CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. The format is based on Keep a Changelog

[1.12.2] - 2023.07.09

Fixed

• Blink animation on Tabs

• Broken chat if you have an empty group

[1.12.1] - 2023.05.04

Fixed

• chat formatting for say and emote

[1.12.0] - 2023.05.03

Added

• Font size

  • There is now a wider range of sizes to choose from - or just enter whatever number you like

• Customizable gap between chat messages

• Customizable chat UI size

  • UI scales with menu font size, independently of your font size for chat messages

• Config

  • UI scales automatically with the width of the dialog

• Previous messages are updated if group settings are changed

• Tabs can be filtered by groups

• Color pickers for channel specific senders

Changed

• Some settings were split into their own tabs

  • Chat log
  • Range filter
  • Formatting

• Chat log

  • by default enabled

Fixed

• Chat position and size

  • The values in config will now update if you move your chat around (hover with your mouse over the chat and press ctrl-key, you can drag and resize it now!)
  • It's now possible to enter negative values for multi-monitor setups

• Gobchat will now recognize more FF14 auto translated terms

[1.11.4] - 2023.01.13

Fixed

With 6.3 Gobchat was unable to identify player characters from the game. While no error message was shown, features like rangefilter and Check own messages for mentions were not working previously.

• Rangefilter

• Mentions

[1.11.3] - 2022.08.03

Added

• Chat log
  • A new keyword {sender-cha} which writes the sender name as seen in game. For example; tells will have their '>>', emote won't use colons, etc
  • Added a new predefined log format which will use {sender-cha}
  • {sender-cha} not supported by log converter

Fixed

• Gobchat was unable to identify a character as the sender of a chat message, if said character had one or more hyphens in its name.

• Rangefilter

  • The filter should no longer ignore names with hyphens

• Mentions

  • Check own messages for mentions should work as expected for a character with hyphens in their name

[1.11.2] - 2022.04.15

Fixed

• Rangefilter
  • memory signature updated

[1.11.1] - 2021.09.30

Fixed

• An issue where the order of elements, if changed without adding or removing, was not saved

  • tabs, groups, etc.

• An issue where the chat log format was not saved to a new log file

• An issue where the reset button for channel colors didn't work

[1.11.0] - 2021.09.09

Added

• Chat log

  • Change which channels are logged in Config / Channel
  • Customizable chat log format in Config / App
    • Details in readme under Chat Log

• LogConverter

  • Supports customizable chat log format CCLv1

• Message culling for 'outdated' messages is back

  • It uses FFXIV's time now

[1.10.0] - 2021.04.14

Added

• Chat command: config open

  • Opens the Config dialog

• Chat command: config reset frame

  • Resets the overlay position and size to default

• More localization (Config, Chat commands)

• Off-screen protection

  • If moved off-screen, Gobchat reverts back to its last position
  • If it's still off-screen, Gobchat resets position and size

• Tray icon

  • Button to reset overlay position and size to default

Removed

• Message culling for 'outdated' messages
  • Gobchat no longer removes messages with an outdated timestamp (if your system clock goes ahead, every message was outdated, until the game caught up)
  • Needs to be tested

Changed

• Chat command: profile changed to profile load

• Config / App / Chat position and size

  • Fields X & Y allow negative values

Fixed

• Rangefilter
  • Now utilizes the whole opacity range from start to end

[1.9.0] - 2020.09.08

Added

• Hotkeys

  • Button to remove hotkeys

• Support for multi-boxing

  • By default Gobchat shows the chat of the first process of FFXIV it can find
  • It's possible to select a specific process of FFXIV in Config / App / Multi-boxing

• Chat log

  • The output folder of chat logs can be changed on a profile level in Config / App

• Config

  • Button to close Gobchat
    • Gobchat can now be closed via config, tray icon (right click) or chat command (/e gc close)

Removed

• Limit of 10 chat entries per update
  • It no longer chokes on battle logs

Fixed

• LogConverter

• Newly created profiles were not saved without changes to the config

[1.8.0] - 2020.08.17

Added

• Chat tabs

  • Configuration can be found in Config / Chat tabs
  • Supports any number of tabs.
    • To navigate all tabs either use the buttons on the side of the tab bar or a scroll wheel while hovering it (Remember: Gobchat needs focus to detect a scroll wheel)
  • A yellow dot marks the active tab
  • Inactive tabs change their appearance on new messages or mentions
    • Can be changed in Config / Chat tabs

