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."
...
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
Can reproduce indeed. That looks like.... a Blizzard UI issue, not something I can fix on my side, as the text is simply added to the copy/past box, and no action is done on the rendering. :(
I'm having this issue in another addon, so it's most likely blizz. (Tinypad) Good luck.
I'm curious: My friend has the aforementioned problem, but I myself can't seem to reproduce it. Everything works just finde. Shouldn't everybody have to problem, if it's an issue with Blizzard UI? Sorry, if the question is stupid. I really have no idea how those things work.
It's working now, but now the sounds come through even with sound and music turned off for some reason.
Hey Shadoca,
I made the sounds play on the Master channel instead of the SFX channel, which is controlled by the Master Volume slider in the options (Ctrl+S is SFX and Ctrl+M is Music). I thought it made more sense to have these sounds still play as:
Do you find this counter-intuitive?
Imo, the sounds should play through the SFX channel, like every other default button in the game.
This does NOT support 7.3.0, as mentioned below before the update, the playsound needs fixing.
Sorry, indeed missed this while upgrading to 7.3.0. It has been fixed in version 3.7.5.
The Ace 3.0 package attached to this project is outdated as of 7.3. This is because it uses the old format for Playsound. You can fix this by going through each lua file in the Ace directories and commenting out instances of PlaySound with --Playsound. Alternatively, you can lookup the name of every call in Ace 3 on wowhead and replace the string with the number.
For example, AceConfigDialog.lua has this line:
PlaySound("igPlayerInviteDecline")
Doing a google search for igplayerinvitedecline gives you the wowhead link. In the URL for the wowhead link is the number 882, which is the number you replace it with.
So, you would update this one of two ways:
--Playsound(igPlayerInviteDecline")
or
Playsound(882)
You have to scan all lua files and perform the same operations until you have updated Elephant.
Thanks :-)
Thanks for the report! Fixed in 3.7.5. Sorry I was on holidays :)
3x [string "*:OnHide"]:1: Usage: PlaySound(soundKitID, optional["SFX","Music","Ambience", "Dialog" or "Master"], [forceNoDuplicates, runFinishCallback])
[C]: in function `PlaySound'
[string "*:OnHide"]:1: in function <[string "*:OnHide"]:1>
[C]: in function `Hide'
Elephant\Interface.lua:453: in function `Toggle'
[string "*:OnClick"]:1: in function <[string "*:OnClick"]:1>
Locals:
(*temporary) = "SPELLBOOKCLOSE"
Fixed in 3.7.5.
Will there be an update pushed for 7.3 anytime soon?
Updated yesterday!
Is there a way to just have everything show up in the elephant window? Or what's in the default chat window at least?
I'm not sure what you mean by "everything". Elephant separates the logs in a way that (hopefully) makes sense, i.e. whisper / say / yell / guild / officer / ... separately.
However, for each of these logs, you can log additional things that vary depending on which log you're looking at. For example, in the Say log, you can also log the Yells, as sometimes it makes sense to have both at the same place. Check the message catchers at the top right of the main window for each log to select which ones you want to be saved.
3x Elephant\Initialize.lua:48: bad argument #1 to 'sub' (string expected, got nil)
[C]: in function `sub'
Elephant\Initialize.lua:48: in function <Elephant\Initialize.lua:45>
Elephant\Initialize.lua:89: in function <Elephant\Initialize.lua:64>
(tail call): ?
[C]: ?
[string "safecall Dispatcher[1]"]:9: in function <[string "safecall Dispatcher[1]"]:5>
(tail call): ?
Ace3\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0-12.lua:558: in function `EnableAddon'
Ace3\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0-12.lua:651: in function <Ace3\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:636>
[C]: in function `LoadAddOn'
FrameXML\UIParent.lua:420: in function `UIParentLoadAddOn'
FrameXML\UIParent.lua:511: in function `TimeManager_LoadUI'
FrameXML\UIParent.lua:1056: in function <FrameXML\UIParent.lua:953>
Locals:
nil
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3x Elephant\Initialize.lua:48: bad argument #1 to 'sub' (string expected, got nil)
[C]: in function `sub'
Elephant\Initialize.lua:48: in function <Elephant\Initialize.lua:45>
Elephant\Initialize.lua:89: in function <Elephant\Initialize.lua:64>
(tail call): ?
[C]: ?
[string "safecall Dispatcher[1]"]:9: in function <[string "safecall Dispatcher[1]"]:5>
(tail call): ?
Ace3\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0-12.lua:558: in function `EnableAddon'
Ace3\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0-12.lua:651: in function <Ace3\AceAddon-3.0\AceAddon-3.0.lua:636>
[C]: in function `LoadAddOn'
FrameXML\UIParent.lua:420: in function `UIParentLoadAddOn'
FrameXML\UIParent.lua:511: in function `TimeManager_LoadUI'
FrameXML\UIParent.lua:1056: in function <FrameXML\UIParent.lua:953>
Locals:
nil
副本频道不能显示,也不能记录。