Arcana
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.
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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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Posted Jun 11, 2021Hello. What do I need to change to stop getting debug messages about "IsRetail" on login? The retail client, of course. :)
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Posted Jun 17, 2021In reply to Fringetastic:
I found them in Jostle.lua. Commented out lines 78 and 80 (by putting 2 dashes at the beginning of the lines).
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Posted Jun 9, 2021If you move the bar to the bottom of your screen and lock it a little bit of the bar disappears. From what I could see it won't happen in any other circumstances. If you place the bottom edge of your bar on the top edge of something like your minimap or chat window the little part doesn't disappear
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Posted May 19, 2021Any update for TBC?
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Posted May 20, 2021In reply to Daeveren:
mostly works well for me but i have yet to figure out how to change the height of the bars to account for the larger font i need to use. what i think should logically change the height (bar size) only increase the font to not fit into the bar.
if anyone can help - thanks in advance
amey0
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Posted May 3, 2021How do I get rid of this addon showing /played every time I login?
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Posted Apr 14, 2021Getting error UnitInVehicle on line 135 in Jostle.lua every time I leave combat. Classic
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Posted Apr 23, 2021Same there
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Posted May 1, 2021In reply to Slivoss:
Should be fixed now :)
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Posted May 1, 2021Sounds good, indeed ! Thanks !
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Posted Apr 12, 2021@miarenn i had to make 2 changes to fix the addon for classic
in Core.lua
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Posted Apr 12, 2021In reply to MrBudsz:
also while looking at CB_PlayedTime.lua, you should make formatTime function local and move it up in the file
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Posted Apr 12, 2021In reply to MrBudsz:
Thanks, you can make pull requests on github in the future if you want :)
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Posted Apr 11, 20213.6.13 Classic and 3.6.12 Classic doesn't show up ingame after updating. 3.3.4 works
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Posted Apr 11, 2021In reply to Daeveren:
Issue has been posted a day or so ago.
https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/chocolatebar/issues/92
I have a feeling that Classic version gets no testing before packaging a release.
It's happened before that errors slip into release packages that would be apparent on first load of the game.
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Posted Apr 10, 2021Is there any way to move the addons around on the bar?
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Posted Apr 12, 2021In reply to Oh_lawdie:
Drag and drop. Is that not working for you?
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Posted Apr 9, 2021New lua error with v3.6.10
Message: ...ddOns\ChocolateBar\modules\CB_PlayedTime_Options.lua:49: CB_PlayedTime has already been added to the Blizzard Options Window with the given path
Time: Sat Apr 10 11:50:09 2021
Count: 1
Stack: ...ddOns\ChocolateBar\modules\CB_PlayedTime_Options.lua:49: CB_PlayedTime has already been added to the Blizzard Options Window with the given path
[string "=[C]"]: ?
[string "@Interface\AddOns\Altoholic\libs\AceConfig-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0.lua"]:2017: in function `AddToBlizOptions'
[string "@Interface\AddOns\ChocolateBar\modules\CB_PlayedTime_Options.lua"]:49: in function `RegisterOptions'
[string "@Interface\AddOns\ChocolateBar\modules\CB_PlayedTime.lua"]:90: in function <...erface\AddOns\ChocolateBar\modules\CB_PlayedTime.lua:86>
Locals: (*temporary) = "CB_PlayedTime has already been added to the Blizzard Options Window with the given path"
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Posted Apr 10, 2021In reply to WildCard_25:
Hmm I do not habe that issue, strange.
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Posted Apr 10, 2021In reply to WildCard_25:
ive got this issue too