DandersFrames

DandersFrames is a fully custom party and raid frame addon — built from the ground up for WoW Midnight (12.0). Total control over every aspect of your group frames, with a powerful Aura Designer, built-in Click Casting, automatic raid layouts, and deep customization.

🔮 Aura Designer

A full visual indicator system built right into the addon — track buffs and defensives directly on your frames without any external tools.

• 8 indicator types — Icons, Squares, Bars, Border Effects, Health Bar Color, Name Color, Health Text Color, and Frame Alpha
• Drag-to-place on 9 anchor points with pixel-perfect offset control
• Frame effects — Change health bar color, name color, or frame transparency when specific auras are active
• Multi-trigger effects — One effect triggered by multiple auras (OR logic)
• Layout groups — Grouped indicators that automatically collapse when inactive
• Priority stacking — Set priority per aura so the most important one always wins
• Per-spec configurations — Different setups for each specialization, auto-swapping on spec change
• Curated aura lists for all healer specs + Augmentation Evoker to get started fast
• Live preview with adjustable zoom and click-to-select editing

🖱️ Built-in Click Casting

Full click-casting built right in — no extra addons needed.

• Bind spells and macros to any mouse button + modifier combo
• Per-spec profiles that auto-switch when you change spec
• Works on party, raid, pet, boss, target, and focus frames
• Smart resurrection detection and spell transform support
• Tooltip shows active bindings and usability on hover
• Import/export profiles to share setups

⚙️ Auto Layouts (Raid)

Automatically switch raid frame settings based on content type and group size — no manual profile swapping.

• Three content categories: Instanced, Mythic (20-man), and Open World
• Size-range profiles — different layouts for 1-10, 11-20, 21-40 players
• Override-only storage — only your changes are saved, everything else inherits from your base profile
• Visual override indicators so you always know what's customized
• Copy layouts between content types and size ranges

📌 Pinned Frames

Create custom frame groups for specific players — pin your co-tank, co-healer, or priority targets into their own movable group.

• Multiple independent pinned sets
• Auto-populate by role (tanks, healers, DPS)
• Per-set sizing, growth direction, and positioning
• Keep offline players option

🧪 Test Mode

Configure everything without needing a group.

• Preview 1–5 party or 1–40 raid frames on demand
• Animated health, absorbs, auras, dispels, range fading — all simulated
• Quick-link buttons jump directly to relevant settings
• Collapsible panel with active element badges

✨ Core Features

🎨 Health Bars

• Dynamic gradients — Color shifts green → yellow → red as health drops
• Class colors, custom colors, or hybrid mode
• 15+ built-in textures + SharedMedia support
• Smooth bar animations with exponential easing
• Missing health overlay with gradient coloring
• Health threshold fading — Fade frames above a health % to focus on damaged players

🛡️ Absorbs & Heal Prediction

• Absorb overlay or floating bar with full positioning control
• Heal absorb tracking (Necrotic, etc.)
• Incoming heal prediction — See heals in flight from you, others, or all
• Overheal display with overflow threshold

⚡ Resource Bars

• Healer-only mode — Only show mana for healers
• Full positioning, sizing, and color control

🎯 Aura Control

• Two filtering modes: Blizzard (automatic) or Direct API (granular control)
• Direct mode filters: Player-cast, Raid, Defensives, External Defensives, Important Spells
• Defensive Bar — Shows all active defensives simultaneously with wrappable layout
• Boss Debuffs (Private Auras) with highlight borders
• Missing buff indicator — Detects missing raid buffs, works in combat
• Buff deduplication — auras shown in Aura Designer or Defensive Bar are hidden from the buff bar
• Expiring indicators with pulsating borders

🎯 Highlights & Indicators

• Target, Hover, Selection, Aggro highlights — each with 4+ styles (Solid, Corners, Glow, Dashed)
• Dispel overlay — Border, gradient glow, or icon per debuff type (Magic, Curse, Disease, Poison, Bleed)
• Role, Leader, Raid Target, Ready Check, Resurrection, AFK, and Phased icons — all repositionable
• Status text for Dead, Offline, AFK, Vehicle, and Phased states

📊 Sorting & Layout

• Sort by Role, Class, or Name
• Separate Melee/Ranged DPS option
• Player position control (First, Last, or sorted normally)
• Flat raid mode (combined grid) or grouped layout
• Custom growth directions and groups-per-row

⚙️ Profiles & Settings

• Separate Party/Raid configurations
• Per-spec auto-switching — Load different profiles per specialization
• One-click import/export with compression
• Global font options — apply one font across the entire addon
• Settings search bar — find any option instantly
• Copy-to-Raid / Copy-to-Party buttons on every settings section
• Section sync toggles to keep party and raid settings linked

🔌 Compatibility

• SharedMedia — Custom fonts and textures from other addons
• Masque — Button skinning support
• External API — Developers and UI pack creators can query frames, export/import profiles and click casting configs programmatically

How to Use

1. Install the addon (remove the old version if upgrading)
2. Access Settings: Click the minimap icon or type /df
3. Preview Changes: Use Test Mode (/df test) to see your frames without a group

Feedback & Support

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