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 Mar 7, 2026Latest update, including migration (thank you for introducing that! great QoL for the millions of people using Arcana), has resolved all critical issues based on my testing with profiles and saved data prior to change and post change. Good iteration!
Fading of bars in non-combat scenarios next? :D
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Posted Mar 7, 2026In reply to Knaledge: Later, I need a a leveling break :P
The bar texture still needs to be set again for first time migration because the old path is in the profile and I forgot to write a migration for that one.
Also it's not millions of active users ^^ More like 10k. :)
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Posted Mar 7, 2026In reply to kiatra_: Well, even so you've just helped 10,000 actual real people not have so hard a time with the migration :) Great work on this.
Looking forward to the transparency stuff. I'll be happy to code review too, or whatever else comes to mind for help.
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Posted Mar 7, 2026In reply to Knaledge: Added.
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Posted Mar 7, 2026In reply to kiatra_: Nice! One small tweak - the old behavior would keep the broker modules visible. Right now, the opacity slider controls both bar and module opacity. Separating those - bar opacity, module opacity, an option to "sync" both - and the ability to fade in to X % opacity on mouseover will make it so that I can abandon King Kong Frame Fader.
Thank you for taking a first pass at this!
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Posted Mar 8, 2026In reply to Knaledge: A I thought you wanted that one specifically lol.
The setting for the bar alpha already exists since under texture since the first version.
I use it all the time. But was thinking of making it more clear for a while now.
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Posted Mar 8, 2026In reply to kiatra_: The crucial difference is that there doesn't seem to be a way to trigger opacity changes based on mouseover - only in combat. So, ideally I want to have Arcana bars that are 30% visible (bar and modules faded to 30% visibility) and then on mouseover the bar and modules fade in to 80%.
Right now, at least as far as I can tell, there's an all-or-nothing opacity slider (new), in-combat opacity condition, and bar-only opacity setting (indirectly, based on 'texture' alpha)
A simple overarching "opacity of bar, bar+modules, and each mapped to a few configurable conditions (e.g., combat state, mouseover)" would set Arcana apart and eliminate the need for other addons to handle this.
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Posted Mar 8, 2026In reply to Knaledge: There is now a setting per bar for the mouseover.
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Posted Mar 7, 2026In reply to RorthronTheWise: This addon is maintained in my spare time. Constructive feedback is welcome, but please stay respectful.
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Posted Mar 7, 2026Why was the name changed? Chocolate Bar was elite
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Posted Mar 7, 2026In reply to nottle_: I am really happy you liked it <3
The change was due to personal health reasons. And I wanted something more lore and magical :D
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Posted Mar 7, 2026The first bar always reverts to full screen no matter how many time I set it to free placement and 750 width when you log out and back in or you reload
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Posted Mar 7, 2026In reply to Kaosian: same here - I'll first rollback to version 4.
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Posted Mar 7, 2026In reply to Lokir: Fixed
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Posted Mar 7, 2026In reply to kiatra_: Thank you so much!!!
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Posted Mar 7, 2026Took me a bit to figure out why this turned on without asking (disabled it when ElvUI got updated) and then why I couldn't find it in Simple Addon Manager.
As a chocoholic, I miss the old name. :(
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Posted Mar 7, 2026In reply to evrithiki: Yeah I was a chocoholic too but now I wanted a new name to keep enjoying working on it.
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Posted Mar 6, 2026I copied over my settings from ChocolateBar and Arcana loads those properly the first time... then when I log out and back in, its back on the default settings.
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Posted Mar 7, 2026In reply to SnowyRVulpix: Should be fixed.
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Posted Mar 8, 2026In reply to kiatra_: Thanks, Will give it a try.
Love the new name