Req: Tabbed chat window?

[argash]

would it be bossible to create a tabbed chat window so i could have 1 chat window instead of 4? ala star wars galaxies?

[Deathbane27]

Sorry, we don't have the ability to do that at this time. The chat text is only sent to a specificly named Text object on a specificly named Page, and we can't tab multiple pages or text objects with the same name.

[Serrin]

Would having separate windows that overlay each other exactly work? Each window could have a tab offset so that when you click on the new "tab" you are actually giving focus to a whole new window? It might give the effect of having one window with tabs, but could be up to 5 or so windows perfectly alligned over each other. Not sure if this is possible or desired, just trying to come up with an alternative that may seem to work.

[beastnic]

the problem with that sugestion Serrin is that each chat window is an exact clone of the main chat window. I tried once to make a tabbed chat but the data stream is just not made for it I ended up with 4 tabs of blank pages.

[Deathbane27]

Originally Posted by Serrin

Would having separate windows that overlay each other exactly work? Each window could have a tab offset so that when you click on the new "tab" you are actually giving focus to a whole new window? It might give the effect of having one window with tabs, but could be up to 5 or so windows perfectly alligned over each other. Not sure if this is possible or desired, just trying to come up with an alternative that may seem to work.

Not possible, unfortunately. Every window is a perfect rectangle and there's no way to make a clickable extrusion.

[insomniac]

hey if we can figure out how to get parameters working in onpress you could maybe do a really crappy one with /show_window buttons =)

if /show_window chat1/2/3/4 even works..

[Talyns]

Originally Posted by insomniac

hey if we can figure out how to get parameters working in onpress you could maybe do a really crappy one with /show_window buttons =)

if /show_window chat1/2/3/4 even works..

It would be
/show_window MainHUD.MainChat_clone_0
/show_window MainHUD.MainChat_clone_1
/show_window MainHUD.MainChat_clone_2
etc..

However we still don't know if/how you can use commands with parameters in events..

I tried making a fake tab window, by adding buttons to switch windows..

For example a button on the MainChat Page would look like this..

OnActivate="Parent.Visible=false Parent.Parent.MainChat_clone_1.Visible=true"

But that didn't work either..