tidied of leftover built-in text overrides after the Text Designer migration, so the override list no longer lists dead entries. (by Krathe)

Bug Fixes

• (Pinned Frames) Fixed a freeze ("script ran too long") when entering an arena or battleground; pinned frames now stay dormant in instanced PvP, with an option to re-enable them. (by Krathe)
• (Sorting) Group frames no longer reshuffle mid-fight when members share the same sort position. (by Krathe)
• (Sorting) Fixed an error caused by hidden unit information during Mythic+ encounters. (by Krathe)
• (Status Icons) Fixed an error from AFK tracking during Mythic+ encounters. (by Krathe)
• (Resource Bar) The colour now updates correctly when your power type changes (for example, on shapeshift). (by Krathe)
• (Auto Layouts) While in a raid you can now only edit the active layout, so editing no longer disturbs your live raid frames. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) Fixed frame-level effects sometimes missing from the live preview. (by Krathe)
• (Borders) Fixed a brief full-screen flash the first time a border animation attached to a frame. (by Krathe)
• (Defensive Icons) Fixed icon positions drifting from where test mode shows them at non-default icon scales. (by Krathe)
• (Reduced Max Health) The reduced-max-health overlay now follows the health bar's orientation, including vertical bars. (by Krathe)
• (Profiles) Imported profiles now carry their Text Designer text correctly, fixing blank frame text from shared profile strings. (by Krathe)
• (Nicknames) Battle.net nickname rules now stick across sessions — they could previously stop applying after a full relog. Existing rules are upgraded automatically; any that can't be matched are flagged so you can quickly re-add them. (by Maelareth)
• (Range) The frame border (and other element borders) now reliably fade out of range, preserved across border re-renders. (by Krathe)
• (Missing Buff) The missing-buff icon no longer flags a cross-faction group member in the open world as needing a buff you can't actually cast on them — it only appears where the buff is castable (e.g. inside instances). (by Krathe)
• (Defensive Icon) The defensive cooldown icon and its border now render above auras and stay co-planar with the icon. (by Krathe)
• (Role Icons) Show Tank / Healer / DPS toggles now apply live without a /reload, and are properly decoupled from the Hide-in-Combat gate. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) Indicators are torn down when the Aura Designer is disabled, and re-applied on profile swap. (by Krathe)
• (Targeted Spells) The targeted list no longer appears in test mode when the feature is disabled. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) The replace-mode health-bar highlight no longer flickers on phased or out-of-range units. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) The replace-mode health-bar highlight no longer bleeds over the frame border when a unit is out of range. (by Krathe)
• (Aura D...

v4.4.0-alpha.6

DandersFrames Changelog

[Unreleased]

New Features

• Text Designer is now available in all versions (previously alpha-only) — add any number of custom text elements to your unit frames, each with its own font, size, colour (or class colour), anchor and position. Elements can show live data including: Identity — Name, Class, Level, Race, Faction, Group Number, Custom Static Text; Health — Current HP, Max HP, HP Percent, HP Deficit, Max HP Reduction %; Power — Current Power, Power %, Power Deficit, Power Type; Shields & Heals — Absorb Amount, Heal Absorb Amount, Incoming Heal; Status — Dead / Offline / Ghost; Threat & Range — Aggro Flag, Threat on Current Target, In-Range / Out-of-Range text. Find it under the Text tab.
• (Frames) Unified border system — every border (frame, buff/debuff icons, aura bars, defensive icons, missing-buff, resource bar, pet frames, targeted spells) now runs through one engine with consistent Style / Colour / Alpha / Gradient controls. (by Krathe)
• (Borders) Added optional border animations — 10 effects (pulse, wipe, ripple, segment reveal, sides/corners-only, proc glow, dash, and more), available wherever a border is drawn. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) Status icons now use crisp modern Blizzard atlas art (ready check, summon, resurrect, phased, vehicle, main tank/assist, AFK), with automatic fallback to the legacy texture. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) Each status-icon section header now shows a live preview — the icon swatch, or its status text when "Show as Text" is on — greyed out when the icon is disabled. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) New BG objective carrier icon — lights up a friendly party/raid member carrying a battleground objective (flag or orb), so you can spot the carrier on your frames. (by Krathe)
• (Role Icon) Custom role icons — choose Blizzard, DF, or your own external texture per role (Tank / Healer / DPS). (by Krathe)
• (AFK Icon) Dedicated Timer Text controls for the elapsed-time counter (font, size, outline, colour, offset). The countdown is zero-padded MM:SS, left-justified and stays steady as it ticks. (by Krathe)
• (Fonts) Bundled Roboto Mono (SemiBold/Bold) — a monospaced option for perfectly static countdown text. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) New in-combat indicator — a small crossed-swords icon lights up when a unit is in combat, so you can spot who's engaged at a glance. Off by default, with its own position and size controls. (by Krathe)
• (Auto Layouts) Added /df clearoverride <key|prefix|all> to remove a stuck per-layout override directly — for overrides the settings UI can't reach (e.g. a pinned-players override while not in a raid). (by Krathe)
• (Nicknames) New Nicknames feature — show custom names on your party and raid frames. Build a prioritised list from your friends, guild and group, or type names in by hand, and choose how matches are made. Optionally mark nicknamed players with brackets (or other styles) and share your own nickname with the group. Find it under General → Nicknames. (by Maelareth)
• (Resource Bar) Added a Color Mode (Power Type / Class / Custom) with a custom-colour picker, and a Texture dropdown so the resource bar can use any statusbar texture. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) New Background Color effect — colour a frame's background when an aura is active (Replace or Tint), with the same Expiring colour override, Pulsate and out-of-range handling as the other effects. (by Krathe)

