ChocolateBar Broker Display

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ChocolateBar will create a bar on top or bottom of your screen where other addons called broker plugins can display stuff like your fps.

Main Features

Easy setup, install & go!
Multiple bars - top or bottom as many as you want.
Left, right and center alignment.
Support for icon colors and coordinates like used by TomTom.
Easy config, simply drag a plugin and drop points will show. The idea is to easily disable a plugin or toggle its text. See pics.
Load-on-demand options, and small memory footprint.
More Chocolate - a broker plugin to show a bar that will autohide again. Great for launchers or other plugins you don't need visible all the time:)

Options for:

Show bars on mouse over only.
Hide bars in combat.
Hide bars during a pet battle.
Set a fixed width for any plugin.
Change textures, font, colors and a lot more...

Where to get plugins?

Search for broker on CurseForge

Updated list by tekkub on Github (last update April 2021)

Usage

Right click the bar or type "/chocolatebar" to open the options menu.

How you can help

Create a pull request on Github.
You can help with the localization.
You miss a feature or found a bug? I look forward to your feedback on Github.

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_ForgeUser2084398
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Posted Jan 20, 2011
Anyone know of a replacement for LocationFu? I loved that plugin for FuBar and would like to find something like it for ChocolateBar. I looked at Carbonite but I don't need something that's going to replace the default map, just something on ChocolateBar that tells me the level range of the zone I'm in, and possibly suggested zones for my level.

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Posted Jan 21, 2011
What about Broker_Location?
http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/broker_location.aspx

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Posted Jan 24, 2011
I found it, thanks!

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Posted Jan 7, 2011
Hi, I am using chocolate bar and I am very happy with it.

I have to report a small iussue that is happening with Broker_CPU Memory.
http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/brokercpu.aspx

I have this iusse:
"If used without the LibQTip I find difficult to let tooltip disappears.

I tried to explain better: when I mouseover the ldb info (with chocolate bar last version)Broker_CPU opens the tooltip showing me my addons list.
Then I move the mouse from the ldb text but the tooltip remains open. The only way to close it is to mouseover anything else that opens another tooltip.

With LibQTip when I move out the mouse from ldb text the tooltip correctly disappears. "

and the author answer is:

"Hidding the GameTooltip is handled by the broker display addon not the plugin, it does not happens with ButtonBin and various others, I think you should report it to the chocolatebar developper, he most likely not implemented the data broker specifications correctly. Tell him BrokerCPU uses OnTooltipShow for the GameTooltip, LibQTip uses OnEnter/OnLeave

In BrokerCPU, I manage the procedure to hide the QTip, but for the GameTooltip, this job is passed to the LDB display and this for ALL broker plugin

TO resume this is a chocolate bar bug"

Is possible to check it ?
Thanks very much.

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Posted Feb 9, 2011
I fixed it on my side.

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Posted Feb 9, 2011
Thanks very much for this.
It was not a so big iussue just a little bit annoying :-)

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Posted Dec 18, 2010
Would it be possible to add an option to "toggle" the More Chocolate bar so that it stays open until the button is clicked to close it (or even when it's simply hovered over a second time) instead of being limited to the 1 to 15 second auto-hide?

Fifteen seconds isn't always enough time if I'm rearranging icons or managing addons in the More Chocolate bar, and it would be nice to keep the bar open as long as we want via a "toggle" feature.

Thanks for the awesome LDB display addon, by the way!

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Posted Dec 18, 2010
Thanks for the update! ;)

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Posted Dec 16, 2010
Great addon!

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Posted Nov 9, 2010
Is there a way to have the time show on Chocolatebar? I've looked through all the options and can't find it. Am I just missing something?

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Posted Nov 11, 2010
http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/broker-uclock.aspx

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Posted Oct 31, 2010
BUG: Covers the Battleground Zone Map when ChocolateBar is set to be in the background.

Looks great otherwise! I love it!

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Posted Oct 23, 2010
I think this addon cna be a nice replacement for FuBar, yet I have an annoying issue: all the FuBar plugins have their icon shown around the minimap (and doubled, if I chose into the plugin own settings to show it).
Whether I disable or activate a plugin inside chocolate, I still see its icon around the minimap. Imagine having like 20 plugins and you get the picture.
Any workaround for not having the plugin icons showing around the minimap?

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Posted Oct 27, 2010
Go here Adame, found this to work prefect. :)

http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/minimap-button-frame.aspx

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Posted Feb 1, 2011
Are you using a minimap addon such as Sexymap? If so, there is an option for you to go in and remove minimap buttons.

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Posted Oct 19, 2010
I wanted to test ChocolateBar Broker Display instead of FuBar but if I want to use different addons with ChocolateBar I will get a lua error and can't use ChocolateBar.

Example: I have activated only ArkInventory v3.02.57 and ChocolateBar v2.0.6 and I am getting the following Error. It seems that ChocolateBar is using the Ace3-AceDB of ArkInventory. If I deactivate ArkInventory ChocolateBar (by the way it looks good!) I can reproduce the same error with ChocolateBar and other AddOns but if I am using the other Addons together I won't have the problems.

May be somebody has a good idea!?

Message: Interface\AddOns\ChocolateBar\Core.lua:122: Usage: AceDBObject:RegisterDefaults(defaults): 'options' is not a valid datatype.
Time: 10/19/10 23:14:25
Count: 1
Stack: [C]: ?
...dOns\ArkInventory\Externals\Ace3-AceDB\AceDB-3.0.lua:244: in function <...dOns\ArkInventory\Externals\Ace3-AceDB\AceDB-3.0.lua:239>
...dOns\ArkInventory\Externals\Ace3-AceDB\AceDB-3.0.lua:303: in function <...dOns\ArkInventory\Externals\Ace3-AceDB\AceDB-3.0.lua:264>
(tail call): ?
Interface\AddOns\ChocolateBar\Core.lua:122: in function <Interface\AddOns\ChocolateBar\Core.lua:120>
(tail call): ?
[C]: ?
[string "safecall Dispatcher[1]"]:9: in function <[string "safecall Dispatcher[1]"]:5>
(tail call): ?
...rkInventory\Externals\Ace3-AceAddon\AceAddon-3.0.lua:510: in function `InitializeAddon'
...rkInventory\Externals\Ace3-AceAddon\AceAddon-3.0.lua:622: in function <...rkInventory\Externals\Ace3-AceAddon\AceAddon-3.0.lua:615>

Locals: <none>

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Posted Oct 19, 2010
I mean "If I deactivate ArkInventory ChocolateBar it works fine. (by the way it looks good!)"

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Posted Oct 23, 2010
Thanks, its a bug in CB and ArkInventory. Both using the same variable that actually should be local;)

Fixed in r119
http://www.wowace.com/addons/chocolatebar/files/

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Posted Oct 18, 2010
it worked for awhile with the new load v2.0.6, but when I logged onto another character, then logged back in, Bar2 was gone again.

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Posted Oct 17, 2010
thankyou very much for Chocolate.
I only have one question , how can I change the font size ?
I am sorry that My English is so poor,can you get my point?

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