Elephant logs the chat for you in the background. It saves the WHISPERS, BATTLEGROUND, RAID, PARTY, SAY, YELL, OFFICER and GUILD chats separately, but also all general chats (General, Trade, LocalDefense, ...), custom chats you are currently on, loots and system messages (auctions, rolls, server going down, ...) and combat. When you want to read the logs, simply click on the Elephant icon in the FuBar (or type /elephant), then choose one of the chat icon on the right.
This is THE AddOn that you should install if you want to manage hell tells or simply go AFK for a few minutes. It is also perfectly designed for Guild Leaders, Officers and Raid Leaders particularly because it restores the chats when you get disconnected.
Main features:
- Logs the chats in the background.
- Logs up to 1000 lines for each chat! (Blizzard's default is 161 lines for evertything)
- Restores the chats at login after you logged out or got disconnected.
- Display the chats separately in their own colours.
- Copy the chat and paste it in other applications.
- Save the chats and the combat log in two different files on your computer.
Other features:
- Enable/disable logging for each chat.
- Movable frame.
- Slash commands.
- Bind a key to toggle Elephant.
- Enable or disable logging by default when you join a new channel.
- Objects in the main window are displayed in their proper color and are clickable.
- Player names in the main window are clickable.
- Clear the logs separately or all at the same time.
Revision 65997 (TOC 20400)
- Elephant has now a brand new style.
- Removing combat logging since it is now useless with 2.4 patch.
- Changing filters to give more options to the user.
- Options have been reorganized.
- Adding a new "Activate logs" options for compatibility with other addons.
- Removing /chatlog and /combatlog hooks.
Installation Guide
- Exit "World of Warcraft" completely
- Download the mod you want to install
- Make a folder on your desktop called "My Mods"
- Save the .zip/.rar files to this folder.
- If, when you try to download the file, it automatically "opens" it... you need to RIGHT click on the link and "save as..." or "Save Target As".
- Extract the file - commonly known as 'unzipping'
Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!
- Windows
- Windows XP a built in ZIP extractor. Double click on the file to open it, inside should be the file or folders needed. Copy these outside to the "My Mods" folder.
- WinRAR: Right click the file, select "Extract Here"
- WinZip: You MUST make sure the option to "Use Folder Names" is CHECKED or it will just extract the files and not make the proper folders how the Authors designed
- Mac Users
- StuffitExpander: Double click the archive to extract it to a folder in the current directory.
- Verify your WoW Installation Path
That is where you are running WoW from and THAT is where you need to install your mods.
- Move to the Addon folder
- Open your World of Warcraft folder. (default is C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\)
- Go into the "Interface" folder.
- Go into the "AddOns" folder.
- In a new window, open the "My Mods" folder.
- The "My Mods" folder should have the "Addonname" folder in it.
- Move the "Addonname" folder into the "AddOns" folder
- Start World of Warcraft
- Make sure AddOns are installed
- Log in
- At the Character Select screen, look in lower left corner for the "addons" button.
- If button is there: make sure all the mods you installed are listed and make sure "load out of date addons" is checked.
- If the button is NOT there: means you did not install the addons properly. Look at the above screenshots. Try repeating the steps or getting someone who knows more about computers than you do to help.
Translations
When you download a mod, please be sure that the mod is compatible with your translation of wow. Some mods only work on the US versions, while some only work on some of the various European versions. These variations are called "Localizations".
TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)
When Blizzard patches WoW, they change the Interface number. This means that all mods will be "out of date" unless or until the author releases a new version for that interface. Some people go into the .toc files and update the numbers themselves, but this is STRONGLY advised against as it will cause problems locating possible incompatibilities addons. When you log into WoW after a patch, you DO NOT have to delete your interface directory. All you have to do is simply tell WoW to ignore the interface numbers and load all the mods anyway. All you have to do is, while at the "character select" screen, look in the lower left corner and click on the "addons" button. A window will pop up listing all your installed mods.
If you look in the upper left corner of that window there should be a box that says "Load Out of Date AddOns". You want to CHECK this box. Now simply go into WoW normally and all your mods should load. As of the 1.9 patch, you will have to do this after EVERY patch/update that Blizzard posts! If you encounter any problems with a mod after a patch, please be sure to let the author of the mod know so they can fix it.
