Nox Information Bar is a simple customizable frame that lets you display nearly any data available to the WoW client - in real time. It can show the current time, experience, game performance, combat efficiency and more - pretty much any data you want in the format you want. This "Redux" edition is the same thing as the original Nox bar, but with additional features and a new maintainer (me).
Features:
- Sixteen customizable data slots.
- 30 customizable tooltip lines.
- Experience bar overlays showing current and rested experience in a format easier to read than the default experience bar.
- A new GUI panel for customizing the bar.
- Compatibility with myAddOns.
- Clock offsets from server time configurable per-character for local time displays.
You can customize the Nox Bar by specifying a mix of text and "variables" for each slot to display. For instance, to make a slot display the current time in 24-hour format, you might configure a slot to display "The current time is {24hours}:{minutes}". The names enclosed in brackets (eg. "{24hours}") are the variables, and are replaced at runtime with their appropriate values, while all other text is displayed as configured. Nox supports many of these variables - too many to list here. See the user's guide included in the download for the latest list. If you don't see the data you need in the list, please feel free to suggest additions!
Nox Information Bar is delivered as several separate addons so that you can load only the pieces you need. These are:
- NoxInformationBar is the bar itself, with the standard set of variables.
- NoxCombatStats adds combat-related variables to the bar.
- NoxHonorStats adds honor-related variables to the bar.
- NoxMoneyExtension adds a graphical money display, similar to the one at the bottom of the backpack.
- NoxEquipmentStats adds information about equipped items, including durability.
- NoxSkillStats adds information about character skills.
- NoxPlayerStats adds basic information about your character.
- NoxSampleExtension shows how to write plugins for the Nox Bar.
- NoxMover shifts UI frames around to make room for your Nox Bar.
All of these addons are included in the download file. The "NoxMover" addon is completely standalone, and can be used with or without the Nox Bar, or can be turned off or deleted if you don't need it.
I have to thank ins0mniaque for the original Nox bar, plus the authors of all of the other addons I have borrowed bits and pieces or techniques from - as well as the authors of addons ins0mniaque originally borrowed from.
The Nox Bar supports the following slash commands:
Show the configuration panel:
/noxib config
Show or hide the bar or individual slots:
/noxib show [slot=table]
/noxib hide [slot=table]
/noxib toggle [slot=table]
Lock the bar position:
/noxib lock
/noxib unlock
Customize slot displays:
/noxib resize slot=table width=number
/noxib remap slot=table display='string'
Reset the curent session statistics:
/noxib reset
Configure the tooltip:
/noxib tooltip [state=<'on', 'off'>] [position=<'anchor'>] [x=number] [y=number]
Configure the clock offset from server time:
/noxib clock [offsethour=number] [offsetminute=number]
"table" parameters can be specified as:
- numbers -> "slot=1"
- ranges -> "slot=1-6"
- lists -> "slot=[ 1 3 7 8 ]"
Display strings for the remap command (enclosed in single quotes) define what each slot will display. Variables in each display string (enclosed in braces) will be replaced in the bar with their current values.
Anchor values for the tooltip can be:
- 'left'
- 'topleft'
- 'top'
- 'topright'
- 'right'
- 'bottomright'
- 'bottom'
- 'bottomleft'
- 'center'
Examples:
- Mark slots 4, 5 and 6 as visible
/noxib show slot=4-6
- Display only the clock (in white) in a 100 pixel wide slot
/noxib hide slot=1-16
/noxib show slot=1
/noxib resize slot=1 width=100
/noxib remap slot=1 display='|cffffffff{24hours}:{minutes}'
- Display the current framerate in slot 6, followed by a space and then "fps"
/noxib remap slot=6 display='{framerate} fps'
- Put the tooltip in the bottom right corner
/noxib tooltip position='bottomright' x=-32 y=32
/noxib tooltip state='off'
- Reset the clock offsets to zero (use server time)
/noxib clock
- Set the clock offset to minus 2 hours and 30 minutes
/noxib clock offsethour=-2 offsetminute=-30
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)...
