Elephant logs the chat for you in the background. It saves the WHISPERS, RAID, BATTLEGROUND, PARTY, SAY, YELL, OFFICER and GUILD chats separately, but also all general chats (General, Trade, LocalDefense, ...), custom chats you are currently on, loots, system messages (auctions, rolls, server going down, ...) and achievements. When you want to read the logs, simply click on the Elephant icon in the FuBar (or type /elephant toggle), then choose one of the chat icon on the right. You can also bind a key to pop up the addon.
You can easily copy the logs to another application by using the copy window. A BBCode feature is also included, letting you copy/paste a chat with colors in a very quick and simple way to your favourite forum.
This is THE AddOn that you should install if you want to manage hell tells or simply go AFK for a few minutes. It is also perfectly designed for Guild Leaders, Officers and Raid Leaders particularly because it restores the chats when you get disconnected.
*New* main features
* Logs the chats in the background.
* Logs up to 1000 lines for each chat! (Blizzard's default is 161 lines for evertything)
* Restores the chats at login after you logged out or got disconnected.
* Display the chats separately in their own colours, or using the Prat configuration if you have it installed.
* Copy the chat and paste it in other applications (BBCode supported!).
* Save the chats and the loot/system/achievement log in two different files on your computer.
Other features:
* Enable/disable logging for each chat.
* Movable frame.
* Slash commands.
* Bind a key to toggle Elephant.
* Enable or disable logging by default when you join a new channel.
* Objects in the main window are displayed in their proper color and are clickable.
* Player names in the main window are clickable.
* Easily clear the logs separately or all at the same time.
* Force the timestamp to be logged when Prat formatting is used (so you can have two different displays for your chat and the logs).
Change Log - Elephant
Beta 2.5.7 (TOC 30100)
- Fixing custom channel colors.
- A few stability fixes, Elephant *should* not display any error when having more than 6 channels in your chat window.
Beta 2.5.6 (TOC 30100)
- Removing Ace2 in title, cause we don't care anyway.
Beta 2.5.5 (TOC 30000)
- The message catchers button will be disabled when needed.
- Adding looking for group channel to General Chats.
- Prevent too much processing when scrolling before the start of the log or after its end.
- Adding "Force timestamps" option, used to force timestamps in logs when using Prat.
- New color for timestamps.
- Fixing Prat enabling/disabling bug.
- Adding help message for moving the window.
- Nicer copy window.
- Adding BBCode support into Copy Window (= copy/paste directly into a forum!).
Beta 2.5.4 (TOC 30000)
- Channel logs should now be the same color than the ones chosed by the user.
- New icons for the chats.
- Headers are no more created at login when no message has been received in the log since the last header ; header timestamp is however saved.
- New scroll buttons graphics.
- Copyframe now uses roth.
I would love it if you'd actually change the zip file to just include the "ChatLog" folder - just uniformity with most other addons. Minor convenience is all.
@ ReverenD & TazRulez: I am using an EditBox to display the logs in the Copy Window. The reason: you are able to copy the text only if it is in an EditBox. Note that the Blizzard's UI EditBox frame has some limitations on the number of characters it can contain. If this number goes over its limit, it will display "..." where the correct text should be displayed.
A workaround is to edit the "ChatLog.lua" file in Interface\AddOns\ChatLog and to set the ["copywindowmaxlines"] to a value under 200 (try 150). I will set this value to its new value in the next Release of ChatLog.
PLEASE NOTE: I will NOT be able to develop ChatLog during the two next weeks, I'm on vacations But there will be a new release when I will come back
Not sure if anyone else has had this problem, it started to occur just before the WoW 2.0 patch as well.
When I open a log and click on Copy, it opens the new window normally. However, when I scroll down to where the newest content should be, it stops showing any text, but continues to scroll down for quite some ways. the last text viewable usually starts with a '[H Play' or ends with a '.......' in the middle of a word. Here are a couple screens to show what I mean. Oh, and it doesnt seem to matter weather or not that particular log has reached its limit of 1000 lines or not.
Originally posted by Denn When I log in I get an error 'Interface\AddOns\Chatlog\Locale-enUS.Lua: 1 : Attempt to call Global 'AceLibrary' (a nil value)' everytime, and Chatlog doesn't seem to be working.
Anything I could do to remedy this?
Version 2.1a should fix this, thanks Denn for the bug report
When I log in I get an error 'Interface\AddOns\Chatlog\Locale-enUS.Lua: 1 : Attempt to call Global 'AceLibrary' (a nil value)' everytime, and Chatlog doesn't seem to be working.
Anything I could do to remedy this?
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