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Last Update:	Nov. 4, 2007 (8 months ago)
Category:	Chat & Communication
Tags:	chat, limit, message, and spam
Project Manager:	galmok
Current Version:	ChatThrottler 0.12 (for World of Warcraft 2.2.3)
Downloads Today:	1
Downloads Total:	2,921
Favorites:	8
Comments:	23

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Created On:	Oct. 28, 2007
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galmok

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Projects
- GuildAds

About ChatThrottler

THIS ADDON IS OBSOLETE AS OF PATCH 2.3.

ChatThrottler hooks SendChatMessage and listens for the THROTTLED notice. As long as you don't get the THROTTLED notice, ChatThrottler simply passes on the messages to the original SendChatMessage function and you shouldn't notice any change.

If you do get the THROTTLED notice, you have hit the server message rate limit and the server has thrown away messages. ChatThrottler will, when the THROTTLED notice occurs, resend messages and at the same time queue incoming messages. It will send 1 message and wait for the server to echo it (or receive another THROTTLED notice). It will do this until the queue is empty, ater which ChatThrottler will again pass messages directly to the original SendChatMessage function.

ChatThrottler has this slash-command:

/chatthrottler unhook

Using it, will disable ChatThrottler and restore the original SendChatMessage. The setting is not save so ChatThrottler will be enabled upon next login again.

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3 TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)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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galmok said
Nov. 15, 2007, 06:08PM (7 months, 3 weeks ago)
Just an update:

ChatThrottler is not necessary anymore. In fact, it can make your situation worse in that it throttles messages for all custom channels combined whereas the the client throttles messages per channel. The client does not throw away messages anymore.

I can REALLY recommend removing it. I did and I wrote it. ;-)

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scrumbus said
Nov. 4, 2007, 11:38PM (8 months ago)
Thanks for the work in any case, appreciated.

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galmok said
Nov. 4, 2007, 11:24AM (8 months ago)
Starting from patch 2.3, it seems as ChatThrottler can be removed:

"In 2.3 chat channels are rate limited on the client in the same way whispers are now.
Each chat channel is limited separately, at a rate of 10 messages in 10 seconds. This means that you can send one message every second without ever seeing delays, or a burst of 10 messages every 10 seconds without seeing delays. Messages that exceed this rate are not dropped, but simply delayed in order until they can be sent.

This does not affect SendAddonMessage() or party/raid/guild chat."

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=879058320&sid=1&pageNo=14#262

Seeing as messages wont be lost and each channel (when SendChatMessage is used) will be throttled independently, the need for ChatThrottler will stop (from patch 2.3).

Enjoy. :-)

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scrumbus said
Nov. 2, 2007, 01:11AM (8 months, 1 week ago)
Just updated tonight, so I'll let you know if I run into the same situation again. Thanks for the work.

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galmok said
Oct. 31, 2007, 07:22PM (8 months, 1 week ago)
Hmm we need to throw away messages if the queue for a particular channel becomes too long. A long queue for a channel will delay all messages. GEM 2.26 (a newer is available that may solve the problem) caused my queue to contain hundreds of messages in a short time. This will eventually eat all your memory and cause all sorts of side effects.

I'd say if the queue length for a channel is over 30, then stop accepting any more messages for that channel (throw them away).

But I am willing to listen for suggestions here.

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galmok said
Oct. 31, 2007, 05:22PM (8 months, 1 week ago)
@scrumbus: I have been able to replicate your situation and know why it happens.

ChatThrottler relies on messages being sent using SentChatMessage also get acknowledged by the server (either by the client receiving the message back or due to a throttled notice).

There are situations it seems where a sent message ends up not getting a server acknowledgment. On of such situations are leaving a channel before a queued message has been sent. This make the internal state wait forever for the sent message.

I'll add a timeout that makes ChatThrottler throw away such messages.

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galmok said
Oct. 31, 2007, 04:44PM (8 months, 1 week ago)
v0.10: Forgot to hide the throttled event in v0.09. Fixed. (shouldn't occur much anyway).

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galmok said
Oct. 31, 2007, 04:36PM (8 months, 1 week ago)
v0.09 uploaded:

Changes since v0.07:

Removed the Guild and Officer channels from the throttle monitor list (they are not rate limited anymore).

Added a 13 messages/10 second send limit. Due to latencies, this is effectively a bit higher.

If anyone managed to download 0.08 (was up for 1-2 minutes), then PLEASE do NOT use it. It will cause message corruption (adding a time value to each messages sent).

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galmok said
Oct. 31, 2007, 03:35PM (8 months, 1 week ago)
@scrumbus: Your situation is apparently unique and I guess you must have had another addon interfering with ChatThrottler somehow. Maybe you had a run-away addon that pushed a lot of messages through SendChatMessage which could explain your situation. If that was the situation, then I either you must accept to lose messages or accept a delay in chat messages.