• Chat

  • Color selector for chat frame background color in Config / App

• More font sizes

  • Smaller, larger and very large

• More localization

Changed

• Profile selection drop down shows its content sorted

• Rangefilter

  • Removed check box for activation in Config / App

• Config / chat tabs

  • Rows in the tab table can be clicked directly to open the tab config

• Javascript dialogs

  • Replaced by proper html dialogs

Fixed

• Roleplay formatting

  • In some cases colors weren't applied correctly

• FFXIV error messages

  • Will no longer show up with an empty colon at the front

• Chat position (X, Y) in Config / App will now accept 0 as a value

[1.7.1] - 2020.07.18

Fixed

• Groups

  • Delete button for custom groups did not work

• Updater

  • Download status text will now show the correct number of downloaded bytes
  • Archive will be deleted if an error occurs while unpacking to avoid the same error on restart due to a corrupted archive

[1.7.0] - 2020.07.16

Added

• Theme selection in Config / App

  • Available themes are ffxiv dark / light and a kind of Gobchat legacy

• A checkbox in Config / app to (de)activate mention scanning in your own messages

  • If turned on, Gobchat will mark any mention it can find in your message
  • If turned off, Gobchat will not mark them, unless another user uses them.

• Chat commands: info off, info on

  • info off will suppress any Gobchat info until turned back on via info on or restart of Gobchat

• Chat commands: error off, error on

  • error off will suppress any Gobchat errors until turned back on via error on or restart of Gobchat

• Language selection dropdown in Config / App

  • Most of Gobchat is translated into german

• Tons of new tooltips

Changed

• Merged channels which are used by NPCs to talk into a single channel

Fixed

• An error on Config / Roleplay where reset entries stops working after one use
  • This bug also affected some other reset buttons

[1.6.3] - 2020.06.05

Added

• Color selection to channels: NPC dialog, animated emote, echo

Fixed

• groups

  • color reset buttons didn't work
  • ffxiv specific groups had their colors wrong

• hotkey: hide & show

  • Previously set hotkey could become stuck on profile reset

• profiles

  • A newly created profile could not be immediately activated without pressing save in between
  • Profiles which were created and deleted in the same session were not correctly deleted from disk and were loaded again at the next start

[1.6.2] - 2020.05.26

Fixed

• Messages not shown
  • A message which ends on one or more letters of a multi-letter token for roleplay, like '((', could cause an exception which leads to Gobchat not displaying the message

[1.6.1] - 2020.05.23

Fixed

• Profiles were not loaded
  • Player who used 1.5.2 but not any beta version of 1.6.0 experienced problems with their profiles

[1.6.0] - 2020.05.21

Added

• Character location updates

  • Gobchat tries to get information about your character and nearby players.
  • This feature is optional and can be deactivated in Config / App

• Chat command: player count

  • Counts nearby players.
  • Requires Character location updates

• Chat command: player list

  • Lists nearby players and their distance to you.
  • Requires Character location updates

• Chat command: player distance

  • Shows distance (in yalms) to a player.
  • Requires Character location updates

• Range filter

  • Applies (or hides) messages from players depending on their distance to you. The affected channels can be changed in Config / Channels. Will only work for players which are nearby. By default, deactivated and can be activated in Config / App
  • Requires Character location updates

• ChatLog converter

  • Can be found in the root directory and can be used to convert old chatlogs into the new format

Changed

• Chatlogs are now easier to read by splitting message header from content

• Your message will no longer be scanned for any mentions

  • Requires: Character location updates

[1.5.2] - 2020.03.22

Added

• A small border to the left side of the chat
• Profile import & export

Fixed

• Some grammatical errors in labels and tool-tips
• Command 'group': A Name containing '-' will now be saved correctly
• Error on download of beta versions

[1.5.1] - 2020.03.02

Added

• Another button Add new group in Config / Groups at the bottom, which will attach a new group at the end
• Textsearch, it's now possible to search through the chat. Gobchat will highlight all entries which fit the search term and allows stepping through them.
• A new button to open textsearch at the top of the chat
• Input boxes to set position and size of the chat in Config / App
• A Save & Exit button in Config
• Color picker for textsearch in Config / App

Changed

• Add new group in Config / Groups will now insert a new group at the beginning
• Save in Config will no longer close Config

Fixed

• Gobchat can now distinguish between different beta releases by parsing the pre-release version

[1.4.1] - 2020.02.19

Fixed

• Gobchat should work again - FFXIV uses new control characters since patch 5.2

[1.4.0] - 2020.02.03

Added

• Chat command to close gobchat. Use: /e gc close
• Message on config save
• Profiles will be saved directly to disk on save now
• Gobchat now uses a wider array of characters to detect say and emote, they can be configured in the roleplay tab

Fixed

• Hotkeys were not applied on change, only after restarting Gobchat
• Config dialog can only be opened once at the same time

[1.3.1] - 2020.01.20

Fixed

• Some typos
• Command group add / remove will now tell the user the result of the command

[1.3.0] - 2020.01.10

Added

• Sound on mention! The mention tab was extended and now includes settings to play a sound file
• Gobchat can now hide itself when FFXIV gets minimized

Fixed

• On profile delete the profile file will also be deleted from the filesystem, so it won't be loaded again
• Profile names can be changed

[1.2.1] - 2020.01.05

Fixed

• Changed settings will be applied immediately again, just how it should be!

