ChocolateBar Broker Display
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.
I frequently get "clear all points"/setpoint" error messages along these lines:
11x [ADDON_ACTION_BLOCKED] AddOn "Broker_ProfessionsMenu" tried to call the protected function "ChocolateBroker_ProfessionsMenu:ClearAllPoints()"
22x [ADDON_ACTION_BLOCKED] AddOn "Broker_ProfessionsMenu" tried to call the protected function "ChocolateBroker_ProfessionsMenu:SetPoint()"
Happens with different plugins such as iFriends, ElkFriends and ProfessionsMenu. Is this a problem w/ my other addons or Chocolate Bar? Anything I can do to fix this?
Nice change for hiding chocolatebar during a pet battle. However one time during a battle, someone tried to gank me which interrupted the pet battle right away. And the bar didn't come back.
Yes. Also when you enter a dungeon while in a battle (using the dungeon finder), the bar is no longer there.
Should be fixed with r157
http://www.wowace.com/addons/chocolatebar/files/8418-r157/
Hi, I posted the original ticket about that on wowace. After installing the update, the bar was re-appearing after pet battles quickly, and the UI bumped down every time.
However, just now after doing some wild pet battles, ChocolateBar did not reappear and the UI remaind in its default position (not bumped down). A /reload fixed it. I can create a new ticket if you would prefer that.
@coreanism, you could modify the code to handle vehicleUI while waiting for the next update...
in Bar.lua change line 14:
From: local frame = CreateFrame("Frame",name,UIParent)
To: local frame = CreateFrame("Frame",name,UIParent,"SecureHandlerStateTemplate")
and then add the following line of code after line 67:
RegisterStateDriver(frame, "visibility", "[vehicleui] hide; show")
in the little of testing that I have done... so far it works well.
sweet! ill try that out. thanx
love the option to hide bars during pet battles. can you also add an option to hide when on vehicle?
Could you add option to ajust the pet battle health bar at the top of the screen during pet battles or option to hid the bars while in pet battles.
Added the hide bars option for now.
You might want to think about adding option to hide Chocolate bar during Pet Battles, regardless of 'hide in combat' option. The bar overlaps with the pet battle upper screen bar.
For the time being I put my chocolate bar to the bottom of the screen, although the usage now is awkward :D
Added;)
I'm having an issue with Chocolate Bar. Whenever it is active, and even when it is the only mod active, my UI has a momentary lockup about every 6 or 7 seconds. The kicker is that it only seems to affect my worgen lock's character. I use it on every other toon that I have and it works fine. Any idea what might be causing this?
Hmm, please try to disable the option "Adjust Blizzard Frames" might be relatet to that.
Hi there,
Are you planning to add an option to hide bars when in a pet battle? There are a lot of game generated frames that come up during them that bars can cover up, so it would be really useful to be able to have a toggle for hiding bars during pet battles. Thanks.
Edit: this can be more or less accomplished with changing the frame strata to Background, but there are reasons people might not want to do that in general, depending on their layout.
Yup seems like a nice option to do add. I will add that in my vacation time next week;)
I keep trying to add a top chocolate bar, and it disappears. I try deleting it and recreating it, and it MIGHT stay there a minute or two, then it's gone again. Sometimes it will show, then it will disappear. My bottom bar is just fine - no problems.....
nvm...what seems to have happend is that "morechocolate" turned itself on and stole the upper bar for some strange reason. I set it to none and it's ok again.
Before 5.0.4, Minimap and Buffs were moved a bit down, so they would not overlap with Chocolate Bar at the top of the screen. This seems to me missing (for me at least), as of 5.0.4.
This should work again with the latest version 2.2.6. If not check if you have set "Adjust Blizzard Frames" under Look and Feel of the ChocolateBar settings.
Thanks for this tip. The buffs are moved down, but the minimap still isn't. However, I can live with that.