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
This will be corrected in the next release, added to the german translation ;)
Hi,
a couple of days before I found this amazing AddOn - thanks for it!!
But from time to time I get this error-message: Interface\AddOns\ChatLog\ChatLog.lua:1081: attempt to index fiels '?' (a nil value)
I'm using ChatLog on a german client.
Have a nice day!
@ Cossy: Thanks ;) It will be added to the next release.
I had forget to translate one option, so here is it. ;)
["toggletooltip"] = { [1] = "ChatLog", [2] = "Linksklick um ChatLog anzuzeigen/zu verstecken.", [3] = "Rechtsklick um Button zu verschieben.", [4] = "Mittelklick um Position zur\195\188ckzusetzen.", },
I'll add this translation to the next release, thanks Cossy ;)
Here is the German translation you wanted.
local L = AceLibrary("AceLocale-2.2"):new("ChatLog")
--[[
@ wolftankk: Released 2.0.1a to correct this problem.
I'll add your work to MSE, but because it isn't the same AddOn, I'll probably make a totally new upload on Curse-Gaming ;) But this can eventually take some time, so I will first update the SVN :p
the .toc file have a big error!
znCH.lua you can fix zhCN.lua
thaks very much.... Today I try to tanslat zhCN local for MSE. I have no ACE2 SVN account. So can you upload the chinese local?
--zhCN local for MSE --Translator: <CWDG>月色狼影 --Update: 29 10 2006
local L = AceLibrary("AceLocale-2.2"):new("MSE")
L:RegisterTranslations("zhCN", function() return { display = { name = "显示", desc = "在èŠå¤©æ¡†ä¸æ˜¾ç¤ºæ–½æ³•æŠ€èƒ½è®¾ç½®ã€‚", }, delete = { name = "Delete", desc = "åˆ é™¤ä¸€ä¸ªå½“å‰çš„施法技能连接。", usage = "|cff00ff00
@ wolftankk: Thanks, this is an amazing job that you are doing, and I am pleased to know that ChatLog is used by the Chinese community. When I started to code this AddOn, I never thought it would be localized in this language ;) I've released v2.0.1 that contains your translation. Your name is also written at the X-Credits line of the .TOC file.
...in order to translate the "Locale-deDE.lua" file. I am able to write the enUS and frFR translations, but I am not good enough in German to do it. If you have the time to do this (it should take 15 minutes max.), just post the translation on this forum or post a link to a file/zip that contains it. Thanks!
now update zhCN local for chatlog ver2.0
--zhCN Local --Translator: <CWDG>月色狼影 --10 28 2006
local L = AceLibrary("AceLocale-2.2"):new("ChatLog")
--[[
thanks pb_ee1.. gonna give this a shot tonight in game, see how it runs for me. nice to see really active decelopment on this mod, its been really handy in the past for me :)
ChatLog 2.0 released, have fun ;)
ChatLog 2.0 is now almost ready for a release. A small bug is still remaining, sometimes poping up an error window when you change from one channel to another (Hearthstone, ...). I'll correct this bug tomorrow and release the AddOn ;)
I am currently waiting for an account in order to commit ChatLog on WoWAce, but if it takes too long, I'll release it before. Hum... well because I'm a bit excited to release v2.0, I'll only wait until tomorrow afternoon ^^
Great news mate. I'm trying to use only Ace based addons and I'm really happy to see that you are switching to Ace2 as well.
Keep it up mate. I like and use ChatLog a lot, tho those bugs with full logs can be annoying I just empty them (since I log them anyway in wow\logs) and then I'm ready for 1000 more lines :)
Any ETA for ChatLog 2.0 ?
A very quick note: ChatLog 2.0 is on its way ;)
There will not be a lot of changes in the User Interface, but A HUGE work has been done on the code. ChatLog 2.0 will be using Ace2 (http://www.wowace.com/wiki/Main_Page).
An error occurs when the log is full: no new line is added to the log variable in memory. It seems it is (again) a Blizzard's UI bug.
I would like to correct this bug, but I also would like ChatLog to use Ace2. I'm working on this irritating bug.
Maybe you did not delete the right ChatLog.lua file.
DO NOT delete: \Account\