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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Kataclasm
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Posted Aug 28, 2022
Is this being updated for Wrath Classic?

I sure hope so... pre-patch is in 2 days.

Don't know what i would do without my broker bar.

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Posted Aug 31, 2022
In reply to Kataclasm:

Any issues so far?

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Posted Aug 31, 2022
In reply to kiatra_:

Yes, if i click and hold on a broker plugin and attempt to drag it to a different position on the bar, the whole bar disappears.

I then have to /reloadui to get it back.

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Posted Sep 3, 2022
In reply to Kataclasm:

I get that randomly on retail:

seems focus is nil in Drag:Stop, what helped is to swap two lines:

The issue seems to be in DragAndDrop.lua

    bar:Drag(name)

    focus = bar

(in Drag:Start(bar, name, choco)

like that:

function Drag:Start(bar, name, choco)

    for k, v in pairs(frameslist) do

        v.dragshow = v:IsVisible()

        v:Show()

    end

    choconame = name

    focus = bar

    bar:Drag(name)

    DragUpdate:SetScript("OnUpdate", OnDragUpdate)

end

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Posted Jul 3, 2022
Everyone here that is having the issue with Curse Forge reporting that the latest update for this addon is corrupt.

I have found that there is an issue with the one .toc's in the file. I have had to update the 4 .toc's in the file to correct this issue.

One of the .toc's has a incorrect interface version number. I have edited all 4 .toc's in the file to their correct versions and the issue has cleared.

The versions affected are:

ChocolateBar.toc

ChocolateBar-BCC.toc

ChocolateBar-Classic.toc

and

ChocolateBar-Mainline.toc

Thanks kiatra for as great addon, been loving it for quite a few years and appreciated that you got back with me on my e-mail to you.

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Posted Jul 10, 2022
In reply to bludwulf62:

Be nice if you could be more specific. I put 90205 in the first line of each of those .toc files and it did not help.

The first line of each of those files now reads

## Interface: 90205

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Posted Jul 12, 2022
In reply to dcjohnston54:

dcjohnston54,

I just reviewed my toc's for this and the only one now that has

the interface of 90205 is ChocolateBar-Mainline.toc

for some reason ChocolateBar.toc has 90105 and

ChocolateBar-BCC.toc has it original as 20504 and

ChocolateBar-Classic.toc has it's original as 11403.

Don't change these to 90205 or 90105 those are their respective game interfaces.

I'm testing ChocolateBar.toc again by changing it back to 90205 and see

if curse changes it back again.

But so far Curse is not reporting that it is corrupt anymore.

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Posted Aug 31, 2022
In reply to bludwulf62:

Let me know it the last version fixed it?

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Posted Sep 1, 2022
In reply to kiatra_:

Yes I see no issues like I had before. All seems to be working like it should.

Thanks,

bludwulf62

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Posted May 24, 2022
Keep getting a warning in the Curseforge app the addon might be corrupted.

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Posted Mar 30, 2022
I have no idea why, but I updated to version 3.8.2 and the game acts like it's not there at all. doesn't see it so I reinstall 3.8.1. and now It's the same thing with 3.8.3. just flat out doesn't see it. Not in the addon list nothin, the folder is in the addon's folder like it should be, but the game doesn't see it. This was Retail.

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Posted Mar 31, 2022
In reply to fooinfinity:

There was no major changes in 3.8.2. Did it work with installing 3.8.1 again?

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Posted Mar 31, 2022
In reply to kiatra_:

Yes, in fact I had to revert it back to 3.8.1. to use it.

edit: just updated to 3.8.4 and it's working fine now on retail.

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Posted Mar 25, 2022
Versions 3.8.2 should fix the lua error after first login.

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Posted Mar 25, 2022
In reply to miarenn:

Still getting lua error from CB_PlayedTime.lua in TBC. Character name is still nil at first login.

I guess the problem is, that the getPlayerIdentifier() function is called multiple times because of the added timer in 3.8.2, but getPlayerIdentifier() itself isn't handling a possible nil name value, thus throwing a lua error.

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Posted Mar 30, 2022
In reply to kazso2:

Thanks, please let me know if you still encounter this error with 3.8.31 :)

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#610 Posted Mar 30, 2022

In reply to kiatra_:

I had changed my local copy to this recently, I should have posted here but slipped my mind.

local function getPlayerIdentifier()
  local _, _, _, _, _, name, server = GetPlayerInfoByGUID(UnitGUID("player"))
	if not server or server == "" then
		server = GetNormalizedRealmName() or ""
	end
	if not name or (name == "" or name == _G.UNKNOWNOBJECT) then
		name = GetUnitName("player")
	end
	--debug("getPlayerIdentifier", server,name)
	return string.format("%s-%s", name, server)
end

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#611 Posted Mar 30, 2022

In reply to kiatra_:

I still get this sporadically with latest

1x ChocolateBar\modules\CB_PlayedTime.lua:62: bad argument #3 to 'format' (string expected, got nil)
[string "=[C]"]: in function `format'
[string "@ChocolateBar\modules\CB_PlayedTime.lua"]:62: in function <ChocolateBar\modules\CB_PlayedTime.lua:60>
[string "@ChocolateBar\modules\CB_PlayedTime.lua"]:86: in function <ChocolateBar\modules\CB_PlayedTime.lua:85>
[string "@ChocolateBar\modules\CB_PlayedTime.lua"]:98: in function `func'
[string "@Ace3\AceTimer-3.0\AceTimer-3.0-17.lua"]:57: in function <Ace3\AceTimer-3.0\AceTimer-3.0.lua:50>

Locals:
(*temporary) = "%s-%s"
(*temporary) = "Hoovesofury"
(*temporary) = nil
(*temporary) = "string expected, got nil"

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Posted Mar 30, 2022
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Seems to be fixed now. No error after login.

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Posted Feb 23, 2022
I'm getting this error when I log on after patch 9.2 went live.

8x ChocolateBar\modules\CB_PlayedTime.lua:70: bad argument #2 to 'format' (string expected, got nil)
[string "=[C]"]: in function `format'
[string "@ChocolateBar\modules\CB_PlayedTime.lua"]:70: in function <ChocolateBar\modules\CB_PlayedTime.lua:65>
[string "@ChocolateBar\modules\CB_PlayedTime.lua"]:78: in function <ChocolateBar\modules\CB_PlayedTime.lua:77>

Locals:
(*temporary) = "%s-%s"
(*temporary) = nil
(*temporary) = nil
(*temporary) = "string expected, got nil"

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Project ID

17424
Created

Jan 24, 2009
Last Released File

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