All Sky / In-Game Chat Issues Here !!!

[Tuatara]

Hi,

*** Starting a new thread as the other thread has gotten stale ***

I am going to be trying to track down all bugs related to Sky (the new in-game chat system that Cosmos developed). Before posting bugs please download the latest Cosmos from:

http://cosmos.thzclan.com/

When you download please be aware of the revision that you download (currently r1290+).

I will only track down bugs if you give me detailed information. Please don't reply by saying "I have the same problem". Instead give me details of your specific problem. Screenshots are great if they show the problem. Give me the steps you took to get the but and the steps to reproduce it (if possible). If I can't reproduce the bug it is very hard for me to find a fix.

News articles about Sky:

Join Command - http://www.cosmosui.org/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1112129188

*** Current Issues ***

Problem: Not able to join passworded channels or make channels with a password
Solution: Update to the latest version of Sky. (r1163+)
Description: Previous revisions of Sky were not saving the password properly when trying to join. That has been fixed and you should be able to use passwords with channels.

Problem: "Invalid Channel Name"
Solution: Type "/leave trade"
Description: Sky is trying to join the trade channel when you are in a zone that doesn't have a trade channel.
Obsolete: This problem should never show up unless you are using an old version of cosmos.

Problem: Chat channel not joining proper channel # that I would like.
Solution: When joining the channel you can type an alias for it. Example would be "/join rezgeek /6" and then you can use /6 to chat on the rezgeek channel.

Problem: "Getting Sky messages in my chat. Not able to chat to channels that I have joined, and other related problems."
Troubleshooting: Type "/chatlist" and see if you are getting channel listings for Sky as "[#. Sky] [#. SkyParty]" or "[Active Sky Channels: Sky, SkyParty]". If you are getting the first then please delete your chat-cache.txt file that is in the WTF/Account/<AccountName>/<CharacterName> folder under your World of Warcraft directory. If that doesn't fix the problem then this is most likely a conflict with another add-on that you have installed. Please list all add-ons that are not part of Cosmos and I will try and track down which one is causing the problem. If you are getting the latter listing then this might be a problem with Sky. I would need you to give me details on which add-ons you have installed and any other information you think is relevant.

[h0p]

Okay, just downloaded new version of cosmos from that link, deleted interface folder, deleted chat cache, and savedvariables.lua for good measure.

! some channel names have spaces in them, sky can't join them. !

so, in orgrimmar i can talk and see the channels
"General - Orgrimmar" and
"Trade - Orgrimmar"

So I leave orgrimmar, and it makes me leave those channels. fine. but I want to stay in those channels to keep an eye out for deals, and groups.

I want to be able to type in
/join "General - Orgrimmar" /5
however you can't do that, it joins channel "general

I have used different types of quotation marks to no avail.

If I use the right click menu on the channel bar, and then join new channel and type in "General - Orgrimmar" it does join it, but complains about 2 undead channels, and also sets /1 to General - Orgrimmar, but i can not type in that channel, as well it reports the channel as General - Durotar.

Steps to replicate:
1) load up wow, get in orgrimmar/ironforge
2) leave the city limits so you are in durotar or somewhere else
3) try and join the channel General - Orgrimmar

I think the easiest thing would be to add support for quotation marks of some sort, around the channel name so I can type
/join 'General - Orgrimmar' /5

Then some sort of code to detect if i'm already in the channel, so when i go back into orgrimmar it doesn't rejoin, or when i leave it again it doesn't leave both channels.

[Tuatara]

Okay, just downloaded new version of cosmos from that link, deleted interface folder, deleted chat cache, and savedvariables.lua for good measure.

! some channel names have spaces in them, sky can't join them. !

so, in orgrimmar i can talk and see the channels
"General - Orgrimmar" and
"Trade - Orgrimmar"

So I leave orgrimmar, and it makes me leave those channels. fine. but I want to stay in those channels to keep an eye out for deals, and groups.

I want to be able to type in
/join "General - Orgrimmar" /5
however you can't do that, it joins channel "general

I have used different types of quotation marks to no avail.

If I use the right click menu on the channel bar, and then join new channel and type in "General - Orgrimmar" it does join it, but complains about 2 undead channels, and also sets /1 to General - Orgrimmar, but i can not type in that channel, as well it reports the channel as General - Durotar.

Steps to replicate:
1) load up wow, get in orgrimmar/ironforge
2) leave the city limits so you are in durotar or somewhere else
3) try and join the channel General - Orgrimmar

I think the easiest thing would be to add support for quotation marks of some sort, around the channel name so I can type
/join 'General - Orgrimmar' /5

Then some sort of code to detect if i'm already in the channel, so when i go back into orgrimmar it doesn't rejoin, or when i leave it again it doesn't leave both channels.

This is a known issue with Sky. We are looking at how to make this possible but no eta as to when this could be fixed. Main problem is that Sky works on the basis that you can only be in one general channel at a time as that is how the default WoW client works. People realized later that you could join the full channel name to have access to channels even when you aren't in that zone.

