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Compatibility:	Dragonflight (10.0.2)
Updated:	10-31-23 04:27 PM
Created:	12-13-08 08:08 AM
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NinjaPanel

Version: v1.2.0-release

by: Cladhaire [More]

NinjaPanel... so sneaky you'll hardly know it's there

What is NinjaPanel?

NinjaPanel is a simple, easy-to-configure display for LDB data objects. If you're not familiar with LDB, it's a simple standard that addon authors can use to provide information to other addons without needing to write any code specifically for them. This is helping to break the fubar/titan stronghold by providing a standard flexible enough to let any addon display the information.

Okay, so what does it do?

NinjaPanel will display any LDB plugins you have installed. Currently it displays all of them, although options are forthcoming to disable the display for certain plugins. It also can provide you quick access to addon options and other configurations via "launchers", simple icons that sit on the panel. Most addons that provide minimap icons (which we all hate) also provide launchers. All plugins can be dragged around the panel to re-order them, so they're displayed exactly as you'd like them to be.

Where are the options?

There aren't currently many configuration options for this addon other than the ability to enable or disable specific plugins, but I wanted to get a release out to get some feedback from the community. You can expect the following options to be implemented at some point:

Display the panel on the top, bottom, left or right of the screen
Change the height/width of the panel
Customize data objects to hide the icon, text, etc.

So where do I get plugins?

You may be surprised at how many addons already provide some sort of LDB data object, but if you're looking for new ones to try out you can check the category listings at your favorite addon site:

WoWInterface - http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/cat108.html
WowAce - http://www.wowace.com/projects/?search=Broker

How did you manage to get TomTom Crazy Arrow in the panel

NinjaPanel introduces support for icon colors and coordinates using the following fields in the LDB data object:

iconR - The red component value of the color
iconG - The green component value of the color
iconB - The blue component value of the color
iconCoords - A table containing the texCoords to be set on the icon

I will soon expand iconCoords to support the 8-value version, as well as iconRotate to support arbitrary rotations using the new API.

These features are used in the latest version of TomTom to allow you to display the crazy arrow in NinjaPanel.

Anything else?

Please feed free to leave any suggestions or feedback! I'm interested to see what the community would like to see in a panel addon that I can easily provide.

Thanks for using my addons!

Donations:
Some people have asked, so here is a way to send me donations:

NinjaPanel
v1.2.0-release (2023-10-31)
Full Changelog Previous Releases

Add a simple gold tracking plugin
Remove stray print from debugging
Add support for plugin DBs
Fix that stupid bug
Attempt to fix an issue with init of CombatStats
Fix an issue with calling OnEnter for some tooltips
Fix for 10.1.0 PTR with removal of GetAddOnMetadata
Update TOC for 10.0.2
Don't require OnLeave to pick up OnEnter
Properly respond to inventory updates and register the new events
Some bug fixes for CombatStats
- Re-compute the preferred stats when something major changes
- Select the preferred stats using the raw values, not percentages
Fix some small issues with combat stats
Add a CombatStats plugin
Don't do split packaging when only one version
Update curseforge project id
Fix config registration on retail
Prepare for packing
Add and configure Luacheck
Create README.md
Re-add config to enable/disable plugins
Update for 1.0x (ish)
Update TOC for 6.1.x
Update LibJostle
Update TOC for 4.3
Update .TOC
Update to LibJostle-3.0-v40000
Convert svn:ignore properties to .gitignore.
Updated LibJostle to be compatible with 3.3.5
Hide the tooltip when a plugin is clicked
Fix a bug when an icon is set to nil, or set to a texture from nil
Updating TOC for 3.3
Update LibJostle to fix the buff movement
Interface version update
Show which feeds are launchers in the configuration UI
Actually display disabled plugins in the configuration dialog
Show tooltips for plugins that don't define any
Setting eol-style, bumping .TOC and providing support for data feeds that dynamically change their type
Updated version of LibJostle-3.0
Added a nil bailout in UpdatePlugin (bad mikma)
* Fix for moving the panel to the bottom instead of the top.. kind of
Fixed detach bug when disabling a new plugin
Fixed an error caused by custom Data Objects
Fixed the bad SV bug
Fixed tooltip bug with bad type lookup for disabled plugins
Fixed a bug with scrolling offset on the config screen
Undoing bad development branch code to start with a clean slate
* Commiting some broken code that I plan to back out
* Ensure that the scroll bar works on longer addon lists
* Fixed the issues with scrolling on enable/disable window
* Added basic configuration panel that allows you disable/enable plugins. Requires reload and may not work properly.
* Added support for AddonLoader delayed loading
* Make sure to call using NinjaPanel instead of self in the context of the panel
* Act properly with regards to tooltip metadata, refactored handling code a bit
Added a development mode to assist in getting multiple bars working correctly
* Don't error if jostle can't be loaded
* Add support for the tooltip attribute
* Add checks for self.db.plugins[name].disabled
* Initialize db.plugins and sb.panels
* Added cases for the On<X> handlers in UpdatePlugin, so we can set them whenever they are changed
* Set wowi:dirname property so addon is properly packaged
* Fix an issue when reporting an unknown data object type
* Setting eol-style to native
Initial import from git repository
Creating inital directory structure

