Chatter is a comprehensive, lightweight, mega-configurable chat enhancement addon. It supports a whole bunch of stuff, including:
- Hiding buttons
- Linking items, enchants, spells, and quests in custom channels
- Custom aliases for channel names
- Coloring of player names by class or deterministic HSV formula, and player levels next to names
- Custom font and font size for your chat frames
- Custom background, border, and positioning for the edit box
- Option to let the edit box border color match the color of the channel you are typing in
- Channel colors remembered by name, rather than by number
- Scrolling your chat frames with the mouse wheel.
- Sticky channels, configurable
- Ability to copy a chat frame's contents to your clipboard
- Ability to copy URLs to your clipboard
- Ability to customize the background and border of your chat frames
- Timestamps
- A /tt command to send a tell to your target
- A module that turns the word "invite" into clickable links that let you invite the speaker.
- Highlights, both for custom keywords and when things are said in specific channels
- Chat fading toggles
- Text justification
- Autologging (Off by default)
- Alt linking
- Much larger and smaller chat frames than default
- A Groupsay (/gr) command to talk to your group, whether that's battleground, raid, or party.
- Chat Tab look-n-feel modifications
- Paging through chat tabs with the scroll wheel
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r233 | grum | 2009-04-15 20:29:27 +0000 (Wed, 15 Apr 2009) | 2 lines
Changed paths:
M /trunk/Modules/Highlight.lua
Modules/Highlight: Fix for wrong arguments to chatfilters (drycoded, blame ulduar)
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r232 | grum | 2009-04-15 17:50:08 +0000 (Wed, 15 Apr 2009) | 2 lines
Changed paths:
M /trunk/Modules/UrlCopy.lua
Modules/UrlCopy: Dropped 'select' from the filterfunc, should be a bit more efficient now.
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r231 | grum | 2009-04-15 17:41:03 +0000 (Wed, 15 Apr 2009) | 4 lines
Changed paths:
M /trunk/Modules/Highlight.lua
Modules/Highlight:
- Pass correct arguments to chatfilters (thanks SqueeG for reporting).
- Don't allow creation of empty or all whitespace highlights.
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r230 | antiarc | 2009-04-15 00:50:40 +0000 (Wed, 15 Apr 2009) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/Chatter.toc
M /trunk/Modules/UrlCopy.lua
Fix UrlCopy for 3.1. Bump TOC.
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r229 | antiarc | 2009-04-14 08:21:32 +0000 (Tue, 14 Apr 2009) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/Modules/UrlCopy.lua
Fix the UrlCopy chat filter for 3.1. Drycode, will fix tomorrow if it's broken. Teepz, make me a sandwich.
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r228 | mikk | 2009-03-20 17:48:02 +0000 (Fri, 20 Mar 2009) | 3 lines
Changed paths:
M /trunk/Modules/AltNames.lua
AltNames:
- Avoid a "You are not in a guild." error message for unguilded toons
- Avoid toons being promoted/demoted past an "Alt" rank retaining unwanted notes (until next reload/relog)
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r227 | arrowmaster | 2009-03-20 03:55:44 +0000 (Fri, 20 Mar 2009) | 1 line
Changed paths:
M /trunk/Modules/DelayGMOTD.lua
Fix string.match error if something calls ChatFrame1:AddMessage(nil) before the GMOTD is found
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r226 | stanzilla | 2009-02-17 00:20:36 +0000 (Tue, 17 Feb 2009) | 4 lines
Changed paths:
M /trunk/.pkgmeta
M /trunk/Chatter.toc
D /trunk/embeds.xml
- Load libs from toc and use no-lib-strip
- fix .pkgmeta for LibBetterBlizzOptions
- add LBBO to the list of loaded libs, yes it was not in there O.o
- ignore Tests folder and localization script for zip creation
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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 has 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.
See also: About "Out Of Date AddOns"
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)...