[Gryphon]

I joined a channel, "/join allies" and tried to change the text color to blue and it stayed the default peach color even though the color of the box turned blue. I then joined another channel to test "/join testblah" and then tried to change the color of that. When I changed the color of the second channel, the first channel text changed color even though the first channels box was still blue and the second stayed peach.

[Tuatara]

I joined a channel, "/join allies" and tried to change the text color to blue and it stayed the default peach color even though the color of the box turned blue. I then joined another channel to test "/join testblah" and then tried to change the color of that. When I changed the color of the second channel, the first channel text changed color even though the first channels box was still blue and the second stayed peach.

This is probably another problem with the WoW chat menu not working well with Sky. I will try and see what is happening and figure out what can be done to get it fixed.

[dsdranor]

/chatwho doesn't work correctly for displaying the list of who is in the channel. you can use /chatlist and it will display but /chatwho does not work anymore.. well except sometimes. If you /chatlist 1 you can display who is in channel 1 then /chatwho 1 and it will work... odd. doing /chatwho w/o doing /chatlist 1st does not work, it also doesn't seem to work for any channels other than channel 1.

I have a friend whos custom channel doesn't seem to work since Sky went live w/o him leaving/rejoining it. Also its automatically lowercasing the channel name, he wanted to have it named: TOG and its automatically forcing it to be: tog. Is there any way to fix these problems?

[Marsman]

Some other known Sky issues right now are:

Problem:Unable to talk on Flight Paths. You are still able to receive channels from the Zone of departure but when trying to select that channel to talk on will result in the edit box displaying the channel number and the Zone you are currently over in the flight path and not the zone of departure. You are not able to transmit to the Departure Zone's channels.
Resolved: in cosmos patch r1301+

Condition: Server channels are Sticky. This is by design, but different from the default behavior. When guild/party/raid channels are selected, typing a server channel (e.g. /1 ) changes the default behavior of the "enter" key from returning the edit box to the guild/party/raid channel to instead returning the edit box to the last selected server channel.

Problem: Server occationally sends "You can only be in 10 channels at once" messages. A check of the current channels shows you are in less than 10 channels. Sometimes happens at the breakup of a raid.
Work-Around: From the Sky Cloud on the Player Frame - de-select SkyParty or SkyRaid as needed to stop the messages. Often can be re-enabled a few minutes later without server messages returning.

Condition: Zone specific server channels display just the catagory and not the zone name in chat window, but display catagory - zone in /chatinfo and on the Edit bar. Not sure if this was intentional to just trim the line length down on chat window or just a bug right now.

[Marsman]

/chatwho doesn't work correctly for displaying the list of who is in the channel. you can use /chatlist and it will display but /chatwho does not work anymore.. well except sometimes. If you /chatlist 1 you can display who is in channel 1 then /chatwho 1 and it will work... odd. doing /chatwho w/o doing /chatlist 1st does not work, it also doesn't seem to work for any channels other than channel 1.

I have a friend whos custom channel doesn't seem to work since Sky went live w/o him leaving/rejoining it. Also its automatically lowercasing the channel name, he wanted to have it named: TOG and its automatically forcing it to be: tog. Is there any way to fix these problems?

Try /chatinfo <channel> in place of /chatwho now.

Yes, Sky forces all to lowercase in an attempt to eliminate confusion of such things as General with general and LookingForGroup with lookingforgroup. An unfortunete side effect is those who wish custom channels to contain caps are unable to do so now.

[dsdranor]

er why /chatinfo? /chatlist works and /chatwho should, if you are attempting to provide transparent communications you shouldn't rename commands and disable the default ones. Simply saying use some other command is not the answer, the default command should work like it does w/o Sky.

[Tuatara]

/chatwho doesn't work correctly for displaying the list of who is in the channel. you can use /chatlist and it will display but /chatwho does not work anymore.. well except sometimes. If you /chatlist 1 you can display who is in channel 1 then /chatwho 1 and it will work... odd. doing /chatwho w/o doing /chatlist 1st does not work, it also doesn't seem to work for any channels other than channel 1.


This seems to have been missed as a valid listing command. I have added it to the english localization r1299. It should be available in about an hour.

[Tuatara]

Some other known Sky issues right now are:

Problem:Unable to talk on Flight Paths. You are still able to receive channels from the Zone of departure but when trying to select that channel to talk on will result in the edit box displaying the channel number and the Zone you are currently over in the flight path and not the zone of departure. You are not able to transmit to the Departure Zone's channels.

This problem should be fixed with r1301. When it is available then download it and you should be able to chat while flying again.

[doria13]

So, I have been having the

Invalid Channel Name

issue for a few days now. I tried a plethora of things to fix it, but nothing seems to work.

First I tried getting the newest patch, didnt work. Then I tried /leave trade, didnt work. So I did /leave Trade just in case, didnt work. So I deleted my \Interface folder and repatched cosmos, didn't work.

