Entertainer Archive
Thread: Repost about chat window management
Quoted from this thread: http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=entertainer&message.id=764#M764
This works especially well for entertainers but I expect others will find it useful.
For entertainers the messages appearing in your chat window in white are the system messages. Every flourish results in three messages - 1 for mus/dance xp, 1 for ent heal xp, 1 for the flourish itself. This fills up the spatial chat window really fast. Tips are also system messages and shop up in white too.
I have moved my system messages to another chat window and changed the color of words relating to tips. I then removed system messages from the spatial chat window. Makes chatting and thanking for tips much easier all around, and you can scroll back through the system messages when it's not busy to make sure that you didn't miss thanking for a tip. Here's how to set it up:
First, right click on a chat tab and select Add New Tab. Right click on the new tab and change name to whatever you want. Right click on the new tab again and select Modify. On the left are the types of messages to include inthe chat tab. Select System Messages and click on the right arrow in the middle. This chat window will now show just system messages. Click and drag on your new tab to somewhere out of the way on your screen and resize if necessary.
Second, right click on the spatial chat tab and select Modify. On the right are the items that display in the spatial chat. Click on system messages and then the left arrow and system messages will no longer show in spatial chat.
Last, go into the options menu and select chat colors. In thetext area (near bottom - sorry can't remember the exact name but only place to type in text) type in the word 'tips' (without the quotes), click a color from the box above (red works well for me), and click on the Word Colorization button. The word tips will now show in red for all chat windows. Do the same thing with 'you', 'credits', and 'bank'.
Hope this helps - it is really helping me out.
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The only thing I did different personally was to pull out the spatial and leave system on the main box due to the message spam from the aliases I use. That was a tip from Tiaga I believe.
Personally I'd love to see something very common in MUD clients.. Set something up like the word/line coloring, but instead of coloring the line, have an option to not display the line. Setting up boxes for different types of messages is great, but it is somewhat limited in what it lets you do. You still have all or nothing in system messages, and many message types that are unfiled and just go to whatever view you have open.
- your name (in case someone says it in spatial)
- a shortened form of your name
- heal (make sure to thank people who are healing you)
- enhance (don't let a buff go on ya without thanking the provider)