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Date: 09-22-2011 06:09 PM
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Chat setup - used to build chat strings for quickslots or immediate sending
 
Description
Based on a plugin request from the LoTRO forums, Rainbow Chat allows you to send multi-colored text to the chat channels.

Installation
Just download the Zip file and unzip it to your Plugins folder. There are no dependancies on any outside files.

When upgrading from a prior version please either exit the game client or execute "/plugins refresh" in the chat window after copying the files but prior to executing "/plugins load rainbow" for the new version.

Usage
To load Rainbow Chat, use "/plugins load rainbow".

When first loaded, there will be a small pushpin icon which is partly transparent in the bottom left corner of your screen. Moving the mouse over the icon will cause it to be opaque. This is the top of the quickslot bar that the chat strings are saved in. You can move the chat bar around by pressing the mouse down (either button) on the pushpin and dragging it anywhere on screen. To open the setup window to create quickslot entries (or send adhoc text) double click the pushpin or use the chat command, "/rainbow setup".

The setup screen is fairly simple, type text into the Text entry field, select a color and click "Add" to start building a text string. Don't forget to add spaces to additional text to separate words (the interface allows you to color individual parts of words if you want to so spaces must be added in the text as needed). If you make a mistake, you can Clear the entire text to start over or you can click on a colored portion of the text in the Preview and Replace that text with whatever you have typed in the Text entry. If you want to send part of the text without color (using the color defined by the recipient) check the "Use recipient defined chat color" checkbox.

Once your string is built, pick a channel and either click "Send" to immediately send the text to the chat window, or select a quickslot (or "New" for a new slot) and click "Assign" to assign the text to a slot on the quickslot bar. The text can contain the usual ";loc" and ";target" tokens as placeholders for your location and target name. To send tells, select channel "Other' and in the text box type "/tell target" where target is the recipient's name (in the German or French clients you have to replace "/tell" with the appropriate command). You can also use channel "Other" to send to any of the foreign language channels or european server channels by typing "/channel" into the text field where channel is the desired channel name.

You can now recall any quickslots created with version 1.01 or higher (sorry, I had to change some of the stored data and it's not backwards compatible with versino 1.0) and edit them. To recall a quickslot, just select the slot number and then click the "Recall" button.

There are four chat commands for controlling Rainbow Chat,
"/rainbow show" will display the quickslot bar
"/rainbow hide" will hide the quickslot bar
"/rainbow toggle" will toggle the display of the quickslot bar
"/rainbow setup" displays the Setup Window.

Future Plans
I don't know how much more effort I will put into this, it was really just for fun. I will probably fix the "Replace" function to properly reformat the preview and word wrap. I will also probably add an Options screen for foreign language selection and interface color customization. I will probably add the missing channels as well as add a means to send Tells.

Known Issues
Foreign language support is not yet implemented.
A couple of chat channels are missing from the channel list.
The "Replace" function doesn't reformat or wordwrap the Preview, it just shows as much of the new text as will fit in the space that was being replaced - but the color will update properly and when sent/assigned, the text will be correct (only the preview is incorrect).
Once a piece of the Preview has been selected, there is no way to return to a state where no text is selected - you can select a different piece, but not unselect all.

Version log
Ver 1.02 Updates/Fixes
Fixed quickslot handling of UTF8 characters

Ver 1.01 Updates/Fixes
Added some of the missing chat channels
Added channel "Other" for user typed entries like /tells
Added recall button for reloading assigned quickslots - note, only quickslots created with version 1.01 or higher can be recalled
Added "no color" option for sending text chunks in the recipient's defined color
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1.01
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Garan
06-21-2011 03:46 PM
1.00
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Garan
05-30-2011 12:40 AM
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Unread 05-10-2018, 07:56 AM  
Rhanti
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Unfortunately, the Assign option messes up some space ("tell or" becomes "tellor") and doesn't save up the color setup (if I saved it so that one sentence only is colored, it ends up all colored if I used the saved slot).

I didn't realize it was an outdated plugin though, so no worries about it
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Don't think this plugin is still updated, but any chance of a save option? To keep some saved colored text without typing it over and over again everytime you log on?
This plugin already has the ability to save text in quickslots for reuse. Use the 'Assign' button instead of the immediate 'Send' button (as described in the usage instructions above).
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Don't think this plugin is still updated, but any chance of a save option? To keep some saved colored text without typing it over and over again everytime you log on?
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Originally Posted by sycostick
But can I get 12 quickslots?
I've made as many as 35 before I ran out of vertical space for the toolbar before. If you make more than will display on your screen, they will be created, you just won't be able to click them (this was a really quick side project so there's no scrollbar when you run out of vertical space). You shouldn't have any trouble creating 12.

Good luck with the dragon. We tried him on Tier 2 over the weekend and got nommed but it was still fun

EDIT:
I just thought of another neat trick. You can select Channel "Other" and type "/alias ;ryyyyr " in the Channel text then click "Send Now". That will create an alias for the colored text as in "/ra ;ryyyyr" which could be assigned to a built-in quickslot

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^^^^^^^^^^Dont want to post a ton on your gig here. yea the dragon likes to eat peeps up lol. GOt him to 1mil morale and all of a sudden tank was only one standing. But not long lol.


Oh and it works great for what I wanted it to do. Ill post a ss of it in action this weekend.

