Authors CurseForge

Okay so I just tried Chatter as an alternative to Prat, and here are some things I noticed:

- I couldn't adjust the background alpha of the chat frames to be completely transparent, but it turns out it was Skinner's fault because its option to skin the chat frame had somehow re-enabled itself. (just mentioning this in case someone else runs into this issue - it's not Chatter's fault)
- I don't see a way to have channel numbers shown next to channel names.
- It might be nice if the "show bottom when scrolled" button could optionally be placed at the bottom of the chat window instead of the top (got some other addons covering up that corner atm).
- It took me a while to figure out how to change the side of the editbox. A note in the editbox module may be helpful :)
- I'd really like to shrink the border around the editbox, especially vertically, but due to limitations of the standard edge size method of manipulating border textures, it's not possible to do this without breaking texture alignment.
- Editbox font setting does not apply to the channel name text.
- Might be nice to be able to set edit a specific box border alpha when "Color border by channel" is enabled.
- I don't hear sounds for channels configured to play them via the Highlights module for things that I type in those channels, nor for whispers that I send to myself.
- I miss Prat's selection of chat sounds. SharedMedia doesn't come with default sounds that are good for chat notifications.
- This is probably not Chatter's fault, but if I access Chatter's settings via /ace3, then click on the Sound File dropdown in the Highlights module, then click on the background of the Ace3 config window (while the dropdown is still open), the dropdown list will go behind the Ace3 frame.
- It would be nice to be able to optionally display player levels before player names instead of after them.
- It would be nice if the "Custom format" text box for the Timestamps module were to be populated with the equivalent string for whatever preset the user selects.
- Also probably an Ace3 issue rather than a Chatter issue, but the /ace3 (or /chatter) menu for Chatter has a weird dead space at the bottom of the scroll pane on the left side where it should be displaying text but doesn't.
- Would be nice to have a GuildGreet import function for alt names (mentioned this before but it's something that occurred to me again while actually testing Chatter).

I also got linkhover errors, so I disabled it.

I've also switched from prat, and just about the only feature I'm missing so far is the ability to have keybindings for chat channels. Is there any other addon that can do it for me?

I haven't tried Chatter yet, but I have a question before I do:

Can Chatter remember the size and position of your chat frame, and save that data into it's profile (assuming it has profiles support)?

I ask because I am currently using Prat, and one of the things I've found annoying about it is setting up the size and position of my chat frame within my UI for each of my toons.

Quote from HunterZ »

- I don't see a way to have channel numbers shown next to channel names.

You can change the names of each channel. For example you could make trade "[2.Tr]"

My combat log menu seems to be hidden or black. On my combat log tab there's normally the text at the top to select all events, only those that happened to me etc... Mine are invisible, yet I can still click them if I click in teh right spot.

Anything in Chatter that might cause that that I missed?

One thing I'd love to see is it to remember and/or set chat channels to specific #s - for example /5 is always SuperSecretChannelOmg.
I've always liked Cirk's Chatmanager for this and some other small things (check it out).

I'm getting these error msgs:

[2008/04/24 22:35:01-893-x13]: Chatter-1.0\Modules\LinkHover.lua:35: bad argument #1 to 'strmatch' (string expected, got nil)
Chatter-1.0\Modules\LinkHover.lua:35: in function `?'
AceHook-3.0\AceHook-3.0.lua:76: in function <Interface\AddOns\Ace3\AceHook-3.0\AceHook-3.0.lua:73>
(tail call): ?:
(tail call): ?:

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[2008/04/24 22:35:01-893-x13]: Chatter-1.0\Modules\LinkHover.lua:35: bad argument #1 to 'strmatch' (string expected, got nil)
Chatter-1.0\Modules\LinkHover.lua:35: in function `?'
AceHook-3.0\AceHook-3.0.lua:76: in function <Interface\AddOns\Ace3\AceHook-3.0\AceHook-3.0.lua:73>
(tail call): ?:
(tail call): ?:

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Quote from HunterZ »

- It would be nice to be able to optionally display player levels before player names instead of after them.

Yes, please. :)

Iam not sure if this is reported already, so forgive me if it is but:

There is one quite annoying BUG caused by Chatter for like 1week.

