Thanks, I like your mods a lot.

Rocnroll

As you’ve noticed, one downside of Ace is that it includes a fair amount of extra data with the download, and much of that gets loaded into WoW’s addon memory space. However, Ace is becoming more and more common these days — chances of the average addon user having more than one Ace2 addon installed are pretty good. With multiple Ace addons, the library memory is shared, so there’s negligible impact on performance. (Also, the Ace libraries are themselves modular and pretty efficient in design; they don’t waste what RAM they use.)

On the plus side, using Ace lets me greatly reduce the amount of code I have to write in each addon just to do standard stuff like chat commands, keeping track of settings, etc. Not only that, it provides robust implementations of such: settings can be saved per realm, per character, per class, or however you prefer; the chat-commands for settings offer more feedback; and there’s a dropdown menu, too.

The Ace2 libraries are used in hundreds of different addons, many of which are quite popular… so you could say they’re thoroughly “battle-tested”. The handful of skilled authors who maintain the libraries have put a lot of time into debugging and optimizing them.

(Also, it’s not really fair to just compare the download size and memory usage of TM 2.0 to 2.1 and attribute the increase to Ace “bloat”. TM 2.1 doesn’t just get new configuration options — as previously mentioned, it gets a rich implementation of such. If I were to write my own code that’s feature-equivalent to what Ace provides, it might not be quite as big as the Ace-based version, but it’d still be a lot bigger than it was last version. Probably a lot buggier, too.)

However, the jury’s still out, as far as I’m concerned. I’ve been noticing that some aspects of the Ace system aren’t quite working out as advertised — most notably, that the AceLibrary system for making sure shared libraries don’t conflict with each other isn’t. (Or rather, that the authors of the core Ace libraries are checking in code which makes some revisions of Ace*-2.0 incompatible with other revisions which bear the same major version number.) We’ll see how things go — I may or may not end up migrating my other addons to Ace.

Love all the mod’s! Amazingly intuitive and simple!

Everything’s going great, thanks for your superb work over the past years.

The dropdown menu didn’t appear on any class except Hunter, and it didn’t work on hunters unless I first cancelled the current tracking mode, then selected a new one directly from my spellbook.