Tabbed Chat Windows Coming Soon!
 

Hludwolf announced on Twitter that the long awaited tabbed chat windows are being introduced to EverQuest SOON!

(also posted on my website at shakahr.com )

Yessssssssssssssssssssssssss

And a total pita they are too 😋

I did mention to them that the tab should not display if there is only 1 tab available. Hopefully they will get this memo.

tabs
 

I managed to remove the border from the window and hacked the tabs down to a few pixels high (obviously cannot see the tab names).

Wonder if tooltip on the tab would work to show the name ?

WOOHOO! Rift has had these since the beginning, I think. They're so much better for organizing, I think you can have 5 tabs per window.

Any that are functioning correctly on Live?
 

Iv'e DLed a few UIs that have the tabbed chat windows(all 3 have been updated to current),... NONE are working. I am currently trying to mod this as well, but if anyone knows of one that is actually working proper, please send me a PM! Thanks!

~IceSy~

The tabbed chat window is only on the test server currently.

Tomorrow should have the tabbed chat windows, so I have already uploaded the new versions.

Where can we download it ?

They were all uploaded last night to my website at http://shakahr.com and to https://www.eqinterface.com

I made a post here of how to remove the title bar.

Drakah Blog post at shakahr.com

i gotta figure out how to remove these...the current UI i'm using is completely broken atm

worst idea ever!!

they actually released this on test server and it's this broken??

anyone figure out a work around yet? was planning on actually playing the game tonight...but that doesn't seem like a reality at this point.

several work arounds are posted and I'm sure more are coming

yeah, i was able to find a couple to base off of. the issue i'm seeing is that i use tell windows, and the bypasses i'm seeing aren't allowing for that.

i've been able to at least see chat, and adjust the window sizes, the issue is the offsets are cutting off the tabs so if you receive multiple tells you can't bounce between them, so what i'm doing is cutting off these items:

<Style_Titlebar>false</Style_Titlebar>
<Style_Closebox>false</Style_Closebox>
<Style_Minimizebox>false</Style_Minimizebox>
<Style_Border>false</Style_Border>

this allow me to move the tabs area into where the border was. now i gotta figure out how to shrink the tabs area, since the text is so far away from it's borders...any ideas? i tried using Anchors to pull it, but not having luck thus far.

So, I tried editing my own chat window to hide the title bar but it became problematic since I use tell windows. Even though you can right-click and choose close, it is just a pain in the butt. So decided to just go ahead and make a thinner title bar.

Therefore... I Updated the Krome UI chat window skin to make the title bar only 10 pixels high. This way it is not terrible to keep in view in order to maintain the correct usage of the close/minimize buttons.