Welcome to TonicBars
The concept is a Bar (quickbar) manager. It will allow you to create Bars and manage different attributes for them. To compliment traditional bars, is a new concept called Extensions. The idea though is that you select a quickslot on your main bar you want to extend. You then indicate which direction you want this bar to extend into. There is a list of predefined configurations such as: Hunter Travel, Warden Travel, LM Combat Pets, LM Cosmetic Pets, and many more.

TonicBars Can:

• Organize skills, items, mounts, pets, and more onto Quick-Bars for easy access.
  
• Automatically Manage your Classes skills to unclutter the screen
  • Stances
  • Tiered
  • Defeat Response
  • And More!
• Trigger those bars to display under certain circumstances.
  • In-combat
  • Poisoned, Wounded, Feared, Diseased
  • Based on Class Specific Buffs!!!
  • Alt, Control, Shift Pressed
  • Health/Power Drops below some Percentage
• Customize the Bars in terms of:
  • How many Rows / Columns of quickslots to show (aka, the size of the bar)
  • Spacing between the quickslots
  • Size of quickslots (will improve this soon)
  • Bar Background Color, Bar Opacity, Shortcut Opacity, Remove Opacity when moused over
• Add Extensions to a bar (hide skills, but get to them Quick)
  • Display Extension when moused over
  • Display Extension when moused over & Roll up the selection to main bar
  • Randomly pick a shortcut on mouse over
  • Cycle through shortcuts on the extension on mouse over
• Copy bars, Reset Bars, Copy the entire bar setup from another character on the same server.

TonicBars works with DragBars:
Make sure to Download and install DragBar, it's not required, but highly Recommended!!! This will make TonicBars work similar to Standard Turbine Bars (you can move windows around using the ctrl-\ command).
http://www.lotrointerface.com/downloads/info367-ClassDragBarwithExamples.html

Video Tutorial:
Created by Merric at "A Casual Stroll to Mordor" located here: http://www.casualstrolltomordor.com/...tro_plugin_07/ for a more detailed description of how TonicBars works and what people think about it.

How To Use:
When you first load up TonicBar you’ll get an icon that resembles an Goblet with a green ozing luqid that appears in the upper left of the screen. You can freely move that anywhere you want. When you click it, the MainMenu screen will be displayed. Once displayed, you can Add Standard quickslot bars, Add Extension Bars (bars that are only displayed when you mouse over their connecting quickslot), modify generic options such as coping Bars from another character on the same server, and more.

Once you have added a standard bar, and the MainMenu is currently visible, you can move that bar anywhere you want using the Tab that is sticking out over top the bar. This Tab is green and easily identifiable.

From here, you can layout your bars and use the MainMenu to setup the bar settings, such as, is the bar LOCKED, how many quickslots, how many columns, is it a combat bar, show when ALT is pressed or Control or Shift, Opacity, etc.

Once you Close that MainMenu it locks down the bars. They can not be moved, pressed, etc. You can still add skills to it, but the bar can’t be moved. Opening up the MainMenu again will allow you to configure their locations.

Adding extension bars can greatly unclutter your interface. Use these bars to hide hunters/wardens ports, stances, horses, pets, and more. An extension bar can do a lot of things. The idea though is that you select a quickslot on your main bar you want to extend. You then indicate which direction you want this bar to extend into.

You can then select how you want the extension to work and what you want to show up on it. There is a list of predefined configurations such as: Hunter Travel, Warden Travel, LM Combat Pets, LM Cosmetic Pets, and housing.

You can also indicate what to do when mousing over the extension. You can make it so when you mouse over the quickslot it will cycle through the quickslots on the extenion bar, or that it will choose a random entry. Lastly you can have the extension roll the last selection to the connected quickslot when you select something.

Plugin doesn't work what happened?
First and foremost make sure that we put the plugin in the right folder. It should be in: "/lord of the rings online/plugins/tonic/..." it can not have an extra directory in there like "/lord of the rings online/plugins/<tonicbars_v1.2>/tonic/..." that won't work.

