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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_ForgeUser1275051
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Posted Aug 10, 2009
I finally got around to switching out my last few FuBar plugins for LDB plugins and switching over to ChocolateBar for display. Works nicely, thanks for the addon :D

I was diagnosing an issue with cBroker: Recount today and found that it leaves .text as "" and only sets .value and .suffix. From my understanding, it should be setting the .text as well, so the issue is with cBR, not ChocolateBar. Will CB be supporting this feature of LDB in the future, though?

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Posted Aug 10, 2009
I had found an issue where I get an "this action has been blocked by the UI" error traced back to ChocolateBar. I was on my hunter. I had opened up the spellbook and was viewing the Pet tab. I attempted to turn off the autocast for Cower in the spellbook since I was about to do some soloing (Cower was not on the pet action bar). It was then I got the error to pop up. It explicitly mentioned ChocolateBar Display. I selected Disable and let the console reload. When I tried to turn off autocast from the spellbook, this time it was successful. Please advise.

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Posted Aug 8, 2009
This is completely broken for me right now. All my settings got reset on the last patch, and when I try to change the "profile", the entire addon blows up. I get an error and the entire bar disappears. I tried completely removing my chocolatebar savedvariables no no avail :(

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Posted Aug 10, 2009
Should be fixed now.

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Posted Jul 15, 2009
ok I looked over the addon, I like it, I tried the Hide Tooltip check button thing and it isn't hiding the tooltip for the CPU stuff, the broker plugin, I just want it to display the screen info not the infor that shows when I hover over it, how do I disable the tooltips for it?

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Posted Jul 15, 2009
The disable tooltips option of ChocolateBar is for combat only. What you probably want is a simple broker plugin without a tooltip that shows the cpu info you want.

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Posted Jun 10, 2009
Is it possible to be able to change the colours of the tooltips? Or is that something handled somewhere else?

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Posted Jun 11, 2009
most tooltip addons can do that.
http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/tip-tac.aspx

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Posted Apr 23, 2009
I opened a GM ticket tonight, and when i pressed submit, I got this error:

[2009/04/24 01:11:16-521-x1]: ChocolateBar-1.7\Chocolate.lua:78: attempt to index global 'dataObjects' (a nil value)
ChocolateBar-1.7\Chocolate.lua:230: in function `Update'
ChocolateBar-1.7\Core.lua:185: in function `?'
CallbackHandler-1.0-3:146: in function <...ist\libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:146>
<string>:"safecall Dispatcher[5]":4: in function <[string "safecall Dispatcher[5]"]:4>
<in C code>: ?
<string>:"safecall Dispatcher[5]":13: in function `?'
CallbackHandler-1.0-3:91: in function `Fire'
LibDataBroker-1.1-4:29: in function <...AutoBar\libs\LibDataBroker-1.1\LibDataBroker-1.1.lua:22>
GoldenTicket-1.0.13\GoldenTicket.lua:112: in function `?'
CallbackHandler-1.0-3:146: in function <...ist\libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:146>
<string>:"safecall Dispatcher[8]":4: in function <[string "safecall Dispatcher[8]"]:4>
<in C code>: ?
<string>:"safecall Dispatcher[8]":13: in function `?'
CallbackHandler-1.0-3:91: in function `Fire'
AceEvent-3.0-3:119: in function <...s\AckisRecipeList\libs\AceEvent-3.0\AceEvent-3.0.lua:118>

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Since it happened when I opened a ticket, i would really suspect interaction with the Golden Ticket addon.

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Posted Apr 26, 2009
Golden Ticket is still using tooltiptext, this is no longer in the data spec thats why I missed the bug.

fixed in r44

http://www.wowace.com/projects/chocolatebar/files/

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Posted May 10, 2009
Finaly got to test this when opening a new ticket yesterday. No error.

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Posted Apr 21, 2009
no big deal, figured I'd ask =)

The bar works great otherwise, I've had far less problems than I did with fubar and titan

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Posted Apr 21, 2009
No sorry, would be bad cpu usage. Just blame the author of you data feed or use a different one.

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Posted Apr 20, 2009
I have a problem with tooltips from icons staying on screen after i mouse-out from them, if i do it "fast". If i just move the mouse in an arc over the bar, one random tooltip sometimes stays on screen.

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Posted Apr 26, 2009
does this happen with all tooltips of chocolate bar?

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Posted May 3, 2009
It happens with alot of different ones, i'll try to check if i can make it happen for all of them, and give you a list. but its atleast 5-10 different ones.

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Posted May 10, 2009
Quick try for a few minutes shows atleast the following stay on screen when just moving the mouse fast over the bar back and forth and moving it out at random:

Broker_Location
Grid
Spellreminder
Several FuBar plugins via FuBar2Broker

...i did specificly try to get Broker Currency to stay on screen, but I fail to make it stick. Possibly this addon is doing something different than the others?

It would be nice if someone else could reproduce this and help with fault isolation.

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Posted May 31, 2009
This problem persists and I am unable to find a pattern.

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Posted Jun 14, 2009
Sorry to report, but I switched over to Button Bin instead, since I was unable to find help from someone else who could re-produce this problem.

I like this addon alot, but Button Bin was better for me.

Thank you for writing this addon, keep up the good work!

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Posted Jun 16, 2009
never mind, thanks for trying.

Unfortunately I could not reproduce your problem with Broker_Location or the other addons. Maybe it was a problem with an other addon e.g. a tooltip addon.

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