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| Created: | 03-09-09 11:11 AM |
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zChat 
Attention!
I'm not going to be working on this for a while, as I'm not actively playing WoW right now. I will, however, update this as soon as possible! Promised!
Thanks to: Tekkub for teknicolor, which I used as a reference
This AddOn supports: Class Colors
Config type: Lua config. You will have to edit the core.lua file in the zChat folder to configurate this addon. There is no ingame config (yet!).
What is it?
zChat is a simple, lightweight chat AddOn. Made initially for personal use, it only has features I use and a few more.
Features
- Custom font size (default is 12, Blizzard default is 14)
- Time stamps
- Modification of the channel format (default is "CHANNEL|", Blizzard default is "[CHANNEL]")
- Color player names in class colors (support for Class Colors, see above)
- Change the appearance of the chat box
- Save chat history inbetween sessions
- Scroll through chat history without holding down your alt key
- Resize and slightly reposition the chat buttons
- Disable fading of old text
- Possibility to hide the buttons
- Possibility to move the chat box above the chat
- Tell target slash command: "/tt message"
- Own nickname highlight
- New: Unclamp the chat frames
- New: Hide the "friends" button
Notes
If the class of a player isn't known yet, the name will appear with a gray color.
Right-aligned chat buttons are not possible yet due to the button modifications. I will work around this later.
I suggest turning the chat options back to classic behavior while using zChat.
The current release is the initial 3.3.5 release. Not everything I promised is implented yet, I just released this early to enable usage with 3.3.5 again. Stay tuned!
There's a small config in the core.lua. You can do/change the following:
- Font size
- Time stamp color
- Time stamp format
- Channel format
- Player name format
- Player name no-class color
- Highlight color
- Hide the buttons
- Move the chat box above the chat
I'm open for suggestions, though implementation of new features should be worth it (no useless features).
Please report all bugs you can find
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03-27-09, 09:49 AM
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A Fallenroot Satyr
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03-27-09, 06:29 AM
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A Kobold Labourer
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03-26-09, 02:58 PM
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A Fallenroot Satyr
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Last edited by Zergreth : 03-26-09 at 03:01 PM.
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03-26-09, 02:57 PM
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A Kobold Labourer
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ooh ooh featurerequests!!
 Any thought of adding sticky channels for officerchat.. think guild, party and say were sticky by default.. ive had a mod that has kept officer as sticky before... can be a bit annoying if i went "/o guys!", "xxx really sucks today!" and the 2nd comment then goes to guild instead of officers.. |
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03-26-09, 02:27 PM
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A Defias Bandit
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03-26-09, 12:03 PM
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A Fallenroot Satyr
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DamonDK:
I'm glad you like zChat, makes me quite happy more than just a few people enjoy using it  I thought about adding an URL copying feature a couple days ago, since I'm now playing on a PvP realm (my main is on RP-PvP, which means almost no to no URLs in the chat), and I will probably do that next. Highlighting was never really one of my favorite features. It's actually the one I disliked the most. But it's done easily, and I suppose it only requires barely any resources, so I might give that a try later. I will not add any chat copy feature though, sorry. I suggest you use the in-built chat logging functionality ("/run LoggingChat(1)" to activate it), which saves the chat to your WoW\Logs\ directory. It doesn't save the chat in real-time though, only once after every shutdown of WoW as far as I know. |
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03-26-09, 11:47 AM
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A Deviate Faerie Dragon
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Hi Zergreth!
I was wondering if you could also implement one or more of the following : - Chatlinks. Whenever someone makes a link to a webpage make that link clickable and the text appear in a popupbox, easy to copy/paste? (Look at LinkMe for inspiration). - Highlight the players own name in chats. Eg : "17:09:12|Trade|Masicx : Hey >DamonDK<! Wtb DM boost?". Ofc make the highlight symbols and color user-definable on top of the mod's .lua file with the other options - Make it possible to copy the contents of the chat window. Make a small faded-almost-out button that changes alpha on mouseover that pops up a frame on click containing last xx lines of chat in an edit box, thus making it copy/pasteable. I realise that this last feature may bloat zchat a bit and I wouldn't be adverse to it being a seperate plugin (zChatCopycat) I know that it might be easier to point to other mods that will do this for me. I know of Linkme which basically does this, but for the highlighting and the chatcopy I can't find any small-impact, no-bloat addons to do this properly. Either they have 50 other functions that mirror zChat or they use Ace2 AND LibRock making my policy of no Ace2/Ace/Rock addons void (don't want to load 3 seperate addonframeworks for the fun of it) Which is why I love zChat, since it offers alot of the functionality of more bloated addons, but none of the bloat and whistles |
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03-26-09, 08:16 AM
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A Fallenroot Satyr
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Edit: Done and updated, enjoy!
Last edited by Zergreth : 03-26-09 at 10:32 AM.
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03-26-09, 12:19 AM
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A Defias Bandit
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03-23-09, 02:21 PM
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A Fallenroot Satyr
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03-23-09, 01:59 PM
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A Kobold Labourer
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03-23-09, 10:57 AM
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A Murloc Raider
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hey,
in a few moments i will use ur chatmod instead of chatter, was always looking for a small leightweight replacement - so big thanks for it , thats a fav  ---edit theres a problem i think chatter removed - zchat aktivated through addons-panel - not able to press a key to chat (the enterbox comes not up on ENTER) - cant find zchat in the addons-list ingame (through addon control panel) it seems that it will not load but its marked for loading at the char-screen
Last edited by stahlmantel : 03-23-09 at 01:25 PM.
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03-21-09, 03:22 PM
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A Fallenroot Satyr
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03-21-09, 01:11 PM
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A Kobold Labourer
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hi.. must say i love your mod.. has exactly what i use and nothing more..
i made a very minor tweak to add the only thing i was missing.. feel free to use the code if you like it Code:
if IsShiftKeyDown() then
if delta > 0 then
self:PageUp();
elseif delta < 0 then
self:PageDown();
end
else
if delta > 0 then
self:ScrollUp();
elseif delta < 0 then
self:ScrollDown();
end
end
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03-20-09, 03:16 PM
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A Fallenroot Satyr
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Edit: Added to description.
Last edited by Zergreth : 03-20-09 at 03:17 PM.
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