Arcana

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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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kiatra_
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Posted Jul 21, 2016
Thanks, glad you like it! :)

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Posted Jun 11, 2016
I love this broker display.

And its memory footprint being nice and small is an added bonus.

There is one thing missing, though, that would make it even better.

An option to set each plugin to show its tooltip or not on mouse over.

Show tooltip options could be:

Mouse over.

Click.

Modifier key.

Never.

Thanks for this addon.

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Posted Mar 23, 2016
Dragging plugins (to reorder them on the bar) is broken. When I drag a plugin to reorder it, the bar disappears. This happens whether or not the plugins are locked.

Seems MoreChocolate isn't working correctly either.

Also, the plugins that normally have a dropdown are not showing their dropdowns when I mouse over them.

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Posted May 16, 2016
just checked I don't have any problems with reordering plugins. Also moving them to another bar is working fine.

But I can confirm that the MoreChocolate plugin seams broken right now.

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Posted Mar 14, 2016
I have set up a second bar to appear under the first bar at the top of my screen. But how do I get my garrison-related addons to appear only on the second bar? I can't figure out how to do that. If it's not possible to select a bar for certain addons, could that be made into a feature?

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Posted May 16, 2016
Just drag them down to onto the other bar.

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Posted Jun 24, 2015
Don't update to 2.4.4 - it does not work, the addon is not even listed in Installed addons in Interface menu. Previous version, 2.4.3. works just fine.

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Posted Jun 24, 2015
Hmm I just downloaded 2.4.4 and installed it manually an it shows and loads just fine for me.

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Posted Jun 25, 2015
Thanks for advice! I too installed it manually again just now and it works, indeed! Not sure what went wrong first time, the addon was plain non existant in game. Perhaps curse client messed something.

EDIT. It had apparently something to do with Addon Control Panel not working properly, every day I start WoW all addons are disabled and for some odd reason Chocolate bar and Prat won't load for me after first loading of ACP profile. It takes one more Reload UI for them to load.

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Posted Apr 3, 2015
Any chance of providing an option to allow folks to move the clock from the minimap (for me: where the clock is obscured by actionbars) to the display bar?

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Posted Apr 8, 2015
I'm not sure that this addon is being maintained anymore. :(

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Posted Jun 24, 2015
Sure it is

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Posted Jun 24, 2015
Just install a clock broker plugin like uclock. http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/broker-uclock

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Posted Mar 14, 2016
Thanks, that worked. :)

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Posted Mar 17, 2015
Any chance of this getting fixed?

1x [ADDON_ACTION_BLOCKED] AddOn 'ChocolateBar' tried to call the protected function 'ChocolateBroker_Auditor:SetWidth()'.
!BugGrabber\BugGrabber.lua:589: in function <!BugGrabber\BugGrabber.lua:589>
[C]: in function `SetWidth'
ChocolateBar\Chocolate.lua:29: in function <ChocolateBar\Chocolate.lua:10>
ChocolateBar\Chocolate.lua:43: in function `update'
ChocolateBar\Chocolate.lua:258: in function `Update'
ChocolateBar\Core.lua:438: in function `?'
...vUI\libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0-6.lua:147: in function <...vUI\libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:147>
[string "safecall Dispatcher[5]"]:4: in function <[string "safecall Dispatcher[5]"]:4>
[C]: ?
[string "safecall Dispatcher[5]"]:13: in function `?'
...vUI\libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0-6.lua:92: in function `Fire'
...ddOns\ElvUI\libs\LibDataBroker\LibDataBroker-1.1-4.lua:29: in function <...ddOns\ElvUI\libs\LibDataBroker\LibDataBroker-1.1.lua:22>
Broker_Auditor\Core.lua:639: in function `UpdateBrokerText'
Auditor2\Core.lua:334: in function <Auditor2\Core.lua:329>

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Posted Jun 24, 2015
Thats a Broker_Auditor error.

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Posted Nov 13, 2014
u need to update the Updated list sins the links are not working anymore :P

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Posted Nov 11, 2014
This error has started popping up for me recently.

2x [ADDON_ACTION_BLOCKED] AddOn 'ChocolateBar' tried to call the protected function 'ChocolateBrokerMemory:SetWidth()'.
!BugGrabber\BugGrabber.lua:586: in function <!BugGrabber\BugGrabber.lua:586>
[C]: in function `SetWidth'
ChocolateBar\Chocolate.lua:29: in function <ChocolateBar\Chocolate.lua:10>
ChocolateBar\Chocolate.lua:43: in function `update'
ChocolateBar\Chocolate.lua:258: in function `Update'
ChocolateBar\Core.lua:438: in function `?'
...Ons\Ace3\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0-6.lua:147: in function <...Ons\Ace3\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:147>
[string "safecall Dispatcher[5]"]:4: in function <[string "safecall Dispatcher[5]"]:4>
[C]: ?
[string "safecall Dispatcher[5]"]:13: in function `?'
...Ons\Ace3\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0-6.lua:92: in function `Fire'
...AdiBags\libs\LibDataBroker-1.1\LibDataBroker-1.1-4.lua:29: in function <...AdiBags\libs\LibDataBroker-1.1\LibDataBroker-1.1.lua:22>
Broker_Memory\core.lua:159: in function <Broker_Memory\core.lua:139>

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Posted Nov 10, 2014
I'm getting a SetPoint Error and not sure if I should be posting a ticket for Chocolate or the named addons (involved in the SetPoint function). Who should I be directing this too?

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Date: 2014-11-10 13:17:35

ID: 1
Error occured in: Global
Count: 3
Message: ..\AddOns\ChocolateBar\Bar.lua line 501:
ChocolateAtlasLoot:SetPoint(): ChocolateTomeTele is dependent on this
Debug:
[C]: SetPoint()
ChocolateBar\Bar.lua:501: UpdateBar()
ChocolateBar\Bar.lua:165: AddChocolatePiece()
ChocolateBar\Core.lua:412: EnableDataObject()
ChocolateBar\Core.lua:362: ?()
...Ons\Ace3\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:147:
...Ons\Ace3\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:147
[string "safecall Dispatcher[3]"]:4:
[string "safecall Dispatcher[3]"]:4
[C]: ?
[string "safecall Dispatcher[3]"]:13: ?()
...Ons\Ace3\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:92: Fire()
...ickScan\Libs\LibDataBroker-1.1\LibDataBroker-1.1.lua:49: NewDataObject()
Informant\InfMain.lua:923:
Informant\InfMain.lua:919
Informant\InfMain.lua:960:
Informant\InfMain.lua:946
Informant\InfMain.lua:980: FrameLoaded()
[string "*:OnLoad"]:1:
[string "*:OnLoad"]:1
[C]: LoadAddOn()
[string " local loadType = Stubby.GetConfig("Inform..."]:3: in main chunk
[C]: RunScript()
Stubby\Stubby.lua:933:
Stubby\Stubby.lua:921
Stubby\Stubby.lua:946: f()
Stubby\Stubby.lua:743: EventWatcher()
Stubby\Stubby.lua:977: Events()
[string "*:OnEvent"]:1:
[string "*:OnEvent"]:1
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Posted Oct 15, 2014
pls update this addon, its just the best broker display

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