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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kiatra_
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Posted Jul 20, 2018
In reply to shawny:

Do you want to have a moveable bar that is not locked?

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Posted Jul 18, 2018
I keep getting

5x Error loading ChocolateBar\modules\Location.lua
!BugGrabber\BugGrabber.lua:578: in function <!BugGrabber\BugGrabber.lua:578>

Locals:
nil

I use https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/spartan-ui with it

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Posted Jul 19, 2018
In reply to Niselma30:

Fixed :)

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Posted Jul 18, 2018
I seem to be having issues with it shifting the default UI elements both below and above the bars at top and bottom respectively. No LUA error, but the minimap does not shift to move below the bar and the new Options and Bag menu does not move either. The main action bar moves, but is constantly shifting, one moment it will be above and a reload will drop it back down under the bar, only to have it pop up a few seconds later.

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Posted Jul 19, 2018
In reply to Deltethnia:

Fixed in 3.1.8 :)

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Posted Jul 20, 2018
In reply to yess:

I am using 3.1.8. I have only 1 top bar and it properly moves the minimap down but the main action bar is still constantly shifting left and right (the right dragon will overlap the Bag menu and then shift to the left to go back to normal). I've disabled all other addons but chocolatebar and it still occurs.

Absolutely fantastic add-on and thanks for all the effort getting it to work.. I know it's not trivial but know that a ton of us appreciate the effort!

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Posted Jul 22, 2018
In reply to yess:

The settings/bag bar now sits nicely in place above my bottom Chocolate bar, but the main action button bar is still bobbing up and down.

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Posted Jul 22, 2018
In reply to Deltethnia:

The good news is I noticed that too. The bad news is I will have to export the action button bar code from the game files to figure out how to stop this. This may take some time as it is already midnight in Europe and I have to work tomorrow :D

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Posted Jul 18, 2018
I keep getting this lua error.

9x Error loading ChocolateBar\modules\Location.lua
!BugGrabber\BugGrabber.lua:578: in function <!BugGrabber\BugGrabber.lua:578>

Locals:
nil

Thanks for this awesome addon!

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Posted Jul 18, 2018
In reply to VikirnoffPriest:

Open the Chocolatebar.toc file with any text editor.

Delete this line

modules\Location.lua
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Posted Jul 18, 2018
In reply to insectKR:

Thanks! <3

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Posted Jul 19, 2018
In reply to insectKR:

Thanks!

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Posted Jul 18, 2018
V. 3.1.7 keeps losing settings. Also isn't showing zone text for any location broker addons - just will say "zone text," which obviously isn't very helpful!

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Posted May 12, 2018
I wish you would test out your fixes before you keep posting them, none of these 3 you put out today work, all give errors and no bar shown on top anymore.

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Posted May 12, 2018
In reply to Kird:

Sorry for that. I have changed how the addon is packaged and forgot check if the libs are where they should be. The next version (3.1.6) should work fine.

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Posted Dec 13, 2017
is it possible to make a panel non interactive? i want to see some things on it, but i dont want there to be any tooltips or clickability.

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Posted Sep 22, 2017
Quote from VulcanTourist >>

A delay isn't really an acceptable solution. The problem with a delay is... then you MUST wait for a response. Both immediate flyout-on-hover and the same with a delay have one thing in common: they take control of the process away from the user. I want to be the one who decides when information is displayed, and I communicate that intent to software by the click of a mouse button or a key. Flyout-on-hover presumes too much and denies me that control. The programmers who first thought that was a great GUI idea should be given 50 lashes.

This flyout-on-hover tactic is a long-standing beef of mine. The Windows Start and Programs menu always flying out almost immediately on mouseover irritated me constantly, until I found utility software that would let me set the hover delay from the default 400ms(?) to 65535, effectively disabling it.

Yes, I like having control as well. However, the older programmers had a different mindset than the programmers do now, so don't dis them...Not Cool. They did the best they could despite the fact that there were so many bugs when it (WoW) first came out, did you think they did it by magic? Really...so stop complaining about the old programmers and fix it urself!

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Posted Aug 31, 2017
Hi i'm having lua errors when i try to change anything from the options, thank you for this usefull addon! ^^

Message: ...ns\libs\AceGUI-3.0\widgets\AceGUIWidget-CheckBox.lua:65: Usage: PlaySound(soundKitID, optional["SFX","Music","Ambience", "Dialog" or "Master"], [forceNoDuplicates, runFinishCallback])
Time: 08/31/17 21:46:51
Count: 5
Stack: ...ns\libs\AceGUI-3.0\widgets\AceGUIWidget-CheckBox.lua:65: Usage: PlaySound(soundKitID, optional["SFX","Music","Ambience", "Dialog" or "Master"], [forceNoDuplicates, runFinishCallback])
[C]: ?
[C]: ?
...ns\libs\AceGUI-3.0\widgets\AceGUIWidget-CheckBox.lua:65: in function <...ns\libs\AceGUI-3.0\widgets\AceGUIWidget-CheckBox.lua:57>

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Posted Sep 8, 2017
Yes, looks like there was a change to PlaySound with 7.3. I think Ace 3 has an update to it so maybe it just means Yess (or other maintainer) need to repackage and then republish. (Or maybe they're waiting on other changes to finalize before they do that.)

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Posted May 20, 2017
Since the last update and the release of 7.2, I haven't seen Rarity displayed on my Chocolate Bar and I see it is not included in the list of plugins, how do I fix it so Rarity is on my bar again? I only have Chocolate Bar because of Rarity, if I cant use Rarity anymore there is no need for me to have Chocolate Bar anymore. Help please :)

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