Try loading the plugin using: "/plugins load tonicbars" does this work? Do you get anything on the Console saying there is an error?
(you can unload this plugin using "/plugins unload tonicbars" )

If you load it and you don't see errors on the console window, look in the upper left of your window for an icon with a Green Goblet in it. You can move that anywhere on the window and click it to get the main menu, you are good to go.

For more information on where to install plugins and how to use them:
Turbine How-To-Use-LUA-Plugins Thread

Suggestions, Comments, Problems?
If you are having issues, please read the above section and if you are still having an issue:
Submit a TICKET!!! This is a VERY good way to get things fixed or ask for features! Makes things easier for me as a developer.

Want to Discuss this plugin with other users? What you want to see, what improvements you'd like or suggestions? You can do that on this Forum here:
Forums

Feel free to contact me on this thread,
Send me an IM, or
Send me an email at: TonicBars@gmail.com

v2.6.3
-Tried to address the dropping of Inventory Items in Inventory Bars
-Tried to address Extension problems when autoloading
-Added support for the LOTRO Plugin Compendium

v2.6.2
-Adds Inventory Bars / Backpack support back in!
v2.6.1
-Fixed Minstel EasyBars. (Might require you removing Tier2 & Tier3 bars manually the first time after the upgrade)
-Fixed Warden EasyBar issues.

v2.6
-Removed All Calls to BackPack. That means Inventory Bars are completely broken!
-Small miscelanous fixes
-Added EasyBars for Warden, LoreMasters and Hunters

v2.5.2
-Added the ability to select Bars by clicking on their Tab. When this is done, the main menu is re-directed to the correct page / bar.
-Fixed issues with Removing a bar with Extensions
-Fixed issue copying/reseting any type of bar
-Fixed issues with General Menu not allowing selection of all bars due to window cut-off. (more than 8 bars prevented copying)

v2.5.1
-Fixed issues with Extension Bars
-Fixed issues with War-Speach and other buffs from the checkeddropdown menu

v2.5
-DragBars Support & Enhanced Profile Copies
------ Fixed issues with bars displaying after leveling up characters ---------
-Added the ability to integrate with the DragBars plugin located: http://www.lotrointerface.com/downloads/info367-ClassDragBarwithExamples.html
-Use standard ctrl-\ to edit bar locations when DragBar is installed.
-Added better Tabs including Bar Name
--Bar names change on the tab when they are changed
--Inventory Bars move correctly now
-Enhanced Coping bars between characters (you can now copy them per bar per character)
-- Push bars onto other characters
-- Pull other characters bars onto your current character
-Reworked the way Buffs are selected using a new improved CheckedCombo Box. :P

v2.4 - Inventory Bars were added. Changed a LOT of code fundamental to Bars (all types) and Menus (all types).

Inventory Bars:
You can now create Bars that are customized from elements in your inventory. Meaning you want to have a bar that shows all of your potions without having to configure them each time? You can. Add a new potion to your inventory and it's automatically added to the bar.
You can configure these bars based on: "Quantity", "Catagory" or a "Name Filter". These are basics, I plan on adding sorting and more going forward. You can add Color to Inventory Bars and they have Rows and Columns this way, you can make them larger / smaller, but it will only display the Amount that it can. If there are not ENOUGH items to fill your inventory bar, one of two things happen right now. They either don't show any icons at all, or you have a "Bar" that you can't drop anything into. Play with it a little. It'll be improved later.

Bar Changes:
When adding the Inventory Bar I realized the current bars had become a jumbled mess. This cleanup facilitated the addition of Inventory Items and made the process easy to extend Bars moving forward.

Menu Changes:
The basic idea behind the menu changes are to make menus easier to write, maintain, etc. From a user perspective you should see No change (Assuming I didn't break anything).

What to expect going forward
The List of Tasks / Bugs is Listed Here: submit new ones if you are interested.