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BasicChatMods  Updated Today!  Popular! (More than 5000 hits)
Version: v7.22
by: funkydude [More]
Type /bcm to configure BasicChatMods, a basic and modular approach to chat customization.

By default BCM will allow you to drag your chat frames to the very edge of the screen, the remaining customization is done in BCM's modules which can be enabled or disabled at will.

A few of the current modules include:
  • Button Hiding
  • Channel Name Customization
  • Chat Copy
  • Font Customization
  • Chat Frame Justification
  • Player Name Customization
  • Real Id Class Coloring
  • Sticky Customization
  • Tell Target
  • Timestamp Customization
  • URL Copy

Class Colors: Are already provided by Blizzard, right-click chat frame tab > Settings > Tick Boxes
Combat Log Timestamps: Are already provided by Blizzard, right-click combat log tab > Settings > Formatting > Show Timestamp. Repeat this for every combat log, e.g. "Self", "Everything", "What happened to me?", "Kills".
v7.22: toc bump

v7.21: toc bump

v7.2:
-BCM now includes the LibChatAnims library to prevent BCM blocking talent changes for some users.

-AltInvite: fix inviting people that log on.
-BNet: Add option to remove the "person" icon from chat.
-ChatCopy: Lots of code cleanup, remove icons from text to prevent copying issues, fix GUI description.
-Highlight: Scan instance chat for highlights, don't highlight your own chat.
-Timestamp: Clicking the timestamp for single-line copy now also includes the timestamp.
-URLCopy: Complete re-write for simplification and future proofing. (new TLD non-English languages and virtually any words like .book will be legitimate sites)

v7.1:
-AltInvite: New module, alt-click names in chat to invite them to group.
-ChannelNames: BATTLEGROUND >> INSTANCE_CHAT
-EditBox: New TOP/BOTTOM selection.
-InviteLinks: Completely removed. Replaced by AltInvite.
-Sticky: BATTLEGROUND >> INSTANCE_CHAT
-Timestamps: Replaced chatline copy popup with a custom one
-URLCopy: Replaced popup with a custom one, make links in BNET broadcasts clickable

v7.01: bnet bugfix

v7:
-Now supports on-demand chats frames (pet battle log, bnet popup whispers, etc)
-Chatcopy functionality now coverts raid icons into {rt} symbols for easy copying
-Timestamps are now clickable, clicking a timestamps shows a popup allowing you to copy a specific line of chat. Makes it easier to copy specific lines of chat than using the standard chatcopy functionality.

v6.92: Fix an issue introduced in v2.9 which prevented users from disabling timestamps, add an extra check to prevent a rare error.

v6.9: Fade: Rewrite fade module, should no longer cause taints.
ChatCopy: Moved away from double-click, now shift-click to copy.
URLCopy: Improved URL detection.
Playernames: Bugfixes.
History: Bugfixes.

v6.8: some taint & bugfixes

v6.77: toc bump

v6.75: Some code improvements
koKR update
fix zhCN font

v6.70: fix taints, improve config

v6.65: bump toc, tweak config, fix some taint issues

v6.62: realid bugfix

v6.61: toc update

v6.60: EditBox: Allow hiding of the background.
EditBox: Allow modification of size.
Config: convert some dropdowns into sliders
History: don't clear all chat at login (removing gmotd, etc)
URLCopy: attempt at improving pattern matching

v6.52: Font: Now applies font changes to the editbox also, not just the chat frame.
PlayerNames: minor tweak
4.1 toc bump

v6.50: BNet: Add support for replacing real names with character names for those that want to record movies and preserve the privacy of their friends.
GMOTD: Delay printing the gmotd even longer if it's not available due to lag.
PlayerNames: Bugfix not applying to certain cross realm players, bugfix bracket configuration sometimes not appearing.

v6.41: fix a bug introduced in v6.40 that removed the player name in the highlight module
v6.40: 1 new module: History, grants the ability to change how many lines of chat history your chat frames remember
Re-GMOTD & ChatFrame Resize: these features were previously in the Core and have been moved into their own modules
WoWAce localization system is up and some translations have been implemented
BattleNet: Added ability to customize/remove player brackets, fix coloring chat links instead of names
ChannelNames: You can now customize custom channels that you've joined, add support for French and traditional Chinese
ChatCopy: You can now turn off the tooltip hint, increased copy box size
Font: Add support for Russian/Chinese/etc fonts
InviteLinks: Also scan custom channels
PlayerNames: Added ability to customize/remove player brackets, added option to color player names that Blizz misses (player login, channel join, etc)
Resize: Restricted to a sensible minimum size

v6.30: 2 new disabled modules: AutoLog, PlayerNames
2 new enabled modules: BNet Color, Highlight
Timestamps: Bugfix, color can now be correctly turned off
InviteLinks: Bugfix, [inv ] appearing instead of [inv]
Core: re-display the guild motd 10 seconds after logging on

v6.20: Font: If SharedMedia is available, use it's fonts in the Font module
Sticky: Add Real ID whisper/conversation to the sticky dropdown
Editbox: Change to classic mode (hidden) when using this module
Channelnames/Sticky: remove options table when disabled
Channelnames/Timestamps: only attach to chatframes we're using

v6.10: New basic modules: TellTarget, InviteLinks.
URLCopy: Improved popup style.
Timestamps: Re-wrote, no longer depends on Blizz timestamps or channelnames module, allows more customization.

