Mod Storage Bar

Currently i dont know of any icon/art listing. If i find anything out i will post about it. All i know is they start in the 5 digit range (ex. 00000) any else will give you a no icon picture. To manually register your own addons with the modbar please read below cause i typed it all out in the guide i put together.

Mod Storage Bar is a place where you can centralize all you mods into one quick hotbar on the left hand side of the screen. With a simple mouse over of activator it will pop out a several buttons (depending on how many mods that have been registered with it) that you can click on to activate/deactivate your mods them.

On the Left hand side of the screen you should see a litte bar that you can mouse over.

Screen of the Mod Storage Bar, as you can see it is on the Left Hand side of the screen all you have to do is mouse over it.

http://static.curseforge.net/uploads/19/9/769/modbar.jpg

Thanks

I wil write up a how to guide later on how to manually register addons with the modbar. Stay tuned.

Yes the developers have to include the code into there addons for you to see them in the bar. I will be writing a how to guide later for anyone wanting to manually add them.

How to Guide:
First off i would like to say that i am terrible at writing guides. Excuse the typos and grammer.

Basicly this guide is how to manually register a addon with the modbar.

***Warning*** 

Manually changing the the way a addon works can sometimes crash your game or even your computer. Make sure you backup your files before making any changes.

Also check with the Addon developer before you change the way there addon works to make sure it is ok by them, cause if you change the way their program works and you start complaining about it, at least they know why and they can tell you to redownload it.

***END Warning***
 

There are 3 different types of files normally associated with addons, a .xml, .mod and a .lua file.

Lets first take a look at a .mod file to make sure that there is a Dependency for the ModBar. If there isn't we need to add it. Take a look at the sample_hook.mod file located in the ModBar directory or within the zip file when you download it on how to add a Dependency.

Also while we have this file open we might as well check to see if the main window is being created here or some where else. If the window is being created here we need to change it.

Example:
(<OnInitialize><CreateWindow name="WindowToBeCreated" show="true" /></OnInitialize>)
Change to:
(<OnInitialize><CallFunction name="WindowToBeCreated.Initialize /></OnInitialize>)
or
(<OnInitialize><CallFunction name="WindowToBeCreated.OnInitialize /></OnInitialize>)

Now we need to find which .lua file that was creating the window. Just open the lua file and look for the .Initialize or .OnInitialize. Once we find that we need to a command to create the window that we took out earlier in the .mod file. Right underneath that function command that you found we need to create that window and put in the command to register that function with the ModBar. Place the registration of the ModBar right before the last end of that function.
Example:
function WindowToBeCreated.OnInitialize()
CreateWindow ("WindowToBeCreated", false)
some other information within the function
Bar:RegisterMod (L"Name of the Program", L"Description of what the program does", WindowToBeCreated.ToggleMainWindow, 10911) end

Now we need a way to call that program from the ModBar. Right After that last end tag of the function you just modified, we need to create a way to toggle on/off that addon. Look at that even more examples.
Example:
function WindowToBeCreated.ToggleMainWindow ()
WindowSetShowing ("WindowToBeCreated", not WindowGetShowing("WindowToBeCreated"))
end
Save the file and test to see if it added it to the ModBar
If it didn't work either I missed something up in the guide or that you messed up in one of the files.

That is end of the guide on how to manually register a addon with the modbar.