v2.0.2

Changelog

All notable changes to this addon are documented here.

2.0.2 - 2026-08-23

Added

• Published on CurseForge. Tagged releases now upload there automatically
  alongside the GitHub release.

Changed

• The release workflow packages through BigWigsMods/packager rather than
  git archive. That is what makes the CurseForge upload possible: it
  derives the supported game versions from ## Interface: instead of
  needing a version-id table maintained by hand.

No behaviour change in the addon itself.

2.0.1 - 2026-08-23

Changed

• Finished the 2.0.0 rename in the prose. The README and the source
  comments still described the addon in terms of "hotbars" — the exact
  word 2.0.0 renamed away from — and now say which bars they mean.

No functional change: the packaged addon differs from 2.0.0 only in
comments and README text.

2.0.0 - 2026-08-22

Changed

• Renamed from HideHotbarTooltips to HideBarTooltips. "Hotbar" is not
  the vocabulary the game uses — WoW says action bars — and the addon has
  covered the pet and stance bars since 1.2.0, so the old name was both
  off-idiom and too narrow.
• The slash command is now /hbt. /hht still works as an alias.
• The addon folder, the TOC filename and the saved-variables table all
  changed with the name.

Upgrading from 1.x

Two manual steps, both one-time:

1. Delete the old HideHotbarTooltips folder from Interface/AddOns.
   Leaving it installs the addon twice — both copies hook the tooltip and
   both add a compartment entry.
2. Settings reset to defaults. The client loads saved variables from a
   file named after the addon, so a renamed addon cannot read the old one.
   With three settings and a fresh install, reconfiguring takes a moment;
   the alternative was carrying the wrong name forever.

1.2.0 - 2026-08-22

Added

• Pet bar and stance bar coverage. Those bars fill their tooltips through
  SetPetAction and SetShapeshift rather than SetAction, so they needed
  hooks of their own.
• A settings panel under Options → AddOns → Hide Hotbar Tooltips, built
  on the 10.0 Settings API so it looks like the rest of the game's options.
  It carries the mode and a checkbox per bar. /hht config opens it.
• An addon compartment entry: left-click cycles the mode, right-click opens
  the settings, hovering reports the current state.
• Per-bar control — action, pet and stance can each be covered or left alone
  independently, from the panel.
• A behaviour test suite (lua tests/run.lua) covering migrations, mode
  switching, per-bar coverage, combat transitions and the panel binding,
  running against a stubbed client. Wired into CI.

Changed

• Combat-transition handling no longer inspects the hovered button to work
  out which bar it belongs to. The id now comes from the hook's own
  arguments, which is both simpler and immune to what any given bar addon
  stores on its frames.
• Upgrading from 1.1.x enables the two new bars. That version could only ever
  hide the action bars, and covering every hotbar is what installing this
  addon asks for.

1.1.0 - 2026-08-22

Added

• /hht auto hides hotbar tooltips only while you are in combat, and shows
  them the rest of the time. Combat transitions are handled while the cursor
  is already resting on a button: the tooltip is hidden the moment combat
  starts, and rebuilt when combat ends if you never moved off.
• /hht on, /hht off and /hht status for setting the mode explicitly and
  reporting it. /hht help (or /hht ?) lists everything.
• /hidehotbartooltips as a long-form alias for /hht.
• ## IconTexture: and ## Category-enUS: Action Bars, so the addon shows an
  icon and files under Action Bars in the in-game AddOns list. The icon is a
  64x64 PNG; the 1024x1024 master it is cut from lives in art/ and is left
  out of the packaged zip.
• Localization scaffolding in Locales.lua. English is the source of truth
  and the fallback, so translations can be added a key at a time.
• A Lint workflow that parses every Lua file with 5.1 — the version the
  client runs — and runs luacheck against a .luacheckrc declaring the
  Blizzard API the addon is allowed to call. Releases now depend on it, so a
  tag cannot publish code that would fail to load.

Changed

• Bare /hht still toggles tooltips on and off, unchanged from 1.0.x.
• The saved setting moved from a boolean enabled to a three-state mode.
  Existing saved variables are migrated on load, so the mode you were in
  carries over.

1.0.2 - 2026-08-22

Added

• ## X-Website: pointing at the GitHub repository.

1.0.1 - 2026-08-22

Changed

• Updated ## Interface: to 120100 for WoW patch 12.1. No behaviour
  changes; this only clears the client's "out of date" flag.

1.0.0 - 2026-08-22

Added

• Initial release. Hides action bar tooltips via a hooksecurefunc
  post-hook on GameTooltip:SetAction, leaving bag, gear, spellbook, quest
  and unit frame tooltips untouched.
• /hht toggles hotbar tooltips on and off; the choice is saved per account
  in HideHotbarTooltipsDB and persists across sessions.

v2.0.2-beta2

Changelog

All notable changes to this addon are documented here.

2.0.2 - 2026-08-23

Added

• Published on CurseForge. Tagged releases now upload there automatically
  alongside the GitHub release.

Changed

• The release workflow packages through BigWigsMods/packager rather than
  git archive. That is what makes the CurseForge upload possible: it
  derives the supported game versions from ## Interface: instead of
  needing a version-id table maintained by hand.

No behaviour change in the addon itself.