See also: About "Out Of Date AddOns"
Mac Support
WoW addons are not platformed based. As such, they can be used on either Mac or PC. You can extract both .zip and .rar files on a Mac using StuffitExpander.
Directory Structure
World of Warcraft
|_ Interface
|_AddOns
|_*AddonName*
|_ *AddonName*.toc
|_ *AddonName*.xml
|_ *AddonName*.lua
|_ (possibly others as well)...
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Nihlo saidMessage: ..\AddOns\Elephant\Event-Handle.lua line 23:
attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)
Debug:
...\AddOns\AtlasLoot\Libs\AceEvent-2.0\AceEvent-2.0.lua:303: TriggerEvent()
...\AddOns\AtlasLoot\Libs\AceEvent-2.0\AceEvent-2.0.lua:910:
...\AddOns\AtlasLoot\Libs\AceEvent-2.0\AceEvent-2.0.lua:903
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Gentian saidDoes anyone have a problem with copying text or is it just me? Whenever I try to copy something, I'm only able to copy a very small portion of what I have in my log. I was talking to one of my friends and she said to use ctrl+a to highlight everything, then use ctrl+ c to copy and finally ctrl +v to paste.
Well she was right on that part ctrl+a does highlight everything, which is nice since now I don't have to worry about clicking and trying to drag my mouse down so I can highlight things. However with that being said, the only that ends up being copied onto Microsoft word is exactly what the copy window holds; which is about 35 lines give or take. She told me that she's able to copy the entire log and that the copy window just shows a sample but I can copy everything at once. I keep trying to do that but I only end up copying the small amount of lines shown in the copy window. Am I doing something wrong? Another person told me that she had to copy everything in chunks (which I ended up doing as well).
That may not be a bad thing for someone who has somewhere around 150 words, they don't have that many chucks to go through. They have about 4 chunks they need to cut and paste to get everything. I have over 1000 lines that I want to put into MS word and I'd like to get it all at once instead of having to do a good 29 or so chunks of 35 lines give or take. Do I have to do this or can I copy then entire thing at once?
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pb_ee1 saidHum.... 1 month isn't soon, but at least the release is here and is very stable ;-)
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pb_ee1 saidNew release coming soon. Not much improvements, more a compatiblity to 2.4 fix.
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pb_ee1 saidHum... very strange, it seems that it's coming from TriggerEvent(). I never had this message on Elephant, but if you have this bug again, please feel free to post here and I'll look into it more seriously.
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SilverShadow saidI just had this error pop up when I hearthed to Shatt:
Date: 2008-01-14 20:05:49
ID: 51
Error occured in: Global
Count: 1
Message: ..\AddOns\Elephant\Event-Handle.lua line 23:
attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)
Debug:
...s\AckisRecipeList\libs\AceEvent-2.0\AceEvent-2.0.lua:305: TriggerEvent()
...s\AckisRecipeList\libs\AceEvent-2.0\AceEvent-2.0.lua:914:
...s\AckisRecipeList\libs\AceEvent-2.0\AceEvent-2.0.lua:907
AddOns:
AckisRecipeList, v0.632
ArkInventory, v2.26
AucAdvanced, v5.0.PRE.2739
AucFilterBasic, v5.0.PRE.2739 (BillyGoat)
AucStatClassic, v5.0.PRE.2739 (BillyGoat)
AucStatPurchased, v5.0.PRE.2739 (BillyGoat)
AucStatSimple, v5.0.PRE.2739 (BillyGoat)
AucStatStdDev, v5.0.PRE.2739 (BillyGoat)
beql, v0.98
BeanCounter, v5.0.PRE.2739 (BillyGoat)
ChatMOD, v116
Clique
CTBarMod, v2.007 (CTMod 2.0)
CTBottomBar, v2.004 (CTMod 2.0)
CTBuffMod, v2.04 (CTMod 2.0)
CTCore, v2.003 (CTMod 2.0)
CTExpenseHistory, v2.003 (CTMod 2.0)
CTMailMod, v3.01 (CTMod 2.0)
CTMapMod, v2.006 (CTMod 2.0)
eCastingBar
Elephant, v2.5
EnhTooltip, v5.0.PRE.2739
EquipCompare, v2.11
FishingBuddy, v0.9.3i
FBOutfitDisplayFrame, v0.9.3i
FBTrackingFrame, v0.9.3b
FBMergeDatabase, v0.9.3i
Informant, v5.0.PRE.2739
ItemRack
MyRolePlay, vAlpha 2.7.40
NotesUNeed, v6.31.20300
ReagentID, v2.3.21
Stubby, v52
Swatter, v5.0.PRE.2739
XPerlArcaneBar
XPerlParty
XPerlPartyPet
XPerlPlayerBuffs
XPerlPlayer
XPerlPlayerPet
XPerlTarget
XPerlTargetTarget
XPerlTutorial
XPerl, v2.3.9
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pb_ee1 saidIt's impossible. Please check the previous messages, I explained this at least three times.
