PhanxChat is a chat mod aimed at reducing chat frame clutter, and making chat frames easier to use.
Announcements
Attention compilation uploaders:
PhanxChat is free as in "free beer", not free as in "free software", and you may not include it in your compilation or distribute it in any other way without first obtaining permission. See the "License" section below for more information. I'd love not to have to include this at the top of my addon page, but every time I take it out, new compilations spring up like weeds.
Found a bug? Do not post it in the comments section!
See the "Reporting Problems" section below for information on how to correctly report bugs. I will no longer be responding to bugs posted in the comments section. P.S. - Error messages are bugs.
Translations wanted!
Most existing translations need to be updated, as the options have been moved from a slash command interface to a GUI interface. Please send me a PM if you can assist with updating and/or maintaining translations for deDE, frFR, esES, esMX, ruRU, zhCN, or zhTW locales!
Features
Hide the chat scroll buttons
Enable mouse wheel scrolling in the chat frames
Shorten channel names and chat strings
Enable arrow keys in the chat edit box
Move the chat edit box above the chat frame
Configure the chat text fade time
Stop chat tabs from flashing when new messages are received
Lock docked chat tabs in place to prevent accidental dragging
Color player names by class in more message types
Make more message types sticky
Link URLs for easy copying
Suppress channel notification messages
Suppress repeated messages in public channels
For answers to common questions about PhanxChat and its features, see my portal for the PhanxChat FAQ.
For more information, including planned features, advanced configuration options, and a list of companion addons, please see my portal for extra info about PhanxChat.
Usage
Options are available in the standard Interface Options window. As a shortcut, you can type /pchat to open the Interface Options window directly to the PhanxChat panel.
You can type /pchat clear to clear the contents of all chat frames.
You can type /tt or /wt followed by a message to send that message to your current target.
Localization
PhanxChat currently has translations for English, German (deDE), French (frFR), Russian (ruRU), Korean (koKR), Simplified Chinese (zhCN), and Traditional Chinese (zhTW).
If no translations exist for your locale, PhanxChat will default to English, but some locale-dependent features may not work completely (like short channel names) or work in undesirable ways (like short chat strings using English abbreviations that might not make sense for your language).
If you can help translate PhanxChat for European Spanish (esES) or Latin American Spanish (esMX) locales, please send me a PM!
All existing translations will need to be updated for WoW 3.1, since the options are moving to the Interface Options window. If you can help update translations for any locale, please send me a PM.
Known Issues
PhanxChat's name coloring may not work correctly, or at all, if you have other addons that have not been properly updated for WoW 3.2. There is nothing PhanxChat can do about this beyond adding extra checks to prevent error messages.
Tell-target commands do not update the chat edit box to reflect the target of your message.
Requesting Features
Use the Feature Request tracker to suggest features you would like to see in PhanxChat. Keep in mind that I intend to keep this addon limited to simple, uncluttered chat frame modifications. Also, please take a look at the list of declined features before posting a feature request.
The actual error message. If you don't see an error message, are Lua errors enabled in your interface options? Do you have an error handling addon such as BugSack, Swatter, or tekErr enabled?
What is the problem? Be specific.
What were you doing when the problem occurred? Does the problem occur every time you do that? Be specific.
Does the problem occur when PhanxChat is the only addon enabled? If not, which addon is it conflicting with?
Does the problem occur while using the default settings? If not, which settings did you change from their default values?
What version of PhanxChat are you using? If you just say "the latest version" and do not provide an actual version number, I will likely ignore your report.
What locale (language) do you play WoW in? What is the current version of WoW in your locale?
License
Please see my portal or the README file included in the addon's folder for the full license terms under which PhanxChat is released. In particular, redistribution without prior permission is prohibited. Compilation creators, please take a few minutes to learn about the basic details of copyright law and software licensing before you upload a bundle of other people's copyrighted work. Thanks!
Change Log - PhanxChat
Version 3.2.0.53
Added checks to prevent errors caused by other addons that haven't been updated for 3.2, because I'm tired of hearing about them
Fixed suppression options again
Changed from hardcoded class name translations to new FillLocalizedClassList API
Version 3.2.0.51
Updated class coloring for WoW 3.2
PhanxChat's class color option now only colors player names in message types that are not colored by the default UI. To enable class coloring in other message types, use the default UI's chat options window and enable the option for every message type you want class coloring for.
If your locale has not yet patched to 3.2, do not update yet!
