Runes of Magic US / AU

ZZInfoBar displays a bar that is able to show in several buttons nearly all available text based information on your screen. A special feature of ZZInfoBar is the plugin system, which dynamically creates only your selected buttons to display only the information you really want to see and removes all deactivated ones to save performance. Because of that ZZInfoBar itself is only a core addon that does the management but not provides any information by itself. All functionality is seperately displayed by user installed plugins like the ZZInfoBar Standard Plugins Pack that gets shipped with the ZZInfoBar download.

Project Links

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Features

• Quick access menu for frequently needed windows
  
• Expandable, dropdown based user interface
  
• Customize ZZInfoBar with Skins (It's easy to create your own ones; File format independant)
  
• Move the rest of the UI to get other stuff out of ZZInfoBars way
  
• Dynamic plugin loading with own events
  
• Dynamic button creation / destruction without preloaded and hidden xml frames
  
• Unlimited amount of active buttons
  
• Documented API to create your own plugins
  

Configuraton
With a left click on the menu ("gear") button on the left side of ZZInfoBar the quick access dropdown opens. The first Buttons says "ZZInfoBar - Configuration". A click on that switches to the configuration dropdown, which let's you configure ZZInfoBars general look and feel:

• Skin
  
• Bar Position
  
• Bar Visibility (Alpha)
  
• Bar Width (Fix and unlock grip to change the bar's width)
  
• Full-Width Mode
  
• UI Shifting (Get other UI elements out of your way)
  
• Max Button Width
  
• Button Fontsize
  

Plugins
As ZZInfoBar itself is only the core that implements functionality for buttons with optional tooltips and dropdowns it does not know what it might need to display at some later time. Because of that every new button that has not been given a position yet, will be displayed in a list above, or below the bar depending on the bars alignment on the screen. While holding shift + right mouse button you can move every button around the InfoBar. Dragging an button onto another one will align them. Don't worry, just try around with that to find out what button layout feels best to you.
A right click on the menu ("gear") button on the left side of ZZInfoBar displays the plugins dropdown. Every plugin for ZZIB that is installed and has sucessfully registered itself will be displayed here. Click yourself through the several configuration menus to make ZZInfoBar fit to you the best. These are some plugins for ZZInfoBar:

• ZZInfoBar Standard Plugins Pack
  Gets shipped with the ZZInfoBar download
  
  • ZZBagInfo
    Information about your backpack, money and ammunition.
    
  • ZZExpInfo
    Nearly everything about your characters classes, exp and talent points and your current (daily-) quests.
    
  • ZZSocialContacts
    Keep connected to your friends and your guild. See who is online, with quick whiper and invite them to your group.
    
  • ZZMyPet
    See how your pets are currently doing.
    
  • ZZTimeNDate
    The current time and date, as well as the duration of your current game session.
    
  • ZZPerformance
    Get a quick overview of your current game performance (FPS and ping).
    
  • ZZNewMail
    Get notified whenever new mail arrives.
    
  • ZZTitles
    Change your characters title more easily. Inspired by Jaamosan's TitleSelect.
    
  • ZZCharInfo
    Keep informed about your characters status with equipment durability, stats and current/average dps.
    
  
  
  
• Raid SM
  Allows you to move raid member in the normal raidframe. Easy toggling and position saving / restoring with ZZIB
  
• LootIt!
  LootIt is a split off project from Lootomatic v1.1 to create a stand-alone, improved auto looting addon. It's InfoBar plugin displays the current roll mode and allows quick access to LootIt's configuration
  
• ChannelWatch for ZZInfoBar (in development)
  Allows you to quickly check how many members a private chat channel currently has.
  

You want to create your own plugins? Plugins for ZZInfoBar are fast and easy to write. Head over to the Example Plugin download and get into it now. If you have your own plugin, let me know and i might link it here.

Note on .os-Fix
The ZZInfoBar core does not need any .os-Fix addon and the ZZTimeNDate Plugin in the Standard Plugins Pack has it's own fix (MorphClock library) implemented. You can also use your manually installed .os-Fix (ex: MorphClock Standalone, d303Fix, Fix-for-Patch303)

Hello and wooow, that's a lot of new comments over the weekend. I was away and got home right now. I'll reply to everyone here soon, just let me do some other stuff first.

Quoted from "vfwiffo;566116"

Surprised there were no comment. So far it looks very very promising. I know Xbar is used a lot and this looks to be a similarly functional bar.

It's true that XBar is by far more popular, but I'm fine with that.

Quoted from "RoMage;566157"

Well, I switched from New Xbar (previously used Xbar3) to ZZ Info Bar and so far I like it.

There is some missing functionality from XBar, most major one is details about character including stats and details about your character (when you hold mouse over DPS counter) and I did nto figure out yet where is DPS counter on ZZ Info Bar.

Took me a little to figure out how to access menu where to enable-disable info, but overall - I love all info including Dias, Ruby, PT, Mems... all on one bar.

Another thing I miss is count of current quests/ completed quest for character.

And on positive site, you can select, summon and feed pet directly from bar - how cool is that?

Thank you very much for your feedback. Nice to see you like my addon. If the character info and the quest info is important to you I can think about implementing such features in future versions of ZZInfoBar.

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Quoted from "RoMunited;566633"

How do I get the buttons on the bar and does XBar conflict with it?

Quoted from "vfwiffo;566636"

I could run both with no problems as I was evaluating it.

Button initial position is unfortunate. Drag them with shift-right to the bar. Also, right click on the control gear lets you specify which buttons you don't want.

ZZInfoBar and XBar should be able to run together. There are no problems I know about when doing that.

What do you mean with an unfortunate initial button position? The reason they are displayed as this list and not directly placed in the bar is that the buttons are dynamically created, dependant on which plugins you have installed. When loading the plugins the length the buttons they are going to have later as well as the order in which they are created is unknown. Because of this fixed initial positions don't make sense. With the list users can pick the buttons (not all are activated right from the start) they want and place them in the bar. (you can't move them out of it after doing so) After that you can deactivate the rest and entirely remove them from the game with that.

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Quoted from "RoMunited;566640"

hmm, when I downloaded it there were no buttons on it >< guess I'll re-download and install

When I right click the gear nothing is in it, the plug ins probably didn't install

Quoted from "RoMunited;566674"

I re-installed it, it just seems it doesn't recognize the plugin-ins ><

This addon seems interesting to me, I really hope that I don't have to abandon it

This is really strange.
Please check whether you have any interface errors listed in the window that opens when clicking that pulsing red minimap button. If that button is not there you don't have any errors.

Also make sure that you have two directories in your addons folder. The one is the addons core and is called: "AA_ZZInfoBar". The other one is: "ZZInfoBar_Plugins".

If everything is correct with that please do the follwing, as I will need some debug output from you:

1. Open the follwing folder: "...\Runes of Magic\Interface\Addons\AA_ZZInfoBar\"
   
2. Open "core.lua" with a editor like Notepad++ or SciTE
   
3. Look for line 43 and change "Debug = false," to: "Debug = true,"
   
4. Save the file
   
5. Start Runes of Magic and log in
   
6. Make your Chatframe as large as possible. You should be able to click the rectangle after you are done, so don't make it too large.
   
7. Select the first tab if it isn't
   
8. Make screenshots from the chat window with the debug output
   
9. Give me those screens with a list of your installed addons
   

Okay, so It's working correctly now? Just undo the change to core.lua in step 3 and set "Debug = false," in line 43