Conversation Manager was written to help sort out the mess of text that one can accumulate when talking in raid, guild, a couple channels, and getting 5 whispers at a time.
The main window is pretty much self explanatory. Possible 'conversations' you can have are listed on the left side: Party chat, raid chat, guild chat, officer chat, channels, and whispers from other players. Clicking on one of them will give you your conversation history with them in the frame on the right side. This is an EditBox (though editing is not permitted), so you can select and copy from it, though the downside is you are unable to click on links inside it. A separate links panel is available on the side for clickable links. If a channel is selected, a list of players will be shown in the links panel instead.
The history is saved between sessions, to help against missed chat say if you AFK and timeout, or get disconnected. Crashes obviously won't be protected against though since variables won't get saved on a crash. The history is also kept on a per-realm basis, so one can simply continue conversation with someone when you've switched characters.
Whenever a message is received, either in guild chat, channel, or a whisper, that item will blink (if that option is enabled) to show you a message has arrived. By default, blinking is only enabled for channels and whispers.
/converse help will give a list of options:
/converse hide/show - hide or show window /converse lock/unlock - lock or unlock window for dragging /converse reset - reset window position, in case dragged off screen /converse fontsize # - change font size in history window /converse maxlines # - change maximum number of lines kept in history /converse clearall - clear ALL history for ALL conversations /converse clearchat - clear group/guild chat history /converse clearchan - clear history for channels /converse clearmsg - clear history for whispers /converse clearrand - clear history for non-friend whispers only /converse blink - toggle blinking for party/raid/bg/guild/officer chat /converse chanblink - toggle blinking for channels /converse msgblink - toggle blinking for whispers /converse sync/nosync - set whether your chat entry box follows whoever you have selected in the main window at the time /converse date/nodate - enable/disable datestamping /converse altchat/noaltchat - enable/disable alternate IM-style editbox. Note that this editbox is for chat text only, will not deal with slash commands, and you cannot shift-click links into it. /converse gemfilter/nogemfilter - enable/disable GEM channel filter /chatall - refresh list of players for all channels
At the top of the main window are checkboxes which allow you to ignore certain channels/etc. so that Conversation Manager does not keep a history for them. This allows you to, for example, ignore General chat, or other addon communication channels, or hide the Guild/Officer spots if you are unguilded or not an officer.
Known quirks:
Every now and then when switching to a new item and the wall of text is updated, it will fail to scroll to the very bottom. Reselecting usually will cause it to update properly... but not always
I recommend not setting maxlines too high if you have a slower system, as can will incur lag for every new line received when a history starts getting big when you have the links panel open. The default is 256, double the 128 of the usual chat history box. 1024 lines seemed to work okay on my already addon-bloated older computer (Athlon64 3200).
Tweak added for changes in WOTLK scrollbar handling functions
0.9 - September 14, 2008
Tweaked pause/resume behaviour slightly
Added multi-line pasting; using Mikk's ChatThrottleLib
0.8 - July 27, 2008
Back after a long, long absence...
Changed link parsing slightly
Added pause/resume buttons (to make things easier for copy & paste since it's annoying as heck when you're trying to select something while scrolled up and it scrolls you back down to the bottom since somebody said something...)
0.7.0 - February 19, 2007
Added GEM filter option
0.6.1 - December 12, 2006
Reimplemented editbox sync to work with new secure function hook.
You may have to reenable this with '/converse sync'
0.6 - December 6, 2006
Removed editbox sync
0.6b - November 17, 2006
Update to lua 5.1/WoW2.0 behaviour (pairs(), string.gmatch)
Note links have 8 numbers now instead of 4 before the |h
0.5.4
Added tooltip for items on sidebar.
Changed datestamp format to show player name.
Enforced maxlines limit.
0.5.3
Added clearchat/clearchan/clearmsg/clearrand.
Sequential repeated links only show up as a single link in the links panel
Optional Files - Conversation Manager
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Originally posted by Tylius
The line for your chatbox (not Convers) where it says say... : Party: <insert your chat text here> , the colour is like the default chat channel colour, and when you hit enter to send your message, it doesn't send. You have to /p <insert message> and then it'll work again.
Hmm, I haven't run across anything similar so far. Can you try to describe the conditions which caused that to happen? Did you have 'Party' selected in the main window at the time? It sounds like some sort of issue with hooking the ChatFrameEditBox.
Edit: Found a situation where something similar to what you described happens with server channels that have zone text. Fixed for 0.4.4
Edit edit edit: One glitch, if I'm doing something with the convers window, and then go to chat in my normal chatbox...
The line for your chatbox (not Convers) where it says say... : Party: <insert your chat text here> , the colour is like the default chat channel colour, and when you hit enter to send your message, it doesn't send. You have to /p <insert message> and then it'll work again.
Sorry, I know that was probably confusing, didn't sleep too much last night and I'm ready to pass out >D
