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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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_ForgeUser3777895
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Posted Feb 20, 2010
The border doesn't look good. It's not flush with the bar edge (visible in the first screenshot above), and it gets fuzzy when the bar is enlarged.

At some point I got a bar into a state where resizing the font only resized some textual elements, but I'm having trouble replicating this -- it was after making a bunch of configuration changes.

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Posted Mar 5, 2010
use a different texture.

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Posted Jan 26, 2010
New in 2.0:

Option to move bars anywhere you want.
Option to set the icon size.
Moved options to a separate load on demand module.
Some minor things and bug fixes.

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Posted Jan 19, 2010
I can't seem to enable BrokerGroup, Gearscore, or Saved instances on chocolate bar, I've checked that they're enabled on my addons list, I see the tickbox in ChocolateBar options, but when I click it nothing happens, are they not supported? All other broker stuff are working fine.

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Posted Jan 21, 2010
Just installed Gearscore and Saved instances, both show up. I could not find BrokerGroup where do you get that?

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Posted Jan 6, 2010
I want to svae up KBs, i only need the textdisplay of the addon, what can i delete out of the folder to save some kbs?

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Posted Dec 31, 2009
LUA error when attempting to switch the font used on the bar:

1x ChocolateBar_Options-r98\Options.lua:322: attempt to index global 'LSM' (a nil value)
(tail call): ?:
<in C code>: ?
<string>:"safecall Dispatcher[2]":9: in function <[string "safecall Dispatcher[2]"]:5>
(tail call): ?:
AceConfigDialog-3.0-43:796: in function <...nfig-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0.lua:611>
(tail call): ?:
<in C code>: ?
<string>:"safecall Dispatcher[3]":9: in function <[string "safecall Dispatcher[3]"]:5>
(tail call): ?:
AceGUI-3.0-30 (Ace3):326: in function `Fire'
...ts\AceGUI-3.0-SharedMediaWidgets\SharedFunctions.lua:37: in function <...ts\AceGUI-3.0-SharedMediaWidgets\SharedFunctions.lua:30>:
(tail call): ?:
<in C code>: ?
<string>:"safecall Dispatcher[3]":9: in function <[string "safecall Dispatcher[3]"]:5>
(tail call): ?:
AceGUI-3.0-30 (Ace3):326: in function `Fire'
...3\AceGUI-3.0\widgets\AceGUIWidget-DropDown-Items.lua:339: in function <...3\AceGUI-3.0\widgets\AceGUIWidget-DropDown-Items.lua:334>:

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Posted Dec 31, 2009
Also, just noticed I get the same LUA error when attempting to change the background texture as well.

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Posted Jan 1, 2010
fixed in r99

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Posted Dec 10, 2009
the buffs aren't moving because they changed several frame names.. I just downloaded the new Fubar and copied the updated LibJostle-3.0 library to the Chocolate lib folder (replacing the existing folder) and everything is back to normal.

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Posted Dec 10, 2009
** I replaced the existing LibJostle-3.0 folder, not the whole LIB folder, just to clarify.

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Posted Dec 11, 2009
thanks, 1.9.6 has the latest version of libjostle

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Posted Dec 9, 2009
Also curious - my buffs aren't being moved below the bars :( very awkward in raids.

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Posted Dec 9, 2009
Sorry downloaded today.. not sure when it popped.

also - the buffs are not moving down with patch 3.3

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Posted Dec 9, 2009
[2009/12/09 20:01:42-5980-x1]: ChocolateBar-1.9\Chocolate.lua:153: attempt to call method 'SetOwner' (a nil value)
ChocolateBar-1.9\Chocolate.lua:175: in function <Interface\AddOns\ChocolateBar\Chocolate.lua:161>

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Posted Dec 11, 2009
Should be fixed, but you may miss the tooltip of the addon causing the error in the fist place. Please tell me the name of the addon if you miss a tooltip.

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Posted Dec 4, 2009
What version of ChocolateBar do you use? And when do you get this error?

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Posted Dec 1, 2009
Thank you, I will add that.

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Posted Aug 20, 2009
How do u get the Addon to show u all the stuff u see in the Pictures above?

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Posted Oct 13, 2009
After loading chocolate bar, you need to load the LDB plugins you use most.

http://wiki.github.com/tekkub/libdatabroker-1-1/addons-using-ldb/77

That site will give you a pretty good start.

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Jan 24, 2009
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