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Chat Mods
One of the more popular addons for customising your chat is Prat. What makes this addon interesting is just how many options and features it has. Even more interesting is just how many people it takes to make this addon! At least 11 – 12 people are mentioned in the credits… not including the Chinese I don’t understand. :D But 4 are listed as the Development Team.
The modules can all be turned off or on based on your preferences and a full list of all the modules can be seen in the info.
Link: http://files.wowace.com/sw-p.html
Info: http://www.wowace.com/wiki/Prat

Honestly you don’t need all the features that Prat offers. BasicChatMods is a lightweight alternative which won’t break the bank on memory. “BasicChatMods aims to be a simple chat addon promoting users to customize it with lots of documentation. Each module is split into its own file with small comments and guides.”
Link: http://files.wowace.com/cat-chat.html
Info: http://www.wowace.com/wiki/BasicChatMods

Looking at that sentence in chat and wishing you didn’t have to copy it all down manually? CCopy is a small addon which allows you to copy chat lines in a small addon. No frills attached :D
Link: http://files.wowace.com/cat-chat.html

There are many small chat enhancement mods which I will Bundle together here with a small description.
ChainLink:Adds URL and chat-channel hyper-linking to the chat frames.
Cellular: Instant messenger for whispers. Quite interesting so I will provide the Wiki link.
Info: http://www.wowace.com/wiki/Cellular
ChatStamp Add timestamps to chat messages.
http://files.wowace.com/cat-chat.html

Don’t like those system messages clogging up your General Tab? Move them elsewhere and colour them using System Message Control Tool.
Link: http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info7910-SystemMessageControlToo
l.html
Pic: http://s.wowinterface.com/preview/pvw10510.jpg

Very simple mod is ChatIcons. It adds an icon of the spell/item which you link in chat next to the name. Check it out!
Link: http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info8287-ChatIcons.html
Pic: http://s.wowinterface.com/preview/pvw12337.jpg

I honestly don’t know how to describe fully this addon so here is a quote “WIM (WoW Instant Messenger) is a World of Warcraft addon which helps you to manage your whispers by making them into a classic instant messenger interface such as AIM, Yahoo and MSN.” It has a spam filter, tab options and lots of other nifty features for your chatbox.
Link: http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info5342-WIMWoWInstantMessenger.
html
Pic: http://s.wowinterface.com/preview/pvw7452.jpg

Elephant is the perfect name for this addon because it remembers everything. Ok not everything but it remembers the chat over sessions so you can reread those moments of “epic lulz” all over again. Also saves you from losing whispers which you didn’t get time to read before disconnecting from server.
Link: http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info5423-Elephant.html
Pic: http://s.wowinterface.com/preview/pvw4230.jpg

Sick of your chat tabs? Customise them using Fane but don’t expect to find an options menu. You need to modify it in the .lua file if you don’t like the default version.
Link: http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info7984-Fane.html
Pic: http://s.wowinterface.com/preview/pvw10725.png

• Name and Realm, (US or EU?)
  Moonfann US-Ysera
  Kagaro US-Ysera (my old main)
  
  
• How long have you been playing WoW / creating Addons?
  I’ve been playing since release, and started working on mods about year and a half ago.
  
  
• How and why did you get involved in creating addons?
  I started reading over the ace forums, at first it was to change up
  ndkp to fit our guild needs. After that it was for the fun.
  
  
• What addons have you created so far?
  GatherMate, kgPanels, Talismonger, LuckCharms (macro based raid target marking), I also did a bit of work on Cartographer (Mining/Herbs/Fish/Stats/Sharing)
  
  
  
• Are you a professional programmer or did you learn the Lua language informally by yourself?
  I am a professional developer, but I learned Lua on my own. My day to day work has been varied over the years. C++, Java, Perl, Ruby, Objective-C, RubyCocoa.
  
  
• Any advise for people thinking about getting involved in Lua programming?
  Read the Lua book, visit the forums, ask questions, and a lot of questions. I learn something new all the time.
  
  
• Memory usage and performance seems to be becoming a big issue nowadays. What are your thoughts on it and do you consider it when making your addons?
  Memory was a big issue for me, my previous rig was a PowerMac Dual G5 with a very weak graphics card. So reducing cpu/memory was my main concern. I myself try to stay under 30 megs of ram and I ditch mods which use to much or slow down my raid performance. That why kgPanelsConfig is a separate LOD addon, and why GatherMate exists. Cart got too big and was being a hog on memory/cpu so GatherMate was the direct result. My next endeavour is replacing FuBar, I find the Rock libraries to be a bit intensive, so I’m trying to replace all my mods that use it.
  
  
• kgPanels is your newest* addon.(*I could be wrong)Why did you take over the programming from the original author Evil Elvis? Or is this simply an upgraded version which has nothing to do with him?
  I originally had asked EE if he was going to port over eePanels2 from Ace2 to Ace3. I had done a bit of work at this point already in something I called Galleria (it was never up on wowace). We spent a bit of time working together (Evil did a good chunk of the config layout) and he even suggested the name kgPanels.
  
  
  
• What addon could you simply not play the game without?
  Bartender right now, I can’t stand the default ActionBars
  
  
• Has patch 2.4 affected you in any way?
  Well the new combat log required me to rework some code for Gas Extraction. It is now a combat even without putting you in combat!
  There is also some info mods I liked that no longer work due to the combat log change.
  
  
• What are you planning for the future as your next project?
  A replacement of some sort for FuBar, even if I’m the only one using it, would be enough for me.
  
  
• What changes would you like to see Blizzard make in relation to addons and the interface? Or what could they have done better?
  Some more built-in functions for image manipulation so I could rotate and crop an image. I would love to see a move playback api so learning nights in raids people could not only see the strategy in game but watch a quick clip of it without alt-tabbing out.
  
  
• The one addon that you cannot live without?
  A Dot tracker of some type (I use Quartz right now) and an ActionBar mod (I use Bartender)
  

Name: Lament of the Highbourne
Author: wweduff (WoWUI)
Macro:

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Q u o t e:

/script PlaySoundFile("Sound\Music\GlueScreenMusic\BCCredits_Lament_o
f_the_Highborne.mp3")

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Not tested but it should work.
“This song can be heard in-game from Lady Sylvanas Windrunner and her Highborne Lamenters after finding her locket, a gift from her sister Alleria, and returning it to the Dark Lady.
With this macro you can listen the song again, and again, and again...”

Kiralee asks the question on many people’s lips, “Curse VS WowAce?”
http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=3545384830&sid=1

Join the debate!

Probably the best idea for anyone wanting to ask something on this forum to do is to first visit the stickies. Lots of information is already available there.
UI Sticky compilation - Updated 10/06

Still having addon woes after 2.4? Check this thread out which will help you find out what might be wrong.
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=5469238267&s
id=1

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