MyChat 04/23/2024

MyChat​

By Grimmier

Basic Chat Window.​

This was inspired because I play on Project Lazarus, and we don't have tabbed chat windows. Combine that with EQ's horrible filtering. This lets you create your own event based filters.

Features:​

• Customizable channels and colors.
• Channels get their own tab's you can toggle on or off.
• Main chat tab will show all channels always.
• Configure Channels from a GUI accessible from the options menu
• Right Clicking a tab will clear it.
• Reads settings from MyChat_Settings.ini MyChat_Settings.Lua in the MQ\Config dir.
• You can customize any event string you would like and create a channel for it that you can turn on of off at any time.
• Toggling a channel on or off will save that setting to the settings Lua as well.
• Edit and Add Channels and events through a GUI.
• You can Import Configs from other characters.
  • Importing will append '_NEW' to a channel name if it already exists and create a new one.
  • you can alternatively check the Clean Import option where we will just write a fresh file.
  • All Imports will first back up original file with _BAK appended to the file name.
• You can Toggle Channels on or off from displaying on the Main Channel.
• You can Toggle Events on or off for a given Channel.
• Filter String TOKENS
  • For filter strings you can use TOKENS to replace character names.
  • TOKENS AVAIL
  • M3 = Your Name
  • TK1 = Main Tank's Name
  • M1 = Main Assist's Name
  • H1 = Group Healers Name (CLR, SHM, DRU)
  • GP1 = Any Group Member's Name (except your own)
  • G1 - G5 = Group Member's Name in Slot 1-5 respectively
  • PT1 = Your Pets name
• ZOOM. right click a tab to turn on ZOOM mode. this will scale up the font size.
  • ZOOM mode is not a true console, instead we are using a table with wrapped text rows.
  • When Selecting a row or hovering with the mouse over one, pressing Ctrl-C will copy that line of text to the clipboard.
  • for more refined copy toggle the zoom off and use the normal console.
• Auto locking Auto-Scroll, in Zoom mode.
  • if you scroll up auto scrolling for that tab's zoom window will unlock.
  • Scrolling back to the bottom will relock scroll on.
• format for settings:

Settings:

See default_settings.Lua in the MyChat folder


Values:

• channelName = what shows in your menu to toggle on or off. anything you want to name it.
• eventString= the search pattern that will trigger the event to write to console.
  • Each Channel can have multiple events.
    • Each event has a color and an eventstring setting. meaning you can have a different color for different lines all within the same channel.
      see example video below with a WHO channel.
• filterString = further refining of the event.
  • so if your event was #*#say#*#,#*#
    • you could filter that further with 'You' and give that a color, and anytime You say,
      the filter will color that line whatever color you want.
    • otherwise if no filters matched it uses the events color.
• color = what color do you want that channels lines to be?

TODO:

• GUI to edit and add events without having to edit config and reload.
• Tabs for the channels.
• Multiple window option.
• Item Links figure out item links without having to use linkDB.

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