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.
Originally posted by AnduinLothar Not technically a bug, it's just how blizzard's default frame positioning works. You can also reset with /run ChatBar_Reset()
Annoying as hell, kinda why i though it was a bug. Drives me nutts that every time i do a clean loging with only ACP (speeds up login when in raids if i reload to geta ddons up) i have to move it to position after reload every single time instead of just staying where i put it.
Originally posted by Animorph i accidentally moved my char bar to a location i can neither click nor drag it from , is there some way to reset position? thanks
Turn of the addon log in, the log out and turn it of and it will have reset.
Prolly a bug, and a n anoying one at that, but works for that problem.
Originally posted by AnduinLothar The center, flash, highlight and text are colored dynamically based on the chat type's color. So the gold tinted background texture color is really only used for the border.
That said i just tried changing that BG file to black and white (which made it a greyish) and saved it as a 32bit compressed targa and reloaded wow... seemed to work fine. Not sure what problem you're having.
I desaturated it in Photoshop, but it didn't seem to work. I'll try the black and white though, see if that has a better effect. I even made a new skin with those files, and when I open the border file it is indeed in black and white, but not in-game (yes I have chosen the new Silver border I added). I'll let you know if the b&w works. I don't know why desaturated the file wouldn't work though. Huh. Oh well! ttyl and thanks for the fast response!
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Originally posted by Jackalantern after all couldn't the same functions be achieved by simply starting your type with whatever channel you wanted to speak in like normal? aka /g /raid /w etc.
Perhaps you're right and one can easily live without this addon, but for me it's useful, since I'm using numerous custom channels all the time and having quick buttons for them is handy. Also I tend to forget to switch channels before typing, so at times I end up typing stuff that goes into party chat to the guild chat. With ChatBar I don't need to retype that or do Ctrl+A - Ctrl+X - change channel - Ctrl+V manipulations: just switch channels on the fly and the input will switch to the proper channel with all text intact.
Also ChatBar can print the list of people in a channel, so for custom channels I don't need to open a menu and check who is online.
Originally posted by xtoq I LOVE THIS MOD! That being said, how would I go about making my own art or modifying existing art? I tried to make a silver version of the glass orbs, but they still seem to be gold in-game. Any light you can shed on this would be great!
And I'm not talking about adding the artwork, I see that's on the front page, just some details why changing the actual PSD files didn't change the colors in-game.
The center, flash, highlight and text are colored dynamically based on the chat type's color. So the gold tinted background texture color is really only used for the border.
That said i just tried changing that BG file to black and white (which made it a greyish) and saved it as a 32bit compressed targa and reloaded wow... seemed to work fine. Not sure what problem you're having.
Originally posted by Jackalantern Perhaps I am missing the intended purpose of this addon or maybe it is just here for something "different" and eye candy. But as I read over this it seemed to be not too helpful; after all couldn't the same functions be achieved by simply starting your type with whatever channel you wanted to speak in like normal? aka /g /raid /w etc.
If I am missing something please let me know.
It's mostly useful as a persistent display of what channels you're currently in. Being able to click on the buttons as shortcuts for typing the slash shortcuts is nice but I don't use that feature often myself.
Perhaps I am missing the intended purpose of this addon or maybe it is just here for something "different" and eye candy. But as I read over this it seemed to be not too helpful; after all couldn't the same functions be achieved by simply starting your type with whatever channel you wanted to speak in like normal? aka /g /raid /w etc.
I LOVE THIS MOD! That being said, how would I go about making my own art or modifying existing art? I tried to make a silver version of the glass orbs, but they still seem to be gold in-game. Any light you can shed on this would be great!
And I'm not talking about adding the artwork, I see that's on the front page, just some details why changing the actual PSD files didn't change the colors in-game.
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Originally posted by NiQil
I'm running in to the same sort of thing. And it is also happening with LookingForGroup. If the channel I was in before LFG was guild, raid or whisper, and then I click on LookingForGroup, it goes into the channel I was in before, or just to the Say channel. Only when I click on one of the other standard channels (General, Trade, LocalDefense), can I then get it to go into LookingForGroup. The old version prior to the update was working fine...it just needed a toc bump. Not sure what else got changed, but now it appears to be bugged.
Yes, after using latest ChatBar for more time I can confirm that behavior with all channels. Seems like until it's fixed (or some other addon is found to be a real culprit) the bar will just show me which channels I've joined, as using it for communication is awkward at the moment.
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, is there some way to reset position? thanks
