Bazooka

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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:

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_ForgeUser44166
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Posted Oct 7, 2009
So far ease of use on this has been much better than other that are similar. Any chance you are thinking of adding the ability to do vertical bars as well as horizontal?

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Posted Oct 8, 2009
Hi,

I haven't planned vertical bars, I don't think they'd work out too well. Or do you need those just for the icons and no text?

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Posted Oct 3, 2009
I have noticed with certain plugins that have larger tooltips seem to stay open once you have moved your cursor away from the bar. You have to move your cursor back over the plugin to get the tooltip to close. Two plugins in particular are Auditor2 and BrokerSocialState, I am not sure if this is an issue with Bazooka or the actual plugin. Have you ran into this issue yourself?

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Posted Oct 5, 2009
Hi,

I don't have any plugins like this, but I got report from similar problems, and the ones I investigated provided their own tooltips (by providing an OnEnter() hook), but not hiding them when I call their OnLeave() hook, instead relying on timer-based tooltip hiding. (Broker_AllXP was one of these).

I cannot do much about it, as I don't even have a handle to their tooltip frame in this case.

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Posted Sep 23, 2009
Hello folks,

I'm very sorry, but in the 1.0 release I made a mistake that made the configuratio options totally broken (lua error, see below thread) if it was loaded after any plugins were already registered (that is, most of the time). I fixed it in 1.0.1.

Thanks Tatertott for reporting!

cheers,
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Posted Sep 22, 2009
I love the addon, but the plugins menu is blank.. Any ideas?

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Posted Sep 23, 2009
Hello,

My timing with this release was kinda unfortunate, the patch hit the EU servers just after I released, and I couldn't test it with the new patch. I'll take a look at it this evening (CET).

Just a few things to check:
- Do you have Bazooka_Options enabled in the addons list?
- Does typing /bazooka bring up the config menu? If not, are there any error messages in chat?

cheers,
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Posted Sep 23, 2009
...e\AddOns\Blizzard_DebugTools\Blizzard_DebugTools.lua:430: bad argument #6 to 'format' (string expected, got nil)
Time: 09/23/09 06:24:38
Count: 1
Stack: [string "Interface\FrameXML\BasicControls.xml:<Scrip..."]:18: in function <[string "Interface\FrameXML\BasicControls.xml:<Scrip..."]:4>
[C]: ?
[C]: in function `format'
...e\AddOns\Blizzard_DebugTools\Blizzard_DebugTools.lua:430: in function `ScriptErrorsFrame_Update'
...e\AddOns\Blizzard_DebugTools\Blizzard_DebugTools.lua:412: in function `ScriptErrorsFrame_OnError'
[string "Interface\FrameXML\BasicControls.xml:<Scrip..."]:18: in function <[string "Interface\FrameXML\BasicControls.xml:<Scrip..."]:4>
[C]: ?
[C]: in function `format'
...e\AddOns\Blizzard_DebugTools\Blizzard_DebugTools.lua:430: in function `ScriptErrorsFrame_Update'
...e\AddOns\Blizzard_DebugTools\Blizzard_DebugTools.lua:384: in function <...e\AddOns\Blizzard_DebugTools\Blizzard_DebugTools.lua:383>
[C]: in function `Show'
...e\AddOns\Blizzard_DebugTools\Blizzard_DebugTools.lua:410: in function `ScriptErrorsFrame_OnError'
...
[C]: ?
[string "safecall Dispatcher[2]"]:9: in function <[string "safecall Dispatcher[2]"]:5>
(tail call): ?
...\AddOns\AuctionMaster\libs\AceGUI-3.0\AceGUI-3.0.lua:305: in function `Fire'
...AceGUI-3.0\widgets\AceGUIWidget-BlizOptionsGroup.lua:67: in function <...AceGUI-3.0\widgets\AceGUIWidget-BlizOptionsGroup.lua:66>
[C]: in function `Show'
Interface\FrameXML\InterfaceOptionsFrame.lua:28: in function `InterfaceOptionsList_DisplayPanel'
Interface\FrameXML\InterfaceOptionsFrame.lua:46: in function <Interface\FrameXML\InterfaceOptionsFrame.lua:31>
[C]: in function `InterfaceOptionsListButton_OnClick'
[string "*:OnClick"]:2: in function <[string "*:OnClick"]:1>

Locals: (*temporary) = "Message: %s
Time: %s
Count: %s
Stack: %s
Locals: %s"
(*temporary) = "...nfig-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0.lua:1732: AceConfigRegistry-3.0:ValidateOptionsTable(): Bazooka.plugins.Skada: unknown parameter"
(*temporary) = "09/23/09 06:24:38"
(*temporary) = "1"
(*temporary) = "[string "Interface\FrameXML\BasicControls.xml:<Scrip..."]:18: in function <[string "Interface\FrameXML\BasicControls.xml:<Scrip..."]:4>
(tail call): ?
[C]: in function `error'
...-3.0\AceConfigRegistry-3.0\AceConfigRegistry-3.0.lua:44: in function <...-3.0\AceConfigRegistry-3.0\AceConfigRegistry-3.0.lua:39>
...-3.0\AceConfigRegistry-3.0\AceConfigRegistry-3.0.lua:204: in function <...-3.0\AceConfigRegistry-3.0\AceConfigRegistry-3.0.lua:185>
...-3.0\AceConfigRegistry-3.0\AceConfigRegistry-3.0.lua:248: in function `ValidateOptionsTable'
...-3.0\AceConfigRegistry-3.0\AceConfigRegistry-3.0.lua:289: in function `app'
...nfig-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0.lua:1732: in function `Open'
...nfig-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0.lua:1800: in function <...nfig-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0.lua:1798>
(tail call): ?
[C]: ?
[string "safecall Dispatcher[2]"]:9: in function <[string "safecall Dispatcher[2]"]:5>
(tail call): ?
...\AddOns\AuctionMaster\libs\AceGUI-3.0\AceGU(*temporary) = nil
(*temporary) = "Message: ...nfig-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0.lua:1732: AceConfigRegistry-3.0:ValidateOptionsTable(): Bazooka.plugins.Skada: unknown parameter
Time: 09/23/09 06:24:38
Count: 1
Stack: [string "Interface\FrameXML\BasicControls.xml:<Scrip..."]:18: in function <[string "Interface\FrameXML\BasicControls.xml:<Scrip..."]:4>
(tail call): ?
[C]: in function `error'
...-3.0\AceConfigRegistry-3.0\AceConfigRegistry-3.0.lua:44: in function <...-3.0\AceConfigRegistry-3.0\AceConfigRegistry-3.0.lua:39>
...-3.0\AceConfigRegistry-3.0\AceConfigRegistry-3.0.lua:204: in function <...-3.0\AceConfigRegistry-3.0\AceConfigRegistry-3.0.lua:185>
...-3.0\AceConfigRegistry-3.0\AceConfigRegistry-3.0.lua:248: in function `ValidateOptionsTable'
...-3.0\AceConfigRegistry-3.0\AceConfigRegistry-3.0.lua:289: in function `app'
...nfig-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0.lua:1732: in function `Open'
...nfig-3

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Posted Sep 23, 2009
I get this error as soon as I click on the plugins option. Before, I could see the addons page once the option was clicked. Now I get a LUA error. I will clear out my cache, addons, and WTF and install them individually, it look like it is some sort of conflict.

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Posted Sep 23, 2009
I'll definitely look into it later this evening. That stack trace looks scary though :)

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