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ChatEdit  Popular! (More than 5000 hits)

Version: 3.1.40000
by: AnduinLothar [More]

ChatEdit is another complicated mod to do something simple: allow you to select your chat text for copying. Simply shift-click a chat frame to enter 'edit mode'.

Edit mode is basically an editbox in which the text won't let you change it. The editbox directly overlaps the chat frame and is scrollable and resizable by the normal methods, as well as a scroll bar that pops up to the right. To make copying less painful no text will be added to the editbox while in edit mode, but it will appear in the chat frame when you leave edit mode.

To exit edit mode click anywhere on the WorldFrame or hit escape.

ChatEdit also increases the default chat frame memory from 128 lines to 500.

Note: For reasons of auto-line wrapping and non-standard width fonts it is nearly impossible to figure out what scroll position the chat frame is at. For this reason when you enter edit mode it will always scroll down to the bottom. Also be aware that the editbox has smooth scrolling as opposed to the chat frame's line by line scrolling.

Note: Thankfully the text string length editbox bug was fixed in a past WoW patch. If you ever run into a repeatable case where the selectable text is empty, let me know!

v3.1.40000
-Disabled color debug (oops!)

v3.0.40000
-Updated to work with the new chat system and Cataclysm changes
-Replaced 'this' usage with 'self'
-Replaced getglobal() with _G[]
-Replaced MouseIsOver(frame) with frame:IsMouseOver()
-Fixed auto-scroll up and down when selecting text now that the old resize top/bottom bars were removed
-Fixed update reversion (so you can't change the text, only select it)
-Now starts storing chat messages as soon as the addon loads instead of waiting until PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD required by the old chat system
-Added support for copying from the combat log which populates in reverse
-Added support to update the editable text when Clear and SetMaxLines are called on the chat frame

v2.0.30100
- Updated toc to 30100

v2.0.30000
- Updated toc to 30000

v2.0
- Updated toc to 20400
- No longer uses Sea or SeaHooks
- Fixed recording of numbers passed to AddMessage

v1.2
- Updated toc to 20300
- Updated SetScrollFromBottom to SetScrollOffset

v1.1
- Selectable chat text is no longer trailed by two empty lines
- Selectable chat now has the correct scroll bounds and is scrolled to the bottom every time it's shown
- Auto-scroll now only triggers when highlighting text
- Showing selectable chat is now over twice as fast
- Updated toc metadata
- Uses SeaHooks v1.3

v1.0
- Enabled editbox auto-focus.
- Added auto-scrolling hot zones at the top and bottom of the chat frame when you are selecting text.
- Uses SeaHooks v0.9
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Unread 07-21-18, 07:45 PM  
Kharthus
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I fixed this one. Anyone around to add me so I can update it?

For anyone that still uses it, go into the .lua file and replace GetCurrentScroll with GetScrollOffset.
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Unread 12-01-11, 12:20 AM  
Xaemyl
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4.3

Any plans to update this for 4.3?
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Unread 01-25-11, 08:28 PM  
Jellybao
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Originally posted by AnduinLothar
Ok, well it's prolly not that one think I was thinking... does it work if you disable all your other addons?
Yea it does, I'm thinking your mod conflicts with ElvUI =\
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Unread 01-24-11, 02:40 PM  
AnduinLothar
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Originally posted by Jellybao
Yea I can't move the indicator with the mouse or arrow key, when I click out of the chatbox or when I click to edit the chatbox it actually freezes my game for a few seconds. The cursor just stays on that 1 line when I try to edit the chatbox, it doesn't look like it's refreshing the text or doing anything in my chatbox.
Ok, well it's prolly not that one think I was thinking... does it work if you disable all your other addons?
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Unread 01-23-11, 05:32 PM  
Jellybao
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Originally posted by AnduinLothar
So you cant move it with the mouse or the arrow keys?
If you click somewhere else do you see the cursor there for a second before it goes back to where it was?
Does it look like it's constantly refreshing the text?
Yea I can't move the indicator with the mouse or arrow key, when I click out of the chatbox or when I click to edit the chatbox it actually freezes my game for a few seconds. The cursor just stays on that 1 line when I try to edit the chatbox, it doesn't look like it's refreshing the text or doing anything in my chatbox.
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Unread 01-21-11, 02:25 AM  
AnduinLothar
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Originally posted by Jellybao
I'm having problems with this add on, when I try to copy paste the indicator only stays on 1 part of my chat window and won't move, might have something to do with the UI use.
So you cant move it with the mouse or the arrow keys?
If you click somewhere else do you see the cursor there for a second before it goes back to where it was?
Does it look like it's constantly refreshing the text?
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Unread 01-18-11, 10:32 PM  
Jellybao
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I'm having problems with this add on, when I try to copy paste the indicator only stays on 1 part of my chat window and won't move, might have something to do with the UI use.
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Unread 01-18-11, 07:19 AM  
Derpo
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Thumbs up Thank you!

Thank you for updating!
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Unread 01-14-11, 06:02 PM  
Ravynne
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Update!

I hope the update works well. I've been missing this one. I don't like the other chat addons because they want to rewrite the chat interface and I'm perfectly happy with the default except for the fact it won't let me copy/paste.

Thanks for the update!
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Unread 10-27-10, 02:22 AM  
Walkerbo
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Please update for 4.0.1

Can you please update for 4.0.1
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Unread 10-24-10, 02:13 PM  
Rhazzledazle
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Re: Font goes invisible...

Originally posted by Xeddicus
In case anyone saw the previous edit: Turns out it didn't fix itself...

The text just goes transparent or gets hidden somehow when you activate the frame to select the text to copy. It's there, you shift click, and poof- gone. You can still select it, but can not see it.

Anyone have a clue? Doesn't happen every time, but usually.
Doesn't work at all for me. This is the best mod for c/p chat text. I've been using this since Cosmos!! The other mods change things around with no options to change them. Like the text box is at the top, rahter have it at the bottom.
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Unread 10-16-10, 06:43 PM  
Kharthus
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Originally posted by mentalnutsy
Any chance of an update to this
Doesn't seem to work at all in 4.0.1.
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Unread 07-04-10, 11:11 AM  
mentalnutsy
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Any chance of an update to this
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Unread 05-17-09, 03:35 PM  
Imperfection
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Pretty helpful, thank you for updating this great addon !
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Unread 05-12-09, 02:46 PM  
JMHammer
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Very helpful, easy-to-use mod. Thanks for keeping it updated.
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