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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_ForgeUser2001806
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Posted Sep 22, 2009
Just a quick question really...how do I get scrollbars to appear either when I hover or have them there permenantly instead of using the mousewheel to scroll?

Great addon :D

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Nulgar
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Posted Sep 21, 2009
Slight/annoying problem with the Highlights module: when used together with Carbonite, it spams unintelligible messages (I use the SCT announce) when another player with Carbonite hovers my character, as my char's name appears in Carbonite's "hidden" communication channel CrbB1.
How about an option to ignore certain channels, with stuff like Carb on default-ignore?

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Posted Sep 20, 2009
Dont know if this is a bug or intentional, but achievement links in chat don't produce a tooltip on mouseover.

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Posted Sep 20, 2009
I love chatter, and I use the x-perl thin surround for the edit box polish, because it produces the most obvious and thick border for those embarrassing moments in the middle of a fight where otherwise you end up typing "wadswww24232222" into a chat box, while standing still and doing nothing....

But I have to go back and reselect x-perl thin after any relog. I'm wondering whether this is because the x-perl thin hasn't actually been loaded yet at the point that chatter loads (because c comes before x)? Anyway, a fix would be nice :)

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Posted Sep 20, 2009
Edit the Chatter TOC, add X-Perl as opt. deps to the Chatter.
you'll be need to correct it every time you update Chatter, but the loading issues will be fixed.

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Posted Sep 20, 2009
Thanks - I've tried adding XPerl to the Chatter toc, but to no avail. It's not a game-breaking issue, just a bit irritating that it seems to revert to no border with every ui reload. It's still selected as x-perl thin in the edit box polish dialog, it just doesn't show, until I go in, select something OTHER than x-perl thin, and then go back. Oh well :)

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Posted Sep 19, 2009
got a problem here
my text input box disappeared on me
like so i can't see what i'm typing to people

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Posted Sep 19, 2009
UGH Chatter is STILL broke and wont let me talk in any channels at all. >.<

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Posted Sep 18, 2009
When reloaded my ui after having created a new profile, & then copying the default, this is the error that I received. There might be several errors, this is just the first one.

Date: 2009-09-18 17:06:10
ID: -2
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ..\AddOns\Chatter\Modules\ChannelNames.lua line 164:
attempt to concatenate field 'Whisper To' (a nil value)
Debug:
(tail call): ?
Chatter\Modules\ChannelNames.lua:164:
Chatter\Modules\ChannelNames.lua:153
(tail call): ?
(tail call): ?
(tail call): ?
(tail call): ?
Chatter\Modules\Scrollback.lua:42:
Chatter\Modules\Scrollback.lua:27
Chatter\Modules\Scrollback.lua:74:
Chatter\Modules\Scrollback.lua:72
(tail call): ?
[C]: ?
[string "safecall Dispatcher[1]"]:9:
[string "safecall Dispatcher[1]"]:5
(tail call): ?
...\AddOns\AtlasLoot\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:531:
...\AddOns\AtlasLoot\Libs\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:524
(tail call): ?
Chatter\Chatter.lua:182: UpdateConfig()
Chatter\Chatter.lua:168:
Chatter\Chatter.lua:164

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Posted Sep 19, 2009
Wasn't able to fix this error, looks sortof strange as that string is a config default which should be loaded at all times if nothing is found.

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Posted Sep 19, 2009
This might have accidently fixed it, the problem is deeper and lies in the hooking order of the various modules. This is not something to be fixes soon but the latest beta (which should appear when curse syncs again) should have this fixed.

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Posted Sep 18, 2009
Found another bug in Modules\ChannelNames.lua

Near the bottom of the script, this line is causing the [W:From] channel tag to appear BEFORE the timestamp:
text = gsub(text, L["^(.-|h) whispers:"], channels["Whisper From"] .. (mod.db.profile.addSpace and " %1:" or "%1:"))

Replace that line with this one:
text = gsub(text, L["^(.-|h) whispers:"], (mod.db.profile.addSpace and channels["Whisper From"].." %1:" or channels["Whisper From"].."%1:"))

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Posted Sep 18, 2009
Just a little bug report:
when you mouse off an item link, the tooltip closes fine. But when you scroll the chat box, the tooltip wont disappear until you scroll back down and put your mouse over the item link.

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Posted Sep 19, 2009
Fixed.

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Posted Sep 16, 2009
My only problem with this, is how do u disable the scrollback feature when your chatting. If in combat and chatting and you try to move backwards or what not it will just scroll through your last messages and delete the one you were typing. Spent awhile just cant figure that prblem out.
But beyond that....this is a great Addon!!!
finally able to fit in a custom chat box with the coolest of features. Thanks for this contribution :DDDD been using for awhile now.

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Posted Sep 16, 2009
@ no_idea, It is because WoWAce syndicates its beta and release versions to Curse.com. Alpha releases are not syndicated, and thus are not displayed on curse, but are however displayed here. Alpha versions are generally untested, dry-coded, very early releases, or may contain bugs known or unknown to the author. And can be verified by the A: in the Recent Files list Beta releases are generally testable by users and rely on feedback of any issues/ideas, as well may be unfinished commits for a stepping stone type of versioning. Verified by a B: Releases, are supposed to be completed versions (feature wise), and for the most part bug free for the current WoW revision, and with general comments between versions removed from the script files. Verified by an R: not to be confused with the lower-case "r". As well clicking the big Download Text up at the top, will automatically select the latest "Release" version of the addon, in this instance, Release version 233 will be downloaded instead of Beta version 3.2.0b1

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Posted Sep 15, 2009
This addon has so many options, but for some reason I can't move the text entry box Above the chat window, like in CustomChat.

Damn :/

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Posted Sep 15, 2009
Yeah, my bad - I didn't look close enough to find the "edit box polish" options.

This addon is rad.

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Posted Sep 15, 2009
Any way to set chat frame strata with this mod so I can have it above other UI elements?

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Posted Sep 14, 2009
Hi,

this is very good addon. Thank you for that.
But I have issue. In blizz vanila chat log, I can see characters like (č,š,á), wich are common in my language and other ppls use them.
But if I use this addon, it looks broken, like (#,%,^) or something.
You think, that u can fix it please?

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