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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

Easy setup, install & go!
Multiple bars - top or bottom as many as you want.
Left, right and center alignment.
Support for icon colors and coordinates like used by TomTom.
Easy config, simply drag a plugin and drop points will show. The idea is to easily disable a plugin or toggle its text.
Load-on-demand options, and small memory footprint.
More Chocolate - a broker plugin to show a bar that will autohide again. Great for launchers or other plugins you don't need visible all the time:)

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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MrFIXlT

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#610 Posted Mar 30, 2022

In reply to kiatra_:

I had changed my local copy to this recently, I should have posted here but slipped my mind.

local function getPlayerIdentifier()
  local _, _, _, _, _, name, server = GetPlayerInfoByGUID(UnitGUID("player"))
	if not server or server == "" then
		server = GetNormalizedRealmName() or ""
	end
	if not name or (name == "" or name == _G.UNKNOWNOBJECT) then
		name = GetUnitName("player")
	end
	--debug("getPlayerIdentifier", server,name)
	return string.format("%s-%s", name, server)
end

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#611 Posted Mar 30, 2022

In reply to kiatra_:

I still get this sporadically with latest

1x ChocolateBar\modules\CB_PlayedTime.lua:62: bad argument #3 to 'format' (string expected, got nil)
[string "=[C]"]: in function `format'
[string "@ChocolateBar\modules\CB_PlayedTime.lua"]:62: in function <ChocolateBar\modules\CB_PlayedTime.lua:60>
[string "@ChocolateBar\modules\CB_PlayedTime.lua"]:86: in function <ChocolateBar\modules\CB_PlayedTime.lua:85>
[string "@ChocolateBar\modules\CB_PlayedTime.lua"]:98: in function `func'
[string "@Ace3\AceTimer-3.0\AceTimer-3.0-17.lua"]:57: in function <Ace3\AceTimer-3.0\AceTimer-3.0.lua:50>

Locals:
(*temporary) = "%s-%s"
(*temporary) = "Hoovesofury"
(*temporary) = nil
(*temporary) = "string expected, got nil"

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Posted Mar 30, 2022
In reply to kiatra_:

Seems to be fixed now. No error after login.

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Posted Feb 23, 2022
I'm getting this error when I log on after patch 9.2 went live.

8x ChocolateBar\modules\CB_PlayedTime.lua:70: bad argument #2 to 'format' (string expected, got nil)
[string "=[C]"]: in function `format'
[string "@ChocolateBar\modules\CB_PlayedTime.lua"]:70: in function <ChocolateBar\modules\CB_PlayedTime.lua:65>
[string "@ChocolateBar\modules\CB_PlayedTime.lua"]:78: in function <ChocolateBar\modules\CB_PlayedTime.lua:77>

Locals:
(*temporary) = "%s-%s"
(*temporary) = nil
(*temporary) = nil
(*temporary) = "string expected, got nil"

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Posted Feb 27, 2022
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Last edited by twitchmodianz: Mar 13, 2022

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Posted Mar 4, 2022
In reply to twitchmodianz:

Commented out lines 48 and 49 of CB_PlayedTime_Options.lua as stated above. Still receiving the error when I log in. Are you sure this is correct?

Thanks.

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Kojiyaru
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Posted Mar 14, 2022
In reply to DarkLimpan:

As a temporary measure you should be able to change this on L67 of CB_PlayedTime.lua

From:

if server == "" then

To:

if not server or server == "" then

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Posted Mar 15, 2022
In reply to Kojiyaru:

That didn't appear to fix anything for me, still getting the same lua error. Nothing seems broken with the bars, though.

It doesn't seem to trigger a lua error every time I log on, for some reason.

Last edited by DarkLimpan: Mar 15, 2022

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Posted Mar 18, 2022
In reply to DarkLimpan:

Hmm strange that should fix it. Try the new version and let me know if you still have the error.

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Posted Mar 23, 2022
In reply to miarenn:

For me 3.8.1-bcc still throws an error, because GetPlayerInfoByGUID(UnitGUID("player")) in CB_PlayedTime.lua will not return my player name when I log in the first time. After UI reload it's ok.

I modified the code this way, which solved my problem:

if not server or server == "" then server = GetNormalizedRealmName() or "" end if not name or name == "" then name = UnitName("player") end return string.format("%s-%s", name, server)
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Posted Mar 23, 2022
In reply to kazso2:

Added the line changes above to my retail file and everything seems to be fine, no errors upon logging in at least. Thanks.

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Posted Mar 24, 2022
In reply to kazso2:

This seems to fix things for me on retail. Thanks. :)

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Posted Mar 18, 2022
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Should be fixed now.

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Posted Mar 19, 2022
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Hi miarenn.

Still getting the lua error with the latest version upon login this morning.

217x ChocolateBar\modules\CB_PlayedTime.lua:70: bad argument #2 to 'format' (string expected, got nil)
[string "=[C]"]: in function `format'
[string "@ChocolateBar\modules\CB_PlayedTime.lua"]:70: in function <ChocolateBar\modules\CB_PlayedTime.lua:65>
[string "@ChocolateBar\modules\CB_PlayedTime.lua"]:78: in function <ChocolateBar\modules\CB_PlayedTime.lua:77>

Locals:
(*temporary) = "%s-%s"
(*temporary) = nil
(*temporary) = nil
(*temporary) = "string expected, got nil"

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Posted Mar 21, 2022
In reply to miarenn:

The problem may be that both name and server are not being returned. Looks like the fixes just address server being NULL but not name.

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Posted Mar 25, 2022
In reply to mkong409:

the issue was that it only occurs after first char load after a game start.. seems like weird 9.2 API bug.

I added a timer to call the API 2 seconds after the player entering world event. Let me know if it still occurs.

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Posted Nov 16, 2021
Hello,

Bar wouldn't show since patch 9.1.5. Anyone got fix for it please?

Ty in advance.

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Posted Oct 3, 2021
Some plugins have HUGE tooltips.

Suggestion: add an option on the "plugin window" to not show the tooltip unless shift is pressed (or ctrl or alt).

This could be an option that applies to all plugins but I would rather it to be a plugin setting.

Last edited by fireymerlin: Oct 3, 2021

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Posted Sep 30, 2021
For version Alpha 3.7.6

Chocolate bar is not loading for me because the ".toc" file does not have a valid ##Interface section.

I downloaded the addon manually from Curse and the .toc file contains the following:

## Interface: @toc-version-retail@
## Interface-Retail: @toc-version-retail@
## Interface-Classic: @toc-version-classic@
## Interface-BCC: @toc-version-bcc@

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Posted Oct 1, 2021
In reply to fireymerlin:

Sorry should be fixed now I am adding the other releases and it got late :D

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