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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

Multiple bars - top/bottom or anywhere as many as you want.
Decoloring of plugin text and stripping in text icons for a cleaner ui.
Support for icon colors and coordinates like used by TomTom.
To qucikly get to a plugins option drag a plugin over the open option drop point.
More Arcane - a plugin toggle show/hide another bar.

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? Help out with a pull request on Github.

Please consider donating with the link below if you like the addon.

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Tomaj84
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Posted Jul 26, 2018
Hi there, seem to be having a minor issue. Haven't played in months so unsure if this is a new or old issue. However, ChocolateBar no longer seems to be capable of adjusting blizzard frames (even though I have this option checked and have always done so). So now it overlaps things like my buff bar, minimap, etc. Also covers the class hall bar (which I'd actually like to see). If I simply change the strata, then I can't see ChocolateBar while in a class hall.

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picro
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Posted Jul 26, 2018
nice work.

Last edited by picro: Jul 26, 2018

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Posted Jul 21, 2018
Moved from ButtonBin to Chocolate Bar.

Is it possible to disable the clicking of Chocolate Bar opening the addon controls.

Can not see the setting for it, thanks.

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Posted Jul 22, 2018
In reply to Forge_User_45486274:

~~No, there is no option for that.~~ Whoops, see below :)

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Posted Jul 23, 2018
Quote from Forge_User_45486274 >>

Moved from ButtonBin to Chocolate Bar.

Is it possible to disable the clicking of Chocolate Bar opening the addon controls.

Can not see the setting for it, thanks.

Hi Scorekeeper.

Not sure if this is what you want or helps? But if you right click on an empty area of Chocolate Bar there is a drop down option called "Bar Right Click" (currently most likely has ChocolateBar Options listed). If you change it to none - it will do nothing anymore or you can also chose Blizzard menu if you prefer?

Hope this doesn't offend Yess, but not sure if it was ok to say something or not, as didn't want to contradict or offend you and your bloody awesome addon. Must say leaves all others for dead :). Thanks for such a good addon and again hope I haven't offended at all with this post???

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Posted Jul 23, 2018
In reply to Mindlessgalaxy:

Haha no that is ok, I should have checked before giving a wrong answer. I have implemented that years ago and just forgot about it, lol.

Thanks for the compliments, makes me happy that you like the addon :)

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Posted Jul 23, 2018
Quote from yess >>

In reply to Mindlessgalaxy:

Haha no that is ok, I should have checked before giving a wrong answer. I have implemented that years ago and just forgot about it, lol.

Thanks for the compliments, makes me happy that you like the addon :)

Hi Yess.

I am glad you remembered and no I don't like your addon -- I love it, it is the most used and probably by far the best addon and using it since you started it, a long time :). Anyway glad to be able to help and that you are so receptive it awesome, thanks again.

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Posted Jul 21, 2018
Using CB, one bar at the top. It won't save my background option after a relog. I need to go and manually select which bar background I want every time.

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Posted Jul 22, 2018
In reply to seanmcgpa:

Hmm strange, it does save the texture for me.

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Posted Jul 22, 2018
In reply to seanmcgpa:

Got a similar problem with another addon and it seems related to other load on demand addons.

Are the settings saved when you only enable ChocolateBar and disable all the other addons?

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Posted Jul 26, 2018
In reply to yess:

Yes, the settings are saved when only CB is active and everything else is disabled.

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Posted Jul 20, 2018
Coming across what I think is a conflict between ChocolateBar and the default Blizz UI, in regards to UI scaling. I use a larger than normal scale for the UI, and so when ChocolateBar centers the bottom default action bar, it causes the right side gryphon to overlap with the character/spellbook/etc buttons. When I open the spellbook and mouse over a spell, the bottom action bars shift to the left, but after about 10-11 seconds of waiting, it will shift back to the right. If I disable UI scaling in System > Advanced, the shifting stops, and the shifting also never occurs if I disable ChocolateBar.

I tried enabling script errors to see if it would catch anything, but no luck.

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Posted Jul 22, 2018
In reply to Throcktar:

~~Hmm I can't reproduce that. What UI Scale do you use?~~ Ah got it :)

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Posted Jul 22, 2018
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Fixed :)

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Posted Jul 20, 2018
I have an issue the addon moves me the castbar above the action bars, how can i stop that, i really love this addon.

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Posted Jul 20, 2018
In reply to BillieV:

Do you have a bar on the bottom?

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Posted Jul 21, 2018
In reply to yess:

No, just the TOP bar. for now i changed my resolution and it keep moving the bar but this time the bar is just nearly above the action bars and its less annoying.

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Posted Jul 22, 2018
In reply to BillieV:

Fixed :)

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Posted Jul 20, 2018
Having a lot of issues with this addon losing changes, changing backgrounds randomly.

I've only tracked one way it loses settings so far and that is if you create a new bar, move it somewhere, then don't lock it down, the data you've put onto that bar (and random others from other bars) moves back to the main bar. quite strange.Hope you're able to track down the issues. I was trying different broker addons but this one isn't going to work for me :(

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Posted Jul 20, 2018
In reply to shawny:

Do you want to have a moveable bar that is not locked?

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