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 Sep 14, 2006Thanks for the report baloor. It will be corrected in the next release ;)
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Posted Sep 13, 2006Hey Maischter,
The German Localisation should work fine BUT not everything is translated, and some variables are missing. So some messages will not appear correctly when using it. What I can do though, is to take this translation and add missing variables to the file ; but the new texts will be in english instead of in German.
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Posted Sep 12, 2006could you maybe use the old german local in the new chatlog because i have tested the old german localisation and it works fine for me...
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Posted Sep 12, 2006Ok I'll copy/paste a message I sent to Telram because he asked the same thing ;)
"For your question, it is quite annoying but I can't change anything to this Actually, I am using a Blizzard function to save in a file (it is called LoggingChat(), see http://www.wowwiki.com/API_LoggingChat for more information). As you can see, it is impossible to customize this function: you can log everything or log nothing. You cannot chose what you want to log.
I have not found any function that enables an AddOn to write in a file, and because of this, I can't create my own function that would log only what I want. This is why it is impossible (at the moment) to do what you are asking for
But if you think you can bring new information on this, don't hesitate to send another PM to me "
I'm checking WoWWiki atm to see if something new has been released, but I think it's a bit hopeless :/
EDIT: I found this --> http://ui.worldofwar.net/ui.php?id=751 Maybe it is something that you would like to use ;)
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Posted Sep 11, 2006Is there anyway to only log certian channels to file? Basicly I am an officer in a guild and I am trying ot find a chat loging mod that will save just certain of my channels to a file, so I am not getting like trade,general and stuff like that. I only want to save Guild, whisper, raid, and then specific chat channels that I have created. I can't figure out how to uncheck a channel that I don't want to monitor
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Posted Sep 11, 2006In the next release, you will not receive the ""Too many buttons in UIDropDownMenu:ChatLogFrameDropDown" error anymore. You will see a change in the dropdown menu: only 25 channels will be displayed in each submenu, but you will be able to show the 25 others by clicking on an option I have added to it. The only bad thing about this is that you cannot display more channels than two time this value (here it would be 50, because 2x25 = 50), but I think it will be fine for 99% of the users.
You can change this value of 25 to any value in the ChatLog.conf.lua file if you wish to, the name of the variable is "CHAT_LOG_DROPDOWN_MAXBUTTONS". The max value is 30, if you change to something higher you will get the above error.
EDIT: I will upload the next release after adding the confirmation dialog when you click on the "Clear all" button.
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Posted Sep 11, 2006@ shards_ofthe_soul: This is normal and is working as intended. In fact, you have an invisible line at the top of the scroll frame that automatically hides the text. So if I add an other line, it will not display because it is "too high" in the log.
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Posted Sep 8, 2006@ Sephtin: This is reallly NOT a problem. I'll do it in the next release in order to "fix" the bug, even if it is not a complete fix.
I have nearly no more work to do at the moment, so I'll do something in the next few days ;)
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Posted Sep 4, 2006As Edit box will only display 700 lines, is there anyway that you might be able to have it display the LAST 700 lines, instead of the first 700 lines? Kind of a pain to spam yourself 300 lines of text just to make a copy of a conversation you had just a second ago. :P
Love Chatlog. Keep up the great work! -Seph
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Posted Sep 2, 2006The "Interface\AddOns\ChatLog\ChatLog.lua:188: attempt to index field `?' (a nil value)" will be fixed in the next release. It was happening sometimes when you were changing from one zone to another (ex: when you were taking the teleport from Darnassus to Tel'drassil).
A few other bug fix and some enhancements will be available, too.
Note: ChatLog 1.2.1 is not displayng the proper version in World of Warcraft. It will be fixed in the next release.
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Posted Aug 31, 2006Hum... this is really an annoying problem, but it comes from Blizzard's API. I am using what we call an EditBox to enable the copy/paste functionnality. But there are two problems. The first one is that not all the lines will display, but the ARE actually here, they are juste invisible. The second one, you just discovered it, is that it will display a maximum of 700 lines and that's all (it seems).
I am not pretty sure that there is a fix to this "bug", because I don't see an other Widget that could possibly be used and that could display 1000 lines. But if someone has an idea, I would be pleased to hear about it.
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Posted Aug 30, 2006So I just had a conversation that I need to keep. I open chatlog, go to whisper tab. Scroll to the bottom and see my conversation. I hit the copy button (I can see that my conversation is NOT in the copy window.. in fact, the last lines in the copy window are from a couple days ago :( Knowing it probly won't do any good... I do a CTRL+A, CTRL+C (to select all, and copy), and post to a text editor.
Anyway, the FIRST 700'ish lines of the 1000 of the chatlog are copy'able... which is worthless to me. Is it something that I did wrong? :( Using 1.2.1.
-Seph
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Posted Aug 28, 2006That is strange, but thanks for the report shards_ofthe_soul :) I will see where the problem is coming from. I have WoW atm, so I'll work on the AddOn as soon as possible ;)
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Posted Aug 27, 2006When I open up ChatLog, the number of lines I see is less than how much it can actually show in the window, so there's a blank space between the top and where the lines start. Scrolling and stuff works fine.
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Posted Aug 23, 2006Same report as Talram Error: Too many buttons in UIDropDownMenu: ChatLogFrameDropDow
It will appear when I change the "log channel" , e.g. from Guild to Whisper then this message will appear
I only found this error in Patch 1.12, there's no problem to me when Patch 1.11
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Posted Aug 22, 2006@ Enterprise & Feu: Thanks for your reports, I don't have this problem but I am going to see if I can reproduce it.
@ Telram: I didn't think about this when I made the dropdown menu. Thanks for this bug report. I am thinking of a way to change the display so you won't get the error again. I am surely going to try to make "series" of dropdown menus to display everything.
I don't have WoW at the moment, but I will get it back during the next week.
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Posted Aug 21, 2006I have sometimes the same error as reported below by Enterprise
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Posted Aug 21, 2006Now that I have been using this for a little while, I have visited many zones. Now I get the error "Too many buttons in UIDropDownMenu:ChatLogFrameDropDown".
I have easily 15 - 20 zones in my "general" and "local defense" sections.
Because of this, I get this error every time I hover over one of those choices.
The only solution I found is to make sure that you have "log new channels" not selected and delete those extra chanels from your list.
Btw, this is only a temp solution. The channels are still added every time you go into a new zone, even if you are not logging them.
So, over time, the list will get too huge again and will have to be trimmed.
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Posted Aug 21, 2006Error: Interface\AddOns\ChatLog\ChatLog.lua:188: attempt to index field `?' (a nil value)
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Posted Aug 19, 2006Could you try going in the folder:
World of Warcraft\WTF\Account\<Your_Account>\<Your_Server>\<Your_Character>\SavedVariables\
and delete the ChatLog.lua file then restart the game? I think you have too much lines saved in the log due to a bug in the release 1.1.5, this is why it freezes :/