If you promote somebody as a Guild Leader/officer the sidepanel of the Guild List normally stays there and you can masspromote people easily.
Now Chatter or some of Chatters libs(cant test that) makes the Window close on the Button hit when you promote somebody, that is extremely annoying tbh :P

I narrowed it down to Chatter so far that i only had ACP/Chatter+Libs enabled, with only ACP it worked totally fine, so its Chatter or some libs of it for sure.


(Most recent version etc. ofc)

Would it be possible to implement a Chat Copy function similar to prats single line of text one? the entire thing of text copy is nice,but sometimes to much to sift through it looking for what you want, and a right click copy chat frame from someones name in the chat log, which pops up a window to copy from my understand shouldnt be to much to ask for :P. Im not saying away with the copy chat feature, just add in an option to copy like this also.

bump for keybindings

1. chat channels
2. tell target
3. chat copy

I just tried this from prat, great mod, But one thing, so far I haven't recieved any errors, however none of my chatter preferences are saving. I have two chat windows open. I keep one with just group/guild/party/raid, the other all other misc stuff.

Every time I log into another characters, or I log off, none of the settings stick. I have to manually adjust them every time I log in.

Quote from inz0mn1ak »

Every time I log into another characters, or I log off, none of the settings stick. I have to manually adjust them every time I log in.

That's a blizzard bug, not Chatter. Use ChatSettingsFix in the meantime.

I am currently testing Chatter as a replacement for Prat.

So far I am happy to see that it does (almost) everything I have gotten used to from Prat, just one thing seems to be missing :

"Query Talent Spec" in the playermenu.

I would love to see this in Chatter; it is not really an extremely important feature, but I am using it quite often.

I hope this thread is the right place to ask for this feature; i digged through the "Talented" thread, but the only reference to such a talent query i could find was located in the "Prat" thread, so i suppose it is up to the chat mod to create a menu entry for it.

Thanks for the reply, downloading the fix for it now. :)

Firstly, this is very nice, I used Prat for a long time and it did everything I wanted but it was, well, big, and that made it somewhat hard to make it do what you wanted it too, even though you knew it could do it.

There seems to be a few people asking about changing the way playernames are displayed. Personally I like [<level>:<name>:<altname>:<groupno>] (does chatter do group number in a raid?). Would it be possible to have some customisation of that, perhaps a simple as a blank link in the config for it where you can put the above keywords and seperators etc that you want?

Great mod by the way, and thanks

Now this is a strange glitch....

I have a ton of addons installed. Yesterday I could not change the sounds in the highlight module on an alt of mine (Main Char was no problem). After a systematic searching procedure I found out, that I can only change highlight sounds, if ZOMGBUFFS is enabled on a char (No kidding!). I run all addons disembedded, btw.... The problem is reproducable on any char.

I have just switched over from Prat to Chatter, and used to run without channel names or timestamps (All the channel colors are unique for each tab).

I had a few problems removing channel names and formatting text how I liked it and ended up hacking the LUA.

Here is my addition (to ChannelNames.lua) at the mod:AddMessage(.....) function, line 143:

	-- Added stuff by Tony
	
	text = gsub(text, "^(.-) yells(.-)", "%1" .. "%2", 1) -- remove 'yells' text.
	text = gsub(text, "^(.-) says(.-)", "%1" .. "%2", 1) -- remove 'says' text.
	text = gsub(text, "(.-): (.-)", "%1 " .. "%2", 1) -- strip first colon
	text = gsub(text, "^ (.-)", "%1", 1) -- strip space on lines that start with a space

This changes 'player1 yells: hello!' and 'player2 says: hiya :)' type messages to 'player1 hello!' and 'player2 heya :)' respectivly, and removes all of the seperating colons. While doing this I encounted some issues with 1 whitespace being added before *some* lines, so added the last line to fix that.

From my (minimal) testing this also works with timestamps enabled (by pure fluke), but uncovers an issue with Chatter:

text = gsub(text, L["^To "], (mod.db.profile.addSpace and " " or ""))

Doesnt match when timestamps are enabled, since the timestamp is before the 'To ' text.


EDIT: Off topic, but just noticed the reported IP address for my post is incorrect. I assume its the (new?) proxy your running your site behind.
EDIT2: Really like Chatterbox, starting to understand LUA a bit more, might start doing some addons myself if I get time :)