Suggestion: For those of us with non standard action bars (i use http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info9085-Dominos.html for right now)
make kinda a floaty GHI made action bar thing, maybe with a limted set of buttons.

It could be a nice solution, but I have also considered if it was possible to make a solution that works with those bar addons. Currently we make our own GHI slots and place them on top of the slots of the action bar. Maybe we could do the same with the slots on the other AddOns actionbars.

okay this was for skinning the bars for this but it gives insight into BT4 and dominos

http://code.google.com/p/rothui/source/browse/trunk/rActionButtonStyler/core.lua?spec=svn806&r=806

local dominos = IsAddOnLoaded("Dominos")
local bartender4 = IsAddOnLoaded("Bartender4")

--dominos styling
if dominos then
--print("Dominos found")
for i = 1, 60 do
styleActionButton(_G["DominosActionButton"..i])
end
end
--bartender4 styling
if bartender4 then
--print("Bartender4 found")
for i = 1, 120 do
styleActionButton(_G["BT4Button"..i])
end
for i = 1, 10 do
styleShapeShiftButton(_G["BT4StanceButton"..i])
end
end

Okay gonna take a shot at this, how should i start it filewise?

I think the best way to start this is to write some plain code that demonstrates how we can hook into action bars dynamically. In other words start by analysing some different action bar addons and see if we can identify them in a dynamic way

well two i know of is bartender and dominos

for that its (based on another addon i found )

local dominos = IsAddOnLoaded("Dominos")
local bartender4 = IsAddOnLoaded("Bartender4")

--dominos styling
if dominos then
--print("Dominos found")
for i = 1, 60 do
styleActionButton(_G["DominosActionButton"..i])
--styleactionbutton replaced with GHI Stuff
end
end

--bartender4 styling
if bartender4 then
--print("Bartender4 found")
for i = 1, 120 do
styleActionButton(_G["BT4Button"..i])
--styleactionbutton replaced with GHI Stuff
end
for i = 1, 10 do
styleShapeShiftButton(_G["BT4StanceButton"..i])
--thats for stances and may not be needed, may need to look to see if there other popular actionbar mods around.
end
end

http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info17592-ButtonForge.html the last one is this one..

could possibly use something from the above code but it can make alot of buttons and you can choose what buttons to make (so you can have something like just six)

An idea to how we can fetch all action buttons could be to look at all frames that are registered for "ACTIONBAR_UPDATE_COOLDOWN"

that could work, but how to go about it, i was playing with useing
for k, v in pairs(WorldFrame:GetChildren()) do
--if v:IsEventRegistered("ACTIONBAR_UPDATE_COOLDOWN") then

print(k)
print(v)
--/frend
end
(before it was uiParent) but that didn't work so still looking.

You can use GetFramesRegisteredForEvent(event)

Try to check what frames from the different action bar addons you can get from using this function.

Btw. I used this method for the buff system as well. That is how it dynamically works on most unit frame addons

I knew i was not finding a function for it! GAH

http://wowprogramming.com/docs/api/GetFramesRegisteredForEvent nifty function there, HOWEVER its not turning up dominos/buttforge in the results

I think its how its in the addons code on how they show the buttons..

Future work of this ticket should focus on a dynamic way of identifying all action bar buttons in the game.

Entered estimation for the time requires and send the ticket to the backlog.

Replaced by #151