Broker Currency 

I am using Bazooka as my broker bar, and i have that on hide (only shows when i mouse-over).
And i have noticed, that the icons from the tracked currencies are being shown whenever something new happens (selling stuff, buying stuff, earning/loosing currency etc.)

This is really pissing me off since the icons are just "standing right there".
This is a small thing, i know, but it is enough for me to find another broker and i would hate to have to do that since this is by far the best Currency broker i've ever seen - except for the icon bug..

Is there a fix to it?

Kind Regards
Julian

Ahh okay..
Thanks for the reply, i hope the author of Bazooka will fix this problem then..

Hello,

Sorry, I won't (Bazooka author here). This bug is caused by blizzard's implementation of embedded icons in fontstrings which was even worse a couple of patches ago (it didn't obey the parent frame's alpha setting at all, now at least it works if you set the alpha on the parent frame after the text / icons has already been rendered).

I tried "fixing" the issue a couple of ways, but none works 100% reliably, or would be so convoluted that it'd just cause pain for all users even if they don't use plugins with embedded icons or don't use bar transparency (cpu cycles wasted, etc). The only "reliable" fix at the moment seems to be "refreshing" the alpha setting of the bar(s) periodically every second or so, but this is so ugly that I decided not to add it to Bazooka.

Just mouse-over the bar to make it fully visible and let it fade back after you finish shopping, that should fix the icon transparency...

ps: if you happen to find another broker display that handles this correctly, drop me a note please, I'd like to check how they solved it, maybe I overlooked some simple and elegant workaround.

cheers,
mitch

Hi, I have a question about the frame that this broker addon creates. What I'm trying to do is parent a bunch of data texts to a kgpanel and have that kgpanel only show up when I mouse-over it. The problem I'm having is that when I use /fstack to check the name of the panel that your addon creates, it returns "StatBlockCore_Broker Currency". When I enter this into kgpanels, it gives me an error ('=' expected near 'Currency'). I'm guessing this is because of the space. I even looked into the lua but it looks like the frame is supposed to be called Broker_Currency but entering that into kgpanels doesn't work. Neither does BrokerCurrency. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks for the response! It seems like I might have to swap to another broker addon for more than just that reason.

Hey Torhal, here is another completely random question for you. I created a kgpanel and set PlayerTalentFrame as it's parent. I then added a line in the OnShow script window to reposition the talent frame. For some reason, doing this makes my currency data text completely disappear even though they are not overlapping or have any connection whatsoever. A second datatext disappears but then reappears whenever I bring up the talent frame. Do you have any clue what might cause this?

Note that both the affected datatexts are currently tied to another kgpanel but there is no interaction between the 2 panels.

Can you add an option to increase to space between the icons and the text?

I placed the addon on Chocolatebar and the text and icons are sticking to each other. The Garrison Resources icon and Apexis Crystal icon for example. I guess it happens to all square shaped icons.

Thanks man. I appreciate it and i'm looking forward to the result.

I really like this addon. Still beats all the other currency addons that I've tried. Because it's simple, yet lets me see everything I need at a glance^^

I do have a question though: Is it possible to change the time at which the addon switches the "earned today" data over to the "earned yesterday" display to 3 am rather than midnight? I often play WoW past midnight (usually to around 1 am or so...) and it's bothering me a little that the money and currencies earned after midnight are counted separately from the stuff I earned earlier in the same session.

I realize that there's no ingame setting for this and that's probably not necessary for most people, but directions as to where I should modify the lua code to this effect would help. I know how to do that, but I don't know enough lua to find the right code segment. Don't worry, I'm not gonna steal your addon with a few code changes

I almost hacked my version for Nethershards:
currencyID=1226
added under:
ITEM_CURRENCY_IDS_BY_NAME.NETHERSHARD

Icon:
"Interface\\Icons\\inv_datacrystal01"

I had to manually edit my saved variable file for it to show up as an option, the icon shows up but no number in the databroker.