Warning: Requires BazCore. If you use the CurseForge app, it will be installed automatically. Manual users must install BazCore separately.

BazChat

Modern chat replacement with per-tab channel filtering, persistent history across /reload, two-column timestamps with channel-colored gutter bars, auto-show tabs, and built-in copy-paste.

BazChat is a full-stack chat replacement built on Blizzard's chat primitives — ScrollingMessageFrame, ChatFrameMixin, ChatFrameEditBoxTemplate, TabSystemTemplate. It hides Blizzard's default chat windows and creates its own, so it owns the lifecycle, tabs, channel filtering, fade modes, persistence, and timestamp rendering end-to-end. The Blizzard message formatter, hyperlinks, edit-box history, BN whisper routing, and combat log all keep working untouched — they're the same primitives, just composed differently.

Each tab has its own independent channel subscription. Right-click any tab to open a 2-column popup that lists every chat category (Say, Emote, Guild, Whispers, Party, Raid, etc.) plus every currently-joined channel (General, Trade, LocalDefense) as individual toggles. You can have a Whispers-only tab, a Trade-only tab, a Combat Log tab — whatever fits your workflow.

Timestamps render as a left gutter alongside the chat body, not as an inline prefix. A 1-pixel vertical bar between the timestamp and message body is colored to match each message's chat type — green for guild, pink for whispers, yellow for system, the channel's custom color for numbered channels — giving you at-a-glance scanability of message types in a busy chat. Wrapped continuations stay visually anchored to their timestamp.

Chat persists across /reload and relog. The last 500 lines per tab are saved to BazCoreDB and replayed when you log back in, with a clear --- end of history --- separator before live messages start. Replayed lines re-render with their original capture time in the gutter, not "now."

Features

Full Chat Replica

• Path B architecture — Blizzard's default chat is hidden; BazChat owns the windows from scratch
• ChatFrameMixin layered onto our frames — message formatter, hyperlinks, language tags, color codes all work natively
• DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME repointed — print(), GM whisper routing, and the Enter-to-chat keybind all flow through us
• Compatibility — preserves the standard Blizzard chat dispatch and filter pipeline; the standard hooks the game exposes for chat customization continue to work normally

Tabs

• Default set — General, Guild, Trade, Log, plus a + button to create as many more as fit
• Right-click any tab to open the channel + rename + delete popup
• Hold a tab for ~2 seconds to drag-reorder; drop position persists across /reload
• BazCore options page for tab management (rename, delete, edit channels, auto-show mode)
• General tab is undeletable — owns the DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME claim
• Reset Tabs to Defaults button restores the canonical four with their preset channels

Auto-Show Tabs

Each tab has an auto-show setting that conditionally hides it unless the listed condition is met:

If the active tab gets hidden (e.g. you leave a raid with the Raid tab focused), BazChat falls back to General automatically.

Channel Filtering

• Per-tab toggles for every chat category and every currently-joined channel
• 2-column popup anchored under the right-clicked tab
• Channel-colored gutter bar per message — pulled from ChatTypeInfo so it updates live when you change a channel's color via Blizzard's /chat config
• Channel notice rendering — [Joined Channel], [Left Channel], [Changed Channel] all flow through normally
• Guild MOTD recovery on /reload + relog — the live GUILD_MOTD event fires before our chat frames register, so we manually fetch the cached MOTD and render it
• Tradeskill spam filter — suppresses other players' "X creates Y" proximity broadcasts so the Loot tab doesn't flood in cities

Two-Column Timestamps

• Left gutter rendering with a per-message vertical bar tinted to the message's chat type color
• Format dropdown with four presets: 24-hour, 24-hour with seconds, 12-hour, 12-hour with seconds. Power users can hand-edit the strftime string in the saved variable for locale-specific formats
• Date tooltip on hover — hover any timestamp for a tooltip showing the full date (Thursday, April 30, 2026)
• Wrap-aware — wrapped continuations of a long message align with the message body, not under the timestamp
• Historic stamps preserve original time — a message logged at 9 AM still reads 09:00:00 when you log back in at noon

Persistent History

• 500 lines per tab saved across /reload and relog (configurable, 100-2000)
• End-of-history separator clearly bracketed with blank lines before live messages start
• Channel-color preserved — each line's r/g/b is stored alongside text so the gutter bar reproduces correctly
• /clearchat wipes the active tab + its persisted history

Channel Names

Shortens bracketed channel prefixes for less horizontal noise:

Plus an option to strip numeric prefixes from custom channels: [1. Trade - Stormwind] → [Trade].

Copy Chat

• Small icon on the top-right of every chat frame — click to open a copy dialog
• Last 500 visible lines of that tab pre-selected, ready for Ctrl+A / Ctrl+C
• Color codes stripped — clean paste into Discord, bug reports, forums
• Hyperlinks preserved — |H...|h text is human-readable
• Also reachable via /bc copy

Auto-Hide Modes

Background panel, tab strip, and scrollbar each have their own visibility mode:

A Unified background + tabs override forces both to share a single mode for a minimal look.

Edit Mode Integration

• Native RegisterEditModeFrame integration via BazCore
• Inline settings popup with opacity, scale, and visibility-mode controls
• Position nudge for pixel-precise placement
• All chat windows + tabs move rigidly as a single dock when you drag

Typed Message History

• Up/Down arrows in the edit box cycle previous messages
• Persists across /reload and relog — saved to BazCoreDB
• Captured at C_ChatInfo.SendChatMessage so all send paths land in the buffer

Slash Commands

Installation

CurseForge / WoW Addon Manager

Search for BazChat in your addon manager of choice. BazCore will be installed automatically as a dependency.

Manual Installation

1. Install BazCore first
2. Download the latest BazChat release
3. Extract to World of Warcraft/_retail_/Interface/AddOns/BazChat/
4. Restart WoW or /reload

Compatibility

Dependencies

Required:

• BazCore — shared framework for Baz Suite addons (provides profiles, options window, copy dialog, settings spec)

License

BazChat is licensed under the GNU General Public License v2 (GPL v2).

_{Built with engineering precision by Baz4k}