Beta Files (1)

File Name	Version	Hits	Size	Author	Date
beta_NinjaPanel-r26.zip	r26	1,788	30kB	Cladhaire	04-17-09 09:08 AM

Archived Files (8)

File Name	Version	Size	Author	Date
NinjaPanel	v1.1.7-release	35kB	Cladhaire	05-20-23 03:30 AM
NinjaPanel	v1.1.6-release	35kB	Cladhaire	04-01-23 04:57 AM
NinjaPanel	v1.1.5-release	35kB	Cladhaire	01-12-23 02:13 PM
NinjaPanel	v1.1.4-release	35kB	Cladhaire	10-29-22 02:27 AM
NinjaPanel	v1.1.3-release	35kB	Cladhaire	10-29-22 02:23 AM
NinjaPanel	v1.1.2-release	34kB	Cladhaire	10-28-22 02:02 PM
NinjaPanel	v1.1.1-release	34kB	Cladhaire	10-28-22 06:38 AM
NinjaPanel	v1.1.0-release	29kB	Cladhaire	10-27-22 08:30 AM

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12-17-08, 09:58 AM

Cladhaire

Salad!

Forum posts: 1935

File comments: 4939

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Originally posted by Skylinee
Will the next version have an option for 2 panels? If so i can hardly wait.

Top and bottom, already available on SVN trunk, feel free to check it out. The option isn't a GUI.. but you could add it by calling NinjaPanel:SpawnPanel("BOTTOM"), although you won't be able to move plugins to it until i get that coded.

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"There's only one thing that I know how to do well and I've often been told that you only can do what you know how to do well, and that's be you-- be what you're like-- be like yourself. And so I'm having a wonderful time, but I'd rather be whistling in the dark..."

12-17-08, 06:56 PM

ffcloud2000

A Fallenroot Satyr

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Originally posted by Cladhaire
Top and bottom, already available on SVN trunk, feel free to check it out. The option isn't a GUI.. but you could add it by calling NinjaPanel:SpawnPanel("BOTTOM"), although you won't be able to move plugins to it until i get that coded.

Where abouts could i get the svn version?

Edit: nvm didn't realize there was a wowi svn :S

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Last edited by ffcloud2000 : 12-17-08 at 11:31 PM.

12-18-08, 12:11 AM

BW~Merlin

A Defias Bandit

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Originally posted by Cladhaire
Those are not error messages, they are telling you that there is a problem with those plugins, specifically that they don't specify their type. This is required by the LDB specification. The next version will continue to warn you once per reload but will attempt to display the plugins as well.

What information would I need to submit/tell to the addon authors to get them to make their addon's to behave properly?

12-18-08, 02:07 AM

Cladhaire

Salad!

Forum posts: 1935

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Originally posted by BW~Merlin
What information would I need to submit/tell to the addon authors to get them to make their addon's to behave properly?

They need to include the 'type' attribute in their data object, and follow the set data specifications or provide their own:

http://github.com/tekkub/libdatabrok...specifications

12-19-08, 05:48 PM
Alkar A Chromatic Dragonspawn Forum posts: 195 File comments: 94 Uploads: 4	Ok love this... Got rid of titan/fubar yay!!! but i have a question is there away to make it not have a background and also to put the addon stuff in the middle and not off to the right or left ?? __________________

12-19-08, 07:18 PM
ffcloud2000 A Fallenroot Satyr Forum posts: 24 File comments: 98 Uploads: 0	Possible to increase the font size? __________________

12-20-08, 03:43 AM

Cladhaire

Salad!

