| Compatibility: | Visions of N'Zoth (8.3.0) |
| Updated: | 01-20-20 12:17 PM |
| Created: | unknown |
| Downloads: | 508,071 |
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ChatBar 
ChatBar - Button Bar for opening chat messages of each type.
A little acsii art for demonstration: [oooooooo]
o - Buttons, colored the color of a chat type, left click to open editbox of that type, right click for type specific options. Initial letter of the type on or above the button
[ ] - Ends of the bar, left click to drag, right click for options
Feedback & Support
If you have bugs or feature requests please use the buttons on the right.
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Button / ChatType Options:
Block (channel) - Toggles filtering of chat channels related to selected button without leaving channel.
Leave (Channel)
Print Channel User List - List prints to the default chat frame. Same as "/list #". (At this time, Blizzard does not support the listing of players from other realms in chat channels. When Blizzard allows this, this addon will support it.)
Hide This Button - Hide the button for that chat type or channel by name.
Reply (Whisper) - Open whisper to the last person that whispered you.
Retell (Whisper) - Open whisper to the last person you whispered.
Set Binding By Name (Channel) - Select one of the 10 channel bindings to use for this channel (saved by name instead of by index).
Sticky - http://www.wowwiki.com/Chat#Advanced_Chat_Terminology.2FDetails Note: Channels are all or none, other types can be stickied individually.
ChatBar Options:
Large Buttons - Toggles larger size buttons.
Vertical Orienation - Toggles vertical/horrizontal bar via sliding.
Reverse Button Orienation - Toggles button order reversal via sliding
Text On Buttons - Toggles chattype abrev on/next to the buttons
Show Button Text - Toggles chattype abrev visibility
Use Channel ID On Buttons - Toggles using the channel index or the first letter of the channel name
Button Message Flashing - Toggles button flashing when you receive a message of that type
Show Bar Border - Toggles show/hide the bar border/background. Note: You can still click on the ends of the bar when it's hidden
Hide Addon Channels - Hide Sky, CTRA and CTA channel buttons
Hidden Buttons - Submenu for showing manually hidden buttons
Lock Position - Toggles allowing the chatbar to be moved with the mouse.
Reset Position - Attaches the ChatBarFrame to above the ChatFrame1 tab
Reorder Channels - General, Trade, LocalDefense, LookingForGroup, WorldDefense, GuildRecruitment, others...
Bindings
There are now bindings available for the chat types and channels by index. Individual channels can also be set to bind by name, overriding a indexed binding of your choice.
Localizations:
English, German, French, Spanish, Russian, Simplified and Traditional Chinese
(I only speak English. All other translations have been user submitted. So if you have updates or new translations let me know.)
User Submitted Skins
The skinning system is a bit unique because it has more layers than a normal button with full up/down specularity and shadow as well as flash/hover alpha and normal shaping graphic that are all translucent to allow for the buttons to correspond to the chat type's selected color for each button.
To add a new custom Skin drop its folder into the ChatBar folder, modify the ChatBar_AltArtDirs table in ChatBar.lua and append the new folder name, then add a CHATBAR_SKIN# variable to the end of the localization file for it's readable name. Then select it from the dropdown in game.
Comes with the following skins: Solid, Glass and Squares
Reset
If you lose the bar you can reset it with this script: /run ChatBar_Reset()
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04-09-09, 10:46 AM
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A Kobold Labourer
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Okay, made some proper testing, and I came down to this conclusion:
Most of the functionality exists, but small additions: - maybe add a "check" to main menu witch allows buttons associated with channels to remain in the button list, and change the appearance of the buttons when entering/leaving a channel. - also add the option to use right mouse click to enter/leave a channel instead of opening a menu. Maybe open the menu with mouse 3? Or maybe make it configurable from the main menu. - would also be nice to have the option to add scroll up/down jump down buttons to the button list, but in the same time to remove the default ones. This would save a lot of space. Sorry didn't check correctly, I had installed an older version, witch had some small problems but now is working really nice. Really good addon  Thank You |
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04-09-09, 02:10 AM
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A Kobold Labourer
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As "Vertical, Glass Art" picture shows would be nice to be the setup of buttons when you are not in any channel at all. Like this you can still see the color of the channel helping you to detect much faster wich channel you want to click. But this means that when are in the channel you will get a brighter version of the button, and when you mouse over the button you get an even brighter button and when you click it will be like adding a border to it? Or add the border when you mouse over and bright out maximum when you click it? Well is like 4 different states of the same button
. Or maybe just keep the way it is now and keep bright the buttons that don't link to any channel (like /s /p /g) and gray out the ones that show a channel?Probably if I left click on a grayed/almost grayed button would be nice to do both entering the channel and get the input bar to enter text to that channel. Ofc this will make the button colored for entering that channel. Right click will just toggle entering/leaving channel and will grayout/color the button accordingly. One other nice addition would be adding the scroll up/scroll down/emote/jump to end buttons to this bar. Just crossed my mind at the moment, but didn't check if it can do this. (I'm at work now ). My dream setup would look like this:A horizontal bar wich has the folowing buttons /order of buttons: Emote, Scroll up, Scroll down, Hump to end, /g, /w, /s, /p, /raid, /bg, /general, /trade, (maybe some other channels where ppl spam alot ), /guild_paladin_channel, /guild_healing_channel, /guild_tanking_channel. Also keeping the buttons order the same all time, is verry important in order to get used to the new buttons, and will help you feel that you are faster using them. Also when entering a channel, the addition of a new button at the end of the buttons is really nice. Doing let's say a "mouse3 click" on a button will open a drop down menu think would fit perfectly. This will make for me a must this addon, as I save space alot by replacing the scroll buttons of the chat, I can avoid typing /g /s / etc wich makes faster typing, and also I can filter the channels I don't need or I am annoyed by, but when I need them I can fast reenter that channels without entering any configuration menu. This would be everything I could ever want from a chat functionality, or at least this is what I felt like I need until now.
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04-08-09, 11:19 AM
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Nobody of Importance
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It's definitely possible, I'm just musing over the details
It doesn't need a setup. I can just add channels when you first join them. But I would have to supply a method to remove channels from the saved list. I spose I could just use the current 'Hide Button' method but that wouldn't actually remove the channel, just hide the button. It'd probably be best to make another dropdown for removing them from the saved list completely. I spose I could also save a channel's last known index until that index is taken by another channel, and then move it's button to the end of the bar. That probably makes the most sense. So what graphic should I use to indicate you're not currently in that channel? Maybe gray out the button... or add a border... it'd be nice to be able to make one thing that works for all skins without having to modify the graphics, like tint the color or change the text on the button.... any suggestions?
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Last edited by cerbul : 04-07-09 at 02:59 AM.
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04-03-09, 05:27 PM
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Last edited by AnduinLothar : 04-03-09 at 05:29 PM.
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03-21-09, 06:14 PM
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Where do i find the saved variables file? I am not seeing one in my Chatbar files in my addons folder. ( you have to explain like you are talking to a 5 year old. I have no clue about these things)
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03-20-09, 01:52 AM
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Re: hidden Buttons
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03-19-09, 11:28 PM
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hidden Buttons
I have seen this posed a few times but no posted solution to it that works. I loaded ChatBar and was trying all the options on it. I clicked Hide All Buttons and the entire bar disappeared.
 How do I get it back? I tried that "/run ChatBar_Reset()" that was posted and nothing happens. I am not very knowledgable at scripts/command so if there is a command I need to type to get it back and you please let me know what it is exactly and I will just cut and past it in. |
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02-20-09, 02:49 AM
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Re: No Group Chat?
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