Now I am unable to join any channels. I type in /join General and it throws up an error box that says there is an issue with the code in Sky.lua (line 1877). I can't even join General from the chat menu.

I don't get it and its really effing annoying that I am getting this invalid channel message every three or so seconds.

what can I do about it?

[Tuatara]

So, I have been having the

Invalid Channel Name

issue for a few days now. I tried a plethora of things to fix it, but nothing seems to work.

First I tried getting the newest patch, didnt work. Then I tried /leave trade, didnt work. So I did /leave Trade just in case, didnt work. So I deleted my \Interface folder and repatched cosmos, didn't work.

Now I am unable to join any channels. I type in /join General and it throws up an error box that says there is an issue with the code in Sky.lua (line 1877). I can't even join General from the chat menu.

I don't get it and its really effing annoying that I am getting this invalid channel message every three or so seconds.

what can I do about it?

Can you open up the file... Interface/AddOn/Sky/Sky.lua and tell me what the Rev number is so that I can see what is on line 1877 for your version of Sky.

[doria13]

This is a screen shot of the Sky.lua file with line numbers.

http://doria.getmorphed.com/images/snapshot10.jpg

It looks like line 1877 is simply "end" but I am wondering if that is because I am looking at it from my Linux desktop and not windows.

If I remember correctly when I looked at the code in windows line 1877 was equivalent to what is shown as line 1880 in the screenshot.

I will boot into windows and take a look at it to make sure.

thanks a lot.

doria

[doria13]

this is the code on line 1877 when viewing with Notepad

if ( string.lower(SkyChannelManager.convertToSimpleChan nelName(channel)) == SKY_TRADE_ID ) then

also here is a screenshot of the error box i get when trying to join general using /join 1

http://doria.getmorphed.com/images/skylua_error.JPG

and interestingly enough the error box now says line 1880 so, yeah...

[Tuatara]

this is the code on line 1877 when viewing with Notepad

if ( string.lower(SkyChannelManager.convertToSimpleChan nelName(channel)) == SKY_TRADE_ID ) then

also here is a screenshot of the error box i get when trying to join general using /join 1

http://doria.getmorphed.com/images/skylua_error.JPG

and interestingly enough the error box now says line 1880 so, yeah...

Oh... I know what the problem is... will add a check possibly to the next update of Sky.

You can't use /join 1 to join General. When using the /join command you must specify the channel you want to join. So you would type in "/join General". If you want it to go to the first channel then you can type in "/join General /1".

You can also use the in-game chat menu system to specify the General channel and it will join it that way.

--
Tuatara

[doria13]

You can't use /join 1 to join General. When using the /join command you must specify the channel you want to join. So you would type in "/join General". If you want it to go to the first channel then you can type in "/join General /1".

Okay, I have tried doing /join General but that doesn't do anything. Literally. I don't join general and it doesn't give an error message and it doesn't even say "Attempting to join..." or whatever it normally says. I haven't tried /join General /1 so I will attempt that as soon as I log into the game.

Also, I think I said this before but the in-game chat menu doesn't include any option to join General or any other channel besides LocalDefense. Is this a WoW UI issue as opposed to a Cosmos/Sky issue?

That doesn't fix my issues with "Invalid channel name" does it?

[Tuatara]

You can't use /join 1 to join General. When using the /join command you must specify the channel you want to join. So you would type in "/join General". If you want it to go to the first channel then you can type in "/join General /1".

Okay, I have tried doing /join General but that doesn't do anything. Literally. I don't join general and it doesn't give an error message and it doesn't even say "Attempting to join..." or whatever it normally says. I haven't tried /join General /1 so I will attempt that as soon as I log into the game.

Also, I think I said this before but the in-game chat menu doesn't include any option to join General or any other channel besides LocalDefense. Is this a WoW UI issue as opposed to a Cosmos/Sky issue?

That doesn't fix my issues with "Invalid channel name" does it?

I am wondering if you have any other add-ons that may be interfering with Sky. Do you just have the COsmos package installed? Are you installing Cosmos from a clean interface folder?

[doria13]

Nope nothing else besides Cosmos.

I did try deleting my \Interface folder and patching Cosmos, but that didn't work

But in good news, I did fix it, I think

Since it was trying to add me to Trade which is noramally channel two I simply did /join LocalDefense /2 and now I only get the invalid channel name error once and its right when i get to a new area.

Thanks for the help and suggestions and listening to me bitch

doria

[infoteq]

I'm having a problem with my channels where I cannot talk in anything except General and Trade without leaving and rejoining the channel. This is especially a problem with custom channels.

-Infoteq

[Tuatara]

I'm having a problem with my channels where I cannot talk in anything except General and Trade without leaving and rejoining the channel. This is especially a problem with custom channels.

-Infoteq


Does anything specifically happen when you try to talk in custom channels? Any more details you can give?

