WowAce

hi, as of ChatLog version 1.1.3 and WoW version 1.11.1, i've created a german localization for this addon. if you wish to integrate it, please add the lines:

1. 1. Notes-deDE: Loggt den chat und zeigt ihn an.

localization.de.lua

to the .toc file. the localization.de.lua mentioned can be downloaded here: http://www.harl.de/wow/addons/localization.de.rar

i hope it works for someone - at least it does for me, but if there's a problem with it i could probably fix, i'll try do so. (typos and patch-related changes included)

--- additionally, i'm having 3 feature requests (though of lesser importance):

1. an option to increase the maximum number of lines being saved to the SavedVariables' ChatLog.lua from the fixated 200 to at least 500 or more. the bunch of 'log started' 'log stopped' lines and the 2 " "(empty) values added with each 'header' can already take up a significant amount of lines when logging in and out or changing areas often, so 200 is just not enough in such a case. i'm aware that more lines being saved also leads to an increased memory load, and increased time when 'extracting and displaying', and i'm also aware of your 'Clear/Delete' buttons, but maybe you can at least reduce the 'log started' 'log stopped' ouput to a minimum amount; ex. by checking if anything else was saved since the last 'log started/stopped' message and therefore deleting the previous unnecessary line(s), and replacing the 2 " " lines with something more line-saving (or just drop them?).

2. an option to switch from a per-character to a per-realm based saving of the logs (therefore using the other SavedVariables directory). (correlates with "~ Make a "general log" for all characters.", i think?) sure, for playing on a RolePlaying realm the per-character saving might be of more use than on a PvE/PvP realm, but with the latter being (mostly) OOC -at least for me- i often chat to the same people despite any changing of chars, and a per-realm saving of the logs would then make a little more sense to me. with that, of course, the maximum of lines being saved (in one array) increases again, so there'd eventually be an imbalance between speed and usability, i'm not sure though. (i was editing and messing around a bit with an older version (1.1) of ChatLog, saving just everything in one big array and totally dropped the lines' limit. the loading starts to take -just a little tick- too much at about 1000 lines being saved. not sure, but maybe that hints somewhere.) (at that time i had also increased the window size to 800,800 and tried to reduce the whole thing to its root function of just logging and nothing else, not even clearing or anything, to reduce code (came out to be about 80 lines) and screen space used by buttons etc. i'm not much into scripting, so this was only for myself. i personally like that very much when a program or script has many options in a background-way, but things also have to be basic/functional and not to take up more space than necessary, so i'm also some kind of a minimalist. - i also realize that an addon like this is no replacement for an external log file or log file parser which reads the WoW*Log.txt's (or other log files). so if it'd all get choppy with the increased log lines etc, i'd also be happy to stick with the 200.)

3. an option to specify some filters for these specific patterns of channels not to be logged which would otherwise (like it is now) automatically added to the 'other chats' category. (correlates with "? Log specific chat messages (CTRaid, ...)") having addons in mind like PanzaComm, Sky (including all the SkyZone*'s etc) and other similar addons and maybe other custom channels one's regularily joining now and then but doesn't want to be logged automatically - thinking of unnoticed background memory and cpu load, though i know it's not that much anyway, so it's more an optical revision (as the 'drop down' list isn't That huge and unneeded logs then have to be deleted manually each time, which especially confuses when using those addons mentioned). ---

that's it. i'm sorry if i've babbled.. err, i mean.. if i've mentioned anything that's already been discussed somewhere or even discarded.

I'm using ChatLog together with Addons like CT_Raid... or GuildEventmanager. ChatLog logs all messages sent through the Comm-Channels of these Addons. Maybe there is a way only logging what is displayed in one of the Chat-windows?

Not sure if I catch what you're asking for... But as for a mod that tracks mail, there's a mod that does this quite well, called MailTo: http://www.curse-gaming.com/en/wow/addons-1496-1-mailto.html

Is that kind of what you're looking for?

Is it possible to change the right-click menu to a drop down list shown at the top of the screen? I think it would be a bit more streamlined, but who knows, I could be wrong ^_^

is the combatlog loggable?

i been trying to find a mod that tracks my MAIL LOG as well, on CT_MailMod

when i have it announce processes, it says, <CTMailMod> Purple Lotus x20 from Sneakster (echo's on the general window mostly)

any possibility that it can log those too? or maybe can point me to another addon if u know one =) been trying to look for a while.

so turn them off.  :S Note: I agree that it might be a good idea for pb_ee1 to set some sane defaults for all of the channels.

To turn them off, right click on the channel on the top, and select the channel from the drop down, and click the "disable" button. Took me a few minutes to disable the multitude of channels. I check it every so often incase ChatLog "learns" a new channel or two.. and disable them.

)

-Seph

So I noticed since the 1.11 patch, stuff said by the Raid Leader or stuff said in Raid Warnings wasn't being logged. So I went into Chatlog.lua and added

ChatLog:RegisterEvent("CHAT_MSG_RAID_LEADER"); ChatLog:RegisterEvent("CHAT_MSG_RAID_WARNING");

and changed line 112 (now 114 because of the added lines) to

if ( event == "CHAT_MSG_RAID" ) or ( event == "CHAT_MSG_RAID_LEADER" ) or ( event == "CHAT_MSG_RAID_WARNING" ) then

which seemed to work.

Thanks for the update. Hope you can fix the # of chars.. but even this is SO nice! -Seph

I just found this today while looking for something to replace "oma MultiChat", and it looks very nice.

A couple of things that would be great to see however are:

A log of system messages, mainly people logging on and off. I track DKP for my guild and often use the previous addon I mentioned to easily be able to look up when someone logged off if I missed it. Currently I need to keep both installed for that reason, though it would be great if I could only use this addon.

The ability to bind a key to open the window.

The combat log and ability to resize, which you've already got on your to do list would be great :)

Thanks for the great addon, and looking forward to future improvements :)

Perfect. The copy/paste solution would be perfect.  :)

Thanks for the quick response!  :) -Seph

Ok, so I have chatlog loaded, and almost never have a reason to dump any chat to text file. Here's my scenario: Nothing is set to "Log chat to a file". Have a conversation with someone. This conversation turns into something that I'd like to have a text log of! How do I export the conversation that has already taken place to text file?!?! If this isn't possible.. does that mean that I actually have to record to text file all the time? That doesn't seem to make sense to me.

Just wondering if I'm missing something here.  :) Thanks, -Seph