v6.00: Now customizable via an in-game configuration screen

v5.00: re-designed every module, added new font outline module that's disabled by default, hopefully fixed the random issue of the scrolldown button disappearing.

v4.10: Delay the loading of custom timestamps to prevent a taint resulting in WoW asking you to disable BCM. Tweaks to URLCopy and ChannelName modules.

v4.05: toc update, fix a minor error from the urlcopy popup

v4.04: Prevent the scrolldown module from loading if the button hide module is disabled.
-Russian Locale & misc bugfixes

v4.02: Fix some bugs with the scrolldown button showing/hiding.
Clamp the BNToastFrame so it doesn't cut out the screen when moving the chat frame.

v4.00: If you're using Blizz timestamps, re-select it from Interface>Social to avoid double-stamping/no-stamping
NEW: Scrolldown module, Moves the "scroll down" Blizzard button to the top-right side of the chat frame and shows if you're not at the very bottom
CHANGED: Re-wrote CopyChat, now requires you to double-click the chat tab, no longer uses an extra button
CHANGED: Re-wrote URLCopy, should work like before, just simplified
UPDATED: Tweaked most modules code & documentation
NEW: German localization for channelnames module
UPDATED: Russian localization
CHANGED: Renamed resize_chatframe module to dont_disable, as it contains misc functions that should not be disabled
CHANGED: Moved ability to use keyboard arrows/edit text in the editbox from the editbox module to the dont_disable module

v3.75: Added Russian support for channel replacements
Re-wrote most of the explanations in the modules
Really fix timestamping lines that Blizzard misses, like loot, etc
Check BNet whispers/conversations for URL's
Various tweaks around most modules

v3.70: NEW resize chatframe module. Allows you to resize chatframes to any Height/Width you like instead of those restricted by Blizz.
NEW now uses the Blizzard timestamp to also stamp any chat messages that Blizz misses, assuming you have it enabled.
ADDED some extra documentation to the buttons module explaining how to show certain buttons.

v3.65: NEW fade module, it changes the default Blizzard fade values so that your chat frames fade out COMPLETELY like pre-3.3.5 chat frames did. As always you can disable it by reading the disable modules.txt file.

v3.60: NEW Timestamps Customize module, customize the Blizzard timestamps, default is to return the style to the old BCM style, but you need to turn them on in Blizz config.
FIXED edit box is back at the top.
FIXED chat frame can be placed at the edge of the screen again.
FIXED copychat icon now only shows on-demand again, generally improved the module.
REMOVED Scroll module, 3.3.3 compatibility.

v3.59: Chat Scroll & Timestamps disabled in 3.3.5, implemented into the game. All modules now have 3.3.5 forward compatibility. Few TLD additions to URLCopy. Fix PARTY_GUIDE. Chat Copy icon moved for 3.3.5, also only shows when mousing over the chat tab (buggy) on 3.3.5, for now. EditBox no longer moved in 3.3.5 due to permanent tabs, might change this by hiding tabs manually. Next update after EU gets the patch...

v3.51 - Fix Party Leader chat not registering URL's

v3.5 - merged timestamps module into channelnames module, removed font module, various modules cleanups, shrink Party Leader to PL.

v3.32 - toc update

v3.31 - remove wow 3.0 compat, toc update

v3.3 - wow 3.1 fixes to prevent chat breakage

v3.2 - Major bugfix with blizz timestamps enabled in blizz combat log (the combat log would break)

v3.1 - Release
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Old 03-26-10, 10:07 AM  
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Error at login

Any ideas to solve this error ?

"Message: Interface\FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:2594: bad argument #1 to 'format' (string expected, got nil)
Time: 03/26/10 17:04:04
Count: 1
Stack: [C]: in function `format'
Interface\FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:2594: in function `ChatFrame_MessageEventHandler'
Interface\FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:2322: in function `ChatFrame_OnEvent'
[string "*:OnEvent"]:1: in function <[string "*:OnEvent"]:1>

Locals: (*temporary) = nil
(*temporary) = 5
(*temporary) = "5. LookingForGroup"
(*temporary) = "string expected, got nil"
"

It only pops up when i log into the game..it's really annoying
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Old 03-23-10, 09:55 PM  
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Originally posted by Sideshow
edit: solution here: http://www.wowinterface.com/forums/s...d.php?p=181364

Hello

I used prat and chatter, but finally found the best: Basic Chat Mods
For me it is the best because it uses almost no memory and CPU.