[1.2.0] - 2020.01.05

Bug

• It's currently necessary to start Gobchat with admin rights, otherwise it can't read FF chatlog.

Added

• Profiles! It's now possible to have more settings per settings, so you can twink your twink
• Chat command to switch between profiles without open the settings. Try /e gc profile
• A checkbox which allows gobchat to be updated with pre-releases / beta-releases
• Gobchat will now communicate some of its problems with the user. Be nice
• Two new channels for Gobchat to report errors and inform the user about stuff
• Color selector for FFXIV ECHO and ERROR channel
• On using '/e gc' gobchat will now tell you which commands are available

[1.1.0] - 2019.12.06

Added

• Auto-Updater
• Field to set the frequency of chat updates in milliseconds (Experimental)
• Additional sections to the german readme

Changed

• Chatlogs names are changed from yyyy_MM_dd_HH_mm to yyyy-MM-dd_HH-mm

Fixed

• Lost messages when a high amount of messages from other players are received

[1.0.0] - 2019.11.27

Changed

• Gobchat is now a stand-alone application

Added

• Checks for a new version of gobchat on start-up
• Tray Icon! It even can be clicked. Watch out!
• Support for ffxiv's autotranslate. (English)
• Chat History to file

[0.2.2] - 2019.10.27

Added

• Channel for npc dialogue

Fixed

• Players didn't show up, when their last name contained an apostrophe/additional uppercase letter and gobchat didn't know the datacenter yet

[0.2.1] - 2019.10.22

Added

• Tooltips to some interactable fields
• Party 'Random / Roll / Dice' channel

Changed

• Group delete requires a confirmation
• Delete buttons have now a proper icon
• Reset buttons have now a proper icon
• Merged all 'Random / Roll / Dice' channels into one

[0.2.0] - 2019.10.18

Added

• Player groups. It is now possible to make own groups, which get activated on certain players to style their message further
• Player groups are sorted. Only the first group that matches will be applied.
• Server name. If someone comes from another server, the overlay tries to display their server separate from their last name
• A chat command manager. To start a chat command use '/e gc'
• chat command 'group'. Allows to add, remove and clear player groups. Example: /e gc group 1 add firstname lastname [server] (Server is only needed if the player comes from a different server than you!)

Fixed

• Checkboxes on the plugin control form have now the correct size

[0.1.5] - 2019.10.11

Added

• Channels for random rolls

Fixed

• Automatic Stylesheet generation was not triggered on a fresh start with no settings
• No messages if mentions are empty
• Party chat should work again

[0.1.4] - 2019.10.10

Added

• Color can be changed for each (cross-world)-linkshell separately
• Friendlist Groups can now be colorized too!

[0.1.3] - 2019.10.09

Added

• Config button to overlay. On click it will open a config dialog
• Detection for 'ooc' comments. A ooc-comment starts with (( and ends with ))
• Detection for 'emote' in say. When quotation marks are used to mark speech in say, everything that's not enclosed in quotation marks will be seen as emote
• Mention config to config dialog
• Channel color selection to config dialog
• Channel visibility to config dialog
• Channel roleplay formatting to config dialog
• Basic font selection

Changed

• Moved mention config from plugin to overlay

Fixed

• Multiple whitespaces in chat are not removed anymore

[0.1.2] - 2019.09.28

Fixed

• Error on mentions, because of typo in javascript
• Autoscroll

[0.1.1] - 2019.09.27

Fixed

• Mentions should work better, even while enclosed by non-alphanumeric letters

[0.1.0] - 2019.09.25

Added

• A fixed roleplay format which will be applied to roleplay channels
• A fixed set of roleplay channels: Say (/s), Emote (/em), Yell (/y)
• A fixed color encoding for channels
• A scrollbar to overlay
• Ability to resize overlay
• Ability to set overlay to visible/hidden
• Ability to set overlay to activated/deactivated (If deactivated, the plugin does not process any input)
• Ability to set mentions