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ChatIcons adds item, spell and player class icons to the chat frames next to player, item and spell links.

Q. Why is the vertical alignment in the chatframes not exactly like it is in the example text?
A. I dunno. Just play with it until you find something you like.

[Note: It can only add player icons to Party, Raid and Guild messages because I refuse to use the ugly SendWho hacks.]
  Change Log - ChatIcons
2008-3-28 Version 0.91 beta
  • Fixed a bug that caused the vertical offset to only be applied after opening the options.

2008-3-26 Version 0.9 beta
  • Added an option to use the Autosize feature of texture links
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tardmrr
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Old 07-01-2008, 08:35 PM  
tardmrr
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Quote:
Originally posted by Fritos
I really have come to enjoy this addon immensely. Being a visual person, seeing those Icons attached with text, I can easily identify them without even having to read what it pertains. Well some of it, you know what I mean.

One thing, I'm not sure if it is/is not possible is putting icons associated with money loot like they are when you sell things to the vendor, i.e.:

1 gold, 10 silver into 1 [GOLD ICON] 10 [SILVER ICON]

But again, great addon that I'll always have in my arsenal!
I have been wanting to add that very feature, but I can't come up with a clean way to do it that doesn't guess wrong more often than I'm comfortable.
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Old 07-01-2008, 07:18 PM  
Fritos
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I really have come to enjoy this addon immensely. Being a visual person, seeing those Icons attached with text, I can easily identify them without even having to read what it pertains. Well some of it, you know what I mean.

One thing, I'm not sure if it is/is not possible is putting icons associated with money loot like they are when you sell things to the vendor, i.e.:

1 gold, 10 silver into 1 [GOLD ICON] 10 [SILVER ICON]

But again, great addon that I'll always have in my arsenal!
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Old 06-24-2008, 03:56 PM  
tardmrr
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Originally posted by rakkarage
i am sure you know this but you can use the built in icons for class and race instead of including hard coded icons...

"Interface\\Glues\\CharacterCreate\\UI-CharacterCreate-Races"
"Interface\\Glues\\CharacterCreate\\UI-CharacterCreate-Classes"

and then use SetTexCoord to change the offset to the race or class within that image...

Proximo does something similar:

http://svn.wowace.com/wowace/trunk/Proximo/class.lua

thanks for the great addon.
You can't SetTexCoord on textures embedded in fontstrings.
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Old 06-24-2008, 02:54 PM  
rakkarage
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i am sure you know this but you can use the built in icons for class and race instead of including hard coded icons...

"Interface\\Glues\\CharacterCreate\\UI-CharacterCreate-Races"
"Interface\\Glues\\CharacterCreate\\UI-CharacterCreate-Classes"

and then use SetTexCoord to change the offset to the race or class within that image...

Proximo does something similar:

http://svn.wowace.com/wowace/trunk/Proximo/class.lua

thanks for the great addon.

Last edited by rakkarage : 06-24-2008 at 02:59 PM.
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Old 05-21-2008, 03:08 AM  
Elkano
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Originally posted by Jerricka
Using this mod as of the rolling restart this morning makes the chatbox show small lines and specks around the icons and all text.
actually this started with 2.4.2 for me. But that's rather a Blizzard bug I'd say...
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Old 05-19-2008, 05:46 PM  
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Using this mod as of the rolling restart this morning makes the chatbox show small lines and specks around the icons and all text.
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Old 05-05-2008, 12:15 AM  
tardmrr
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Originally posted by Nathanyel
Bleh, it is really hard to search for "|T"... I know I once read something about those texture links, but can't find anything atm.
Do you think it is possible to mask the textures used, to make black parts transparent? Various non-square (especially round) item icons have a black background, which looks really fugly in the chat, small and against a shifting background color.
Sorry, that's not possible. Even if we had access to the texture objects themselves when embedded into text (which we don't), we don't have the ability to mask textures in WoW.

Last edited by tardmrr : 05-05-2008 at 12:29 AM.
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Old 05-04-2008, 07:48 PM  
Nathanyel
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Bleh, it is really hard to search for "|T"... I know I once read something about those texture links, but can't find anything atm.
Do you think it is possible to mask the textures used, to make black parts transparent? Various non-square (especially round) item icons have a black background, which looks really fugly in the chat, small and against a shifting background color.
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Old 04-02-2008, 10:00 PM  
Sepioth
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Originally posted by tardmrr
Item icons should always appear regardless of channel. This is either a conflict with another addon or a bug in my code. I haven't heard of this issue before so my guess leans towards a conflicting addon.
Found it ... sorry to be a pain but I should have checked my addons first. I know better than that.

FYI it was an old addon I still had and forgot to remove Item Link Recolor

So it is not a bug in your code
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Old 04-02-2008, 05:54 PM  
tardmrr
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Originally posted by Sepioth
I see the icons in trade channel only usually.


Once in a while they work when I loot mobs but not usually.

I don't really care about the class icon which I only see in Guild chat ... just the item icons.

My options look exactly like your screenshot here.


Also I saw the note on the info page and I assume that Player Icons is referencing the Class icons next to name. Almost missed it it was so small.

If it is another addon causing this then I might try to figure it out.

Just was not too sure if the item icons only appeared in certain chat channels.

Thanks for the help
Item icons should always appear regardless of channel. This is either a conflict with another addon or a bug in my code. I haven't heard of this issue before so my guess leans towards a conflicting addon.
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Old 04-02-2008, 05:51 PM  
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I see the icons in trade channel only usually.


Once in a while they work when I loot mobs but not usually.

I don't really care about the class icon which I only see in Guild chat ... just the item icons.

My options look exactly like your screenshot here.


Also I saw the note on the info page and I assume that Player Icons is referencing the Class icons next to name. Almost missed it it was so small.

If it is another addon causing this then I might try to figure it out.

Just was not too sure if the item icons only appeared in certain chat channels.

Thanks for the help
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Old 04-02-2008, 03:41 PM  
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Originally posted by Sepioth
How come I don't always see icons??

Is it only used during certain chat??

Can it be enabled to show on all Item Links??
You're going to have to be more specific about your problem if I'm going to be able to help you. If I had to guess, though, I'd say you either haven't installed the addon properly or another addon is conflicting with it.

Do you see the ChatIcons options in the Addons tab of the Interface Options?
What options do you have enabled? (a screenshot of your options panel would probably be easiest)
Do you never see icons or only sometimes?
Did you forget to read the fine print in the addon's description?
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Old 04-02-2008, 03:12 PM  
Sepioth
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How come I don't always see icons??

Is it only used during certain chat??

Can it be enabled to show on all Item Links??
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Old 03-29-2008, 06:58 PM  
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Excellent, glad I could help.
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Old 03-29-2008, 06:22 PM  
tardmrr
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Originally posted by GrissomXIX
Yeah, works nice now...one request. Can you make it work for Officer chat please? I get all the guild and party stuff scrolling up my window, but when someone talks in Officer chat it looks odd now. Thanks. =D


Edit:
Nevermind, changed line 98 to the following and it works fine.
Code:
if example or event == "CHAT_MSG_PARTY" or event == "CHAT_MSG_RAID" or event == "CHAT_MSG_GUILD" or event == "CHAT_MSG_OFFICER" then
Ah, yeah. It's been a long time since I've used officer chat so I forgot it was a seperate event. Thanks, I'll make this change in the next release.
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