[DiscoStu]

I'm using the german version of cosmos and wow . I am experiencing problems using sky. is it possible that there are localisation problems? last time i always got "invalid channel", after reinstalling i am experiencing some kind of "nil" problem. The "invalid channel" is no longer being displayed, but when trying to see the channel list, the list is empty. I am by default only in channels: "searching for group" and "general". What about "localdefense" "worlddefense" and "trade". Which of these channels should be enabled by default? and why is there no list, with channels i can select for my zone, would be much easier...

I hate cosmos since sky was added. Please fix it!

[infoteq]

I'm having a problem with my channels where I cannot talk in anything except General and Trade without leaving and rejoining the channel. This is especially a problem with custom channels.

-Infoteq


Does anything specifically happen when you try to talk in custom channels? Any more details you can give?

I apologize. I should have mentioned that. I type "/4 Greetings" and it accepts my command, but nothing appears on my screen and based on my experience, nobody can see what I just typed. I receive no error messages, not even the auto help like when you type in a bad command. It's as if I didn't type anything at all.

To further clarify, I can still type /chatlist 4 and see people in the channel, including myself. I can't say for sure if there's been a channel I've been unable to talk in that I also saw someone else talking.

-Infoteq

[Bjond]

More new chat bugs:

Colors are now completely out of sync. Sometimes changing the color of one channel will change the color of another. Sometimes it will change the proper channel. Sometimes it won't change anything.

Chat list is out of synch with the server. When you first log in, if the server joins you to say "General, LocalDefense" and Sky only has you as joining General, neither the menus nor /chatlist will show you as joined to LocalDefense even though you are joined as far as the server is concerned. If this happens, your chat list is screwed. Not even delete and reinstall of cosmos will fix it. However, you can fix it from within Cosmos for ONLY the current session. It will be screwed up again the next time you login and so will all your other character's chat.

. work-around: leave all channels, join all channels again -- most importantly join the channel/s that /chatlist didn't list but should have listed, now leave all channels yet again. Now join them. Be SURE to join them in the order you want the numbers assigned. If you join them out of order and use the cosmos "/join name number" feature, your chat will be screwed again. Now setup all your colors again. You should now be OK for just this character and just this session. You will need to do this all over again on every login.

Chat numbers and channels joined are no longer saved per-character, but rather saved globally for all characters. If your channel lists don't match exactly on all characters or if the channel list of a particular character at the time of logout doesn't match the list of all the other characters, your chat list and colors will be scrambled on login and you will need to do the above fix every time from login.

Chat list on the menu may be out of order wrt. /chatlist; eg. you might see "1. General, 2. CustomChan" from /chatlist and then the menu displays them as "CustomChan" on to and then "General" below it. This is a sign that your chat colors can no longer be altered. You will likely need to go through the entire /leave/join cycle to get the lists synchronized again and able to set your colors.

NB. You must turn OFF Sky and SkyParty channels and leave them off or the above fixes won't work. I haven't tried disabling the Sky module, since too many things depend on it, but IMHO that would be the ideal long term solution for most people. I can appreciate that some few might like the Sky features, but it desperately needs to be removed from all dependency lists so that it can be enabled or disabled without crippling other far more universally useful features, such as being able to use the chat channels.

[ryan92084]

a quick fix for a lot of channel problems is to log on with the char having the problems ... leave all channels...log out.. then copy the chat info file over from an alt into the char with the problem

has worked for me everytime the channels bug out

[Bjond]

I've done that often in the past (copy chat-chache), but that doesn't work for the color/synch issue.

Here's another simplier fix for it. Yes, you do need to do this on every login, but it's shorter:

Take a look at the menu that shows your channel list with their respective color boxes. Leave all channels (especially any channels you have joined that Sky doesn't list in menu or /chatlist and also leave all Sky channels). Rejoin channels in the order of their respective colors on the menu.

There seems to be two bugs: Sky joins channels out of order. Sky can't handle channels joined outside of sky -- eg. if you change the auto-join list with vanilla non-cosmos wow and then restore config, Sky will display the auto-join message, but won't have that channel in the /chatlist or in the menu-list. Those channels seem to still take up color-slots, though, so your list will be incorrect and you'll be unable to set colors until you leave all channels and rejoin with Cosmos installed and Sky channels OFF.

If you turn Sky cannels on, your colors are going to be messed up. You can turn them on manually after login, but you have to manually turn them off again before you logout. Any auto-joined channel without a number will mess up colors. Any auto-joined channel with a number that is joined out of sequence will mess up colors, too.

[Shalthazar]

I'm not sure whether this has been addressed already in this thread, I've read most all of it but still havent really seen a fix yet, and It's really frustrating to me.

When I am in Ironforge, I am unable to talk in any of the main channels, General, Trade, LookingForGroup, etc. I get the normal box to type in however when I hit enter to submit it, nothing happens. I am able to talk in party, say, yell, and guild without any trouble.

