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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? I look forward to your feedback on Github.

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TeresaAnnT
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Posted Jan 12, 2017
Are there any updates in the near future?

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calesta_wow
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Posted Oct 26, 2016
Any updates? Still struggling with the 'Hide Order Class Bar' not working properly. :)

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Posted Dec 9, 2016
What class are you playing? For me it is working in the Priest and Paladin Order Halls.

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Posted Mar 29, 2017
I have one of every character and the same behavior is shown. I hide the order class bar and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't and sometimes it shows but hides all the information on it (e.g., no text next to the followers with #/#). Leaving the class hall and coming back just causes the same sort of behavior.

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#270 Posted Sep 2, 2016

Made a ticket on the project site, but I'm not sure if you check it often so I'm also posting it here. The 'Hide Order Class Bar' setting only works for a short period of time. Another user, Dracula, suggested the following.

Looking at: https://github.com/tomrus88/BlizzardInterfaceCode/blob/master/Interface/AddOns/Blizzard_OrderHallUI/Blizzard_OrderHallCommandBar.lua

It seems that the UNIT_AURA event (with 'player' argument) triggers a check whether the player is inside the order hall, and updates the state of the bar accordingly.

You could hook this event to reapply the ChocolateBar setting. Worked for me.

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Posted Sep 5, 2016
For just disabling, I'd think unregistering the event from UIParent would also be fine, instead of hooking

UIParent:UnregisterEvent("UNIT_AURA")

https://github.com/Gethe/wow-ui-source/blob/live/FrameXML/UIParent.lua#L1817-L1818
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Posted Dec 9, 2016
I'll check that, but I think I tried that and the event got registered again in some cases.

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Posted Sep 1, 2016
Please can you make ChocolateBar react to new ClassHall top bar? Like display them one below another and not overlapping like it is now.

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Posted Aug 24, 2016
How do i split top&bottom bar's color?

ex)

top : colorless

bot : black

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Posted Aug 20, 2016
how do i get it show ffps?

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Posted Aug 16, 2016
Hello Yess!

Thank you for that incredible addon, that I use for years now!

I have a problem with the texture of the background. I want the texture to be transparent. But after every reload it resets to the default values.

Can you please fix this?
Kind regards

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Posted Aug 17, 2016
Hmm strange it stays transparent for me even after a reload. Did you set the alpha at the texture color picker?

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Posted Aug 17, 2016
yes :( i tried to delete all my settings, but the bug still occurs.

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_ForgeUser228042
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Posted Aug 26, 2016
You have to set BOTH Alphas to transparent.

(Yes its silly that choc cant do what FuBar can from the get go :))

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Posted Aug 16, 2016
Hey Yess,

Thanks for the great add-on. My comment today has to do with the text description above. The two links to the Broker Starter Pack don't appear to be working (takes me to the default curse mods page). Thoughts?

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Posted Aug 15, 2016
I am having issue with dragging a plugin from one bar to another. Using version 3.0.1. Tried to reinstall with no positive outcome.

Date: 2016-08-15 18:22:51
ID: 2
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ..\AddOns\ChocolateBar\Bar.lua line 351:
   attempt to index local 'pointer' (a nil value)
Debug:
   (tail call): ?
   [C]: ?
   ChocolateBar\Bar.lua:351: UpdateDragChocolate()
   ChocolateBar\DragAndDrop.lua:40:
      ChocolateBar\DragAndDrop.lua:31
   ChocolateBar\DragAndDrop.lua:48:
      ChocolateBar\DragAndDrop.lua:45
Locals:
(*temporary) = 0.0090000005438924
(*temporary) = <function> defined =[C]:-1

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Posted Aug 15, 2016
The same problem!

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Posted Aug 15, 2016
Thanks for the report, I will fix this later today.

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Posted Aug 15, 2016
many thx <3

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Posted Aug 14, 2016
I have uninstalled & reinstalled, as Tanaas did, and Chocolate Bar still wont load. I am not able to access by using /chocolatebar, either. I really like this add on. Can anybody help?

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17424
Created

Jan 24, 2009
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