Listener is designed for roleplayers. It makes it easy to keep track of each player's chat messages when there is a lot going on, to help you in a crowded setting, or if you're hosting a scenario for a lot of people.
Cool Features
- Listener chat windows can filter messages from players, so you can show only who you want in a crowded environment.
- Listener adds the "Snooper", which shows emotes only from the person that you're mousing over. You'll never again need to search back through your chat history for them or ask, "Did I miss your emote?"
- Listener provides notifications when someone uses a character emote that's targeted at you. (e.g. /wave)
Quick-Start
For beginners, it's recommended to just start by using the Snooper display only. Exit the main chatbox by clicking the X. Click the minimap icon to configure things. You can also right-click the title of Listener windows to configure them.
The Snooper works by showing you a chat log of who you mouse over. It essentially alleviates the need to scroll through your chat history to try and spot if you had missed something from someone.
By default, Listener will make a sound when your target emotes, and if you're tabbed out, it'll flash the task bar icon – useful when someone is taking a while to type (or they're eating a burrito) and you'd rather be watching Youtube instead of the chat box.
See the project Pages if you need more help.
Please use the Issue Tracker on the project page to post bugs or requests.
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Hey! I have accidentally deleted the listener box and I can not for the life of me figure out how to get it back. Can you help an idiot out? XD
Hello, is there any way to delete the chat history ??
when is the chat deleted?
Not sure if it's just me being dumb, but I cannot see the settings for the addon in my interface tab, I want to reset the bars position but I locked it and disabled the toggle over function on it, I can't remember how to change it.
Is there a way to get Listener to use class colors for names in the main/chat frame instead of TRP colors?
If not, could you add that option?
the filters are erroring out when you try to limit channels. is there a fix coming?
Below is the error log
5x Listener\src\filter_menu.lua:199: attempt to index local 'name' (a number value)
Listener\src\filter_menu.lua:199: in function `PopulateFilterMenu'
Listener\ui\ListenerFrameMenu.lua:328: in function `PopulateFrameMenu'
Listener\ui\ListenerFrameMenu.lua:535: in function `initFunction'
FrameXML\UIDropDownMenu.lua:77: in function `UIDropDownMenu_Initialize'
FrameXML\UIDropDownMenu.lua:1085: in function <FrameXML\UIDropDownMenu.lua:950>
[C]: ?
[C]: in function `ToggleDropDownMenu'
FrameXML\UIDropDownMenu.lua:203: in function <FrameXML\UIDropDownMenu.lua:198>
[C]: ?
Locals:
level = 3
menuList = "FILTERS_MAIN_CHANNELS"
id = "MAIN"
submenu = "CHANNELS"
channels = <table> {
1 = 1
2 = "xtensionxtooltip2"
3 = false
4 = 2
5 = "General"
6 = false
7 = 3
8 = "Trade"
9 = false
10 = 4
11 = "LocalDefense"
12 = false
13 = 5
14 = "darknest"
15 = false
16 = 6
17 = "Community:349252711:1"
18 = false
19 = 7
20 = "Community:2155901:1"
21 = false
}
(for index) = 3
(for limit) = 21
(for step) = 2
i = 3
index = false
name = 2
(*temporary) = true
(*temporary) = 2
(*temporary) = "xtensionxtooltip2"
(*temporary) = 4
(*temporary) = "LocalDefense"
(*temporary) = false
(*temporary) = 5
(*temporary) = "darknest"
(*temporary) = false
(*temporary) = "attempt to index local 'name' (a number value)"
g_register = <table> {
SNOOPER = <table> {
}
MAIN = <table> {
}
}
L = <table> {
help_snooper2 = "This is the "Snooper" display. When you mouseover or target someone, their recent chat history will show up in here. It's for helping keep track of what a player is saying. You can adjust the settings by clicking the top left corner, or clicking the minimap button and going to Snooper."
help_listenerframe2 = "This is a Listener window. They're like an advanced chatbox. You can filter out players by holding shift and right-clicking them. Right click the upper left corner to open a menu for settings and such. If you close this window, you can open it again by clicking the minimap button. You may also right-click the minimap button to access the main configuration. See the Curse.com page for more instructions."