One thing I have noticed is, when I go to type /1, /2, /3, etc. The color of my last used 'other' channel remains even though the prompt lists the correct text.

Example, I just /yell to say something in Ironforge.
Now I want to find a team so I type /3 to get the Looking for Group channel, but the prompt, while normally looks like:

[3. LookingForGroup - Ironforge]

instead looks like:

[3. LookingForGroup - Ironforge]

This makes it extremely difficult to find a group for anything, as well as simply chat, as I am restricted to /say, /tell, /party, /yell, etc.

I'm just hoping someone else has experienced this as well and is able to assist me with the issue. I have the latest version of cosmos, using the Alpha version, however the issue remains even when I clear my Interface folder and install the Release version of Cosmos.

I have traveled to The Wetlands and am granted use of all channels without any problems. The same goes for Stormwind. It seems to be mainly affecting Ironforge, and many Instance zones.

This is a seemingly random event, however for the past hour and a half tonight i have been unable to speak in Ironforge in these channels.

Thanks for the help!

Sorry if this has been dealt with elsewhere, but I would appreciate the help anyways if it has so I can find the solution.

[Silverhand]

I'm not sure whether this has been addressed already in this thread, I've read most all of it but still havent really seen a fix yet, and It's really frustrating to me.

When I am in Ironforge, I am unable to talk in any of the main channels, General, Trade, LookingForGroup, etc. I get the normal box to type in however when I hit enter to submit it, nothing happens. I am able to talk in party, say, yell, and guild without any trouble.

One thing I have noticed is, when I go to type /1, /2, /3, etc. The color of my last used 'other' channel remains even though the prompt lists the correct text.

Example, I just /yell to say something in Ironforge.
Now I want to find a team so I type /3 to get the Looking for Group channel, but the prompt, while normally looks like:

[3. LookingForGroup - Ironforge]

instead looks like:

[3. LookingForGroup - Ironforge]

This makes it extremely difficult to find a group for anything, as well as simply chat, as I am restricted to /say, /tell, /party, /yell, etc.

I'm just hoping someone else has experienced this as well and is able to assist me with the issue. I have the latest version of cosmos, using the Alpha version, however the issue remains even when I clear my Interface folder and install the Release version of Cosmos.

I have traveled to The Wetlands and am granted use of all channels without any problems. The same goes for Stormwind. It seems to be mainly affecting Ironforge, and many Instance zones.

This is a seemingly random event, however for the past hour and a half tonight i have been unable to speak in Ironforge in these channels.

Thanks for the help!

Sorry if this has been dealt with elsewhere, but I would appreciate the help anyways if it has so I can find the solution.

This problem exists in Ironforge and Ogrimmar. It appears Sky is waiting for a status message showing you've joined the channel but is not getting it. Tuatara said he was looking into the issue, but hasn't said anything more about it in the following thread:

http://www.cosmosui.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=9020

[SnakeByte]

I'm using english client version on german servers so I needed some way to join the german public channels (general, trade, lfg, etc)...
so hit google and actually found something that just did what I needed...
translate the regions and join the channels

http://www.curse-gaming.com/mod.php?addid=401

well... an other site (http://www.dvdarea.net/swap/) that offers that mod states that it's compatible with cosmos

but when I first tried it sky said something like
SKY_CHANNEL_JOINED_BUT_INACTIVE = "You are already trying to join %s. You may have too many channels or the server is not responding."; where %s is "Allgemein - <region>" or whatever the german channels are

and after about 60seconds it just joins "allgemein" and that doesn't give me anything...

I also got this error every once in a while:
SKY_AUTO_JOIN_CHANNEL_WARNING = " |cFFFF***7Warning!|r An AddOn you are using has auto-joined %s. Sky has detected this and will not attempt to remove it. Please be aware that AddOns which auto-join channels can interfere with Sky's operation. If you would like to prevent-autojoin type \"/z SkyNotices.autoJoinOn = false;\". ";

I figured sky doesn't like it being bypassed so I tried to use some sky-functions to join channels but it seems I'm too stupid for this language because I couldn't figure out how to call sky's join-functions without getting a "nil"-error


well... without being able to join any german channels (and as a result, being unable to find groups for intances) I got frustrated today and started playing on an english server... but I guess that's no solution (since I am german and there are quite some friends of mine playing on german servers)

so, I'm begging you, PLEASE have a look at this mod and a) fix it or b) tell me how to fix it (I'm not a complete newbie to programming but to lua)

regards

PS: this mod would be a nice addon to cosmos

[infoteq]

I'm having a problem with my channels where I cannot talk in anything except General and Trade without leaving and rejoining the channel. This is especially a problem with custom channels.

-Infoteq


Does anything specifically happen when you try to talk in custom channels? Any more details you can give?

I apologize. I should have mentioned that. I type "/4 Greetings" and it accepts my command, but nothing appears on my screen and based on my experience, nobody can see what I just typed. I receive no error messages, not even the auto help like when you type in a bad command. It's as if I didn't type anything at all.

