Chatter
Chatter is a comprehensive, lightweight, mega-configurable chat enhancement addon. It supports a whole bunch of stuff, including:
- Hiding buttons
- Custom aliases for channel names
- Coloring of player names by class or deterministic HSV formula, and player levels next to names
- Custom font and font size for your chat frames
- Custom background, border, and positioning for the edit box
- Option to let the edit box border color match the color of the channel you are typing in
- Channel colors remembered by name, rather than by number
- Scrolling your chat frames with the mouse wheel.
- Sticky channels, configurable
- Ability to copy a chat frame's contents to your clipboard
- Ability to copy URLs to your clipboard
- Ability to customize the background and border of your chat frames
- Timestamps
- A /tt command to send a tell to your target
- A module that turns the word "invite" into clickable links that let you invite the speaker.
- Highlights both for custom keywords in specific channels
- Chat fading toggles
- Text justification
- Autologging (Off by default)
- Alt linking
- Much larger and smaller chat frames than default
- A Groupsay (/gr) command to talk to your group, whether that's battleground, raid, or party.
- Chat Tab look-n-feel modifications
- Paging through chat tabs with the scroll wheel
I'm seeing strange text artifacts and I think lines get cut off when someone with a non-standard character in their name says something on a line.
I can't see alts speaking in guild chat. I turned off the alt names module, but continue to experience the problem until I disable Chatter completely.
This has nothing to do with the patch, just thought I should leave a comment that for some reason, at least for me, mouse scrolling has never been able to scroll more than 1 chat line at a time, no matter how many lines of chat you set it to scroll.
love this addon, but with the patch today, i can't chat in guild, i can't chat in /trade.
hope you can fix it soon, b/c until today's patch, it was working great! :)
Dear random people who decide to commit updates/fixes for your favorite addons:
Please do not commit changes to popular addons that are not yours, unless you actually know what you are doing, and have actually tested your changes. You should NEVER overwrite a global API function unless you are 1000% sure you know what you are doing, and have tested that change extensively, including with other addons.
Whoever committed "MoP updates" to Chatter yesterday broke Grid, Grid2, and likely every other unit frame addon, or any other addon that did anything with groups... and on top of that, while your changes silenced the Lua errors you were seeing on beta servers, they did not actually allow the broken parts of the module to work in MoP, because you did not register for the group events that actually fire in MoP (hint: they are not the same events that fire on live servers).
I've committed a fix, and cleaned up some of the incredible amounts of outdated code and general clutter in the PlayerNames module while I was in there. Please try to avoid breaking other people's addons in the future with your untested commits. Thanks.
today's update 1.3.3-4 07 august broke Grid for me (can't see any health bars at all on grid). very annoying :/
it took a while to figure out what actually broke grid. i'm using curse client to update chatter, if that matters
Same.
Seems alpha version v1.3.3-6-g116afa1 is even worse: I don't see chat at all. Not only Grid spoiled, but also chat. But beta 1.3.3 still works OK.
ready to get rid of this addon if stuff doesnt get fixed. although i have 'all edge resizing' checked, it doesnt work.
Chatter doesn't seem to handle whispers to toons on other servers very well. This is more of an issue with the LFR these days. I find if I try to whisper somebody from a server with two or more words in the name (and thus a space) such as "Echo Isles", Chatter messes it up.
To reproduce:
- select a raid member from a server with two words in the name
- righclick the unit and choose "whisper"
- note input box which SHOULD say "[name-Echo Isles]:" says "[name-Echo]: Isles"
This is trying to whisper somebody named "name" on the server "Echo" which doesn't exist. It seems to be populating the input box with whatever comes after the 1st space (i.e. "Isles")
Annoying bug since you can't whisper anybody on a server name with a space in it. You can reply to somebody like that though, so workaround is to /say "so-and-so please PST me" and then you can reply.
Would love to see this fixed, although I see this addon hasn't seen much love lately. (Expansion lag - I can understand that)
actually that seems to be a problem with the original whisper system, i haven't downloaded chatter yet but when i've been in LFR and tried to whisper someone, the exact same thing happens, so it's not the addon
For some reason this just started happening, but when someone says my name, it will pop up again underneath it in yellow letters saying where they said it, who said it, and my name again. How can I turn that part off >< Quite annoying getting 2 things showing up on my screen.. :(
I've got an annoying chatter issue and i don't know if it's a bug or something you can just turn off...
Everytime I click someone's name to whisper them (reg. whisper or Real ID) or reply to someone who whispered me a random number pops up in the text bar where you type. I have no clue why, nor do I know how to turn this off. It also doesn't happen all the time, just every first time I reply to them or click on their name.
So basicly, for example, it ends up looking like this when I type a message: "166 Hi, how have you been?"
It's always a random 3 digit number at the start... It's really annoying >.<
Anyone have any idea of how to fix this?
i get the same thing, my #s are usually in the 300-350 range
where is your friends bar?
Just had a thought... Feature Suggestion!
I imagine it would be quite complex, but it would be really neat if there were a fading background by text line feature. For example, the default background color could be completely opaque, but when there is a line of text, the background would appear for that line (or multiple lines) of text.
Then, as per the usual fadeaway whereby the text times out and fades away, the background for those visible background lines would also fade with the text.
Just a thought! I'm sure it would be a pain in the ass to code but you can't blame a guy for for throwing a suggestion into the wind!
I fear this addon is abandoned, but: for some weeks now (or, probably since 4.3, but I only noticed it since I transfered my main back to my old server&guild) the automatic alt detection somehow also works the other way around, for mains, it shows some alt as the "main". Might be the last alt alphabetically, leading me to think there is some table mixup, but I couldn't find anything in the code. Also ignores manually setting a blank main, after some time it shows the alt again.
Hello there,
i got a bug for you.
2x Chatter-v.1.3.3-2-g2d2244c\Modules\AltNames.lua:371: attempt to concatenate local "gName" (a nil value)
Chatter-v.1.3.3-2-g2d2244c\Modules\AltNames.lua:371: in function "ScanGuildNotes"
Chatter-v.1.3.3-2-g2d2244c\Modules\AltNames.lua:339: in function "?"
Ace3-r1048\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0-6.lua:147: in function <Ace3\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:147>
<string>:"safecall Dispatcher[1]":4: in function <string>:"safecall Dispatcher[1]":4
<in C code>
<string>:"safecall Dispatcher[1]":13: in function "?"
Ace3-r1048\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0-6.lua:92: in function "Fire"
Ace3-r1048\AceEvent-3.0\AceEvent-3.0-3.lua:120: in function <Ace3\AceEvent-3.0\AceEvent-3.0.lua:119>
Locals:
nil
Any updates on this addon's (dis)continuance? I understand if the authors/maintainers/managers are occupied.
I've recently moved one of my chat tab around my screen, and now it's stuck on one place. I've tried moving out other add-ons that are over lapping where I placed, but to no availe. Is there a fix to this?
Also, are the developers for this add-on still working on this project? No updates, No replies to any of the issues written here.