}
FILTER_OPTIONS = <table> {
Rolls = <table> {
}
Guild = <table> {
}
Instance = <table> {
}
Misc = "Misc"
CrossRP = "CrossRP"
Party = <table> {
}
Public = <table> {
}
Channel = "Channels"
Whisper = <table> {
}
Raid = <table> {
}
Officer = <table> {
}
Raid Warning = <table> {
}
}
AddFilterOption = <function> defined @Listener\src\filter_menu.lua:61
IGNORED_CHANNELS = <table> {
meetingstone = true
general = true
trade = true
localdefense = true
xtensionxtooltip2 = true
lookingforgroup = true
bigfootworldchannel = true
}
In reply to kauqilla:
Yeah :) Just been busy with bfa fun.
Just started using this after enjoying your other addons so much. It's a godsend for running an IC tavern, helps me see who has recently ordered what.
Suggestion:
Hey,
Suggestions:
- Allow us to change the font-size of the main window.
- Add the option to show TRP surnames in chat.
- Optional highlight mode, identical to the mouseover one, but for your current target.
- Option to be alerted to mention of our TRP/Player name in say/emote texts.
- Option to disable the "unseen" message highlight.
- Support for the TRP pipe character in emotes.
Thanks!
I'll keep these in mind. Font size can be adjusted with holding Ctrl and scrolling.
In reply to Kruithne:
Is it possible to get an option to make the snooper background darken like the main window? I find it hard to read at times, and being able to darken the background would help quite a bit.
Thank you for the lovely add on, it has saved my sanity at the Tournament of Ages on Moonguard this month.
I can look into adding more snooper customization in the future.
As for right now, you can turn on text outline if you're having visibility issues. Personally I use a medium sized font with just the text shadow enabled.
In reply to Verisimi:
In reply to tammymg:
I downloaded the addon tonight and started getting lua errors from the get-go. Took a bit of narrowing down but any 'standard' emote seems to give an error. /poke /laugh, etc.
Message: Interface\AddOns\Listener\listener.lua:396: bad argument #1 to '(for generator)' (table expected, got nil)
Time: 08/04/17 04:38:49
Count: 22
Stack: Interface\AddOns\Listener\listener.lua:396: bad argument #1 to '(for generator)' (table expected, got nil)Interface\SharedXML\SharedBasicControls.lua:204: in function <Interface\SharedXML\SharedBasicControls.lua:203>
(tail call): ?
[C]: in function `(for generator)'
Interface\AddOns\Listener\listener.lua:396: in function `?'
...ore\libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:145: in function <...ore\libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:145>
[string "safecall Dispatcher[18]"]:4: in function <[string "safecall Dispatcher[18]"]:4>
[C]: ?
[string "safecall Dispatcher[18]"]:13: in function `?'
...ore\libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:90: in function `Fire'
...\AddOns\DataStore\libs\AceEvent-3.0\AceEvent-3.0.lua:120: in function <...\AddOns\DataStore\libs\AceEvent-3.0\AceEvent-3.0.lua:119>
Locals: <none>
I pushed a fix for this. Thanks for letting me know.
For those who do not want Listener to beep and flash when rolls happen just edit Listener.lua and remove the first chunk of code right at the start that involves rolls.
Edit: Actually, I keep on getting errors left and right. I ended just using an earlier version pre-rolls.
The latest version should fix the rolling notification issue. If you are still getting errors, please let me know.
A very underrated addon that absolutely works wonders for people like me who have trouble keeping up with chat messages. Would definitely recommend this to anyone who shares the same problem.
Hey tammymg, we've been in contact a little about this addon in the past, and I am still loving this. I can't imagine trying to RP in large groups without it anymore. Truly a useful addon. I was wondering, as someone who does website design and UX design, would you ever want help for creating a new UI for this so the end user can set things up more, I want to say, intuitively, and have the features even be less slash command driven? I don't know what your plans are for the UI in the future (if any) but just being an addon that I like so much I'd be happy to help. I don't want anything for it, just offering a hand.
I don't know the first thing about coding LUA so I really could only offer up layouts for the UI which I would imagine would be coded afterward? Not sure how that works with addons. But anywho, thought I'd offer to help to see an addon I really like to flourish.