Improvements

• (Performance) The expiring-border ticker now throttles and staggers per entry to cut overhead when many borders are expiring at once. (by Krathe)
• (Defaults) Tuned some new-profile defaults — buff icon sizing/spacing, stack-count offsets, Stack/Duration outline shadow, and a flush expiring-border inset. (by Krathe)
• (Reduced Max Health) The reduced-max-health bar's default colour is now a translucent grey (50% @ ~80% alpha) instead of opaque black, so it reads clearly on a dark health bar; profiles still on the old solid black are migrated automatically (a customised colour is left alone). (by Krathe)
• (Boss Debuffs) Border Scale can now go negative to hide the icon border, with a wider range, a step of 1, and an explanatory tip. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) Reorganised every status-icon's settings into collapsible Settings / Appearance / Position boxes (matching the Aura Designer layout), so each section is easier to scan. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) Status-icon font, size, colour and position changes now apply to live frames instantly — no /reload. (by Krathe)
• (Icons) Renamed "Raid Target Icon" → "Target Marker Icon", and its header preview now shows the four common markers (square / cross / triangle / circle). (by Krathe)
• (Test Mode) The separate Status / Ready and Role / Leader preview toggles are now a single Icons toggle, matching the live status-icon grouping. (by Krathe)
• (Auto Layouts) The override tooltip and /df overrides now read clearly — each changed setting shows as a breadcrumb path with its value, only values that differ from global are listed, Text Designer elements show their names, and the override counts agree across the badge, status line and chat. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) Expiring health-bar highlights now pulse in unison across all frames — and tint and replace modes share one pulse engine — instead of each frame pulsing on its own timing. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) The health-bar indicator's Tint mode has a new Tint Entire Bar option — tint the whole bar including the missing-health portion, instead of only the filled part. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) Added breathing room between an effect's trigger list and its Priority slider so the frame-level effect panels no longer look cramped. (by Krathe)
• (Text) The built-in Name, Health, and Status text settings are now handled entirely by the Text Designer — the older text pages are hidden and your existing text is converted to Text Designer elements automatically. Customise all frame text under the Text tab.
• (Resource Bar) Added Maelstrom and Pain to the per-power resource colour options, so Shaman and Vengeance Demon Hunter resource bars can be recoloured. (by Krathe)

Bug Fixes

• (Range) The frame border (and other element borders) now reliably fade out of range, preserved across border re-renders. (by Krathe)
• (Missing Buff) The missing-buff icon no longer flags a cross-faction group member in the open world as needing a buff you can't actually cast on them — it only appears where the buff is castable (e.g. inside instances). (by Krathe)
• (Defensive Icon) The defensive cooldown icon and its border now render above auras and stay co-planar with the icon. (by Krathe)
• (Role Icons) Show Tank / Healer / DPS toggles now apply live without a /reload, and are properly decoupled from the Hide-in-Combat gate. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) Indicators are torn down when the Aura Designer is disabled, and re-applied on profile swap. (by Krathe)
• (Targeted Spells) The targeted list no longer appears in test mode when the feature is disabled. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) The replace-mode health-bar highlight no longer flickers on phased or out-of-range units. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) The replace-mode health-bar highlight no longer bleeds over the frame border when a unit is out of range. (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) The border-effect indicator (colour and animation) now fades out of range like the other indicators, instead of staying at full brightness. (by Krathe)
• (AFK Timer) The elapsed-time countdown no longer shifts left/right as it ticks. (by Krathe)
• (Test Mode) Replaced several test-mode buff/debuff preview icons that pointed at art removed in Midnight, so they no longer render blank. (by Krathe)
• (Text Designer) Text element edits now update test-mode frames live, not just real units. (by Krathe)
• (Designers) The Aura/Text Designer preview now rebuilds to the frame size of the auto layout being edited, instead of staying stuck at a previous layout's dimensions. (by Krathe)
• (Designers) Text Designer edits (and Aura Designer changes) no longer stop updating on test-mode frames after switching between auto layouts — applying a layout's overrides kept the designer's table/preview bindings valid instead of orphaning them. (by Krathe)
• (Frames) Missing textures now fall back to a bundled default instead of rendering black. If a profile you import references a custom or shared-media texture you don't have installed (or the addon that provided it was removed), the affected health bar, background or other bar now uses DandersFrames' default texture and shows a one-time notice — rather than a black/blank bar. (Requires WoW 12.0.7; on earlier versions there is no change.) (by Krathe)
• (Aura Designer) The expiring "Pulsate" option now works for the replace-mode health-bar highlight (it previously stayed solid in replace mode). (by Krathe)
• (Text Designer) Fix blank text on profiles that weren't active at login — switching to an older profile now converts its built-in text correctly.
• (Text Designer) Fix a trailing "..." always showing after names when truncation was set to off. Long non-Latin names also truncate by character now instead of being cut mid-letter.