The only thing I miss, is an thin outline ... because the chat is hard to read if you set a transparent background.

What lines of code can I add somewhere? Or could I make a module for it?
Might be interrested in an addon called NeonChat, it builds off of this one and I think it does what you're describing above.
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Old 03-10-10, 01:17 PM  
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edit: solution here: http://www.wowinterface.com/forums/showthread.php?p=181364

Hello

I used prat and chatter, but finally found the best: Basic Chat Mods
For me it is the best because it uses almost no memory and CPU.

The only thing I miss, is an thin outline ... because the chat is hard to read if you set a transparent background.

What lines of code can I add somewhere? Or could I make a module for it?
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Old 02-05-10, 10:19 PM  
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For anyone like me wanting the new Party Guide shrunk down in size. I worked around it by switching the Party Leader and PL on line 55 in channelnames.lua from :

Code:
CHAT_PARTY_LEADER_GET = "|Hchannel:party|h[PL]|h %s:\32";
to

Code:
CHAT_PARTY_GUIDE_GET = "|Hchannel:party|h[PG]|h %s:\32";
After quite a few heroics I still haen't gotten any errors.
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Old 01-25-10, 09:36 AM  
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what option do i disable so the arrows stop scrolling thru all i have sent before in the type box ?

thanks.
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Old 12-25-09, 05:59 PM  
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Possibly a serious bug

Hey I just downloaded and installed the updated BasicChat, have used the older version for months now.

Today however when I needed to submit an in game petition Basic chat mod apparently blocked me from submitting the ticket. I got a pop up message that it had blocked it and the ticket was deleted as well. I wasn't able to submit the petition until I had disabled the mod.

I was a little upset as I had used the copy feature to copy a name with those funky characters out of chat into the ticket and lost the spelling since the error forced me to disable/reload ui.
Kept popping up over and over with that message Disable or ignore but when I ignored it would pop up again.
I didn't get any message regarding what kind of error it was besides the pop up saying it had accessed something available only to blizzard and the disable/ignore button.

Hope you can figure out what this is about, I've disabled the mod entirely for now until I get this petition thing settled and can't really try to duplicate it until then.
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Old 12-15-09, 12:17 PM  
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Thumbs up Re: Re: Feature request

Originally posted by funkydude
Hold down shift when you scroll and it will go to the bottom, it's a BCM feature.
Originally posted by ricks322
You can also use shift-PgDn
Thank you both, the shift + scroll feature is really convenient!
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Old 12-14-09, 08:12 PM  
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Re: Feature request

Originally posted by Malthus
Could you please add the feature to unhide the "jump down" chat button (even if it was hidden) when one scrolls back? Sometimes you need to scroll up many-many lines, and its annoying to have to scroll back down again even more lines just to get to the current chat. Would be much more convenient to have a one-click-scroll-all-the-way-down possibility...

Thanks for a neat and compact addon!
You can also use shift-PgDn
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Old 12-14-09, 02:01 PM  
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Re: Feature request

Hold down shift when you scroll and it will go to the bottom, it's a BCM feature.

Originally posted by Malthus
Could you please add the feature to unhide the "jump down" chat button (even if it was hidden) when one scrolls back? Sometimes you need to scroll up many-many lines, and its annoying to have to scroll back down again even more lines just to get to the current chat. Would be much more convenient to have a one-click-scroll-all-the-way-down possibility...

Thanks for a neat and compact addon!
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Old 12-14-09, 12:43 PM  
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Lightbulb Feature request

Could you please add the feature to unhide the "jump down" chat button (even if it was hidden) when one scrolls back? Sometimes you need to scroll up many-many lines, and its annoying to have to scroll back down again even more lines just to get to the current chat. Would be much more convenient to have a one-click-scroll-all-the-way-down possibility...

Thanks for a neat and compact addon!
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Old 12-13-09, 09:05 AM  
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Oups, forget it
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Old 12-10-09, 05:55 AM  
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Thumbs up Re: Re: Timestamp?

Originally posted by funkydude
Remove this line in channelnames.lua

Code:
text = "|cff"..COLOR..lbrack..date(tformat)..rbrack.."|r "..text
Sorry I'll add more text explaining it better.




Not a problem at all thanks for the great Addon!
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Old 12-10-09, 05:54 AM  
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Re: Timestamp?

Remove this line in channelnames.lua

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text = "|cff"..COLOR..lbrack..date(tformat)..rbrack.."|r "..text
Sorry I'll add more text explaining it better.

Originally posted by delaplane1626
How can i get rid of timestamps now?
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Old 12-10-09, 03:33 AM  
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Timestamp?

How can i get rid of timestamps now?
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Old 12-09-09, 07:23 PM  
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Works fine for me.

Originally posted by servi
chat copy is broken ;(

Update plz
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