Clean Up Your Minimap with OPie
OPie menu
Minimap buttons. Unsightly pests thrust upon you by evil addon developers in a quest to uglify your minimap. Most of them can be disabled through the configuration menu for the addon in question, but often you still want quick access to that addon. One in particular I can think of is WebDKP — my guild’s DKP system — where it gets tedious to type a slash command every time loot drops. Luckily, I was struck with an idea.
Creating the ring
OPie is one of those addons with a simple concept and a thousand uses. Virtually anything that can be placed in an action bar can be placed in OPie, but OPie organises it all in a way that stresses selecting one component at a time. This shares a striking resemblance to menus. As such, my idea was to create an OPie ring and add macros for frequently used slash commands. There’s then no excuse for removing minimap buttons, and it compacts any awkward configuration or handy commands into one button.
Give it a try, you might like it.
This is also a great tool to remove the so called “Micro Menu”, the one with your character sheet and all that stuff. If you wanna rebind some of those keys, you can make a macro to open to window (I.e the character sheet would be “/script ToggleCharacter(“PaperDollFrame”)”).
That actually doesn’t sound half bad. I can’t think of anything in the micro menu that I wouldn’t either ignore or have bound to a regular key, but I can see how putting them all on one key with OPie would be useful. OPie also includes some presets for things like quest items and raid icon setting, though not all are particularly useful.
I’m always interested in other clever uses of OPie. I’d actually had an idea to replicate the shaman’s totem bar entirely through OPie and slices, but currently I cannot find the function that allows you to set totems for the bar.
ive used OPie for a wile and i think this is a great idea! ty!