To further clarify, I can still type /chatlist 4 and see people in the channel, including myself. I can't say for sure if there's been a channel I've been unable to talk in that I also saw someone else talking.

-Infoteq

It appears to have been fixed in the most recent release of the alpha client. I was using an older version.

-Infoteq

[TarynWinterblade]

I'm having a few problems (as far as I can tell, they're Sky related, but... that's just my opinion):

-Cannot chat in IF's channels
-Cannot chat in one custom channel (unmoderated, so I haven't been unvoiced), but I can in another.
-Cannot hear local or world defense messages, but are connected to those channels.
-Channel listings do not show up properly in the Chat tab menu (doesn't display name or color box for General, Trade, etc), and only shows one of the two custom channels I'm connected to (consequently, the one I can talk in is the one showing up).
-Colors do not get reassigned properly.
-Trade channel often persists through zones; finding myself in Blackrock Mountain still getting spam from the IF trade channel is annoying (but was fixable just by leaving the channel, of course).
-Half the time /chatinfo shows up with the sky channels listed as "Active Sky Channels", and the other half the time it doesn't even display them.


I've tried a few workarounds posted here (leaving all the channels, and rejoining them; leaving all the channels, logging out, and copying over a working chat-info file), neither worked. Frankly, I wouldn't care, but, I'm getting sick of not being able to say anything in the one custom channel, or being able to say anything in IF - "X slots open for BRD" doesn't quite work when nobody can hear you say it.

Personally... I liked it how it was before all this Sky bullshit. I'm sorry, it's just I feel like you "upgraded" in the wrong direction. Maybe the old method had more overhead, but at least it didn't screw us over with not being able to say anything in chat.

P.S.: I didn't have any of these problems until I started working on my alt, so... *shrug* The only other thing I can note is that the problem is happening on my main, rather than the alt, but it only started happening after I worked on my alt.

[Nightgoat]

Heya.

I am having a bit of a wierd problem with sky.....I can use it sometimes, and sometimes not,, when i can use it its completely fine, all works as it should do, this has a tendancy to be in between the hours of 10pm - 7am, rest of the time it messes up. Although when it cocks up it'll load up into the game itself , then after about 5 seconds the game will start to jerk for about 15 second then be ok for about another 5 second and start jerking again. It will do this for about a minute and then it disconnect me. The jerking will then continue on my computer until i shut it down, Also at this point when i have been disconected my entire connection between my computer and route stops with no reason. It is not giving me any error message for this at all... i do have the latest version of cosmos and have been continuely downloading them as they come out, as this has more-so been a problem for about 2 weeks.

Also i conclude that it is sky...due to the fact i have ran sea by itself. the sea with cronos and they work absolutly fine but then i add just sky and it will mess up. I have tried this at least 20+ times just to make sure it was a random go working like it does in the night.

I would highly appriciate if anyone has any ideas or solutions for this problem.

Thank you all,
And happy WoW'ing
NighGoat

[Psyker7]

Main problem (I hate it)

Unable to join World Defence or Local Defence channels

If you attempt to join them (WorldDefence) or (LocalDefence) it joins the channel with this name with lower case letters not the actual channels...

Have also tried using the Join New Channel dialog as well.

Then tried deleting chat cache, disabling ALL addons, joining WorldDefence and LocalDefence which worked fine.
Relogged and logged back in, channels still joined.

Re-enabled sky and its dependencies and bang channels dissapeared... also from the join new channel drop down.

It would appear that sky simply wont let you join or stay in these channels. Is this correct?

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(Off topic - Rant)
I love cosmos but i cant live with sky if it doesnt let me join these channels. WHY is cosmos dependant on Sky?????????? its either cosmos with sky or no cosmos.
Yes some addons arnt dependant on cosmos but things suck as clock, better key bindings, divine blessing, PARTY QUESTS!!!!! (ok sure party uses sky but i want the full page listing of quests!!!), and others are. fixing this would be great so i can just disable sky but use the rest.
(End Rant)

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EDIT

I feel like a complete dumbass but this is a warning to others....

SPELL WORLD DEFENSE AND LOCAL DEFENSE CORRECTLY

american spelling vs. english spelling sux

I was typing WorldDefence and LocalDefence as opposed to the correct WorldDefense and LocalDefense

Sorry but you Australians out there take note!!!![/b]

[jodowein]

Hi all,

I have the following problem with sky and my guild:

Joining Skyguild Channel does not work.
It either just say "trying to join..." but never actually make it.
Or (at startup) shows the guildchannel active but is actually not in it (as other addons print out while trying to communicate that they are not in the skyguild channel).
Sometimes disabling and enabling the channel works again then, but most of the time its again just "trying to join..." and nothing more happens.

Using the latest alpha patch of cosmos all the time...

[Dre-Z]

Hi all,

my problem with Sky is that i can't see systemessages anymore - if a friend comes online the system says " Your friend XXX comes online" or things like /played - i can't see this things anymore! Why?! I hope someone can help me!

