Can someone explain the Tabbed Chat Windows?

[Humudce]

Originally Posted by Dolby

Another large patch from SOE was rolled out adding a lot of new features includeing a ton of interface addtions and changes.

Ok all I have heard so far about the Tabbed Chat Windows is nothing but nightmares. The Tabs clear when you switch them, all tabs show the same text.

Can someone explain how to use these correctly, my thoughts were I could put NPC text on one tab, BattleSpam on another tab, and Spell Info on yet another tab. Ok all how do I do this and is it going to work????

[Itanius]

As I said in chat last night, I've had none of those problems.

What I did is right click on my main chat window, and select Add New Tab. I did this several times. I then went to the Chat Options for each tab and set the tab name and which channels/info I wanted on each tab. I then repeated the process for a 2nd chat window, so my UI looks like this:



I've not experienced any chat clearing or other problems; it works flawlessly for me, and I've not heard anything bad about them from my guildmates. If you are experiencing strange errors like this, then I'd recommend deleting your eq2_recent.ini and your character's specific ui ini files, and starting your UI layout over from scratch.

[Drumstix42]

Pre-Patch:
I had 2 windows, one was chat stuff, tells, guild, good stuff. Other one as battlespam, hits, melle, magic, and NPC tells.

After-Patch:
I dragged my battle spam into the normal chat. "yay cool, neat" battled once, noticed a tab text turns yellow when new text appears. Didn't really want tabs in that instance, dragged battle spam back to where it was. It still had the same size, and filter settigns. I was happy, and impressed.

End of story. No problems here

[Humudce]

Okies Giving it a try thanks for the help.

[sunthas]

Most people I talked to notice that if they switched back and forth between tabs text within the tabs, sorta dissappeared... Don't know why this was happening.

I created new tabs the way they explained it. I took one of my chat windows and dragged it into another, then I adjusted my two tabs to different settings. Eventually I undid the tab and went back to my old system of having chat windows that aren't being used to fade out. I wish it would automatically switch to the tab where the talking is happening.

[Aaldyin]

I've also had problems with these new tab chats. As much as I like the idea and want to use it. When I creat a new tab chat and try to filter certain things into it, I go back to another tab and come back to the one I was on and it has now reset back to all the stuff i tried to take out of it. This has happened when filtering in tab mode and also when trying to filter the window itself then moving it onto another chat to add that window to a tab mode.