Forum posts: 1935

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Originally posted by Alkar
Ok love this... Got rid of titan/fubar yay!!! but i have a question is there away to make it not have a background and also to put the addon stuff in the middle and not off to the right or left ??

Options for this will exist, whenever I get an opportunity to write the options for it.

12-20-08, 09:36 AM

Alkar

A Chromatic Dragonspawn

Forum posts: 195

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Originally posted by Cladhaire
Options for this will exist, whenever I get an opportunity to write the options for it.

NP was just wondering if it may have been in the lua or not

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12-20-08, 01:54 PM

Phanx

Cat.

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Originally posted by BW~Merlin
What information would I need to submit/tell to the addon authors to get them to make their addon's to behave properly?

The plugins you listed are actually FuBar plugins, and are being "translated" into DataBroker plugins with the addon FuBar2Broker, which only sets the type field if it thinks it's creating a "launcher" plugin. You need to figure out who its author is (I think it's Nevcairiel) and ask them to set the type field for "data source" plugins too.

12-21-08, 12:52 PM

Hellfire_

A Kobold Labourer

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Originally posted by Cladhaire
Options for this will exist, whenever I get an opportunity to write the options for it.

Awesome. Proper left/right/center functionality is the only thing keeping me on FuBar right now. That and a goofy race condition with RepairBroker that I haven't worked around quite yet. Anywho, great work. Your stuff is always solid and useful.

Last edited by Hellfire_ : 12-21-08 at 12:53 PM.

12-21-08, 12:57 PM

Cladhaire

Salad!

Forum posts: 1935

File comments: 4939

Uploads: 19

Originally posted by Hellfire_
Awesome. Proper left/right/center functionality is the only thing keeping me on FuBar right now. That and a goofy race condition with RepairBroker that I haven't worked around quite yet. Anywho, great work. Your stuff is always solid and useful.

Left and Right already exist.. unless I am smoking crack?

12-22-08, 10:26 AM
doxxx A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 1 File comments: 160 Uploads: 1	When dragging a plugin into position, it's very hard to predict where it will be inserted in a group of plugins. It seems to be consistently "off-by-one" of where I expect to be when I let go of the button.

12-22-08, 11:48 AM

Cladhaire

Salad!

Forum posts: 1935

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Originally posted by doxxx
When dragging a plugin into position, it's very hard to predict where it will be inserted in a group of plugins. It seems to be consistently "off-by-one" of where I expect to be when I let go of the button.

I can't be positive how it works in the version you are using, but in the version on trunk (probably will push this tonight) here are the rules:

When you are dragging Plugin A to the right and stop, it finds the rightmost Plugin B, such that the left edge of Plugin A is to the right of Plugin B.

When you are dragging Plugin A to the left and stop, it finds the leftmost Plugin B, such that the right edge of Plugin A is to the left of Plugin B.

I'll do what I can to highlight the destination position in a future version.

12-22-08, 04:17 PM
Muurder A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 1 File comments: 15 Uploads: 0	why another panel addon? we already have titan panel and fubar, both in extremely good shape.

12-22-08, 04:39 PM

Cladhaire

Salad!

Forum posts: 1935

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Uploads: 19

Originally posted by Muurder
why another panel addon? we already have titan panel and fubar, both in extremely good shape.

That's your opinion, I happen to disagree wholeheartedly. I developed NinjaPanel for the following reasons:

FuBar (like many addons) tries to do too much. As a matter of fact it tries to do everything. I wanted a very simple panel addon that displayed LDB plugins and "just worked". NinjaPanel does this, and does it in an EXTREMELY lightweight manner.

TitanPanel hasn't (and I'm not sure ever will) get over the problems that it's had since it came out. It's always been plagued with performance issues and very odd code that just adds to the overall cruftiness of the addon. Sure, it works and it does a really good job with the default plugins.. but those default plugins are extremely heavy and impact the performance of the system.

LDB plugins can be written in the space of a macro and NinjaPanel can display them without any mess or fuss. Sure it doesn't have as many configuration options as FuBar or Titan (and never will), but if you're looking for a simple panel that doesn't come with 10,000 different libraries.. you are welcome to use NinjaPanel.

I don't want to compete with any other addon, so you will never see me touting my addon over FuBar, TitanPanel, ButtonBin or anything else. I don't care if everyone uses my addon, or if I'm the only one using it. The fact of the matter is I wrote this addon (like all of my addons) for myself or for my own purposes, and I'll continue to develop and support so long as that is the case.

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