There's a quickie old ui style
CHAT WINDOWS
I didn't bother with the vertical scroll bar, but I will explain.
There's the chat windows with a dark background, those are UNFINISHED mind you
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I want to show you because I am open to discussion, and this UI seems to interest quite a few people so I am not trying to just please myself.
Now, squint your eyes and watch each of those. What can you make out of the old UI chat windows? The white text almost entirely disappears, the yellow as well, you're pretty much left with the dark colors: blue , dark red, black.
The 2nd pic however you can see just about any variety of colour will stand out and be easily readable, imho.
PROBLEMS with old UI style chat windows
I find myself sticking my nose to the screen most of the time to be able to read the text on the old UI style chat window.. either that or I had to change all my custom text colours to a much reduced selection of dark blue/ green /red, black , yellow and white. With a dark background I can tell you pretty much EVERY custom text color is different and I can tell each one from a nother.
I realize everybody was fine at the time with those chat windows, but at the time you didnt have 50+ custom text colors either.
ANother thing I dont like is that I find the UI at the moment to be very bright and the game seems to be plunged in constant night time, everything is so dark. THus the UI seems to come on top which isn t a good thing. The old style chat windows make it even more brighter and make the UI come forward instead of being somewhat 'transparent' to the player as it should.
Yet another problem with the old UI design, is it doesnt look too good when you put 3 areas side by side. What if someone wants to have a 60 pct main chat then 20pct width 'MY HITS' then 20pct width 'OTHER HITS' ? The old UI style chat windows I have implemented in the 1st screenshot above DO resize, but they dont look good when they are very small :/
Plans
I will design something of my own for the chat window, and post a screenshot when I ;'m done.
Until then the discussion is open, and I posted 2 screenshots here hopefully so you 'll understand why I wouldnt use the old UI chat windows.