Chatter

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Chatter is a comprehensive, lightweight, mega-configurable chat enhancement addon. It supports a whole bunch of stuff, including:

- Hiding buttons
- Custom aliases for channel names
- Coloring of player names by class or deterministic HSV formula, and player levels next to names
- Custom font and font size for your chat frames
- Custom background, border, and positioning for the edit box
- Option to let the edit box border color match the color of the channel you are typing in
- Channel colors remembered by name, rather than by number
- Scrolling your chat frames with the mouse wheel.
- Sticky channels, configurable
- Ability to copy a chat frame's contents to your clipboard
- Ability to copy URLs to your clipboard
- Ability to customize the background and border of your chat frames
- Timestamps
- A /tt command to send a tell to your target
- A module that turns the word "invite" into clickable links that let you invite the speaker.
- Highlights both for custom keywords in specific channels
- Chat fading toggles
- Text justification
- Autologging (Off by default)
- Alt linking
- Much larger and smaller chat frames than default
- A Groupsay (/gr) command to talk to your group, whether that's battleground, raid, or party.
- Chat Tab look-n-feel modifications
- Paging through chat tabs with the scroll wheel

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_ForgeUser2941427
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Posted Dec 24, 2009
How do allow Chatter to remove channel names? $$EMPTY$$ doesn't work, and I don't need [Guild] to show that its guild chat. I can tell by just color. How do you remove those kinds of tags?

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Posted Dec 23, 2009
How do I stop the "RWAAAAA!!!" yelling every time somebody says something in guild chat........

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Posted Dec 22, 2009
When I say anything, my name shows up twice, like:

[myname][myname]: hi!

If it's an option, I can't seem to find where it is to turn it off.

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Posted Dec 23, 2009
altnames.

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Posted Dec 22, 2009
Where can I set the Key for text-copy, or is there a fixed key?
I can't find any.

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Posted Dec 23, 2009
There is none, hover over the window and a button will show. Pressing this will create a frame from which you can copy.

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Posted Dec 21, 2009
I'd like a way to disable the scrolling buttons for one chat window, but not another. The way I see it right now is I can have scrolling buttons on all windows, or none at all. Same with the text fading.

Other than those two things... Great addon! Thank you for the time you've spent on it.

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Posted Dec 23, 2009
Not at the moment, patch is welcome :)

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Posted Dec 24, 2009
patch is welcome as in.. You want me to make a patch? Or you're going to make a patch for it later? Hehe, I'm not good at coding, I only know basics.

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Posted Dec 20, 2009
how do i move the chat box around n the screen to get it where i like ?

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Posted Dec 20, 2009
right click the tab General, click Unlock Frame. grab the general tab and drag it all around. you don't need a mod to do that though.

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Posted Dec 19, 2009
Just updated the Chatter addon via the Curse Updater before logging in (Chatter 1.1.1), and now it won't let me SET FOCUS. I disabled all addons except Chatter, and SET FOCUS worked again.

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Posted Dec 19, 2009
I can also confirm that Chatter seems to cause a problem somewhere with setting Focus. The default Blizz error popup usually blames it on something else (for me, it was Bagnon or AtlasLoot that was getting blamed), but disabling Chatter solved the problem.

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Posted Dec 23, 2009
This is not a problem with Chatter, this is a problem with any addon adding something to the right-click menu causing taint issues. This is known by Blizzard but still not fixed. Not much to do about it. Just type: /focus :)

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Posted Dec 19, 2009
Can you add a channel filter for the Highlight option? Carbonite uses several chat channels to pass information to other Carbonite users in your zone, including the names of the Toons, so it's constantly highlighting those messages, when I have the channels hidden.

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Posted Dec 23, 2009
Carbonite sucks, nuf said :)

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Posted Dec 14, 2009
I've been using this addon for a long time now, and until yesterday I noticed that Chatter can make sounds when something is written on any channel. This would be awesome and help me to get rid of ChatSounds, if only I could select custom sounds. I poked into the .lua and read something about LibShareMedia-3.0, wich I installed, but I can't see any other sound basides the default ones. Then came here, and read almost all the comments to see if there was a solution... some people have made the same question and never got an answer.

So, I'll ask again. Can someone please tell me how to add more sounds to chatter? Thanks in advance.

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Posted Dec 15, 2009
Ok, got SharedMedia working and now I can select more sounds. Now the problem is that Chatter doesn't recognize the [Party Leader] chat, so it doesn't make any sound when the party leader writes, wich can be very annoying. Adding this, and the ability to make a sound when the user writes to a channel (output sound) would make that part of chatter perfect. I'll stick to ChatSounds and disable the highlights module for now.

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Posted Dec 14, 2009
Got this error:

Date: 2009-12-14 08:59:14
ID: 2
Error occured in: Global
Count: 2
Message: ...erface\AddOns\Chatter\Libs\AceTab-3.0\AceTab-3.0.lua line 131:
attempt to call method 'error' (a nil value)
Debug:
[C]: error()
...erface\AddOns\Chatter\Libs\AceTab-3.0\AceTab-3.0.lua:131: RegisterTabCompletion()
...\AddOns\Chatter\Libs\AceTab-3.0\AceConfigTab-3.0.lua:105: in main chunk

Thanks,
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Posted Dec 13, 2009
The timestamp won't accept %l (that's l as in 'ell')

The code below (from tekkub's tekchat) works just fine.. so it seems like a bug in your code.

local _G = getfenv(0)
local orig = {}

local function hook(frame, text, ...)
orig[frame](frame, string.format("[%s] %s", date("%l:%M"), text), ...)
end

for i=1,NUM_CHAT_WINDOWS do
local f = _G["ChatFrame"..i]
orig[f] = f.AddMessage
f.AddMessage = hook
end

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