Recount as a chat Tab

[Bigabyte]

Cheers,

I'm looking for an addon/script that simply embeds (in a non destructive way) the Recount window in the blizz chat box. Does anyone know one?

I'm trying to minimize my UI and something like this would be extremely awesome!


Btw I know that ElvUI does it but as I've stated before, I don't want to change the overall look of my UI

Thank you in advance!

[endersblade]

Cheers,

I'm looking for an addon/script that simply embeds (in a non destructive way) the Recount window in the blizz chat box. Does anyone know one?

I'm trying to minimize my UI and something like this would be extremely awesome!


Btw I know that ElvUI does it but as I've stated before, I don't want to change the overall look of my UI

Thank you in advance!

Oh man, I never thought of that. I second this, this would be amazing!

[Azelias]

You could probably get the name of the specific chat frame and if it's visible, show the recount/skada/details frame. I did something similar with scripted kgpanels a couple of years ago. I wouldn't be susprised if a WA could do it.
All you're doing is simply overlaying the meters on the chat box area, but it could "look" like its embedded.

[Junkdepot]

That's basically what the embed feature in AddOnSkins does (that's the actual addon that allows ElvUI and Tukui to embed both Skada and Recount). It doesn't truly embed the frame into the chat window but rather overlays it and hides the chat with a toggle to switch between the two.

You could probably take a look at Azilroka's code and contact him to see how hard it would be to break it out of it's Elv dependency. Outside of that, I'm not seeing many options.

[Bigabyte]

You could probably get the name of the specific chat frame and if it's visible, show the recount/skada/details frame. I did something similar with scripted kgpanels a couple of years ago. I wouldn't be susprised if a WA could do it.
All you're doing is simply overlaying the meters on the chat box area, but it could "look" like its embedded.

Not sure I've understood what you mean... are you suggesting to create a tab called "Recount", put the Recount frame into the chat frame and make Recount visible only when the "Recount Chat Tab" is selected? How am I supposed to do? Should I change the code of Recount or create a separate addon/script to do that?

That would be really good, but it would be perfect if I could drag the chat tab outside the chat box aswell, just in case I was asked by the raid leader to read the chat during certain fights ("use BL when I write it" etc.).

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That's basically what the embed feature in AddOnSkins does (that's the actual addon that allows ElvUI and Tukui to embed both Skada and Recount). It doesn't truly embed the frame into the chat window but rather overlays it and hides the chat with a toggle to switch between the two.

You could probably take a look at Azilroka's code and contact him to see how hard it would be to break it out of it's Elv dependency. Outside of that, I'm not seeing many options.

Another good call, but that seems extremly complicated (I could ask the author to do it for me, but I'm sure he has other priorities :/ ).
Anyway If I had to do it myself I think it would be way easier to make it from scrath than modifying someone else's code (actually I could use that addon as a model , but i'm not very good at reciclying others' codes xD )

[Arborus]

I do something similar with kgPanels scripts.

This one is a button that toggles Skada and the minimap, but it could be modified to do the same thing with the chat.

OnClick:

if pressed then
     if IsControlKeyDown() then
          if SkadaBarWindowMeter:IsVisible() then
              SkadaBarWindowMeter:Hide()
          else
              SkadaBarWindowMeter:Show()
end
     else
          if Minimap:IsVisible() then
               Minimap:Hide()
               self.bg:SetVertexColor(.35, .91, 1, 1)
          else
               Minimap:Show()
     end
end
end

This toggles my minimap on click and Skada on ctrl + click.

Looks like this at the moment.