Bellom

If I close the main window and press F12, the small chat icon is still on screen, so I cannot take pretty screen-shots.

Besides from that, awesome plug-in.

Freegrob

Hi,
Again, nice plugin indeed.
Since I am french, I do apreciatiate the plugin to be able to deal with french (or other languages). Is it plan to make it some way more adaptable.

I would be able to translate but the code is not appropriate. Would it be possible to have a parameter lua file to load internationalization ?
Something like (for FR):
Say = Parler
Tell = Dire
Kinship = Confrerie
etc.

I can help for translation if needed.

Many thanks again,
Winwin

Galuhad

Hi,

I apologise for this. When I first wrote the plugin I was still very noobish and didn't really understand much of what I was doing. Hence why it doesn't have a strings file.

At the moment I am knee-deep re-writing another plugin of mine, but of course I will keep this in mind for the future if there is interest for it and tackle it as soon as I can

Halgoreth

I have not found a plugin that does what I'm looking for. It looks like this one includes the approximate functionality I desire, but takes up too much space on the screen for me. (I realise that the purpose of this plugin is for adding colour, but I have little desire for colour myself.)

Pretty much every time I play, I find myself in the situation where I'm in the middle of typing out a very long /say or /tell, when I suddenly need to use the command line to send something else (such as quickly responding to a Trade offer that just showed up, issuing a /clap for a musician whose song ended while I'm typing, returning a /wave to a friend who just walked in, etc.).

My current method of dealing with that is pretty tedious: shift-left arrow across what I have already typed, copy/cut, send the new command, then paste my message back in so I can finish typing. Further frustration arises from the command line being only one line, so I cannot see my whole message to proofread it easily before sending. (Sometimes I even end up creating my messages in Lyrical, but that's a pain.)

What I want is a plugin that gives me a text entry box where I can take my time to compose a long message without tying up my command line.

It looks like ChatEdit can do that, however, I rarely, if ever, send coloured text. (Although I might once in awhile if I had a handy tool like that to facilitate it.)

What I would like to see is a way to turn off all the colour features, so that it has only the chat box, output channel selection and target/save/send buttons, and, thus, does not block so much of the screen. The minimized mode of ChatEdit does not provide quite what I'm looking for because I want a text box, rather than just a line, so I can easily edit the whole message without switching to the maximized mode or moving the cursor to pan back and forth.

Failing that, I would welcome any suggestions where else I might look to find a plugin to give ma a text-entry (and sending) box (or boxes -- often I'm in several conversations at once) that is in addition to the command line.

Thurallor

One thing you could do is use hotkeys in the existing chat window:

• To select the entire message, hit the Home key, followed by Shift+End.
• Ctrl-X cuts the message and saves it on the clipboard.
• Ctrl-V pastes the message from the clipboard back to the chat window.

So your sequence would be

1. In the middle of typing some long message...
2. Home
3. Shift+End
4. Ctrl-X
5. Type your other message and send it
6. Ctrl-V
7. Resume typing your long message...

Fatefoot

A couple of posts about icon locking were all I could find to answer my own problem with this.

Checking the settings file, the location of the icon and window are saved so it should be what you call "locked" in position.

However, the settings file isn't updating for any of my characters on any account on any server. I've checked the code and there is are functions to save and load the settings, but apparently they aren't working.

As for hiding it with F12, I'm sure it is an easy change in the plug-in - sorry I don't know enough to do that.

Shame as the plug-in works well otherwise. I wonder if Galuhad isn't returning if some other plug-in author could take a look at these two, tiny problems which I'm sure are easily fixed!

Rhanti

For some reason, filtering with colors don't take special symbols; if I write Aulë, but then change its color, the output becomes Aulë :/ (preview shows Aul??)