Cycle through tabs in a chat window

[myrroddin]

Is there a way to programmatically cycle through the chat tabs in a chatframe? For example, in my ChatFrame1, I have General, Log, Guild, but what if you don't know how many tabs a user has, or what the tab names are?

I've gone through the FrameXML to look for clues, but so far haven't found anything.

EDIT: I don't need the tab names per se. Rather, I am trying to clear all the text in each tab of each chatframe.

for i = 1, NUM_CHAT_WINDOWS do
    local window = _G["ChatFrame"..i]
    window:Clear() -- this clears the first window in ChatFrame1, ChatFrame2, etc
    -- great, now get the next tab, but how?
end

[Xrystal]

The code you have should clear all the main frames including the combat log ( ChatFrame2 ).

For the temporary chat frames to get included this may be a better option.


FCFDock_GetChatFrames(dock) to receive a list of windows that are docked

DOCKED_CHAT_FRAMES is the table containing the docked chat frames.

So,

GENERAL_CHAT_DOCK.DOCKED_CHAT_FRAMES or
FCFDock_GetChatFrames(GENERAL_CHAT_DOCK) should get you the table containing the different chat frames in the chat frame box.

If you also have undocked windows that you want to access then this may be the better option.

function WorkOnAllChatFrames()
    local chatFrame, chatTab, conversationIcon;
    for _, chatFrameName in pairs(CHAT_FRAMES) do
       local frame = _G[chatFrameName];
       chatFrame = frame;
       chatTab = _G[chatFrame:GetName().."Tab"];
       .... Do your stuff here
    end
end

Also, to clear the tab of text simply set the Window Name to "". window:clear() will clear the chat frame window of its messages instead.

SetChatWindowName(i, "")

[myrroddin]

Sorry for the delay as I was not at home. Anyway, if I understand it correctly, if I want to clear the text (I do not want to clear the tab names themselves) of both the chat frames and their docked windows, then this will work?

for i = 1, NUM_CHAT_WINDOWS do
    local window = _G["ChatFrame"..i]
    window:Clear()
 
    -- now clear docked tabs of their text
    local chatFrame, chatTab
    for _, chatFrameName in pairs(CHAT_FRAMES) do
        local frame = _G[chatFrameName]
        chatFrame = frame
        chatTab = _G[chatFrame:GetName().."Tab"]
        chatTab:Clear()
    end
end

[Xrystal]

If it is the text on the Tabs you want to clear you want to access the Text element on the tab and set it to "".

There is a built in function that does this for you amongst other stuff. ChatFrameX:Clear() will clear out the chat history. tab:Clear() I don't think exists. tab:SetText("") will clear the tab text without changing the name of the Tab from ChatFrameXTab or whatever you may have renamed it as.

function FCF_SetWindowName(frame, name, doNotSave)
  if ( not name or name == "") then
    -- Hack to initialize the chat window names, since globalstrings are not available on init
    if ( frame:GetID() == 1 ) then
      name = GENERAL;
      doNotSave = nil;
    elseif ( frame:GetID() == 2 ) then
      name = COMBAT_LOG;
      doNotSave = nil;
    else
      name = format(CHAT_NAME_TEMPLATE, frame:GetID());
    end
  else
    FCFDock_SetDirty(GENERAL_CHAT_DOCK);
  end
  frame.name = name;
----- v
  local tab = _G[frame:GetName().."Tab"];
  tab:SetText(name);
----- ^
  PanelTemplates_TabResize(tab, tab.sizePadding or 0);
  -- Save this off so we know how big the tab should always be, even if it gets shrunken on the dock.
  tab.textWidth = _G[tab:GetName().."Text"]:GetWidth();
  if ( not doNotSave ) then
    SetChatWindowName(frame:GetID(), name);
  end
  if ( frame.minFrame ) then
    frame.minFrame:SetText(name);
  end
end

On another note. The ChatFrames and DockedWindows are the same, you seem to be talking about them as if they are different things. The DockManager simply controls whether a ChatFrame is docked or not. So, ChatFrame1 is usually docked permanently as your main chatframe. ChatFrame2 similarly is the combat log and is usually docked permanently. All other frames ChatFrame3 to ChatFrame10 are dockable and floatable at the users whim. ChatFrame11 and higher are temporary chat frames that may be dockable ( I haven't looked at this side of things yet myself to confirm this ) but will have tabs that you may need to access. Which I think I pointed out before.