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Im tryiing to set up 12 quickslots to read out the draigoch fm's ie

/ra RYYYYR________FM #1 but with the RYYYYR in the appropriate colors. Anyway to do this?
If I've understood your question correctly, yes, with a little work.

Type a "R", select the color red (red slider full right, green full left, blue full left) and then click "Add"
Type a "Y", select the color red (red slider full right, green full right, blue full left) and then click "Add"
Click "Add" (this will add another yellow Y)
Click "Add" (this will add another yellow Y)
Click "Add" (this will add another yellow Y)
Type an "R", select the color red (red slider full right, green full left, blue full left) and then click "Add"
Select the channel "Raid"
Select the quickslot "<New>" (or any other listed quickslot if you want to overwrite an existing one)
Click "Assign"

Note, for the second red R you could also just select the one that is in the preview and then click "Add" to help enter it a tiny bit faster.

Unfortunately, you can't drag the created quickslot to a Turbine built-in quickslot, you have to use them from the Rainbow quickslot bar but you can drag that off to a side of the screen to make it easier.

There may be another plugin "Conjunction Junction" published Soon which will make this considerably easier but I wouldn't hold my breath as the developer is rumored to be easily distracted.
Ooooh, a shiny... *wanders off after a sparkly something*

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Im tryiing to set up 12 quickslots to read out the draigoch fm's ie

/ra RYYYYR________FM #1 but with the RYYYYR in the appropriate colors. Anyway to do this?
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As I wrote elsewhere as well, it doesn't have to be the 'emote' channel that a roll is spoofed in. It's just as difficult to spot when using Kinship, Officer, Fellowship or Raid channels, since those don't have ending quotes ( ' )at the end of a line of chat text - it's very possible to 'spoof' a roll in another type of channel, but the spoofed roll would then have a ' at the end, which is kind of a dead giveaway.

For those who are already at their maximum of two custom chat tabs: turn on the 'Standard' filter on your combat tab, when it's time to roll for loot. The combat-related channels cannot be spoofed, just as the standard channel, so you'll be only seeing real rolls in that tab then.
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Re: cheat mode?

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Originally Posted by Probitas
Nice thread on the main forums was just locked because it seems some people may be using a plugin to cheat on raid rolls.
Wow. Sad. Some people will stoop to what ever lows they can to cheat at anything.

EDIT:
I was finally able to get back into game after having no highspeed internet for a week (thanks mother nature ). After testing this a bit, I have verified that valid "rolls" can be verified very easily by simply using a tab that has only the "Standard" channel selected or by using the RaidRolls plugin (since the plugin only listens on the "Standard" channel). Since emotes do not go to the Standard channel, even if someone tries to mask a fake roll message using an emote with color, it will not show up in that channel (it will show up only in windows that have the Emote channel enabled).

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cheat mode?

Is it possible for this plugin to colorize emotes? Or be tweaked to do that. Nice thread on the main forums was just locked because it seems some people may be using a plugin to cheat on raid rolls. Seems if you went into the code and substituted the /emote command instead of /say, if might be made to do just that. Haven't checked, but I plan on it.


<edit> tested and confirmed it is possible. So I sent a nice PM to celestrata. That should fix that up pretty soon.

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Hi, I would like to add in Rainbow Chat to the Russian language, how can I do? help please
There is a bug in the Turbine Quickslot control which is causing the problem with Cyrillic fonts. Fortunately, Lunarwtr posted a work-around for this which is in Ver 1.02 which should be available later tonight.

EDIT: Ver 1.02 is now available and should fix the problem with Cyrillic fonts (Rainbow Chat should now work with Russian).
Thanks, it works
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Hi, I would like to add in Rainbow Chat to the Russian language, how can I do? help please
There is a bug in the Turbine Quickslot control which is causing the problem with Cyrillic fonts. Fortunately, Lunarwtr posted a work-around for this which is in Ver 1.02 which should be available later tonight.

EDIT: Ver 1.02 is now available and should fix the problem with Cyrillic fonts (Rainbow Chat should now work with Russian).

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Hi, I would like to add in Rainbow Chat to the Russian language, how can I do? help please
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I got more sends of people wanting to knowhow to write in colors, than there where people complaining about it.

As long as it isn't used as harassment i think it is okay. The people complaining had been in a server's popular user channel. I ask them to ignore me and do so on them. User channels are not offical channels and harassment can be avoided by just leaving them or using "ignore"

This is a awesome plugin. I tried internationalization on it. You can find the UTF.lua under developer tools.

I did some changes on it for myself. it cyles to a rainbow color table for each char Yore plugin was a great introduction for myself to learn LUA.

Cheers,
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In your message you said you could not select anything in the Preview. I'm not really sure why that would be as it works fine on all of my machines here. I'll try testing it some more when I get a chance.
Thanks for the quick tutorial on the Replace functionality
Perhaps I may have been a little too Windows-oriented in trying to select the text in the Preview box... I may have only tried click-and-drag technique there, will check later when I log on.

[EDIT] Yup, dismissed it as a bug because it doesn't work if you click-and-drag and end up in another block than the one you started on. As I tested the plugin by making a rainbow text (every letter had a different colour) that wasn't so difficult to mess up hehe. Thx for the pointer, works fine

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