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mythbinder saidIs there anyway to stop it from saving chats like general and trade to the Log file?
I tried disabling them inside the pluggin but stil get wrote to the file..
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pb_ee1 saidHum... strange bug, never had it. Do you have a way to reproduce the bug? It'll give me a clue of where it's coming from.
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SenninDrako saidI'm not sure if it's something I did or what.. When I look over my /say logs, the lines of text have copies.
For Example:
Player1 grins. "Race ya?"
Player1 grins. "Race ya?"
[S] <Player2>: Mmm... You don't stand a chance!
[S] <Player2>: Mmm... You don't stand a chance!
I replaced ChatLog with new Elephant just a few days ago. And it doesn't seem to be doing that in any of my custom channels. I run Prat 2.0. Is that having any effect? My chat logging with Prat isn't enabled, neither is the chat copy.
Just wondering if I found a random bug..
Thank you.
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pb_ee1 saidSimply type /clog toggle to show the window.
You can then click on the "Copy" button to display a window where you can do Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V to Copy/Paste the text.
If you have enabled the logging to a file, you'll find those files in the World of Warcraft/Logs folder.
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Hotyk saidI feel like a bloody moron as I've never used an addon quite like this... WHERE do I access the chat log if I wanted to go about saving it?
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pb_ee1 saidElephant does save each chat separately. You want to see only the raid? Then click on the raid tab. Only the whispers? Whisper tab. Custom channel? <custom channel name> tab. Etc.
"Elephant requires you to use the game to see this 'log' (...)" --> That's working as intended. No addon can work without the game running, did you expect being able to do so with Elephant? :/
If I have limited the addon to 1000 lines, it's for memory concerns. I've tried to save 25 000 lines per chat (so that makes... yeah, a lot, more than 200 000 lines saved) and it works very well. But it takes more than 10 MB in memory, that's way too much for an addon.
Saving to the file is possible, but it is not customizable at all, due to restrictions in the UI. If you had searched a bit in the comments, you would have seen that this problem (saving all or nothing in files) cannot be solved by me.
I really don't see the point of your post, actually.
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honem saidHave you considered using an algorithm that loads a bigger than a 1000 line log in 1000 line chunks ?
That would avoid loading the entire thing in.
So for example a 250,000 line log could be loaded in like this
1-1000
user scrolls to end
display loading pizza wheel
load 1001 - 2000
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daxdax saidIt doesnt really log each separate chat. Logging is saving it so you can view it separately. Elephant requires you to use the game to see this 'log', and it only shows you the last 1000 lines. Want to see the last 1001th line of guild chat? Tough luck.
True, you can save EVERYTHING in one big dump file, but good luck finding anything there.
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pb_ee1 saidThat's really.... weird. I have no idea why it would do that, there's no reason it does. I'm pretty sure it's not an issue with Elephant, or not directly, because i know a few guildies that use Elephant & Gatherer and that do not have any problem like this. I'm going to test it though, and if I can reproduce the bug I'll fix it. But if I cannot... then there's little hope I'll be able to do so.
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piratespice saidI would love to use this AddOn, but its having a conflict with some other AddOns and I can't figure out why. Whenever I install Elephant (or Chatlog in the past) it empties the .lua files for Gatherer, as well as the individual MyRolePlay .lua files for any character I log in while Elephant is installed.
Hope you can help me. If not, I figured you should be aware of this issue.
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wolftankk saidI update chinese translation on ace svn now. i wait for this addon long long time........ T T
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pb_ee1 saidI have uploaded the first release of the newly named ChatLog addon. Code is the same, only the name changes ;)
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pb_ee1 saidThen try to simply tick/untick the checkbox.
Beware that if you have another addon that manages the chat/combat logging, it may conflict with Elephant. For example: Prat. Try to simply disable logging in other addons (or in Elephant) and use the logging in only one addon.