07-25-2013, 09:03 AM
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A Treant
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 27
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Chat Window Challenge
See who can make a chat window that has Tabs. This would allow layering things like Spells, Hits, Emotes/Looting to other windows that are layered and hidden behind an active window.
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07-25-2013, 09:35 AM
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On tour since '99
Join Date: Sep 2002
Server: Innoruuk forever!
Posts: 473
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I would love to have tabbed chat boxes but with the client we have at the moment it's not going to happen.
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07-25-2013, 11:57 AM
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Enhanced Imperial Golem
Join Date: Jun 2008
Posts: 204
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Just to expand some on what Savok said, we (UI Modders) are not able to affect the behaviour of elements, but rather just the way elements appear. Having the chat windows be tabbed instead of it opening a new window would be changing the behaviour of the window.
Tabbed chat windows would be helpful for some text, like maybe guild and tells, but most information I need to see real time, so tabbing them would really be useless. If 'hits' can be tabbed behind other chat, why have the tab at all? Or spells? I think in that vane I would just turn on logging if I wanted historical data.
/shrug
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07-26-2013, 10:50 PM
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Premium Member
Join Date: Sep 2002
Posts: 360
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Personally, I don't see the appeal of tabbed chat windows.
Yes, they would save screen space, but you'd have to be constantly tabbing through them or you would miss so much.
So, sure, if the option was available, great, just so long as it wasn't the only option.
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08-03-2013, 05:17 AM
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Lord Doljonijiarnimorinar
Join Date: Jan 2003
Server: Povar
Posts: 1,047
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I use to have this setup on my UI by layering windows in a way where either top or bottom of window was always visible.so you could just click on a corner and bring the lower window to the front. not tabbed but same effect.
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08-31-2013, 01:39 AM
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A Wooly Rhino
Join Date: Jan 2003
Server: Tunare
Posts: 74
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Quote:
Originally Posted by valaury3169
I think in that vane I would just turn on logging if I wanted historical data.
/shrug
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If you want something to appear in your log you actually have to have it going to a chat window. If you don't care to see most of the battle spam except in very specific circumstances then tabbed chat windows would be perfect.
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