Add-on for Guild Groups and character names

[Lycos-Excite]

So a few times now i have participated in running some dungeons with fellow guild members. We all agree who wants to join and invites get sent.

Then to our dismay, the names that appear in the party are the character names not the @account names. We then run around trying to remember who is who.

I've looked at the API briefly and i think i might have a solution, It looks like i can get the character name from the @account name. So far i have come up with two think there are a  approaches to fixing this:

1.) Modify the guild chat channel to either replace or append the account name with the character name (i.e. @lycos-excite becomes altavista@lycos-excite or just altavista)

2.) modify the party chat to replace or append the character name with the account name (i.e. altavista becomes altavista@lycos-excite or just @lycos-excite)

I havent actually written any code for this yet, but poking around it looks like option 1 would be the simpler add-on, where i could query the character name for each guild message.

Option 2 is a bit trickier as there is no function that i see to get the account name from the character name, so i think i would have to either build a local array of account names from the guild roster, or iterate through all online guild members for each party chat message. (I'm not even sure if we can store local arrays yet.)

I might tinker around with this sometime soon,(it would be nice if i could code this when it didn't take away from playing time...)

Is there any interest in this? Not sure if I'm the only one bugged by this social aspect.

[Mithoron]

There is already an addon that does this that I've been using all weekend...it places the character name in the Guild Roster along with the account name:  Thurisaz Guild Info

[Lycos-Excite]

Not quite what i am saying, i want it to appear in our chat windows, so that the name we are constantly seeing is the same when we switch to the party.

I mean to intercept the chat and modify what is displayed in the chat window for each and every message.

[Mithoron]

I don't think you'll be able to intercept chat...otherwise gold spammers would have complete autonomy to their advertisements...

[Lycos-Excite]

I think you can, there are a number of apps that already append timestamps and change the guild name to its abbreviation. There are also already gold-spam filters that will remove all the gold spam from chat.

There are built in events for the chat messages that pass the string and you can edit it before outputting it

[Mithoron]

Well, if you do it...shorten the guild name to TEW, hehehe...

[ESOSecret]

There are several Chat Addons that modify chat so yah, its possible.. TimeStamp ones for example. 

[Lycos-Excite]

Ok, I have finished the alpha version of the addon.

I named it GuildChat. Here is what it does:

For all chat messages in the /g1 channel (guild 1) it replaces the Guild name with the character name. This name is a full normal link, so you can click and invite or reply or whatever.

For Group messages /g or /p it replaces the [group] with the character name (normal linkable) and changes the character name to the @account name if that person is in your guild 1. If that person is not in guild 1, it leaves that part as a blank []

This addon is a chat event handler and may not work with other similar addons, i.e the xtimestamp addon or pchat

If anyone would like to test this addon you can find it Here (Google drive link, press ctrl-s to save the zip file, then unzip in your addons folder

Please do so at your own risk (not responsible for any fires, riots, acts of god(s) or daedra)

[ESOSecret]

Looks good so far... 

[Lycos-Excite]

It seems to be working well for me, I may expand it to add support for accounts on your friends list and all 5 guild channels as well.

I don't think anyone else has tried it, but i find it pretty valuable to associate the character names with the accounts.