Addon: Highlight (Name Colouring And Nick Names)

This addon (originally inspired by the Ashita extension spotlights) replaces party members names with colored versions of them in the chat log. It uses battlemods colour files to get these colours.

This addon will also overwrite some other addons coloring, such as rolltracker.




Additionally, it also has a nickname function. Ever tire of misspellings of your name? Linkshells members often referred to with their real name? No more!



When the ability to add sound into luacore comes about this will be used to replace Chatmon, enabling the ability to add a "You are being talked about" sounds on nicknames.

I hope you enjoy it

Few things to note too, it won't change your outgoing text, like that Ballon example suggests, it'll just change the incoming text.

If you don't have a battlemod color file it'll use the colors in your settings.xml.

Nicknames are added in the nicknames.xml file, you should not add spaces inbetween the names. It should be formatted like so <Balloon>Ballon,Ball,Pod</Balloon>. This changes Ballon Ball and Pod to Balloon.

Looks amazing. Is it already out or is there a release date?

It's already out - in the addons menu in windower 4 :) Chatmon functionality will be coming later

I gotta try this. I like colors. And colors help me distinguish folks so that I can heal their *** on time. Which is why I have battlemod.

Thanks!

I have a question I'd like to ask and it regards the color changes.

Is there a sort of explanation on how I can proceed to do the changes? I looked at the readme's and I'm still confused. =/

Yes there is!

If you use battlemod you will need to change your colors.xml file in addons/battlemod/data.xml - the following image lists the colors, but you can also access them via //bm colortest.



If you aren't using battlemod, the file you need to edit is highlights/data/settings.xml - in there are colors from p0-a25, changing the values of these will change the colors.

Of course, nothing is helped by ffxis very limited color scheme.

How would people feel about the option to put anything mentioning you into the tell channel, so that it is viewable in the tell chat menu?

I'm divided, because the tell log is used quite a bit. I would put it in The say log so they're accessible, but that is used by rolltracker to track roll, and battlemod to track wearing buffs.

Known bug.

words with your nickname built in return as start+nickname.

So for example: Basketball is BasketBalloon. Trying to fix.

Anyone had any issues?

If you had some problems before with colors disappearing when people join parties it should be fixed now.

Okay, last post in here for a while, since nobody else is commenting. I've added mule functionality to this.

You can now specify the name of your mule, and set a static color for them even when they're not in party. If they are in a party, the color you specify will overwrite the color default.

You can do this for anyone, including ls members.

Just add the names to the mules.xml file like so.

I've just submitted a pull request for this, so it will be pulled within the next day.

Enjoy.

There's a bug stopping this from working atm but I've already made a request for it to be fixed, so it should be fixed by the end of the day.

Okay, fixed, and there's a new feature where you can just highlight instances of your own name.

Just added some further functionality that should go live sometime tomorrow.

Recent Mentions:
This records when you have been mentioned in the chatlog, and allows you to view them later.

//highlight view <optional number of lines>
will allow you to view all the times you have been mentioned.

Necro Update - GO!

So I don't think many people used this, but I just reactivated my account after a hiatus and realised this was broken.

If anyone is interested in using it it should, you know, work now.

Enjoy! And if you have any feature requests or what not let me know :)