Elephant
"Shoot... what did he say again? I just got disconnected."
"Didn't that folk already loot that rare item 10 minutes ago?"
"I really wish I could remember the name of the item linked on the guild chat yesterday at 9:00 PM."
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Already been in one of these situations? Don't be annoyed anymore, here is the solution!
Solution to chat loss annoyance
Elephant logs the chat for you in the background even when you get disconnected. It saves the WHISPER & BATTLE.NET, RAID, INSTANCE & BATTLEGROUND, PARTY, GUILD, SAY, YELL and OFFICER chats separately, but also all general chats (General, Trade, LocalDefense, ...), custom chats you are currently on, achievements, loots and finally system messages (auctions, rolls, server going down, ...). You can easily go through all these logs, thanks to a straightforward interface displaying all the access buttons on the right side of the main window. You can access the options of the addon by typing /elephant and also bind a key to pop up the addon.
Elephant gives you the ability to copy up to 100,000 (yes, 100k) characters of logs to another application. A BBCode feature is even included, letting you copy/paste a chat with colors and links to an item database in a very quick and simple way to your favorite forum.
This is THE addon that you should install if you want to never forget what somebody told you in game. Be a pro of managing hell tells, go peacefully AFK for a few minutes, or be an awesome role player. Elephant is also perfectly designed for Guild Leaders, Officers and Raid Leaders particularly because it restores the chats after you've been disconnected.
Main features
- Logs the chats in the background, with a limit of 10,000 lines for each chat (Blizzard's default is 161 lines for everything).
- Saves the logs when you log out or get disconnected.
- Display the chats with timestamps, or using your Prat settings if you have it installed.
- Copy the chat and paste it in other applications (BBCode supported!), up to 100,000 characters.
- Save the chat and combat log in two different files on your computer (using the default Blizzard logging system).
Other features
- Use filters to avoid logging some of the custom channels you join.
- Enable/disable logging for each chat separately.
- Item links in logs are displayed in their proper color and are clickable.
- Player names in the main window are clickable.
- ...and much more!
Community
Report an issue (bug & suggestions): https://www.wowace.com/projects/elephant/issues
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AllInOneMighty Owner
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Posted Feb 4, 2013You can simply save your SavedVariables in your WTF folder. However, always remember that only the last N lines will be saved in Elephant (older lines will be deleted), where N is configured in the AddOn.
If you want to save absolutely everything that is displayed in your normal chat (!= combat chat), enable the "saving to file" option in Elephant and go into your Logs folder after you shutdown the game. However, there is no way to specifically choose what appears in that file, and you will probably want to clear it from time to time to avoid it to become too large.
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Posted Feb 4, 2013This shouldn't be able to add, and I'll look into it for the next update ;)
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Posted Jan 17, 2013An idea occured to me while reading through some RP chat logs... Is there a way to allow the player to set the background colors or set the transparency darkness of the big box screen where players can read all the logs? Depending on the setting, the transparency setting that it is currently on makes it a lil bit hard to read. Just an idea :) I love this addon! It's definately one I like to install at all times. Thanks!
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Posted Jan 15, 2013Anyone know how to filter the pet battle channel?
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Posted Jan 14, 2013So I am trying to use this to replace wowscribe it's really cool! but it's logging so much crap even though I tell it to stop logging trade, xetention tool tip extra it still logs it and on top of that if anyone creates anything, gets an achievement, my friends log on, off.... it logs all of that too and then some. Which is fine if people want all that but I don't. So is there any way you can make the copy window copy all thousand lines at once so I don't get the garbage that ends up in the WoWChatLog? Or maybe tell me how to filter this stuff out of that log? I do have them disabled from the elephant interface and logging new channels turned off. Well except for the creation stuff cause I can't find that log in the interface to try. Please pretty pretty please. I only want to log says yells emotes party guild whispers officer how do I get it down to that?
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Posted Dec 27, 2012THank you for keeping this updated! I love the ability to keep track of things, makes life much easier. My only request: Could this be updated also on wowinterface.com? That website plays much nicer with my linux box than Curse does.
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Posted Dec 28, 2012Done! ;-)
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Posted Dec 21, 2012Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Stay safe and have a good one.
Moldavia
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Posted Dec 23, 2012Thanks! :)
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Posted Dec 23, 2012I know it has been requested quite a bit. What I always wanted to do was to offer the option to choose between per-character/per-faction/account -wide logs, and I know it is possible. However, it is a bit of a hassle to do that in the code, and it MAY be slower. I have to work on it. Can't promise anything, but I totally understand that it isn't very practical the way it works now if you play on a lot of toons.
I'll keep you updated when I work on it!
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Posted Dec 21, 2012Thank you for your work!
Is there any way to store logs account-wide? Or, at least, faction-wide? I have 11 twinks and they are all in one guild. It should be very nice to have possibility to read history of guild chat after re-login with another toon. The same goes for logs on private chats of any my character.
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Posted Dec 15, 2012hint: SendChatMessage("log this word","INSTANCE_CHAT");
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Posted Dec 10, 2012I do hope this gets updated soon, I gotta have my logs!!
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Posted Dec 10, 2012I hope to have the time during this week ;)
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Posted Dec 2, 2012Blizzard made some changes to chat channels again. There is a new instance chat channel that replaces certain of the old channels, I think battleground and party although I'm not entirely sure. It looks like Elephant doesn't know about and so isn't logging this instance channel.
Looking forward to an update when you have the time. Thanks!
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Posted Nov 2, 2012Date: 2012-11-02 14:32:16
ID: 1
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ..\AddOns\Elephant\Event.lua line 51:
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Debug:
Elephant\Event.lua:51:
Elephant\Event.lua:25
...Ons\Ace3\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:157:
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Ace3\AceEvent-3.0\AceEvent-3.0.lua:120:
Ace3\AceEvent-3.0\AceEvent-3.0.lua:119
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Posted Oct 23, 2012Released 3.2 since I got no bug report.
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Posted Oct 8, 2012Just added an option to disable timestamps when copying from the copy window. It should be saved accross sessions.
This is available on the 3.2 BETA version, so please select this version if you want to test it! And if so, please report any bug you encounter!
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Posted Sep 19, 2012is there anyway to increase the font size