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 Apr 21, 2026Hey ya, just a heads up now that servers are up.
Arcana bar is there, but no modules are showing in it. just a blank bar. No errors.
I checked fonts/colours but nothing will show up.
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Posted Apr 21, 2026In reply to kurkon1977:
If you make the changes mentioned above by zaph0n - it fixes the problem.
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Posted Apr 22, 2026In reply to Wraithlord2015: Hello!
I have the same problem than Kurkon1977 and any of the options works for me, modify line 400 or delete it :(
Now i hace this error
25x FontString:SetFont(): FontString:SetFont(): Invalid font file asset (asset not found)
[Arcana/ArcanaPiece.lua]:405: in function '?'
[Arcana/TheHeart.lua]:508: in function 'EnableDataObject'
[Arcana/TheHeart.lua]:271: in function 'EnableModule'
[Arcana/TheHeart.lua]:261: in function 'EnableModules'
[Arcana/TheHeart.lua]:234: in function 'Initialize'
[Arcana/TheHeart.lua]:146: in function <Arcana/TheHeart.lua:142>
Locals:
self=<table>
name="Played Time"
obj=<table>
settings=<table>{
enabled=true
index=500
align="left"
isNew=false
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Posted Apr 22, 2026In reply to AreusaW: Did you add the line I said to after line 400?
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Posted Apr 23, 2026In reply to zaph0n: yes, i did in the same line. Should i wrote a new one?
I wrote this
local fontPath = db.fontPath == " " and LSM:GetDefault("font") or db.fontPath = select(1,GameFontNormal:GetFont())
Sorry if i did wrong, sincerely i have no idea what i was doing Q_Q
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Posted Apr 23, 2026In reply to AreusaW: Yeah it's two lines..
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Posted Apr 8, 2026I have Disable Tooltips, Disable Clicking, and Disable Options all selected, and it seems to work for any modules on my bar, but if I right click on the bar itself, it still opens up while in combat. Is this intended behaviour? I do get a message in chat stating "Arcana Info Arcana Opening Arcana only options during combat." So it's recognizing that it is opening during combat, but I'd prefer it didn't open at all.
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Posted Mar 26, 2026If you have an issue or bug please make issue on GitHub: https://github.com/Kiatra/Arcana
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Posted Mar 25, 2026Can confirm after updating to 5.4.2, no errors so far and the bar is populating. Thank you Kiatra
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Posted Mar 26, 2026In reply to NightsoulGamer: ❤️
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Posted Mar 24, 2026A few of you reported the bars missing in 5.4 but not 5.3.3. I could not reproduce that issue and tried a few things. So if you have an error with 5.4.1 make a bug report on GitHub.
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Posted Mar 25, 2026In reply to kiatra_: that issue should be fixed in 5.4.2 now.
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Posted Mar 21, 2026Same issue here. the last version of the addon doesn't load at all.
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Posted Mar 15, 2026Version 5.4 kicking out a LUA migrate error causing the bar to not show. Went into Curseforge, click Arcana, clicked versions above the thread, hit install on version 5.3.3. Reloaded WoW, bar is back with no LUA migrate error.
Hope this helps for anyone looking for a temp fix.
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Posted Mar 24, 2026In reply to NightsoulGamer: I would need that error for a fix. As I cannot reproduce Arcana not showing the Bars so far.
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Posted Mar 25, 2026In reply to NightsoulGamer: Should be fixed in 5.4.2
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Posted Mar 14, 20261x LUA_WARNING: Arcana/Arcana_Vanilla.toc:48 Error loading Arcana/Modules/Lauchers/Lauchers_LibQTip.lua on SOD classic.
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Posted Mar 24, 2026In reply to Viper2042: Fixed in 5.4.1
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Posted Mar 14, 2026yah im playing with downloading that "SharedMediaAdditionalFonts", and i think im installing it correctly,
i just really like Arial Black, but to use it, i have to alter the lua file,lol
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Posted Mar 14, 2026Latest version broke it.
I updated, and now the bars are gone. Typing /arcana does nothing. The addons turned on (both it and the Options box is ticked), but nothing's there.