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Compatibility:	Visions of N'Zoth (8.3.0)
Updated:	01-20-20 12:17 PM
Created:	unknown
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ChatBar

Version: 3.9.1.80300

by: AnduinLothar, yarko

ChatBar - Button Bar for opening 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

Feedback & Support
If you have bugs or feature requests please use the buttons on the right.
For other feedback, use the comments.
If you'd like to donate to show your support, that can be done through paypal with a paypal account or by credit card. Remember donations are much appreciated but non-contractual. Thank you!

Button / ChatType Options:
Block (channel) - Toggles filtering of chat channels related to selected button without leaving channel.
Leave (Channel)
Print Channel User List - List prints to the default chat frame. Same as "/list #". (At this time, Blizzard does not support the listing of players from other realms in chat channels. When Blizzard allows this, this addon will support it.)
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:
Large Buttons - Toggles larger size buttons.
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
Lock Position - Toggles allowing the chatbar to be moved with the mouse.
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:
v 3.9.1 (yarko)
- toc to 80300

v 3.9 (yarko)
- Set alternate art to 1 on first time load

v 3.8 (yarko)
- Fixed bug that was causing unblockable channels to appear blocked

v 3.7 (yarko)
- Added delayed channel check since sometimes addon would not see all channels on reload
- Localized some variables

v 3.6 (yarko)
- Added blocked channel icons to make it clear that a channel is blocked
- Fixed bug that made it impossible to block the guild officer channel

v 3.5 (yarko)
- Fixed key bindings so that they appear under the Addons category instead of Other

v 3.4 (yarko)
- Added main frame lock capability (idea from FoxyLittleThing on curse)

v 3.3 (yarko)
- Fixed problem moving main frame with mouse
- Fixed button flashing

v 3.2 (yarko)
- toc to 80205 and 11302 for classic

v 3.13 (FlyNeko)
- toc to 70000

v 3.12 (FlyNeko)
- Removed BNet Conversation functions as they're no longer exist

v 3.11 (FlyNeko)
- Party/raid buttons shows immediately after joining group

v 3.10 (yarko)
- Replaced usage of Blizzard flash function with alpha animations on flash texture to solve taint problem

v3.9 (yarko)
- toc to 50400

v3.8 (yarko)
- Updated Traditional Chinese localization file
- toc to 50300

v3.7 (yarko)
- Updated Russian localization file
- toc to 50200

v3.6 (yarko)
- Chatbar now clears text the user might have typed before clicking on whisper buttons and puts it back when clicking elsewhere

v3.5 (yarko)
- Whisper now defaults to the name last whispered if no whisper has been received
- Adjusted for new raid and group API functions
- Adjusted for new instance chat features
- toc to 50100

v3.4
-Fixed 'show text' and 'large buttons' settings to correctly save between sessions

v3.3
-Fixed nil error
-Sped up the bar animation a bit

v3.2
-Removed 'this' usage
-Buttons are now created on demand for less memory usage
-Fixed to work with latest chat changes
-Added BNet Whisper Button
-Added BNet Conversation Button
-toc to 40000

v3.1 (yarko)
-Added larger buttons option to options menu
-Added channel blocking capability to channel buttons right-click menu
-"/w" is now removed if the user first clicks the whisper button then another button without entering a whisper
-toc to 30300

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)

v2.3
-Added Russian Localization (thanks Старостин Алексей)

v2.2
-Added Alternate Artwork (thanks Zseton)

v2.1
-Added Spanish Localization (thanks NeKRoMaNT)

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 (1)

File Name	Version	Size	Author	Date	Type
ChatBar Legion	3.13	33kB	FlyNeko	07-20-16 12:05 AM	Patch

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12-21-05, 03:14 AM
DSanai A Wyrmkin Dreamwalker Forum posts: 50 File comments: 110 Uploads: 3	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). __________________ Dsanai - nElf Hunter Glacialfox - nElf Death Knight Evilianti - Gnome Warlock

12-21-05, 05:33 AM
AnduinLothar Nobody of Importance Forum posts: 95 File comments: 208 Uploads: 23	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.

