MidnightBroker

MidnightBroker is a Retail-focused World of Warcraft addon that provides:

• A standalone movable on-screen display for key stats
• Optional LibDataBroker data source output
• Per-element enable/disable, position persistence, and style customization

Features

• Displays:   - Current date + time (Date-Time element)   - Zone and subzone   - Player coordinates (configurable precision: 0-2 decimals)   - Durability   - Total addon memory usage   - Gold   - Frame rate (FPS)   - Latency   - Broker metrics for Gold, Frame Rate, and Latency
• Every standalone element is independently configurable:   - Enabled/disabled   - Movable when unlocked   - Position persistent across reloads   - Font, font size, text justification, text color, background color, border color, opacity, and scale   - Optional label/title visibility per element
• Graceful fallback when LibDataBroker-1.1 is not available

Install

1. Copy the MidnightBroker folder to your WoW addons directory:    - _retail_/Interface/AddOns/MidnightBroker
2. Restart WoW or run /reload.
3. Configure with /mb options.

Slash Commands

• /mb or /midnightbroker - show help
• /mb options - open the options panel
• /mb lock - lock display elements
• /mb unlock - unlock display elements for dragging
• /mb toggle <time|zone|coords|durability|memory|gold|fps|latency> - toggle one element
• /mb reset <time|zone|coords|durability|memory|gold|fps|latency|all> - reset position(s)
• /mb resetstyle <time|zone|coords|durability|memory|gold|fps|latency|all> - reset style/color settings only

Options UX Notes

• Font selection uses a built-in dropdown of WoW font choices (no external font library required).
• Text justification supports Left, Center, or Right per selected element.
• Font Size, Scale, and Opacity sliders display their current numeric values while adjusting.
• Label visibility can be toggled per selected element.
• Background and border visibility can be toggled per selected element.
• Element frame width auto-adjusts to content length (for example dynamic zone/subzone text), within safe min/max limits.
• Time element includes preset dropdowns for Date Format, Time Format, and Date/Time Layout.
• Coordinates element includes sliders for decimal precision (0-2) and moving update interval (0.05s to 1.0s), with a slower idle refresh to reduce churn.
• Coordinates updates are movement-aware: selected interval applies while moving, with lightweight idle behavior to reduce memory churn.
• Gold element includes a format dropdown (Gold/Silver/Copper or Gold only), with comma-grouped large gold values.
• Zone element includes a layout dropdown (single-line or two-line Zone/Subzone).
• Memory hover tooltip supports entry filters (Top 10, Top 25, or All).
• One-line and two-line text layouts auto-resize frame width/height to avoid clipping.
• The single LibDataBroker text also includes Gold, FPS, and Latency.
• Broker tooltip shows Latency in Home/World format.
• Hovering the Memory standalone element shows a tooltip with loaded addons and current per-addon memory usage.
• Memory tooltip filter supports Top 10, Top 25, or All loaded addons.
• Hovering the Latency standalone element shows a tooltip with separate Home and World latency values.
• Hovering the Durability standalone element shows per-item durability details for equipped gear.

Configuration Model

Saved variable:

• MidnightBrokerDB

Data layout:

• profile.unlocked - global lock/unlock state
• profile.brokerEnabled - enables optional LDB source
• profile.elements.<id> - per-element config including style and position

Defaults are merged non-destructively at startup so new keys are added without removing user settings.

Recovery tip:

• If an element style becomes invalid/corrupted (for example invisible text/background/border),   use /mb resetstyle <element> instead of deleting the entire saved variables file.

Architecture

• Core/ - bootstrap, constants, defaults, db merge, events, throttling, style helpers, slash commands
• Display/ - runtime element manager
• Elements/ - base element class + one module per metric
• Broker/ - optional LibDataBroker integration
• UI/ - options panel and reusable widget builders