Setting up Chat defaults/moving chat tab text

frohanss · 03-13-11, 01:56 AM

Hey,

im working on creating a addon that basicly adjust chat windows to a fixed position.

So far i have figured out most settings for it from this forum. But i haven't found a way to change chat tab's.

Basicly what i want todo:
1. Set font and font color (different color for active window)
2. Offset/move names up with about 20px from chat frame.

Any tip/example?

Maybe wrong to call it a addon tho. I just whant it to setup chat defaults to mach my UI.

Thx in advance.

Akkorian · 03-13-11, 02:12 AM

Hi Frohanss,

If you just want to set up your chat frame to look the same on all your characters, the simplest way is just to copy the file where the game stores those settings:

World of Warcraft » WTF » Account » ACCOUNTNAME » Realm Name » Charactername » chat-cache.txt

and paste it into the folders for each of your other characters.

If you want to write an addon you can share with other people that will make their chat frames look just like your chat frames, then you’ll have to look up all of the functions that the game calls when you create a chat tab, rename a chat tab, turn a channel on or off for a tab, etc. and call those same functions from your addon. Looking at Blizzard’s code is probably the easiest way to find out which functions you need to call, and what arguments they expect.

frohanss · 03-13-11, 10:32 AM

Thx for the reply.

Yes i know about the chat-cache.txt file.

But this doesn't hold info regarding what i am asking for. Atleast not as i have seen it.

Code:

ChatFrame1Tab:SetPoint("BOTTOMLEFT", ChatFrame1, "TOPLEFT", 0, 20)
ChatFrame1Tab.SetPoint = function() end

Just need to figure out the font part now.

frohanss · 03-13-11, 02:19 PM

So i have figured out partly how to handle the font:

Code:

ChatFrame1TabText:SetFont("Fonts\\FRIZQT__.TTF", 16, "THINOUTLINE")
ChatFrame1TabText:SetTextColor(1, 1, 1)

But im totaly stuck on handling the "hover" colors.

Im trying to get chat tab text to be different based on status.
Like:
Selected: Dark Blue
Normal: Blue
Mouse Over: Light Blue

Any pointers to a stuck soul?

Torhal · 03-14-11, 01:56 AM

You can either use ChatAlerts or look at the code and see how I'm handling it.

frohanss · 03-16-11, 11:52 AM

Can't get seem to do anything to ChatFrame1.

It handles the rest of the chat frames correctly, but i can't change position on frame 1.

Code:

local x = CreateFrame("Frame")
x:SetScript("OnEvent", function()
	FCF_ToggleLock()
	ChatFrame1:SetParent(nil)
	ChatFrame1TabFrame:SetParent(nil)
	ChatFrame1:ClearAllPoints()
	ChatFrame1TabFrame:ClearAllPoints()
	ChatFrame1:SetParent(LChat)
	ChatFrame1TabFrame:SetParent(LChat)
	ChatFrame1:SetFrameLevel(LChat:GetFrameLevel()+1)
	ChatFrame1:SetWidth(LChat:GetWidth())
	ChatFrame1:SetHeight(LChat:GetHeight())
	ChatFrame1:SetPoint("BOTTOMLEFT",LChat,"BOTTOMLEFT",5,5)
	ChatFrame1:SetPoint("TOPRIGHT",LChat,"TOPRIGHT",-5,-5)
	ChatFrame1ButtonFrame:SetPoint("BOTTOMRIGHT",LChatTab,"BOTTOMRIGHT",-5,5)
	ChatFrame1TabFrame:SetPoint("BOTTOMLEFT",LChat,"TOPLEFT",0,0)
	ChatFrame1TabText:SetFont("Interface\\Addons\Centurions\\media\\HandelGothicBT.ttf", 14, "THINOUTLINE")
	ChatFrame1TabText:SetTextColor(.5,.5,.5)
end)
x:RegisterEvent("PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD")

Is it the register event that is wrong? Cause this works perfectly ingame.

Code:

/script ChatFrame1:SetPoint("BOTTOMLEFT",LChat,"BOTTOMLEFT",5,5)

Akkorian · 03-16-11, 02:37 PM

Hi Frohanss,

You might want to take a look at Fane to see how it handles changing the chat tabs.