ChocolateBar will create a bar on top or bottom of your screen where other addons called broker plugins can display stuff like your fps.
Example Bar:
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?
Data Broker category on WoWInterface
Updated list
Usage
Right click the bar or type "/chocolatebar" to open the options menu.
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.
Warning!
If you enable bottom bar with this addon, it crashes your UI when you use vehicles.Reloading UI solves it but it happens every time you use vehicles or Demon Hunter talents like Rain from Above.
So, if you somehow encounter this problem, probably this addon is your culprit too, or whatever subroutine coding etc. it's using.
If the author also sees this, I hope you can fix this problem. After all this was my favourite panel addon, but since it was quite problematic I had to move to Titan Panel, it works without any problems.
I can't move any of my data feeds. I get an error about a backdrop. Is anyone else having trouble moving data feeds?
@mairenn, your "Hide Bars During Pet Battle" doesn't actually hide the bars during a pet battle 😄. Can you help us out with a fix for that, makes it hard for me to see what abilities are stronger/weaker in my pet battles.
Still waiting for a fix that buff frames get pushed down again instead of overlapping the bar. Don't see a reason why I should install diff addons to do that if ChocolateBar was used to do that by it's own.
Hello I'm having a problem when after exiting a vehicle UI, I can't interact with my action bars and by top and bottom Chocolate bars do not display any plug ins. Reloading UI sets it back to normal.
OK I did a fix myself before this v3.6.3 update and there was added features like the item level and character played time displayed on the chocolatebar. Those are now gone. WHY? I loved those and want them back! How do I get those back without reverting to my fix so I can keep receiving your updates?
In reply to Khedrak:
Check the ChocolateBar toc and add remove the # before the line of the plugin you want back.
modules\CB_ItemLevel.lua
modules\CB_PlayedTime.lua
modules\CB_GameMusic.lua
modules\CB_TestNoText.lua
In reply to miarenn:
Thank you
Having the option in game like all the other addons plugins where we can turn them on or off would be so much better. Because if its updated here again I'll have to do that all over again.
In reply to Khedrak:
The thing is I added them by mistake as I felt they are not ready and then stopped playing lol
Following this to a tee I still do not see Chocolate Bar at all in game. It's not in the interface addons menu, even if it's the only addon I choose upon log in.
In reply to Maerdred:
ou'll also need to ensure that Lib: Ace3 is enabled in the "Addons" UI as well
In reply to Forge_User_73589814:
It actually did that automatically, but yes I did.
::Edit::
I just found it. It was LibSharedMedia-3.0 which wasn't installed.
In reply to Maerdred:
Ah nice! Which specific addon did you have to install? (link, if possible)
In reply to Maerdred:
Thanks, the packer on curseforge had a issue that I missed earlier on
I've fixed that using Dominos and Dominos_Auras (the later does work with 9.01).
Why is the latest version (3.6.2 as of now) still not showing up on Curse?
For anyone landing here in search of the latest version of ChocolateBar:
Overview
- There is an available update for 9.x!
- At the time of this post, it has not yet been published here (Curseforge) or WoWInterface
- One of the authors/maintainers of ChocolateBar has published the update to GitHub
How do I make use of this updated version (prior to it being published here)?
2. Locate 3.6.2 (latest version as of this post; this includes the changes outlined in earlier comments by various users)
3. Select "Source code (.zip)" to download the addon itself
4. Unzip/extract the addon (should yield a folder called "ChocolateBar-3.6.2") - this is the addon
5. Move the addon (folder) into World of Warcraft's "Addons" directory (../Interface/Addons/)
6. Rename the addon (folder) to "ChocolateBar"
7. Find and install the Ace3 (lib) addon (more info below)
Why do I need to install Ace3 libraries?
As mentioned above, in this specific situation you'll need to install the Ace3 libraries (addon). When downloading and installing an addon manually - and in this case, directly from a repository hosted on GitHub - the required dependencies (i.e. "other addons/libraries that need to be in place in order to use this addon") may or may not be included. This is largely influenced by code-related licensing- like the MIT License or, more specific to our WoW-related situation, the Ace3 BSD License
All that said - ChocolateBar (via GitHub) does not include the required dependencies (Ace3 libs) (and this is ok/not abnormal). As a result, we must simply install the dependencies ourselves - in this case, various Ace3 libs (so we'll just grab the whole bundle, to be safe). Usually, an addon-updater will install dependencies for you (or are typically bundled when publishing to simple aggregators like Curseforge).
In reply to Forge_User_73589814:
Thanks for this post!
In reply to Forge_User_73589814:
Am I the only one who is having the issue of the buffs not moving down from the bar at the top of the screen?
In reply to minniegarfeeld:
I'm having the same issue. The buff frame is slightly overlapping with the chocolate bar frame.