PersonalDataText

Personal Data Texts (PDT) is a minimal datatext addon for World of Warcraft Retail / Midnight.
It’s designed to be fast and lightweight with no LDB/broker framework required, and uses event-driven updates where it matters (like gold and guild) to keep overhead low.

PDT displays small, movable datatexts on your UI:

• Time (12/24-hour + optional seconds)
• Performance (FPS + Home/World latency)
• Durability (with a repair/anvil-style icon)
• Guild online count (optional tooltip with member names)
• Gold (coin icons or numbers-only)

All elements are draggable and save their positions account-wide, so you can customize your UI exactly how you like it.

Moving datatexts:
Hold ALT and drag with Left Click to move any datatext. Positions save account-wide automatically.

Commands:

• /pdt options — Opens PDT’s options panel (Settings → AddOns → Personal Data Texts)
• /pdt reset — Resets all datatext positions back to defaults

Options (Settings → AddOns → Personal Data Texts)

Each datatext has its own category and can be enabled/disabled:

• Time: Enable, 24-hour format, show seconds
• Performance: Enable (FPS + Home/World MS)
• Durability: Enable
• Guild: Enable, show member names in tooltip (on hover)
• Gold: Enable, show coin icons (Gold/Silver/Copper). If disabled: numbers-only (gold only) with commas (e.g. 123,456)
• Text Color: System Yellow, White, Class color

Update behavior (performance friendly)

• Gold updates only on PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD and PLAYER_MONEY.
• Guild updates on entering the world and guild roster events.
• Other datatexts refresh on a short interval for smooth display.

Features

• Lightweight and fast, with no extra bloat
• No LDB/broker framework required
• Event-driven updates where it matters (gold + guild)
• Durability displayed with a repair/anvil-style icon
• Gold formatted with commas for readability (numbers-only mode)
• Fully Retail/Midnight compatible
• Replaces simple data text WeakAuras without the overhead of broker addons

Motivation for making this

I used to have this as a WeakAura, but with Midnight’s addon destruction I tried looking for something existing that did what my little WA used to do. There are already several great broker addons out there, but they weren’t as simple as I’d gotten used to with my WA, so I figured it couldn’t be too hard to create a little addon that would do the same.

PDT is meant to be a simple, reliable, and fully customizable replacement for personal data text displays.