ChatBar - Button Bar for openning chat messages of each type.
A little acsii art for demonstration: [oooooooo] o - Buttons, colored the color of a chat type, left click to open editbox of that type, right click for type specific options. Initial letter of the type on or above the button [ ] - Ends of the bar, left click to drag, right click for options
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Button / ChatType Options:
Leave (Channel)
Print Channel User List - List prints to the default chat frame. Same as "/list #"
Hide This Button - Hide the button for that chat type or channel by name.
Reply (Whisper) - Open whisper to the last person that whispered you.
Retell (Whisper) - Open whisper to the last person you whispered.
Set Binding By Name (Channel) - Select one of the 10 channel bindings to use for this channel (saved by name instead of by index).
Sticky - http://www.wowwiki.com/Chat#Advanced_Chat_Terminology.2FDetails Note: Channels are all or none, other types can be stickied individually.
ChatBar Options:
Vertical Orienation - Toggles vertical/horrizontal bar via sliding.
Reverse Button Orienation - Toggles button order reversal via sliding
Text On Buttons - Toggles chattype abrev on/next to the buttons
Show Button Text - Toggles chattype abrev visibility
Use Channel ID On Buttons - Toggles using the channel index or the first letter of the channel name
Button Message Flashing - Toggles button flashing when you receive a message of that type
Show Bar Border - Toggles show/hide the bar border/background. Note: You can still click on the ends of the bar when it's hidden
Hide Addon Channels - Hide Sky, CTRA and CTA channel buttons
Hidden Buttons - Submenu for showing manually hidden buttons
Reset Position - Attaches the ChatBarFrame to above the ChatFrame1 tab
Reorder Channels - General, Trade, LocalDefense, LookingForGroup, WorldDefense, GuildRecruitment, others...
Bindings
There are now bindings available for the chat types and channels by index. Individual channels can also be set to bind by name, overriding a indexed binding of your choice.
Localizations:
English, German, French, Spanish, Russian, Simplified and Traditional Chinese
(I only speak English. All other translations have been user submitted. So if you have updates or new translations let me know.)
User Submitted Skins
The skinning system is a bit unique because it has more layers than a normal button with full up/down specularity and shadow as well as flash/hover alpha and normal shaping graphic that are all translucent to allow for the buttons to correspond to the chat type's selected color for each button.
To add a new custom Skin drop its folder into the ChatBar folder, modify the ChatBar_AltArtDirs table in ChatBar.lua and append the new folder name, then add a CHATBAR_SKIN# variable to the end of the localization file for it's readable name. Then select it from the dropdown in game.
Comes with the following skins: Solid, Glass and Squares
Reset
If you lose the bar you can reset it with this script: /run ChatBar_Reset()
Change Log - ChatBar
v3.0
-Added a fix for parsing the first character of a chinese channel (3 chars)
-Fixed battleground chat button not showing up (thanks 狂飙)
-Fixed Show Channel ID on Buttons not working
v2.9
-Fixed a channel bug
v2.8
-Added Chat Type Bindings
-Added Channel Bindings by Number
-Channel Bindings can be overridden to save by name
-Updated a lot of old code
-toc to 30200
v2.7
-Added Simplified Chinese Localization (thanks IceChen)
-Added new Squares skin (thanks Chianti/Кьянти)
-Added new skin dropdown (Solid, Glass, Squares)
v2.6
-Added Traditional Chinese Localization
-Fixed a bug with Russian Localization
v2.5
- toc to 20400
- Fixed Sea dep
v2.4
-Removed SeaPrint usage
-Made Chronos optional: Reorder Channels is disabled w/o Chronos installed.
-Added english TBC/WotLK capitol cities to the reorder management
(Best results if in a capitol city and in the LFG queue)
v2.0
-Added an option to Hide All Buttons
-Fixed menu not showing a list of hidden buttons
v1.9
-Fixed chat type openning for new editbox:SetAttribute syntax
v1.8
-Prepared for Lua 5.1
-Added embedded SeaPrint for printing (was already used, just not included)
v1.7
-Added Raid Warning (A) and Battleground (B) chat
v1.6
-Channel Reorder no longer requires Sky
-toc to 11200
v1.5
-Fixed saved variables issue with 1.11 not saving nils
-Fixed a nill bug with the right-click menu
v1.4
-Fixed a nil loading error
v1.3
-Fixed nil SetText errors
-Fixed channel 10 nil errors
-Added Channel Reorder (from ChannelManager) if you have Sky installed (uses many library functions)
v1.2
-VisibilityOptions AutoHide is now smarter and shows whenever ChatBar is sliding or being dragged or the cursor is over its menu
-Fixed Eclipse onload error
-Fixed Whisper abreviation
v1.1
-Addon Channels Hidden added GuildMap
-Text has been made Localizable
-Officer chat shows up if you CanEditOfficerNote()
-Buttons now correctly update when raid, party, and guild changes
-Hide Text now correctly says Show Text
-Fixed button for channel 8 to diplay and tooltip correctly
-Added Reset Position Option
-Added Options to hide the each button by chat type or channel name (hide from button menu, show from main sub menu)
-Added option to use Channel Numbers as text overlay
-Added VisibilityOptions, however autohide is a bit finicky atm.
v1.0
-Initial Release
Optional Files - ChatBar
Sorry, there are currently no optional files available.
Sounds good. I have a character on the test server, so I may toddle over there and see what it looks like (though I'm still trying to get my settings there the same as on the live servers; copying my WTF folder didn't seem to cover UI scale and whatnot, sigh).
Another possible suggestion: Adding an option that performs the same ability Persistance of Chattiness does (sticky chat for all channels, including whispers and officer chat) -- your mod seems a natural place to merge that behaviour.
Ya, I sicked a few of the pro coders on it and we had fun coming up with the dynamic acceleration algorithm for the sliding. You can even make it turn around and go the other way if you interupt it. Not that anyone would ever do that...
As for the scaling of the letters, that's odd. I usually play at .8 scale and it looks fine. You would think the text would scale too since it's all anchored to the UIParent. Anyway I think they messed with scale a ton in 1.9 so I'm not gonna bother changing that part unless it doesn't work in 1.9
As for the #'s option I'll add it to my todo list.
Just tried this out tonight. I love it. What a great idea!
The change-orientation animation is pure eye-candy but I like it too.
One thing I noted, as I have my UI scaled down a bit (about half), the W for Whisper appears as "...". Other than that, didn't notice any issues.
Also, might consider adding one more option: Using channel numbers rather than the first letter (for General, Trade, and those -- as some of us have gotten very used to using the numbers rather than the names).
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