[Release]UnifiedChatTabs

zgrssd · May 2014

I wanted to learn addon programming and I was annoyed by the way the game tracks seperate chat tab settings for every character. Even as a programmer I cannot see any reason for this in a game that makes Guild-Memberships, Ignore lists and everything else social cross Character.

So I created an addon with two goals: Synching Chat Tabs between Characters, while also learning Lua Programming in ESO.
Took me two weeks, but I got a partial sucess:
http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info487-UnifiedChatTabs.html
It works via automatic saving of the current config with every chat message you receive, but requires manual applying the settings manually via options menu (might add a Keybinding or /command later).

Turned out my idea was not quite as novel as a I thought, as xevoran had already programmed something similar:
http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info282-ChatSetup.html
His approach allows you to save multiple Chat Tab configurations, but does not autosave.

In any case changing the Chat Tab Settings from Addons requires a reload of the UI (as opposed to working instanly via the Chat Windows menu's).

zgrssd · May 2014

Just Updated to Version 0.6 and was able to include the auto-application of settings as originally planned, by figuring out that the bulk of changes to Tabs do not need a reload of the UI.
The updated version should be aprooved soon.

zgrssd · May 2014

Just Uploaded 0.7.
This version can now also Synch Colors. Colors can be manually saved or are autosaved on receiving of messages.
They can be autoapplied on load and as before this option is by default off (so you can choose whose Characters Colors you want to use for everyone).

zgrssd · May 2014

Just Uploaded 0.8, wich is compatible too Craglorn (1.1.2) and API Version 100004. (But there was no change that makes previous versions incapable of working).
Be warned, this one will reset the Settings to default and remove Saved Chat Data of previous Versions.

I have made mostly internal redesign, Made a clearer "How to use", allowed sperate saving/autosaving/application/deletion of chat and color data.
I also added multiple responses to show the user that hitting a button is "doing something".

zgrssd · July 2014

Been a while since I posted here.
Since the 0.8 I managed to get two major changes in:
It can autosave since 1.0, but has to be explicitly told to do it (nothing worse then accidently saving the wrong characters data and applying it across all Characters).
It should now resist chat categories being internally renamed or reordered as of 1.6. This was a potential issue I realised only after 1.2.3 went live.

As usual the most current release is on esoui.com:
http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info487-UnifiedChatTabs.html