Bazooka
Bazooka is a Data Broker Display similar in functionality and looks to FuBar.
Feature highlights
- Top/Bottom alignment or free moving of bars.
- Left-click drag moves, alt-right-click drag resizes the bar (unless the frames are locked).
- Drag-and-drop plugin placement with highlighted drop positions.
- Configurable background / font / icon size.
- The usual options for data broker displays (show text/icon/label, optionally show title in place of label if it's missing).
- Support of iconCoords and icon[RGB] (TomTom arrow, for example).
- Left / Center-Left / Center / Center-Right / Right placement position for plugins within bars, allowing easy layout of plugins. Plugins placed in the Center area are centered as a bunch.
- Optional auto-fade while in combat / out of combat.
- Optionally disable mouse / tooltips.
- Optional simple tooltips (just show title if Alt is held while moving the mouse pointer over the plugin).
- Optional highlight on mouseover for the active plugin.
- Load-on-demand configuration options, small memory footprint for "standard" operation.
- Bulk mode configuration that allows configuring multiple bars/plugins easily.
- Restrict plugin text width
- Disable minimap icons
- Tooltip scale override
- Support for OnMouseWheel, OnReceiveDrag and OnDoubleClick script handlers for plugins
- Optionally override plugin defined text colors
Usage
Getting started
- Create new bars from the main options window
- Drag plugins to desired location
- Drag plugins off bars to disable them
- Dragging bars while holding Alt will change their attached/detached state. Otherwise top/bottom bars will snap back to top or bottom depending on where you drop them.
Using the bulk configuration (standard method)
- Uncheck Auto-apply.
- Check the bars/plugins you want the settings to apply to.
- Check Apply next to the settings you want to change, and set them to the value you need.
- Click Apply at the bottom of the options. The changes you selected will be applied to all selected bars/plugins at this point.
Using the bulk configuration (auto-apply method)
- Check Auto-apply.
- Check the bars/plugins you want the settings to apply to.
- Change the settings (or click the Apply text next to them if their current value is the one you want). The changes will be applied immediately to all selected bars/plugins.
Slash commands
/bazooka
- Open configuration.
/bazooka locked
- Toggle locked/unlocked state.
/bazooka hidebars
- Make the bars hidden. If no bar numbers are specified, then it works on the marked bars (see bar options).
/bazooka showbars
- Make the bars visible. If no bar numbers are specified, then it works on the marked bars (see bar options).
/bazooka togglebars
- Toggle hidden/visible state of bars. If no bar numbers are specified, then it works on the marked bars (see bar options).
Obtaining plugins
You can find Data Broker plugins at these places:
- Data Broker plugins on Curse
- Data Broker plugins on WowAce
- Data Broker plugins on WoWInterface
- Tekkub's list
I don't think there is any such support in Bartender, but you can move the bars freely. Just move them to a good position, and save the position under a separate profile (if you sometime have and sometimes don't have bottom bars in Bazooka).
cheers,
mitch
I am used to FuBar and Titan, this is a bit strange to me, having nothing really useful by default.
Cheers
I've updated the addon description to list various sites where you can find LDB plugins.
cheers,
mitch
thx for your reply mitch
as far as i'm waiting now for your solution for the tt-scaling ;-) grin...
any suggstions for other working custom tooltip mods ?!?!
Could you open a ticket about it? Maybe I'll get around doing it in the near future.
My only issue with it is that it complicates the config even more... Then the next request will be individual font setting etc, etc... It has to stop somewhere :)
Anyway, if the ticket gets some upvotes, I'll add this one.
cheers,
mitch
Do you have some sort of bug-grabbing addon installed? Do you get any sort of errors when Bazooka doesn't load? (I think you can turn on error reporting from the default blizz menu as weel).
Also, please try disabling all other addons except for Bazooka, and check if it still doesn't load that way. Might be some bad interaction with some other addon...
thanks,
mitch
cheers,
mitch
the ones i have have enabled in Bazooka (besides FuBar2Broker) is:
Automaton
Broker uClock
Broker_CPU Memory
Broker_Equipment
DualSpeccer
ElkBuffBars
GrimReaper
oRA2
Vanas KoS
Volumizer
VuhDo
QuestHelper
Skada
i had DynPerf enabled before aswell, but it would make wow disconnect instead of just not loading Bazooka (atleast i assume it was when Bazooka wouldn´t have loaded i got the DC´s).
Hello,
Tooltip handling is a bit strange for LDB plugins, as there are three ways for plugins to add a tooltip: 1) provide a tooltip frame to show 2) provide an OnEnter() script and handle all tooltip creation in that 3) provide an OnTooltipShow() handler that gets a GameTooltip frame and populates that.
Only in the last case does Bazooka have a real chance of modifying fonts and stuff with the tooltip without fugly hacks, so tooltips scaling will probably never be part of Bazooka.
That said, as most tooltips (and Bazooka itself in case 3 above) uses that "standard" GameTooltip, using some custom tooltip mod will probably let you change most of the LDB tooltips, too.
cheers, mitch
Hey Mitch
i replaced Fubar right now with bazooka and i kinda like it
one thing, at least, came to my attention... dunno if this is ever been discussed before :
the tooltip isn't scaleable (or am i just to blind to find this option) .. is there any chance to built in a slider (maybe in the bars section) to scale the tooltip like fubar did in the old days ?!?!?
cheerz from germany and thx for the great work
Hi,
I would guess you have another LDB display installed. Try disabling every addon other than Bazooka and one of the "floating" plugins, and see if it fixes the issue. If it does, go thru your addons and find which one displays the plugins at the center. Bazooka can only display a plugin once...
cheers, mitch
Was looking at switching to this to replace Fubar. One problem I had, was that I couldn't turn off all the LDB's that floated in the middle of my screen. I was able to assign the plugins to bars, but that didn't remove them from the center of the screen. Sorry if I am posting this problem in the wrong place...
Sorry, I have no idea why that happens. I didn't do anything special with Bazooka in this regard...
cheers,
mitch
v1.8.7 should fix the libjostle errors since patch 3.3.5.
cheers,
mitch