12-21-05, 07:24 PM
DSanai A Wyrmkin Dreamwalker Forum posts: 50 File comments: 110 Uploads: 3	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. __________________ Dsanai - nElf Hunter Glacialfox - nElf Death Knight Evilianti - Gnome Warlock

12-21-05, 11:17 PM
AnduinLothar Nobody of Importance Forum posts: 95 File comments: 208 Uploads: 23	Right-click a channel button: click Sticky Channels. Viola.

12-22-05, 03:57 PM
DSanai A Wyrmkin Dreamwalker Forum posts: 50 File comments: 110 Uploads: 3	Not quite what I had in mind (I don't always click the ChatBar, and would like it to be sticky all the time)... Guess I'll have to keep PoC around. Thanks anyway. __________________ Dsanai - nElf Hunter Glacialfox - nElf Death Knight Evilianti - Gnome Warlock

12-22-05, 06:55 PM
AnduinLothar Nobody of Importance Forum posts: 95 File comments: 208 Uploads: 23	right... If you right-click a ChatBar button it brings up a dropdown menu with a few options. One is to have that kind of chat always Sticky.

12-28-05, 12:37 AM
DSanai A Wyrmkin Dreamwalker Forum posts: 50 File comments: 110 Uploads: 3	Ah! Well, perfect then. Ran into this recently, when I added another chat channel to my lineup. The channel is a single word, text-only, five letters long, and was assigned (by WoW) to channel 8. The display bar shows "..." instead of the first letter (which is C) and when I mouse-over the button for that channel, I get: Count: 4 Error: Interface\AddOns\ChatBar\ChatBar.lua:452: attempt to call field `text' (a nil value) I assume it has to do with the tooltip, as that won't show like the others do. Clicking the button will set up chat properly, but the tooltip never displays what channel it is. __________________ Dsanai - nElf Hunter Glacialfox - nElf Death Knight Evilianti - Gnome Warlock

12-30-05, 05:15 PM
DSanai A Wyrmkin Dreamwalker Forum posts: 50 File comments: 110 Uploads: 3	Great job on the bugfix; works great now. One error on login, but it doesn't seem to affect anything adversely. It's just an annoying sound when logging in, LOL. Count: 1 Error: Interface\AddOns\ChatBar\ChatBar.lua:338: attempt to index global `Eclipse' (a nil value) __________________ Dsanai - nElf Hunter Glacialfox - nElf Death Knight Evilianti - Gnome Warlock

01-08-06, 12:55 PM
Gristadar A Wyrmkin Dreamwalker Forum posts: 57 File comments: 18 Uploads: 0	not working addons says out of date

01-08-06, 02:18 PM
AnduinLothar Nobody of Importance Forum posts: 95 File comments: 208 Uploads: 23	TOC It works fine, either change the toc to 10900 to load out of date addons. It's silly to upload again for that small change. I'll update the toc next time I make real update.

01-08-06, 03:44 PM
Gristadar A Wyrmkin Dreamwalker Forum posts: 57 File comments: 18 Uploads: 0	working perfectly, thanks

07-17-06, 02:46 PM
fred A Cobalt Mageweaver Forum posts: 208 File comments: 354 Uploads: 0	I'm not sure if the problems came from this mod, BUT I have deduced so far that the problem does pop up with ChatBar. My /who list keeps popping up...I close it..it comes back up.I remove alot of my mods and added them back in a few at a time until I came to ChatBar...as soon as I put ChatBar back in..the list will pop up. I will look at it more from my end....but could you think about looking into it? I will D/L the previous version if I can't get it to stop and if you are not able to reproduce it.....it's one of those little mods that I have gotten used too....TY!

08-22-06, 08:26 PM
fred A Cobalt Mageweaver Forum posts: 208 File comments: 354 Uploads: 0	not working correctly as of this update.....I click on g for guild and type a message , but comes out under /say... EDIT : It may have been Confab doing it... Last edited by fred : 08-28-06 at 09:31 PM.

08-25-06, 03:24 AM
GrusPer A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 3 Uploads: 0	Lpizz --------------- need emote menu

12-10-06, 06:40 AM
Tobiah A Deviate Faerie Dragon Forum posts: 19 File comments: 9 Uploads: 0	Needs ver 2.0 update This addon is not working with patch 2.0

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