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Last Update:	Dec. 21, 2006 (1 year ago)
Category:	Chat & Communication
Tags:	chat and cosmos
Project Manager:	KarlKFI
Current Version:	ChatBar 2.2 (for World of Warcraft 2.0.0)
Downloads Today:	207
Downloads Total:	98,869
Favorites:	622
Comments:	82

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Created On:	Dec. 20, 2005

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ChatBar - Button Bar for openning chat messages of each type.

A little acsii art for demonstration: [oooooooo]
o - Buttons, colored the color of a chat type, left click to open editbox of that type, right click for type specific options. Initial letter of the type on or above the button
[ ] - Ends of the bar, left click to drag, right click for options

Button / ChatType Options:
Leave (Channel)
Print Channel User List - List prints to the default chat frame. Same as "/list #"
Hide This Button - Hide the button for that chat type or channel by name.
Reply (Whisper) - Open whisper to the last person that whispered you.
Retell (Whisper) - Open whisper to the last person you whispered.
Sticky - http://www.wowwiki.com/Chat#Advanced_Chat_Terminology.2FDetails Note: Channels are all or none, other types can be stickied individually.

ChatBar Options:
Vertical Orienation - Toggles vertical/horrizontal bar via sliding.
Reverse Button Orienation - Toggles button order reversal via sliding
Text On Buttons - Toggles chattype abrev on/next to the buttons
Show Button Text - Toggles chattype abrev visibility
Use Channel ID On Buttons - Toggles using the channel index or the first letter of the channel name
Button Message Flashing - Toggles button flashing when you receive a message of that type
Show Bar Border - Toggles show/hide the bar border/background. Note: You can still click on the ends of the bar when it's hidden
Hide Addon Channels - Hide GuildMap, Sky, CTRA and CTA channel buttons
Hidden Buttons - Submenu for showing manually hidden buttons
Reset Position - Attaches the ChatBarFrame to above the ChatFrame1 tab
Reorder Channels - General, Trade, LocalDefense, LookingForGroup, WorldDefense, GuildRecruitment, others...

1 Installation Guide
2 Translations
3 TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)
4 Mac Support
5 Directory Structure

Installation Guide

Exit "World of Warcraft" completely
Download the mod you want to install
- Make a folder on your desktop called "My Mods"
- Save the .zip/.rar files to this folder.
- If, when you try to download the file, it automatically "opens" it... you need to RIGHT click on the link and "save as..." or "Save Target As".
Extract the file - commonly known as 'unzipping'
Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!
- Windows
  - Windows XP a built in ZIP extractor. Double click on the file to open it, inside should be the file or folders needed. Copy these outside to the "My Mods" folder.
  - WinRAR: Right click the file, select "Extract Here"
  - WinZip: You MUST make sure the option to "Use Folder Names" is CHECKED or it will just extract the files and not make the proper folders how the Authors designed
- Mac Users
  - StuffitExpander: Double click the archive to extract it to a folder in the current directory.
Verify your WoW Installation Path
That is where you are running WoW from and THAT is where you need to install your mods.
Move to the Addon folder
- Open your World of Warcraft folder. (default is C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\)
- Go into the "Interface" folder.
- Go into the "AddOns" folder.
- In a new window, open the "My Mods" folder.
- The "My Mods" folder should have the "Addonname" folder in it.
- Move the "Addonname" folder into the "AddOns" folder
Start World of Warcraft
Make sure AddOns are installed
- Log in
- At the Character Select screen, look in lower left corner for the "addons" button.
- If button is there: make sure all the mods you installed are listed and make sure "load out of date addons" is checked.
- If the button is NOT there: means you did not install the addons properly. Look at the above screenshots. Try repeating the steps or getting someone who knows more about computers than you do to help.

Translations

When you download a mod, please be sure that the mod is compatible with your translation of wow. Some mods only work on the US versions, while some only work on some of the various European versions. These variations are called "Localizations".

TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)

When Blizzard patches WoW, they change the Interface number. This means that all mods will be "out of date" unless or until the author releases a new version for that interface. Some people go into the .toc files and update the numbers themselves, but this is STRONGLY advised against as it will cause problems locating possible incompatibilities addons. When you log into WoW after a patch, you DO NOT have to delete your interface directory. All you have to do is simply tell WoW to ignore the interface numbers and load all the mods anyway. All you have to do is, while at the "character select" screen, look in the lower left corner and click on the "addons" button. A window will pop up listing all your installed mods.

If you look in the upper left corner of that window there should be a box that says "Load Out of Date AddOns". You want to CHECK this box. Now simply go into WoW normally and all your mods should load. As of the 1.9 patch, you will have to do this after EVERY patch/update that Blizzard posts! If you encounter any problems with a mod after a patch, please be sure to let the author of the mod know so they can fix it.

Mac Support

WoW addons are not platformed based. As such, they can be used on either Mac or PC. You can extract both .zip and .rar files on a Mac using StuffitExpander.

Directory Structure

World of Warcraft
    |_ Interface
        |_AddOns
            |_*AddonName*
                |_ *AddonName*.toc
                |_ *AddonName*.xml
                |_ *AddonName*.lua
                |_ (possibly others as well)...

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Beckenbauer said
April 23, 2008, 09:01PM (3 weeks, 1 day ago)
Falls die Chatbarleiste verschwunden ist, im WOW-CHat folgendes eingeben:

/script ChatBarFrame:ClearAllPoints(); ChatBarFrame:SetPoint("CENTER")

---> es erscheint in der Mitte

/script ChatBar_Reset()

---> es erscheint über dem Chat

(genau abtippen oder hier rauskopieren!) Hoffe das hat euch weiter geholfen.