[Marsman]

Try deleting the chat-cache.txt file located in your World of Warcraft\WTF\Account\<accountname>\<charactername> folder. It holds the chat windows configuration and is rebuild to defaults by the game if missing. This fix has cured this problem for others already.

[lukeskywalker]

i hate sky all it gives is trouble.

Whenever im in If, when i type /1 it displays in the color of my last command like purple, so i can;t chat in that channel.

Further when im leaving IF im still in the trade channel :|

And i get the message you cant join more then 10 channels 3 times in a row and the message Joinde channel .

Plz help

Deliting chache dosnt work
Reinstalling cosmos doesnt work
Copying the cache of another char doesnt work :'(

And when i typ /join General it joins General - "area" gen. General - "area" and general. Genaral - "area"

Same with the trade channel

[Farmbuyer]

Like others using the current alpha (see a couple posts just above mine), I cannot join any of the non-system channels. Disabling Sky makes all the problems go away, but then half of Cosmos gets disabled and the other half starts crashing (lazy coders don't bother to get dependancies right, nil dereferences for teh lose).

For example, in a raid, I did "/join CTTitansofKilrogg" and got

"attempting to join channel cttitansofkilrogg"

And nothing ever happened. Note the change to lowercase.

We also tried using a simple custom channel. "/join tokheal" (name already in lowercase) gave me the same thing: "attempting to join" with no progress.

I did the usual cargo-cult magic that Sky guides say to do (delete cache files, relog, etc, etc) and none of it helped. Disabling Sky let me join whatever channels I wanted, at the cost of craploads of nil errors.

[Farmbuyer]

For example, in a raid, I did "/join CTTitansofKilrogg" and got

"attempting to join channel cttitansofkilrogg"

And nothing ever happened. Note the change to lowercase.


Trying to investigate this, I found that SkyChannelManager.convertToChannelIdentifier() is doing something a little weird with lowercasing strings; it's clearly grown over time rather than designed this way from the start. I'm going to try and change Sky so that it doesn't lowercase the channel name -- if the user bothered to type a capital letter, it should be left along -- and see if that stops breaking CT_RaidAssist.

[Cluey]

I am having the same problems I describe in detail in this thread:
http://www.cosmosui.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8629

Basically in IF I cannot talk in the server channel except WorldDefense which I wasn't in when things stopped working.
I have tried the procedure described here:
http://www.cosmosui.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7986
but it isn't working.

I have logged an in game ticket and shall see what they say.
I think there must be some kind of server saved variable as with a clean install the problems are this there but only with the one character.

Its very annoying but I am not sure it is actually sky, it could be just WoW being dumb :(

[jodowein]

Any news on the problem not be able to join the sky channels (esp. skyguild) - although you try manualy leave and join several times?

All addons depending on this are not working for us correct, as guildmembers only about 30% of time in the channels they should be....

[dekarguy]

I figure this is a Sky problem

When I log on, I can /t people and hit 'R' to reply, when I join a party, I still do so, but when I leave the party, 'R' stops working until I relog or join another party, but /r still works

Anyone know a fix?

[Saurok]

Can we please go back to a pre SKy build? I have had nothing but trouble ever since this became a dependency for COSMOS.

It still will not let me join the trade channel in IF. I have not tried any of the other cities as this is the only place I'm really intereted in joining a trade channel. It will let me place a check mark next to the channel in the listing but it never joins the channel. I have tried manually joining the channel and get nothing.

I'm currently using the Sky Light version 0.6a has it seems to have just a tad less problems than the other vresions.

I get the following error messages when logging in and any time I try t o join or leave a channel:

STRING: Interface\AddOns\Sky\Sky.Lua
Line: 1527
Count: 1
Error: Attempt t index field 'HiddenJoinLeaveAlerts' (a nil value)

I also get these lines as errors: Line 735, 742

I have tried every fix I have been able to find and nothing seems to help.

I'm to the point where I'm wondering if COSMOS is actually worth keeping around. I love the product and have been using it since you made it but this is just really getting annoying.

[nerk01]

Having issues since last weeks update to Sky

I and my guild use GIRD, works for the most part quite well.
Since the sky update GIRD reports that it can't tell if other guild members are in the SkyGuild channel. Everyone else that doesn't have cosmos but are using the version of Sky packaged with GIRD are not having issues.

Did something change in the identification of members in a channel?

[dsdranor]

Saurok, in the future please try the search feature, that question has been answered before. But here is your answer for this time.

Type this in:
/z SkyNotices.hiddenJoinLeaveAlerts = {}; ReloadUI();

[ZsZso]

I have the same problem. My GIRD always tell me, that i must join SkyGuild channel. I am ON that channel. Since the last Cosmos update ... it would be great if i could use this mod. I am the guild master, I made it a "must-thing" and i can't use it ... that sucks :(

[Rici1981]

i have the german client of wow and i cant leave channel SkyRaid, SkyGroup and Sky. but SkyGuild and SkyZone works to leave. how can i leave the other channels? thats most 2 channels that i dont use and i need it for another channels

[lukeskywalker]

all went well for a while. But since today i get the same crap all over again. Cant talk in any channels in IF, i stay in trade channel wherever i man.

