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."
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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
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AllInOneMighty Owner
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Posted Jul 22, 2015Edit: I would like to know which is the file in which are saved all the messages.
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Posted Jun 4, 2015So I've played around with this addon and I like it but it's missing one thing I would love that would make me switch to using this permenantly!
I noticed there there is functionality to log out to the WoWChatLog.txt but there is no filtering as to what gets logged!
I currently use an addon called WoWScribe that filters the channels so it only logs what you WANT it to log to that text file. If you could implement similar functionality...that would be amazing!
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Posted Apr 6, 2015Noticing the last answer I hope this is still being checked:
I'm failing at figuring out how to include a custom channel in elephant. I use it only for rp and I wish to see in the same window the emotes, say and yells so I made a custom channel that includes all that.
Can I log in on elephant?
Also, can I call the log with a /command? I am not a big fan of minimap icons.
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Posted Apr 6, 2015As a quick repy to your last question, you have a key binding available in the options that you can use to open Elephant. I personally use the comma, and I cannot get bored of it, it's super practical.
Will update on the other case soon. Thanks for the reminder :-)
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Posted Apr 7, 2015Thank you very much for the answer :)
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Posted Apr 8, 2015As for your question, it's not really possible, at least in the way Elephant works. You didn't create a channel; what you did was to create a new tab, which isn't a channel, and you linked specific events to it (yell, emotes, say).
What you can do though is log all of this except the yells. What I am going to do is to offer the option to also log the yells inside the say tab, so you'll be able to select it if you want to. It will be disabled by default.
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Posted Mar 15, 2015Message: Interface\AddOns\Elephant\Event.lua:51: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)
Time: 03/15/15 14:13:36
Count: 3
Stack: Interface\AddOns\Auctionator\AtrErrorInspector.lua:107: in function <Interface\AddOns\Auctionator\AtrErrorInspector.lua:52>
(tail call): ?
Interface\AddOns\Elephant\Event.lua:51: in function <Interface\AddOns\Elephant\Event.lua:25>
...ddy\Libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:157: in function <...ddy\Libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:157>
[string "safecall Dispatcher[17]"]:4: in function <[string "safecall Dispatcher[17]"]:4>
[C]: ?
[string "safecall Dispatcher[17]"]:13: in function `?'
...ddy\Libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:92: in function `Fire'
...e\AddOns\Elephant\Libs\AceEvent-3.0\AceEvent-3.0.lua:120: in function `s'
Interface\AddOns\GHI\UI\GHI_LinksUI.lua:164: in function <Interface\AddOns\GHI\UI\GHI_LinksUI.lua:159>
Interface\AddOns\GHI\UI\GHI_LinksUI.lua:143: in function <Interface\AddOns\GHI\UI\GHI_LinksUI.lua:127>
Locals: <none>
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Posted Apr 8, 2015Seems you may have corrupted data. Did you try to reset the addon configuration and see if it still happens?
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Posted Feb 4, 2015Yesterday i had a whispered conversation with one of my friends. Today when I look at that conversation elephant is reporting that I had it with a completely different person. And the name that it is showing today is the actual wow account name (not the battletag or character name) of the second person with whom it thinks i had the conversation. However, that name has been truncated to nine characters.
I have had whisperd conversations with both of these friends at other times, and their names show just fine. Then at other times the names are changed to "Unknown". I am not really sure why the names get changed to "Unknown". I had thought it was some sort of security thing for battletag conversations. But, I am the one that had the conversation. I certainly know who I had the conversation with. So, why change the name to Unknown, unless other parties can somehow read my conversations. If that is the case, then I am concerned.
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Posted Feb 28, 2015Hello riverdude,
The way the security model works in the game is that when you receive a chat from a Battle.net friend in game, an addon will only see a number instead of a name. However, when this addon uses this number to display the chat, the game (not the addon) automatically translates that number into an actual name.
The important thing to understand here is that the addon is never able to see the name of the user. The reason for this is that Blizzard does not want an addon to know the real name of anyone. When the game does the translation between the number and the real name however, if that person is offline, the name that is returned is "Unknown", thus what you see in game.
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Posted Mar 11, 2015Thanks for the clarification. So, Blizz was responsible for the strange mix up in showing names. Those guys sure seem to have a hard time keeping things straight. I have been using Elephant for a long time. Still would not do without it.
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Posted Jan 30, 2015Am I missing something here, my copy function only works on whispered conversations, I can't choose any other.
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Posted Jan 30, 2015You first need to select the chat you want to copy (on the right of the main window of Elephant) and then press 'Copy'. The button takes the current selected log as the one where to enable the copy feature.
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Posted Feb 1, 2015Well that's odd, it works, I must have been doing something stupid, thanks for the fast reply.
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Posted Jan 23, 2015Okay I just released a new version of the AddOn that hopefully should fix the problem. Please let me know ASAP if you encounter an error.
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Posted Jan 23, 2015This update seems to have resolved the below issues, at least for me.
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Posted Jan 23, 2015Glad to hear this! Sorry it took so long. The problem came from a Blizzard change of their API, where when you would join a new channel, it would trigger a YOU_CHANGED message instead of a YOU_JOINED message... strangely enough.
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Posted Jan 13, 2015Freshly install of the addon and first time use. Chat window is plastered with this LUA error every few minutes.
It's the same type of error that's posted in the other comments, below me.
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Posted Jan 13, 2015Okay I will give it a look tonight. Can you give me the list of addons you are using? I'm absolutely sure it's coming from an addon, as I NEVER, EVER get this error message on my interface.
I haven't been able to reproduce this problem myself, thus why this issue has not been fixed yet. So if you have a way, I'm in!
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Posted Jan 14, 2015In my case, it seems to be a conflict with this AddOn.
http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/combo-points-redux
Interface\AddOns\Elephant\Event.lua:51: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)
Interface\AddOns\Elephant\Event.lua:51: in function <Interface\AddOns\Elephant\Event.lua:25>
...dux\Libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0-6.lua:155: in function <...dux\Libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:155>
[string "safecall Dispatcher[17]"]:4: in function <[string "safecall Dispatcher[17]"]:4>
[C]: ?
[string "safecall Dispatcher[17]"]:13: in function `?'
...dux\Libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0-6.lua:90: in function `Fire'
...\ComboPointsRedux\Libs\AceEvent-3.0\AceEvent-3.0-3.lua:120: in function <...\ComboPointsRedux\Libs\AceEvent-3.0\AceEvent-3.0.lua:119>
nil