Named after the famous Windows Task Bar, where you have "clickable buttons on the left and middle" that shows an icon of each program and the program name/title/text, with left/rightclick menu options. And where you have the "system tray" on the right side for pure addon launching type icons that has no display text. Heck, Windows even added an extra "Quick Launch Bar" to the task bar that is fairly customizable.
Addons then only need to register to display in one of these
1. "system tray" (icons that represent state and mean something, like pet happiness)
2. "quick launch" (icons that do nothing and is just a quick launch)
3. "normal area" (normal buttons with icon and/or text)
can always rename it right?
and who knew a simple question such as "new fubarplugin lib for Ace3?" could spawn all these ideas :P
and following Xin's madness can we have a Start button which somewhere in its popup can have a exit game command?
and my vote is for it to be called 'AddonLib' :P cant get anymore generic than that
collectively we are crazy by definition....
yes we can rename it..
and Xin's idea is a display thing, we talk bout back end... has nothing to do with display :D ... tho i'll work on that too... no start bar yet tho.
Not that I want to convince you to do it, but... umm, strictly speaking you wouldn't need to include anything. If people have FuBar installed, they are bound to already have all required libs. :)
Pardon me for replying to an old post in the thread but this train of thought leads to misconceptions everywhere. I don't think its good to look at it that way because you can not dictate what other addons I use. If I happen to use only one addon that uses "all those libraries" then yes, I am stuck with all of that load.
It's the same thing with people not testing their externals when they commit to the svn and make changes and add libraries; They don't test the addons without any other addon loading and it works fine for them but I get library missing errors all over the place. Even addons on wowi. I find this very anoying.
Pardon me for replying to an old post in the thread but this train of thought leads to misconceptions everywhere. I don't think its good to look at it that way because you can not dictate what other addons I use. If I happen to use only one addon that uses "all those libraries" then yes, I am stuck with all of that load.
Nah, I think you misunderstood. What I'm saying is that if you wanted to add a bit of optional FuBar support to your addon, you wouldn't have to include a bunch of stuff in your own addon. All you need is to check if FuBar is loaded and run your support code if it is. It would have almost no impact on users without FuBar.
collectively we are crazy by definition....
yes we can rename it..
and Xin's idea is a display thing, we talk bout back end... has nothing to do with display :D ... tho i'll work on that too... no start bar yet tho.
Clearly, because the front end will be called TaskBar, by extrapolation, the back end should be called LibTaskBar-1.0.
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Named after the famous Windows Task Bar, where you have "clickable buttons on the left and middle" that shows an icon of each program and the program name/title/text, with left/rightclick menu options. And where you have the "system tray" on the right side for pure addon launching type icons that has no display text. Heck, Windows even added an extra "Quick Launch Bar" to the task bar that is fairly customizable.
Addons then only need to register to display in one of these
1. "system tray" (icons that represent state and mean something, like pet happiness)
2. "quick launch" (icons that do nothing and is just a quick launch)
3. "normal area" (normal buttons with icon and/or text)
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Curse PremiumBut I do like Xinhuan's...
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Curse PremiumOh it is but in a bad way ....
None the less, i think that describes more the display end not the back end.. could call it instead "HAL" or "WoWRegistry" or "TaskManager"...
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Curse Premiumi want to throw this up on the branches to play with.
so TubesLib sound good?
and who knew a simple question such as "new fubarplugin lib for Ace3?" could spawn all these ideas :P
and following Xin's madness can we have a Start button which somewhere in its popup can have a exit game command?
and my vote is for it to be called 'AddonLib' :P cant get anymore generic than that
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yes we can rename it..
and Xin's idea is a display thing, we talk bout back end... has nothing to do with display :D ... tho i'll work on that too... no start bar yet tho.
Sounds like a best first plugin.
Pardon me for replying to an old post in the thread but this train of thought leads to misconceptions everywhere. I don't think its good to look at it that way because you can not dictate what other addons I use. If I happen to use only one addon that uses "all those libraries" then yes, I am stuck with all of that load.
It's the same thing with people not testing their externals when they commit to the svn and make changes and add libraries; They don't test the addons without any other addon loading and it works fine for them but I get library missing errors all over the place. Even addons on wowi. I find this very anoying.
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Nah, I think you misunderstood. What I'm saying is that if you wanted to add a bit of optional FuBar support to your addon, you wouldn't have to include a bunch of stuff in your own addon. All you need is to check if FuBar is loaded and run your support code if it is. It would have almost no impact on users without FuBar.
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Curse PremiumClearly, because the front end will be called TaskBar, by extrapolation, the back end should be called LibTaskBar-1.0.
Hmm... then the file will become LibLibar.... I dunno... :P
or... where does all the items on the bar come from ? out of the fridge.. libFridge ;)