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Arcana (formerly ChocolateBar) is a lightweight display for broker plugins that lets you organize and observe information on flexible panels. An alternative to TitanPanel, Bazooka and other broker displays.

The Quel'dorei became scattered across the world. To preserve the fragments of arcana they gathered from many sources, they maintain observatories where this knowledge is kept in careful order.

Main Features

Easy setup, install & go!
Multiple bars - top or bottom as many as you want.
Left, right and center alignment.
Support for icon colors and coordinates like used by TomTom.
Easy config, simply drag a plugin and drop points will show. The idea is to easily disable a plugin or toggle its text.
Load-on-demand options, and small memory footprint.
More Chocolate - a broker plugin to show a bar that will autohide again. Great for launchers or other plugins you don't need visible all the time:)

Options for:

Show bars on mouse over only.
Hide bars in combat.
Hide bars during a pet battle.
Set a fixed width for any plugin.
Change textures, font, colors and a lot more...

Where to get plugins?

Search for plugins in the category data-broker on CurseForge.

Usage

Right click the bar or type "/arcana" to open the options menu.

How you can help

Create a pull request on Github.
You can help with the localization.
You miss a feature or found a bug? I look forward to your feedback on Github.

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tlund
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Posted Jun 14, 2009
Sorry to report, but I switched over to Button Bin instead, since I was unable to find help from someone else who could re-produce this problem.

I like this addon alot, but Button Bin was better for me.

Thank you for writing this addon, keep up the good work!

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Posted Jun 16, 2009
never mind, thanks for trying.

Unfortunately I could not reproduce your problem with Broker_Location or the other addons. Maybe it was a problem with an other addon e.g. a tooltip addon.

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Posted Apr 20, 2009
would it be possible to add a font setting for color on each bar that overrides the plugin settings? The bottom bar I have set up looks like a rainbow and really doesn't need to.

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Posted Apr 18, 2009
Line 17 of ChocolateBar.toc has an erroneous quotation at the end:

libs\LibStub\LibStub.lua"

Please delete " for the next release.

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Posted Apr 19, 2009
fixed

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tlund
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Posted Apr 19, 2009
yes, this problem persits in 1.6 and 1.7

It is 100% repeatable, and happens every time i log in or /reload.

I am more than willing to help debug this problem, let me know what you want me to do :)

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Posted Apr 20, 2009
can you still reproduce this after deleting the savedvariables?
"World of Warcraft\WTF\Account\accname\SavedVariables\ChocolateBar.lua" and the "ChocolateBar.lua.bak"

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Posted Apr 20, 2009
Yes, that does not help, however, by disabeling ALL of my LDB addons and enableing them one by one, I fond that its one of them that is causing the behaviour. The addons is Sanity Inventory, a.k.a. Sanity2, available here on curse at http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/sanity2.aspx

I guess it does something bad. I have no idea if the "correct" way to fix it is to change sanity2 or to chagne chocolatebar, but it would be nice with a workaround in chocolatebar for LDB-addons that does something wrong.

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Posted Apr 16, 2009
When I login, no icons/text is shown on my bar. The bar is visible and is not set to autohide.

The only way i found to make it appear again is by following these steps:

1: right-click on bar to get the config screen and select the "MoreChocolate" header.
2: Change the dropdown from "none" to "Cocolatebar1" (this makes the bar disapear
3: Change the dropdown back to "none" again, this makes the bar appear again, but this time all the icons/text is shown again

I am using v1.5

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Posted Apr 18, 2009
do you still have that problem with 1.6?

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Posted Apr 20, 2009
thanks a lot for not giving up on this:)
It was not easy but I found the problem with the 2 addons.
It's the fault of both addons^^ Both use a same global variable that should be local of course.
I fixed this in revision 42: http://www.wowace.com/projects/chocolatebar/files/

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Posted Apr 21, 2009
Thank you very much for fixing this! I can confirm that version 42 does indeed solve the problem for me.

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Posted Apr 16, 2009
Outstanding LDB display! Does everything I wanted to be able to dump FuBar. :) Great work!

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Posted Apr 7, 2009
With 1.3, clicking on any plugin on bar does not work now. I reverted back to 1.2.

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Posted Apr 7, 2009
should be fixed now.

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Posted Mar 20, 2009
Is it possible to change fontsize?

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Posted Mar 22, 2009
no, but you can change the bar scale, that will also change the font size not enough?

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Posted Mar 15, 2009
Having a problem with the new version : as soon as I try to move any of my addons on the bar, I see the new docking going red, but i'm stuck with the addon on my cursor and cannot dock it. Have to press ALT+F4 to be able to recover the game...

No error showing will doing this. Any clue ?

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Posted Mar 15, 2009
(No error showing while doing this. Any clue ?)

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Posted Mar 15, 2009
Looks like I can't dock every addon that has mouse action. Instead of docking the addon, it's currently performing the addon's mouse action.

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17424
Created

Jan 24, 2009
Last Released File

Mar 6, 2026
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