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
I get this error:
Message: ...dOns\Elephant\Libs\AceConsole-2.0\AceConsole-2.0.lua:2582: AceTab-2.0: Cannot register frame "ChatFrameEditBox"; it does not exist
Time: 04/23/10 01:05:20
Count: 1
Stack: ...nterface\AddOns\FuBar\libs\AceLibrary\AceLibrary.lua:66: in function <...nterface\AddOns\FuBar\libs\AceLibrary\AceLibrary.lua:64>
...nterface\AddOns\FuBar\libs\AceLibrary\AceLibrary.lua:619: in function `Register'
Interface\AddOns\Grid\libs\AceTab-2.0\AceTab-2.0.lua:338: in main chunk
Locals: Sometimes debuglocals() returns nothing, it's one of those times...
Any idea what is wrong?
Thanks in advance.
Dawn
ID: 1
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ..\AddOns\Elephant\Event-Handle.lua line 24:
attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)
error ever since I have been using a custom chat channel, the error pops up as soon as something happens in that channel (someone says something or someone enters/leaves).
Looks like it's been a long-going error, any fix incoming??
Yet I still get stuff like what I looted or when some random yahoo creates Heavy Frostweave Bandage or somesuch. Argh.
I use Prat, but I have the logging module OFF. I don't know where this interference is coming from.
As it currently is, my logs are so full of clutter that I am manually splitting/zipping them up every few days.
All I want are records of potentially pertinent conversations, is it really so difficult?
Help?
Thank you in advance :)
At the 'Activate' option, there is a warning to not let 2 addons control the file logging. I also use Prat, and have disabled the logging there, as Elephant allows far more customizing in its logging options. Hope that helps!
Date: 2010-01-28 19:42:58
ID: 1
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ..\AddOns\Elephant\Event-Handle.lua line 24:
attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)
Debug:
...e\AddOns\Elephant\Libs\AceEvent-2.0\AceEvent-2.0.lua:303: TriggerEvent()
...e\AddOns\Elephant\Libs\AceEvent-2.0\AceEvent-2.0.lua:910:
...e\AddOns\Elephant\Libs\AceEvent-2.0\AceEvent-2.0.lua:903
AddOns:
Swatter, v5.7.4568 (KillerKoala)
Ace3, v
Ampere, v3.1.0.15
Babylonian, v5.1.DEV.130
BigBrother, v
Cellular, v3.1.003
Clique, vwowi:revision
Configator, v5.1.DEV.228
DBMCore, v
DebugLib, v5.1.DEV.130
Dominos, v1.15.3
DominosCast, v
DominosRoll, v
DominosTotems, v
DominosXP, v
EasyMail, v
Elephant, v2.9.5.2-beta
flagRSP2, v2.2.3
Gatherer, v3.1.14
GroupCalendar5Clock, v5.0b7
GuardianSpirited, v090911
HotCandy, v1.5.3
Informant, v5.7.4568 (KillerKoala)
LibSink20, v
LightHeaded, v301
LightHeadedDataD, v301
LightHeadedDataE, v301
LightHeadedDataNPC, v301
LightHeadedDataQIDNames, v301
MikScrollingBattleText, v5.4.75
Omen, v3.0.9
Outfitter, v4.10
Prat30, v3.3.2
Prat30Libraries, v
Recount, v
RecountDeathTrack, v
RecountGuessedAbsorbs, v
SlideBar, v5.7.4568 (KillerKoala)
Stubby, v5.7.4568 (KillerKoala)
TomTom, vwowi:revision
XPerl, v3.0.8
XPerlArcaneBar, v
XPerlParty, v
XPerlPartyPet, v
XPerlPlayer, v
XPerlPlayerBuffs, v
XPerlPlayerPet, v
XPerlRaidAdmin, v
XPerlRaidFrames, v
XPerlRaidHelper, v
XPerlRaidMonitor, v
XPerlRaidPets, v
XPerlTarget, v
XPerlTargetTarget, v
BlizRuntimeLib_enUS v3.3.0.30300 <us>
(ck=4c5)
["message"] = "Elephant-2.9.5.2-beta\\Event-Handle.lua:24: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)\n\n ---",
["type"] = "error",
["session"] = 593,
["counter"] = 1,
}, -- [220]
Its happened three times in the past week. Latest occurrence in the middle of a ToTGC10 run. Previous errors right after zoning into the ToTC25 instance and another in the middle of a ToTC10 run.
Identical error each time and the counter stayed at "1". The Elephant frame was never opened when they happened; the errors just happened randomly. The same bug happened to other people way back after WotLK was released in late 2008; check the WowAce forum thread at this link: http://forums.wowace.com/showthread.php?t=7816&highlight=Elephant&page=5 . You can also see the same error from several people in posts below.
Don't like my BugSack/BugGrabber filling up with repeating errors, so stopping using Elephant for now. Hope you can fix this old bug.
If not, thats my problem,it used to show name and everything. now, whoevers lead in party or raid, that persons name wont show on elephants log. Only their text.
Also i remember being able to right click on the lil circular elephant icon which dropped down a menu. That stopped working for me ever since the new 3.3 patch. Updated last elephant last week, same problems.
['achievement'] = ACHIEVEMENTS,
As a result an empty channelname causes an error in Core-interface.lua line 168.