Chat window

The DarqUI Chat window can have top or bottom oriented tabs, and you can download a large version that has an oversize text input area. Make your choices from the Updates tab of the utility. You can choose reduced tab font sizes, which will reduce the overall size of the tabs. If your chat window has many tabs, this allows you to see more tabs without the scroll buttons appearing.

Chat input boxBy default, each instance of the Chat window has an input box for typing text and commands. But you can choose to remove the input box from a specific chat window to reclaim some screen space. To remove the input box, choose Frame and Titlebar from the Window Settings menu. The DarqUI Chat window template does not have a titlebar, so the Frame and Titlebar setting is simply used to show or hide the input box on a window-by-window basis.

ImportantIn order to chat, you must leave an input box visible on at least one chat window instance. To chat automatically when you begin typing, right-click on a chat window that contains an input box and choose Always Chat Here.

You can display chat log times and chat categories using the Window Manager (the blue DarqUI Settings gem is located in the upper right-hand corner of each chat window instance.) Showing or hiding these chat features will change internal game settings that persist between sessions.

Using the profile editor

With the DarqUI Unified Utility you can view and edit your character's voice and text chat channel assignments. You can also rearrange and copy chat windows, tab and channel layouts between your characters. If you have chat windows that are causing problems, you can remove them.

ImportantThe profile editor makes changes directly to the UI Settings file for your character. This file is frequently updated while your character is logged in, which will usually overwrite any changes you make with the utility before you can reload the new settings. So for best results you should log your character out, at least to the Character Select screen, while making changes with the utility.

The profile editor shows a scaled-down view of your game window in full-screen mode. You can view and make some types of changes to your chat windows: