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.
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_ Owner
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Posted Sep 27, 2012Nice change for hiding chocolatebar during a pet battle. However one time during a battle, someone tried to gank me which interrupted the pet battle right away. And the bar didn't come back.
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Posted Oct 4, 2012Yes. Also when you enter a dungeon while in a battle (using the dungeon finder), the bar is no longer there.
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Posted Oct 21, 2012Should be fixed with r157
http://www.wowace.com/addons/chocolatebar/files/8418-r157/
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Posted Oct 22, 2012Hi, I posted the original ticket about that on wowace. After installing the update, the bar was re-appearing after pet battles quickly, and the UI bumped down every time.
However, just now after doing some wild pet battles, ChocolateBar did not reappear and the UI remaind in its default position (not bumped down). A /reload fixed it. I can create a new ticket if you would prefer that.
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Posted Sep 27, 2012@coreanism, you could modify the code to handle vehicleUI while waiting for the next update...
in Bar.lua change line 14:
From: local frame = CreateFrame("Frame",name,UIParent)
To: local frame = CreateFrame("Frame",name,UIParent,"SecureHandlerStateTemplate")
and then add the following line of code after line 67:
RegisterStateDriver(frame, "visibility", "[vehicleui] hide; show")
in the little of testing that I have done... so far it works well.
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Posted Sep 28, 2012sweet! ill try that out. thanx
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Posted Sep 27, 2012love the option to hide bars during pet battles. can you also add an option to hide when on vehicle?
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Posted Sep 25, 2012Could you add option to ajust the pet battle health bar at the top of the screen during pet battles or option to hid the bars while in pet battles.
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Posted Sep 26, 2012Added the hide bars option for now.
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Posted Sep 25, 2012You might want to think about adding option to hide Chocolate bar during Pet Battles, regardless of 'hide in combat' option. The bar overlaps with the pet battle upper screen bar.
For the time being I put my chocolate bar to the bottom of the screen, although the usage now is awkward :D
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Posted Sep 26, 2012Added;)
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Posted Sep 9, 2012I'm having an issue with Chocolate Bar. Whenever it is active, and even when it is the only mod active, my UI has a momentary lockup about every 6 or 7 seconds. The kicker is that it only seems to affect my worgen lock's character. I use it on every other toon that I have and it works fine. Any idea what might be causing this?
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Posted Sep 10, 2012Hmm, please try to disable the option "Adjust Blizzard Frames" might be relatet to that.
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Posted Sep 2, 2012Hi there,
Are you planning to add an option to hide bars when in a pet battle? There are a lot of game generated frames that come up during them that bars can cover up, so it would be really useful to be able to have a toggle for hiding bars during pet battles. Thanks.
Edit: this can be more or less accomplished with changing the frame strata to Background, but there are reasons people might not want to do that in general, depending on their layout.
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Posted Sep 10, 2012Yup seems like a nice option to do add. I will add that in my vacation time next week;)
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Posted Sep 2, 2012I keep trying to add a top chocolate bar, and it disappears. I try deleting it and recreating it, and it MIGHT stay there a minute or two, then it's gone again. Sometimes it will show, then it will disappear. My bottom bar is just fine - no problems.....
nvm...what seems to have happend is that "morechocolate" turned itself on and stole the upper bar for some strange reason. I set it to none and it's ok again.
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Posted Sep 1, 2012Before 5.0.4, Minimap and Buffs were moved a bit down, so they would not overlap with Chocolate Bar at the top of the screen. This seems to me missing (for me at least), as of 5.0.4.
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Posted Sep 1, 2012This should work again with the latest version 2.2.6. If not check if you have set "Adjust Blizzard Frames" under Look and Feel of the ChocolateBar settings.
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Posted Sep 2, 2012Thanks for this tip. The buffs are moved down, but the minimap still isn't. However, I can live with that.
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Posted Sep 2, 2012Me too.Minimap can't move a bit down.