2.0.1 - 2026-08-23

Changed

• Finished the 2.0.0 rename in the prose. The README and the source
  comments still described the addon in terms of "hotbars" — the exact
  word 2.0.0 renamed away from — and now say which bars they mean.

No functional change: the packaged addon differs from 2.0.0 only in
comments and README text.

2.0.0 - 2026-08-22

Changed

• Renamed from HideHotbarTooltips to HideBarTooltips. "Hotbar" is not
  the vocabulary the game uses — WoW says action bars — and the addon has
  covered the pet and stance bars since 1.2.0, so the old name was both
  off-idiom and too narrow.
• The slash command is now /hbt. /hht still works as an alias.
• The addon folder, the TOC filename and the saved-variables table all
  changed with the name.

Upgrading from 1.x

Two manual steps, both one-time:

1. Delete the old HideHotbarTooltips folder from Interface/AddOns.
   Leaving it installs the addon twice — both copies hook the tooltip and
   both add a compartment entry.
2. Settings reset to defaults. The client loads saved variables from a
   file named after the addon, so a renamed addon cannot read the old one.
   With three settings and a fresh install, reconfiguring takes a moment;
   the alternative was carrying the wrong name forever.

1.2.0 - 2026-08-22

Added

• Pet bar and stance bar coverage. Those bars fill their tooltips through
  SetPetAction and SetShapeshift rather than SetAction, so they needed
  hooks of their own.
• A settings panel under Options → AddOns → Hide Hotbar Tooltips, built
  on the 10.0 Settings API so it looks like the rest of the game's options.
  It carries the mode and a checkbox per bar. /hht config opens it.
• An addon compartment entry: left-click cycles the mode, right-click opens
  the settings, hovering reports the current state.
• Per-bar control — action, pet and stance can each be covered or left alone
  independently, from the panel.
• A behaviour test suite (lua tests/run.lua) covering migrations, mode
  switching, per-bar coverage, combat transitions and the panel binding,
  running against a stubbed client. Wired into CI.

Changed

• Combat-transition handling no longer inspects the hovered button to work
  out which bar it belongs to. The id now comes from the hook's own
  arguments, which is both simpler and immune to what any given bar addon
  stores on its frames.
• Upgrading from 1.1.x enables the two new bars. That version could only ever
  hide the action bars, and covering every hotbar is what installing this
  addon asks for.

1.1.0 - 2026-08-22

Added

• /hht auto hides hotbar tooltips only while you are in combat, and shows
  them the rest of the time. Combat transitions are handled while the cursor
  is already resting on a button: the tooltip is hidden the moment combat
  starts, and rebuilt when combat ends if you never moved off.
• /hht on, /hht off and /hht status for setting the mode explicitly and
  reporting it. /hht help (or /hht ?) lists everything.
• /hidehotbartooltips as a long-form alias for /hht.
• ## IconTexture: and ## Category-enUS: Action Bars, so the addon shows an
  icon and files under Action Bars in the in-game AddOns list. The icon is a
  64x64 PNG; the 1024x1024 master it is cut from lives in art/ and is left
  out of the packaged zip.
• Localization scaffolding in Locales.lua. English is the source of truth
  and the fallback, so translations can be added a key at a time.
• A Lint workflow that parses every Lua file with 5.1 — the version the
  client runs — and runs luacheck against a .luacheckrc declaring the
  Blizzard API the addon is allowed to call. Releases now depend on it, so a
  tag cannot publish code that would fail to load.

Changed

• Bare /hht still toggles tooltips on and off, unchanged from 1.0.x.
• The saved setting moved from a boolean enabled to a three-state mode.
  Existing saved variables are migrated on load, so the mode you were in
  carries over.

1.0.2 - 2026-08-22

Added

• ## X-Website: pointing at the GitHub repository.

1.0.1 - 2026-08-22

Changed

• Updated ## Interface: to 120100 for WoW patch 12.1. No behaviour
  changes; this only clears the client's "out of date" flag.

1.0.0 - 2026-08-22

Added

• Initial release. Hides action bar tooltips via a hooksecurefunc
  post-hook on GameTooltip:SetAction, leaving bag, gear, spellbook, quest
  and unit frame tooltips untouched.
• /hht toggles hotbar tooltips on and off; the choice is saved per account
  in HideHotbarTooltipsDB and persists across sessions.

v2.0.1

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v2.0.0

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v1.2.0

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v1.1.0

Full Changelog: v1.0.2...v1.1.0

v1.0.2

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v1.0.1

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v1.0.0

First release.

Hides the tooltip that appears when you mouse over an action bar button — and nothing else. Bag items, equipped gear, the spellbook, the quest tracker and unit frames all keep their tooltips.

How it works: action bar buttons fill their mouseover tooltip via GameTooltip:SetAction(slot), while bags use SetBagItem, gear uses SetInventoryItem, and the spellbook uses SetSpellBookItem. Post-hooking SetAction alone therefore targets hotbar tooltips exclusively. The hook uses hooksecurefunc, which cannot taint the secure code path, so it is safe in and out of combat.

Usage

Command	Effect
/hht	Toggle hotbar tooltips on or off

The setting is saved per account in HideHotbarTooltipsDB and persists across sessions.

Installation

Download HideHotbarTooltips-v1.0.0.zip and extract the HideHotbarTooltips folder into World of Warcraft/_retail_/Interface/AddOns/, then restart the client or /reload.

Compatibility

Built against Interface 120007 (retail).