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
- Chat links are now clickable again
- Prat support is DEACTIVATED for the moment since the addon does not give sufficient info anymore to support it
Pls fix :)
Thanks for your time. I love the addons.
3.0.1-alpha is out, check it out if you do not fear having some errors from time to time! Note: links in the chat window are still not clickable.
pb_ee1
Im sure what ever you do will be great. Thanks for your time.
[!] Make the links in the chat clickable
[~] Decide whether put an Icon on the minimap or let the user decide what to do (see: Grid, oRA2, ...)
[v] General cleanup of the addon
[v] Move all the UI creation from the Lua to an XML
Message: ..\AddOns\Elephant\Core.lua line 4:
Usage: EmbedLibrary(addon, libname, silent, offset): 'libname' - Cannot find a library instance of "LibFuBarPlugin-3.0".
Toc says:
## OptionalDeps: Ace2, DewdropLib, FuBarPlugin-2.0, TabletLib, Prat
Needs to be updated to refer to Ace3 and the Ace3 plugins you use.
Sorry since at the moment there is no other simple way to display the main frame!
However the alpha pretty much completely disables Elephant altogether. At least before, the icon and UI would pop up. Now there is nothing at all :( Looking forward to being able to tell my friends "you can RP with me now" and not having to manually retype EVERYTHING that happens in my officer's channels or guild channels that I'm a moderator of.
Thanks for all your work!
Sorry guys, forgot to check the comments on WowAce! :P
Yeah, I'm currently working on it and just released an alpha (3.0.0-alpha). It is however very unstable, so I recommend that you wait until I put it in Beta before trying it.
By the way, don't expect the release to be able to read your old Elephant data: it won't work, since the way of storing data from has changed from Ace2 to Ace3, unfortunately.