Need an old school players memory (Chat Bind)
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Posted on: 2011-11-20 23:58 in Player Questions
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Originally Posted by Wraiven
Ok, waaaaay back in the day, we used to use a chat bind that gave us an afk text along with a clear background chat bubble. I know there is a way to do it because my old school WS still has an $target Macro that uses this very chat bind.
It goes something like this... /bind enter beginchat <color purple> <bgcolor #0000002> <bordercolor black> $$afk typing, one second please. Problem is, is that it's not quite right. very close, but I'm missing something at the end to close it out I think. Anyone recall? |
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Yeah, something still isn't quite right. I can do it, but I have to type it manually every time. If I try and bind it, I have to hit enter, then manually click the chat box. It will not place my cursor in the chat box automatically. The bind will place my predetermined color coding in the chat box, but will not place my cursor there. Any idea how to fix this without having to manually click the chatbox with your mouse?
They were fixing something that could be used maliciously, possibly, and it broke storing those kinds of commands as binds
It is no longer possible on new binds.
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Wasn't that broken 2+ years ago?
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Yeah, seems more like three years ago. I was just hoping that by now they figured out a way to prevent hackers from abusing it. See as how we can still use the bind, but can't add the curser in the chat box, I was hoping somebody found a new way to do it successfully without having to manually input the string.
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Originally Posted by SerialBeggar
Wasn't that broken 2+ years ago?
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You can't do the colours anymore but displaying the afk message as you type is still doable.
I use the following binds:
ENTER "afk trying to type....$$show chat$$startchat"
BACKSPACE "afk trying to reply....$$autoreply"
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Chat colors in binds broke when they introduced text hot linking in (I think) Issue 12.
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Originally Posted by Wraiven
/bind enter beginchat <color purple> <bgcolor #0000002> <bordercolor black> $$afk typing, one second please.
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I was just trying this from the wiki article, (just the coloring bubble bind to enter) and it works, however the position of my bubble is now at the top of the screen, and no downward pointing spike on the bubble, it's just a rounded rectangle.
Anyone figure out how the affect the position of the bubble on the screen?
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Ok, waaaaay back in the day, we used to use a chat bind that gave us an afk text along with a clear background chat bubble. I know there is a way to do it because my old school WS still has an $target Macro that uses this very chat bind.
It goes something like this...
/bind enter beginchat <color purple> <bgcolor #0000002> <bordercolor black> $$afk typing, one second please.
Problem is, is that it's not quite right. very close, but I'm missing something at the end to close it out I think. Anyone recall?