ChocolateBar will create a bar on top or bottom of your screen where other addons called broker plugins can display stuff like your fps.
Basically its a Titan-panel or Fubar replacement.
Example Bar:
Another one:
Texture is Gloss from SharedMedia, font is Calibri from tekticles.
Main Features
- Easy setup
- 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.
- 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
- Set a fixed width for any plugin
- Change textures, font, colors and a lot more...
Where to get plugins?
Updatet list
Curse
WoWInterface
Usage
Right click the bar.
or type "/cb" to open the options menu.
You can also go to the great blizz addons menu if you like
windows that cant be moved or resized...
Todo:
You can help with the localization, just go to:
http://www.wowace.com/projects/chocolatebar/localization/
You miss a feature or found a bug? I look forward to your feedback.
Alpha versions
Forum thread
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r84 | yess | 2009-11-17 12:23:45 +0000 (Tue, 17 Nov 2009) | 1 line
Changed paths:
A /tags/v1.9.4 (from /trunk:83)
Tagging as v1.9.4
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r83 | yess | 2009-11-02 21:17:22 +0000 (Mon, 02 Nov 2009) | 2 lines
Changed paths:
M /trunk/Bar.lua
M /trunk/Chocolate.lua
M /trunk/Options.lua
The drop points will now show near the plugin you are moving.
Fixed: The most right plugin should no longer be slightly of screen.
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r82 | yess | 2009-10-30 01:57:11 +0000 (Fri, 30 Oct 2009) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/Bar.lua
M /trunk/Chocolate.lua
hide libqtip and tablet-2.0 tooltips on drag & drop
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r81 | yess | 2009-10-29 04:08:16 +0000 (Thu, 29 Oct 2009) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/Bar.lua
fixed a bug with the new drag & drop
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r80 | yess | 2009-10-29 03:36:43 +0000 (Thu, 29 Oct 2009) | 4 lines
Changed paths:
M /trunk/Bar.lua
M /trunk/Chocolate.lua
M /trunk/Core.lua
M /trunk/DragAndDrop.lua
M /trunk/Options.lua
D /trunk/pics/ChocolateBar.tga
A /trunk/pics/DarkBottom.tga
A /trunk/pics/Gloss.tga
A /trunk/pics/pointer.tga
Completely changed the drag and drop behavior.
The center plugins are now aligned differently, hopefully better
Fixed a bug where tooltips vanished when the cursor was at the screen top
Fixed: moreChocloate bar was not set on profile change
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Installation Guide
- Exit "World of Warcraft" completely
- Download the mod you want to install
- Make a folder on your desktop called "My Mods"
- Save the .zip/.rar files to this folder.
- If, when you try to download the file, it automatically "opens" it... you need to RIGHT click on the link and "save as..." or "Save Target As".
- Extract the file - commonly known as 'unzipping'
Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!
- Windows
- Windows XP has a built in ZIP extractor. Double click on the file to open it, inside should be the file or folders needed. Copy these outside to the "My Mods" folder.
- WinRAR: Right click the file, select "Extract Here"
- WinZip: You MUST make sure the option to "Use Folder Names" is CHECKED or it will just extract the files and not make the proper folders how the Authors designed
- Mac Users
- StuffitExpander: Double click the archive to extract it to a folder in the current directory.
- Verify your WoW Installation Path
That is where you are running WoW from and THAT is where you need to install your mods.
- Move to the Addon folder
- Open your World of Warcraft folder. (default is C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\)
- Go into the "Interface" folder.
- Go into the "AddOns" folder.
- In a new window, open the "My Mods" folder.
- The "My Mods" folder should have the "Addonname" folder in it.
- Move the "Addonname" folder into the "AddOns" folder
- Start World of Warcraft
- Make sure AddOns are installed
- Log in
- At the Character Select screen, look in lower left corner for the "addons" button.
- If button is there: make sure all the mods you installed are listed and make sure "load out of date addons" is checked.
- If the button is NOT there: means you did not install the addons properly. Look at the above screenshots. Try repeating the steps or getting someone who knows more about computers than you do to help.
Translations
When you download a mod, please be sure that the mod is compatible with your translation of wow. Some mods only work on the US versions, while some only work on some of the various European versions. These variations are called "Localizations".
TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)
When Blizzard patches WoW, they change the Interface number. This means that all mods will be "out of date" unless or until the author releases a new version for that interface. Some people go into the .toc files and update the numbers themselves, but this is STRONGLY advised against as it will cause problems locating possible incompatibilities addons. When you log into WoW after a patch, you DO NOT have to delete your interface directory. All you have to do is simply tell WoW to ignore the interface numbers and load all the mods anyway. All you have to do is, while at the "character select" screen, look in the lower left corner and click on the "addons" button. A window will pop up listing all your installed mods.
If you look in the upper left corner of that window there should be a box that says "Load Out of Date AddOns". You want to CHECK this box. Now simply go into WoW normally and all your mods should load. As of the 1.9 patch, you will have to do this after EVERY patch/update that Blizzard posts! If you encounter any problems with a mod after a patch, please be sure to let the author of the mod know so they can fix it.
See also: About "Out Of Date AddOns"
Mac Support
WoW addons are not platformed based. As such, they can be used on either Mac or PC. You can extract both .zip and .rar files on a Mac using StuffitExpander.
Directory Structure
World of Warcraft
|_ Interface
|_AddOns
|_*AddonName*
|_ *AddonName*.toc
|_ *AddonName*.xml
|_ *AddonName*.lua
|_ (possibly others as well)...