But yes, starting today, Blizzard have taken the spam limitation of the guild and officer channels. I will release a new version so these channels will not be throttled anymore. This should prevent your situation from occurring again.

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scrumbus said
Oct. 31, 2007, 02:55PM (8 months, 1 week ago)
I'm taking it to mean you'll no longer throttle the guild and general channels? That may resolve the problem I had last night where suddenly I was unable to chat to the guild channel or the general zone channel (/1). I waited for a good 10 minutes to see if my messages would come through and they didn't. It wasn't until I unhooked that I was able to talk again.

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galmok said
Oct. 30, 2007, 11:15PM (8 months, 1 week ago)
According to this new information (blue posts), I will redo ChatThrottler soon to make it work close to these announced specifications:

The throttling is set to15 messages in 10 seconds for all channels.

Q u o t e:
- does this affect raid?
- does this affect guild/officer chat?
- does this affect hidden, built-in addon communication channels?
- does this affect private channels with fewer than 25 people?
- does this affect whispers?

It's not supposed to affect any of those. It was incorrectly doing so until today.

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galmok said
Oct. 30, 2007, 12:27PM (8 months, 1 week ago)
@killerteddy78: I have tested that situation (spamming /8 (a test channel) and /g as well in the same macro without ChatThrottler installed. Result was that only the first message was sent.

Try yourself with this macro (without ChatThrottler and create a channel 8 for testing purpose):

/8 test1
/g test2
/8 test3
/g test4

You will find that only test1 is accepted by the server. The rest is lost.

This means that once the THROTTLED notice is received, you are forced to throttle messages in these channels:

/g
/o
/1-9

ChatThrottler does exactly that. If we didn't throttle /g, you would lose messages either in /g, /o or /1-9, regardless of which message triggered the THROTTLED notice.

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killerteddy78 said
Oct. 30, 2007, 10:51AM (8 months, 1 week ago)
With version 0.07 and GroupCalendar there were no error messages anymore, so synchronisations seems to work again now.
But when throttling gets effective, alle messages seem to be throttled, also those in guildchannel arrived more than a few seconds late.
Is it possible to have a parameter to make ChatThrottler active only on one channel (the one my guild uses for the calendar, would be it)? That would be great.

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AeroByte said
Oct. 29, 2007, 01:24PM (8 months, 1 week ago)
Seems GEM is working now, need some more testing with rest of the Raidforce though.

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galmok said
Oct. 29, 2007, 10:56AM (8 months, 1 week ago)
There is an AFK problem with ChatThrottler installed. The problem is with the autoClearAFK flag set (Interface option) and you send message that cause the THROTTLED event to fire. This can occasionally pull you out of afk. I have an idea for a solution but it is basically a compromise. I don't think it is possibly to fully solve this issue due to timing problems.

And I will have to warn you about another problem that shows up rarely:

When hiting the throttle limit, this macro (/8 being my test channel):

/8 test1
/8 test2
/8 test3
/8 test4
/8 test5

can rarely result in this being sent:

/8 test1
/8 test2
/8 test3
/8 test3
/8 test5

It is very difficult for me to reproduce (both good and bad: good = happens rarely, bad=difficult to provoke to be sure it is fixed) but it can only happens when you hit the throttle limit.

Usually, ChatThrottler is much better than the alternative, though. :-)

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Dalf said
Oct. 29, 2007, 08:46AM (8 months, 1 week ago)
mouserecoil> Short answer : install ChatThrottler, and GroupCalendar should work again. Nothing more.
If you test, can you confirm (or not) that GroupCalendar works again.

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mouserecoil said
Oct. 29, 2007, 01:50PM (8 months, 1 week ago)
have tested quickly with one person, creating a new event and having them request info and sending it back. appeared to work correctly, using latest groupcalendar. will test more thoroughly with rest of guild tomorrow. Thanks guys for your awesome plugin/fix :D

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mouserecoil said
Oct. 29, 2007, 06:09AM (8 months, 1 week ago)
hi, I have a question about this plugin. I noticed you guys have been talking about using this in conjunction with GuildEventManager to bypass blizzard's recent chat filtering change. A plugin similar to GEM, GroupCalendar, is currently broken as a result of the change. Could ChatThrottler be used in conjunction with GroupCalendar to avoid the chat limitation?

If this is possible, how would we go about making these plugins work together to do this (assuming I don't just have to install ChatThrottler?

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AeroByte said
Oct. 29, 2007, 12:16AM (8 months, 1 week ago)
Wonderful, working now. Will test tomorrow if rest of the GEM data is sent right also then. (Have to get some more online to test it!)

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galmok said
Oct. 28, 2007, 05:00PM (8 months, 1 week ago)
I have just tested 0.05 with GEM and a multiline macro sending text to the GEM channel works fine now:

This means, a macro like this (/SC being the GEM channel) will send all lines:

/SC This macro should post 3 lines of wah if working
/SC 1. Line: Wah
/SC 2. Line: Wah Wah
/SC 3. Line: Wah Wah Wah

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