NOTE: Zolan has passed ownership onto Harven for future updates.
What does it do?
This addon makes a sound when you receive a chat you are interested in.
For each of the following things, you can choose a sound from a list to play (or no sound to disable) if:
- You receive a chat in the following channels: Whisper, Party, Guild 1 through 5, Say, Zone or Yell. (individual settings per channel)
- Someone says your current character name, or your account name.
- A friend has said something in any chat channel.
- A specified key word or phrase has been said.
Additionally, you can...
- Have it NOT play a sound if you are the sender.
- Specify a blacklist of players you don't want it to make a notification for.
Since we aren't allowed to add our own sound files, it uses a handful of sounds from the game.
How do I configure it?
You can find the settings in SETTINGS->Zolan's Addons.
In the Zolan's Chat Notifications Settings section you will find everything you need. It is pretty straight forward and the tooltips on mouse overs has even more detailed information.
What are the future plans?- Increase the number of sounds that you can use.
- Possibly add a separate visual notification if the desire is high enough.
Donation Hall Of Fame!
These people have donated gold to Zolan! (This list encompasses all donations from all of my addons.)
- choekstr - 11,000 gold! Yeah... The comma is in the right place. At one time this was the largest donation out there. Since then Awesomebilly got a donation for 15,000 so now I await a rich fan to make me #1 again. Aside from the donation choekstr has given me tons of ideas for features to add to my addons as well as inspring a couple addons.
- Guardianrule - 500 gold! My very first donation I ever received. Sooooo nice to be appreciated for the amount of time I've put into making my addons for you guys!!!!
- ironllama - 500 gold! And another! You guys are friggin' awesome! Makes me feel like addon writing is worth it and helping people!
- jchudz - 500 gold! And another! Really happy that people enjoy my work!
- luizterra23 - 2,000 gold! And another! I am a happy man!
- Greiger - 2,000 gold! Just when I thought the well was dried up... WOOOOOOOOO!!!
Who is Zolan thankful to?
This isn't everyone that has helped but this is the major players that I'd like to call out.
- Blythe - I had wanted to make an addon like this and Blythe beat me to it by releasing ChatAlert. I asked her if I could use her code as a basis for my addon and she graciously gave me permission. Without this as a starting point, it would have been overwhelming to figure out how addon development worked. Anyway, she is amazing for letting me use her code and generally just awesome. Her addon ChatAlert is still being actively developed and has differences with my addon so if you are unhappy with mine, feel free to check hers out. Hers has a feature to make sound when a friend logs in and out which I do not plan to add to this addon.
- The Arcane Scripters Guild - I can't list everyone in the guild but I will call out Xrystal and Seerah as they have helped me a lot. I've yet to ask a question and not get an answer from someone. I'm very thankful that I was allowed to be part of the group.
- YOU - That's right. Thank you for using the addon! Seeing the number of downloads and favorites encourages me to do more work.
My Other Addons:
All of my addons are intended to be used together, so if you like one, you might want to install others. Here's the list.
Zolan's Chat Notifications - Makes audio queues on incoming chat that you don't want to miss. It is extremely configurable. Please give it a try.
Zolan's Junk Handler - Handles nearly everything you could hope for when it comes to junk. Including, tracking user junk marking and repeating it. Marking certain things like ornate items or 'icky food'. Then selling all junk upon visiting a vendor. It even has the ability to destroy junk under certain conditions. You really should give it a shot. It is, in my biased yet honest opinion, a pretty darn good addon.
Zolan's Auto Repair - Automatic repairing of your gear upon visiting a vendor.
Zolan's Slash Commands - A couple handy slash commands for doing stuff.
Zolan's Anchors Away - Blocks that annoying 'Too many anchors processed.' error. It is kind of like cold medicine. It doesn't fix the problem, it just makes the symptoms go away.
Known Problems:
None, but that doesn't mean there aren't any.
Final Notes:
If you are interested in having visual notifications, ask for it in the comments. If you think you have better onomatopoeias than I do, feel free to add them to the comments as well.
-- Zolan