Thanks for the advice, but i am still stuck. I think my question was worded wrong. i don't want to have chat text duplicated in more than one tab. i want the raid channel or defilers channel to stay in one tab. I don't want the channel chat to fill up the chat tab where i have to see raidchat and guildchat. So, adding the chat_allowduplicatechannels 1 doesn't help there I don't think.
I couldn't find a CHAR_Server file but i did find a server_char uisettings file. I wasn't really able to figure out what i was supposed to change there. This was the xml code that seemed to pertain to chat.
<Window Name="MainChat_clone_1" alignment="0" alignment_offset="1,6" backdrop_mo_o="0.8" backdrop_n_o="0.8" size="389,174" visible="true">
<Properties clone="0" clone_version="4" currenttab="0" version="19">
<ChatTab default_channel="raidsay" display_id="1" filter="e1e71b0700000000e000000078c005000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0000000000000000000000000000" title="Tab 1" />
<ChatTab default_channel="say" display_id="2" filter="010000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0000000000000000000000000000" title="Tab 2" />
<ChatTab default_channel="guildsay" display_id="3" filter="01000000e000000000ba3f01070010000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 0000000000000000000000000000" title="Tab 3" />
</Properties>
</Window>
<Window Name="MainChat_clone_2" alignment="0" alignment_offset="0,43" backdrop_mo_o="0.8" backdrop_n_o="0.8" size="460,128">
<Properties clone="0" clone_version="4" currenttab="0" version="19" />
</Window>
i would really appreciate being able to have raid channel and so on in a separate tab without having it also appear the the other tabs. Thanks in advance for anyone who has some info on this.
Deirdre