Sorry for my bad english:

If the ChatBarlist is disappeared, you have to write in the WOW-channel:

/script ChatBarFrame:ClearAllPoints(); ChatBarFrame:SetPoint("CENTER")

---> in the middle of the monitor

/script ChatBar_Reset()

---> above the WOW-channel

(watch for the right spelling or copy this sentence!)

I hope i could help you!

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skatyer said
April 21, 2008, 04:39PM (3 weeks, 3 days ago)
update to 2.4 plz

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westquester said
April 13, 2008, 08:20PM (1 month ago)
I don't know what happened, but I went to move the chat bar, and I think it disappeared off the screen. Now I can't get it back, even by installing and uninstalling it! What can I do?

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Arngard said
April 5, 2008, 07:00PM (1 month, 1 week ago)
Somebody, please update this Addon !!!
A life without this, ...is like being naked in public.

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daxx9992004 said
April 25, 2008, 05:38PM (2 weeks, 6 days ago)
duh, like it's obvious this mod has been abandoned, last update 2006...LOL. If you can't live without it I suggest you get crackin with the code. It's not a mod authors job to support your mod habits. They make them for themselves and then release to the public in case they want to us it.

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kerrycameron said
Dec. 14, 2007, 01:12AM (5 months ago)
I wish that when the button was flashing and you clicked on it it jumped your chat to that window. i.e. if you are in a general chat window and a party message is sent, the party frame button flashes, you click on it and the party frame comes to the front and a chat edit box pops up for party so you can type in it....

If only i knew how to code =(

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Brakkis said
Dec. 8, 2007, 08:02PM (5 months, 1 week ago)
Meh, still works but it's Out of Date, would be nice to see an update

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griddark said
Oct. 1, 2007, 09:20AM (7 months, 2 weeks ago)
Does this still work? Fresh install never used before and no bar or options what so ever.

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djkneegrow said
Aug. 22, 2007, 02:57PM (8 months, 3 weeks ago)
does anyone know how to get chat channels back on the bar if you take that chat option off?

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Saphyriana said
Dec. 4, 2007, 03:21AM (5 months, 2 weeks ago)
type /join
after join type the channel's name...it should add the button for that channel to the bar again

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Dsanai said
June 5, 2007, 03:01AM (11 months, 2 weeks ago)
Odd issue I encountered today... when my bar is set to the alternate artwork, the right-click menus stop working (they flash up for a second, then immediately disappear again). This also makes the right-click menus on several other things stop working.
No clue why, but when I change that one thing (back to original artwork, which I must do in the SavedVariables file since the menu isn't operational), everything works fine again.

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Linaeri said
Aug. 9, 2007, 08:31AM (9 months, 1 week ago)
Yeah, I had this happen a couple of days ago too. The chatbar extended the length of the screen and was flashing like crazy, then when I reloaded the ui it disappeared altogether. I cannot get it to recover.

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evighet said
May 27, 2007, 11:00PM (11 months, 3 weeks ago)
great little addon, u will need to fix the ChatBar.lua file to get the officer channel to work. the script provided below has a spelling error so it won't work, this is the correct code:
type = "OFFICER", shortText = function() return CHATBAR_OFFICER_ABRV; end, text = function() return CHAT_MSG_OFFICER; end, click = ChatBar_StandardButtonClick, show = function() return CanEditOfficerNote() or IsInGuild()and (not ChatBar_HiddenButtons[CHAT_MSG_OFFICER]); end

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Gaeline said
May 17, 2007, 08:34AM (12 months ago)
Great addon, thanks a million !

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Girl said
April 12, 2007, 02:18AM (1 year, 1 month ago)
If you want, that ChatBar showed the officer channel button, you need to little correct ChatBar.lua
find this line:
type = "OFFICER", shortText = function() return CHATBAR_OFFICER_ABRV; end, text = function() return CHAT_MSG_OFFICER; end, click = ChatBar_StandardButtonClick, show = function() return CanEditOfficerNote() and (not ChatBar_HiddenButtons[CHAT_MSG_OFFICER]); end
and change CanEditOfficerNote() on IsInGuild()

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TJ831061 said
Feb. 14, 2007, 08:54AM (1 year, 3 months ago)
Hello, I am totally new to WoW and found this add on which is great but it doesn't work since todays update??
I have tried typing in /script ChatBar_Reset() as descriped in another post here but it still doesnt work.
Any ideas what I can do next? This is a wicked add on and I want it back :(
TJ

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Pakka said
Jan. 31, 2007, 03:13AM (1 year, 3 months ago)
The error message I've described below, I got it again, today, when I played my warlock and had my sweet succubus summoned (Chatlog sees a summoning chat message and emote produced by Necrosis) - only with the succubus, not when summoning other demons. Strange... but obviously this error message is somehow triggered by emotes or chat messages that are initiated by certain actions.

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Pakka said
Jan. 14, 2007, 06:31PM (1 year, 4 months ago)
Small issue with Chatbar AND Fizzwidget Feed-O-Matic
Today, I got error messages several times (not always) when using the keybind to feed my pet. It seems to interfere somehow with Chatbar or vice versa: -- ...Chatbar.lua:85:SendChatMessage():Chat message must be UTF-8 text -- This error messages is caused sometimes, not always, when hitting the keybind to feed the pet.
using german client 2.0.4, chatbar 2.2 and Fizzwidget Feed-O-Matic 2.0.3

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cyberat said
Jan. 14, 2007, 03:16PM (1 year, 4 months ago)
So i seem to have pushed my chatbar off the edge of my screen.
yeah...
any manual reset features? i've delete saved variables multiple times, and reinstalled just as many times, but to no avail.
any tips? i love this mod

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KarlKFI said
Feb. 6, 2007, 05:59PM (1 year, 3 months ago)
To Reset Manually: /script ChatBar_Reset()

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Mac Support

Directory Structure

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