Version 3.1.1.49-beta
Fixed error preventing ChatFrame3 and ChatFrame7 from being formatted
Version 3.1.1.48-beta
Fixed achievement messages for Korean (and possibly other non-English) clients
Improved URL linking to reduce the occurrence of false positives
Updated koKR translations by kornshock @ WoWInterface
Version 3.1.0.40-beta
Rearranged configuration GUI
Re-added "/pchat clear" command for easy keybinding
Version 3.1.0.37-beta
Fixed suppressing repeated messages in 3.1
Fixed error in option for shortening channel names
Version 3.1.0.35-beta
Add LibStub for GUI configuration
Version 3.1.0.33-beta
Update for WoW 3.1 (not backwards compatible)
Fix German translation for "Death Knight"
Add GUI configuration in the Interface Options panel
Remove command-line configuration
Version 3.0.2.26
Fix channel notice suppression option
Version 3.0.2.22
Fix chat tab dragging
Version 3.0.2.21
Fix font size command
Version 3.0.2.20
Remove 2.4.3 compatibility
Version 2.4.3.19
Fix scroll-to-bottom button
Version 2.4.3.18
Fix channel notice suppression option
Version 2.4.3.17
Add complete deDE translations from Melikae
Add complete ruRU translations from Valle
Version 2.4.3.14
Fix suppression options
Add complete koKR translations from TalksWind
Version 2.4.3.10
Add complete frFR translations from Nicolas
Version 2.4.3.9
Fix frame blacklisting
Changed versioning scheme to match the rest of my addons (WoW version.addon revision)
That's explained in the change notes, on the "Change Log" tab. Since the default UI now provides class coloring, PhanxChat no longer attempts to color player names in the chat types the default UI handles. The class coloring option in PhanxChat now only applies to the chat types the default UI does not have options to color. To enable the default UI's class coloring features, right-click on any of your chat tabs, select Settings, and check the checkboxes under "Show Class Color" for each chat type you want coloring in. This applies to all chat tabs, so it doesn't matter which you click on.
Not sure if this is my misunderstanding or not, but with version 3.2.0.51 all of the unknowns are not being coloured grey (i.e. in trade) and in guild chat nothing is coloured either. Is this the intended behaviour and things will now only get coloured if I use the built in blizz colouring or is something amiss?
As I am not experiencing any such errors myself, I can only assume it is a problem caused by another addon. Please log in with only PhanxChat enabled and see if the problem persists. If it still occurs, please use the Bug Reports button underneath the big Download button and post a bug report. If it does not occur, start enabling your other addons until the problem comes back. Reading your error message, my best guess is that GuildGreet has not been properly updated to support the changes to the chat system in 3.2 with regard to player name coloring, and is incorrectly hooking chat functions.
getting a ton of errors with the new build. Didnt have the error till I installed the new build.
[2009/08/08 21:04:40-16-x333]: PhanxChat-3.2.0.51-beta\Core.lua:569: Usage: GetPlayerInfoByGUID("playerGUID")
PhanxChat-3.2.0.51-beta\Core.lua:569: in function <Interface\AddOns\PhanxChat\Core.lua:564>
<in C code>: in function `GetColoredName'
Interface\FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:2490: in function <Interface\FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:2471>:
(tail call): ?:
(tail call): ?:
Interface\FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua:2288: in function `GLDG_originalChatEventHandler':
GuildGreet-30100.1\GuildGreet.lua:6156: in function `ChatFrame_OnEvent'
<string>:"*:OnEvent":1: in function <[string "*:OnEvent"]:1>
Please see the "Reporting Bugs" section in the addon description and follow the directions there. I am not experiencing this issue and will need more than a screenshot to figure out why you are experiencing it.
Ok apparently it does have something to do with the 3rd window, I just tested other channels in that window and they do the same thing, no colorization, and only bracketed names...
Originally posted by Phanx If that's the most information you can provide, don't hold your breath for a "fix". Class colors are working fine for me. If you want me to spend more time than I've already spent typing this post looking into the problem, see the "Reporting Bugs" section in the addon description and follow the directions there. Thanks.
I'm having a similar problem to GRiM, apparently all guild channel messages are NOT having the class colors shown for some reason, ALSO the names in guild messages are being put in brackets INSTEAD of my custom look which was working with the previous versions...
everything shows as green text in this format:
[G] [Name]: message here...
What I expected to happen is this:
[G] <Name>: Message here...
Not sure how to fix this, what I have tried ends up ALWAYS having the brackets ie. [G] <[Name]>
Also as far as I can tell all other channels are formatted properly...
I don't know if it is relevant to the problem I am having but I have 3 separate chat windows, left contains general/trade/says/etc... middle has party/raid chat, and right has only guild related chat...
Yeah, running two addons that are trying to do the same thing generally causes problems... that's why I ask people to reproduce problems with ONLY the addon they're blaming enabled.
Originally posted by Phanx Can you tell me which item you linked in that screenshot? I just deleted my saved variables for PhanxChat, created a new character, and logged on with only PhanxChat enabled. I linked a Hearthstone in say, yell, whisper, and general chat, without seeing the issue you're seeing.
Also, please try with only PhanxChat enabled. Your screenshot clearly has some addon skinning the tooltip, at least...
I disabled PhanxChat's class coloring and it went away. I was also using teknicolor along with PhanxChat cause it does a couple of other things PhanxChat does not. The two worked together just fine until 3.1.1.48-beta.
So I had to run just one or the other. Problem is fixed now.
Last edited by joshwill80 : 05-21-2009 at 09:39 PM.
Can you tell me which item you linked in that screenshot? I just deleted my saved variables for PhanxChat, created a new character, and logged on with only PhanxChat enabled. I linked a Hearthstone in say, yell, whisper, and general chat, without seeing the issue you're seeing.
Also, please try with only PhanxChat enabled. Your screenshot clearly has some addon skinning the tooltip, at least...
