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MidnightBroker

MidnightBroker is an addon that provides a customizable, movable on-screen display for key player stats like gold, FPS, latency, durability, coordinates, and more, with optional LibDataBroker integration and per-element style and visibility controls.

Description

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