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
This addon looks great but it doesn't seem to work for me. I've downloaded through the curse client but when I load the game the chat box appears as normal, there is no option for Chatter in the Interface>Addons menu and I've also tried /chatter in the chat box but that doesn't work either. Any ideas?
@Castor027
Blizzard broke/changed something with 5.4, other chat Addons that provided the same functionality are broken too. Vote here: http://www.wowace.com/addons/chatter/tickets/273-5-4-using-arrows-to-scroll-through-recently-sent-messages/
@0xygen
Did this add on have a way to toggle off the use of the Alt key for message scroll? Pre 5.4 I could scroll thru previous messages with just the arrow keys. I'm trying to track down the add-on that changed this, because since 5.4 I now have to use the alt key.
@ez_valdez
alt+up/down
Hello, love the addon. One question, is there a way to open the edit box and use the arrow keys to scroll the previous entries so I don't have to retype the entry? Thank you
Hi,
Very nice addon! Very silly question probably, how do I prevent tabs from fading out? I want the names of the chat tabs to always be visible. Thanks ;)
Great addon that I absolutely love, just one minor thing I can't seem to figure out. Every single time I logout and log back into the game, my fonts are all reset. Any idea what that's about?
Hey guys, so I'm having a tiny quality of life issue I was wondering if anyone knew how to fix.
I have the "edit" box (the box t hat pops up when you hit enter, where you type) unlocked and moved to the top of the chat window so it's easier for me to see instead of all the way at the bottom of the screen under the chat box.
I really, really love the ability to do this. Until very recently (I stopped playing in 5.0.X and just came back in 5.3) the edit box is at the top of the chat window still like it should be, except it appears on the same line as the chat window tabs.
So if I mouse over the chat window and then press enter to start typing, I can't really see what it is I'm typing since my General / Real ID / "Stuff" tab labels are on that same line. Now, this isn't where I moved the edit box to obviously, I moved it slightly above that. The problem is if I log out and back in, the edit box moves down to that line. If I disable the "edit box polish" option by unchecking and rechecking it, the edit box moves to where I set it.
I know this is pretty long winded for such a small, insignificant issue, but I would appreciate if anyone had the first clue as to how to rectify this :(
Hi!
Two questions.
Does the tab flashing feature work for all tabs? I can't seem to get that working. For instance, I have a separate tab for all the guild channels, and it doesn't flash if I'm not at that tab and someone said something there.
Also, is there a way to turn off mouse wheel scrolling through tabs?
Thanks!
Any idea why invite links aren't working?
Not sure this is the right place for idea suggestions, but here it goes anyway.
I dont know whether it is possible at all, but I'd love to see an option to have the chat window to be adapted based on zone parameters.
e.g. When I fly into a major city I would like my chat window be a lot larger, so I can more easily follow any conversations that are going on (especially on busy servers it can be a pain to track a conversation), and when I am outside the city for the window to be small again so it is not in the way when I am going about questing / farming etc.
I can't seem to get Chatter to make play a sound when receiving an incoming whisper, for example. The Highlights module seems to provide this functionality, but I simply get nothing by going to Highlights/Custom Channel Sounds/Incoming Whisper and selecting a sound. Am I missing something or is the module not working properly?
Sometimes after login or after a bootscreen my second chattab is empty. Every setting are gone.
how can i disable the option that the chattabs come on top, when i loot or cross the zones?
Any idea why the class colours are not working? If you /who or shift click on them fine it saves them after but surely it should just auto get them like prat. Im liking the addon other than that and would like to keep using it.
@bardthebowman
Thank you, fixed!
I'm having an issue where the chat windows are underneath the rest of the UI on logon. If I switch tabs on a chat window they come back on top, but is there anyway to automate this process?
found a minor error in the GroupSay module
for the items for /instance, /raid, and /party the shortcode should be "/i "(add a space after the i)
same for party and raid. there needs to be a space after "/ra " instead of "/ra" etc
It's easy to correct manually in the LUA but should be added to the next update.
Is there any sort of ETA when routing highlights through MSBT will be fixed? I eagerly anticipate every update and it still doesnt seem to be fixed :( I can live without brackets around realid real names and only char names and or diablo/starcraft names but the highlight broadcasting through miks is the best thing i love about this addon. Other than that its a great addon!
Broadcast Highlights to MikSCT still doesnt function :( Tried enabling and disabling it without any luck. The last version I had where it still functions (but log offs dont function) is version Chatter-v.1.3.5-17-gd7a84e4
@Stanzilla, I'm running diffs on most of addon updates, to see what's changed. As you can see, I'm spotting quite some number of inconsistences now and then.
In this specific case, I was raising a concern about the code line removal. Though, all seems to be working fine so far.