Authors CurseForge

StormFX, I really have no idea what you are trying to achieve.

Apparently there are tons of Broker plugins with complex options that require a Blizz options panel, and he wants to make them all show up as child entries under a single "Broker" category. He also wants to extend the LDB spec to support Ace3 options tables through LDB rather than just in the addon providing the LDB data object. Despite having read this thread and the discussion in the LDB thread about this, I still don't understand why either of these things are needed (all I've picked up are "because scrollbars suck" and "it wouldn't force you to use Ace3"), and I still don't think either one belongs in LDB. I have over a dozen LDB plugins, and only one or two have a Blizz panel entry; the rest are "configured" by shift-clicking on the plugin to toggle a setting. ???

I've already expressed my thoughts on this matter, though, so I won't derail this thread any further. Carry on.

Eww, milk. My throat gets all ... gross ... after I drink it. Stomach doesn't mind, so I'm not intolerant-slash-allergic, but yeah. :(

Quote from twobits

...If you throw out some code that is easy to hook into and it gives advantages it will probably start to take off once available.

As a proof of concept I previously modified Currency to show up under "Broker" in the Blizz options panel. It is 11 lines of code, 9 of which can be abstracted to a lib or something so it is universally updateable if Blizzard changes their API. I think I incorporated most of the changes suggested in the other thread.

Any other Broker Data Object that has a config is welcome to use the exact same mechanism to create "Broker" if necessary, and then nest its options inside that.

Please note that this is a purely cosmetic effect inside the Blizzard options. Supporting it is totally voluntary, and only applicable if your DO actually has a config that uses the Blizzard panels.

local lib, oldminor = LibStub:NewLibrary("BrokerDataSourceOptions", 1)
if not lib then return end

local panel = CreateFrame("Frame", "BrokerDataSourceOptions", UIParent)
panel.name = "BrokerDataSource"
panel:Hide()
InterfaceOptions_AddCategory(panel)
function panel.default()
	for i, category in ipairs(INTERFACEOPTIONS_ADDONCATEGORIES) do
		category:default()
	end
end
	
panel:SetScript("OnShow", function(self)
	--taken from tekKonfigHeading
	local title = self:CreateFontString("BrokerDataSourceOptionsTitle", "ARTWORK", "GameFontNormalLarge")
	title:SetPoint("TOPLEFT", 16, -16)
	title:SetText("BrokerDataSource")
	self.title = title
	self:SetScript("OnShow", nil)
end)

lib.panel = panel

Is this alright?