Making a minecraft mod like Improved Chat

Excellent!

I thought OptiFine might just work because Im changing the same classes as ImprovedChat does. ImprovedChat however has some special code for Rei's minimap so I wasnt sure if that would work out of the box.

(Woot! 2 users! (not including me))

May I make a suggestion?

A way to toggle it closes automatically after you type the text or not.

Yes! I forgot to make that an option. Next on my list after copy and paste.

* paste text from the clipboard with control+v
* copy text from the chat history with control+c - then use up/down to select the line you want to copy and press enter
* new variable `prompt_auto_close` - set to `true` to make the prompt automatically close after sending a message (the default ) - set to false to keep the prompt open.

What do you think of the copy method? I think its quite nice. Is copying from the input box ever usefull? - I dont think it is...

I often use the copy/paste feature when I am in two fast conversations, I enter a /tell convo with one, and use copy/paste '/tell [playername]' to handle the second convo. I think it is a very useful feature.

Hrm ok - I can see the use there... Tho why dont you just hit the up key to goto the last message, jump to the start and type /tell player [the text from before].

I think if I do this ill need to add two shortcut keys - one to copy the input text and one to copy from the chat history... How does that sound?

Is Java coding like normal computer software coding. If so i could help a little bit depending on my scheduel.

If you would like the source Id be happy to send it to you. As a first step tho I suggest getting MCP and making sure you can decompile and recompile the source code for MC.

For the Tab Design I normally handled my Tabs like that

Tab 1 Global: All Global Chats such as Trade (Our town chat) Also it showed /tells since if you chat in global chat you often switch to /tell

Tab2 Say: This was the tab for chats such as Guild Chat, Local chat such as our /ch l whisper and all that kind.

Another option since we dont have so many chats to make a Global Chat Tab with /ch l included and open up a tap for every /tell conversation. The tab name is the conversation partner. So you have like:

General | Player x | Player y

General wouldnt contain /tell then this way it doesnt get spammed away. You could also do this with /ch l since it kind of suxxs too if it gets spammed away. But then the general tab is pretty much useless in wilderness.

Using tabs should always include a highlighting if new messages appear. So you dont miss them.

I hope that helps

I like the second option where everything is in one tab apart from tells. I will make this scriptable anyway... probably something like:

Code:

~on -start "T " sendToTab General
~on -regexp "^From (.*?):" sendToTab \$1

Or in english:
* send every chat message starting with T followed by space to the General tab
* send every chat message starting with "From" followed by a name to the tab named with the player name

What Im also struggling with is how to draw these tabs onto the screen in a nice way

Hmm yeah you will have to do a pane or sth. dunno ur part ^^

Installed, Love the copying idea.

There is nowhere good to draw tabs!

Options:
* move the chat history up a line and draw them there
* draw down the left edge of the screen (rotated)
* draw them at the very top of the screen
* dont draw them - give up, make another bulleted list about my favourite cheese
* something else...?

Maybe make it so if it's /tell it will stick for 10 seconds or so before moving.

I got an idea you hold key X for Y seconds and it list every online in the EmpireMinecraft website and everyone online in the servers.

Jeanz, I don't think that's possible. You could always just do /p jeanzl2000

Yea sorry Jeanz thats not really possible from just a chat mod

it would be like an addon to the TAB

it can be possible because it would be a client mod

I heard this really cool shortcut key, you hold down TAB and it shows everyone online in the current server you are connected to.