It keeps spamming

joined channel .
joined channel .
joined channel .
You can only be in 10 channels at a time
You can only be in 10 channels at a time
You can only be in 10 channels at a time

etc etc.

[HorzaSe]

Hmm I just discovered GIRD the other day as I'm the vaulter in the guild and it's just a MAJOR kickass addon!

BUT I can't get anyone in guild to use it as they have problems w Sky... :P

Is there any possibility to get a Sky-independent version?
I can promise you it would skyrocket to No 1 in UI.worldofwar.net addon collection.

I feel despondent but I thought I might at least ask?

[Micdevero]

Was wondering what to do about getting the skyparty channel to stop attempting to join someone's skyparty. Every time i join a raid or a party and anyhting happens, someone gets moved, someone leaves ect. and alotta times not, it just keeps saying attempting to join skyparty(name) and doesn't stop. I've left skyparty channel's and sky and skyraid and it doesn't seem to help at all. I attempted to delete the chat files and it didn't work. I'd turn sky off, but i like being able to use party quests over te one that comes with the game, it's nicer to be able to see my quests then if i want clock on the quest and see the logof what the quest entails, but i can't do that if i turn off sky. any chance you have a solution to this, it gives me the sky.lua thing and it states got boolean for the problem. idk what to do cause i'm not a programmer, and i ahve no experience writing programs. If you can help it'd be appreciated.

[dpoopie]

I'm suddenly having a chat issue with one of my toons, but the problem doesn't seem to be occuring on another toon I play regularly. The problem started last night suddenly, while I was playing the toon. And I made no changes to Cosmos at all prior to the bug.

I'm logged into IF but can not chat in general, trade, or LFG channels. I can speak out loud, whisper someone and talk in party chat though. If I leave IF, I'll start to get messages that I can only be in 10 channels at a time errors, which constantly spam as I cross through areas. Regardless of where I go I will continue to see IF chat, but can not chat in those channels.

I deleted my chat log as the original post in this thread indicated, but it still didn't clear up the problem.

I am only running the Alpha of Cosmos, with no other add-ons.

[dpoopie]

all went well for a while. But since today i get the same crap all over again. Cant talk in any channels in IF, i stay in trade channel wherever i man.

It keeps spamming

joined channel .
joined channel .
joined channel .
You can only be in 10 channels at a time
You can only be in 10 channels at a time
You can only be in 10 channels at a time

etc etc.

I'm having exactly the same problem. As a matter of fact I just posted about this. Started last night.

[dpoopie]

Does any support person read this forum anymore???

[Sinaloit]

Yes people do.. as is evidenced by the fact that someone responded to your post about bars...

Please try SkyLight: http://www.cosmosui.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=9471

[Scibbit]

Here is my problem, and I skimmed about to see if it was addressed and noticed nothing related to my issue:

I am in channels, such as [1. General] and [4. ooc] as it says "You are already in that channel" if I try to join them. I can leave the channels, and I can rejoin them or join new channels. However, no text that I type or that other people type shows up in my chat window. When I whisper people that I know are in the channels they tell me they can see what I type also. When I right-click on the General tab > Channels it shows the channels unchecked, so I check them so that it is not muting the said channel. But when I leave the tab and re-enter General > Channels it shows them unchecked again. Is there anything that I can do to fix this? They were working fine for a few hours after installing Cosmos, then they stopped working out of the blue on me.

[dogbert_2001]

Here is my problem, and I skimmed about to see if it was addressed and noticed nothing related to my issue:

I am in channels, such as [1. General] and [4. ooc] as it says "You are already in that channel" if I try to join them. I can leave the channels, and I can rejoin them or join new channels. However, no text that I type or that other people type shows up in my chat window. When I whisper people that I know are in the channels they tell me they can see what I type also. When I right-click on the General tab > Channels it shows the channels unchecked, so I check them so that it is not muting the said channel. But when I leave the tab and re-enter General > Channels it shows them unchecked again. Is there anything that I can do to fix this? They were working fine for a few hours after installing Cosmos, then they stopped working out of the blue on me.

I am getting the same. The settings for displaying chat channels aren't being saved to chat-cache.txt when modified by the window menu.

CM1.2
Met1.7
Sky1.2

Edit: Maybe chat-cache.txt has nothing to do with it. I've also seen that Karl knows about it, so hopefully he can fix it soon.

Edit: This bug also occurs with the Cosmos Release and Cosmos Alpha, which do not contain SkyLight.

[KarlKFI]

I believe the answers you seek are here: http://www.wowwiki.com/Chat#Chat_Channel_Troubleshooting

[dogbert_2001]

I'm sorry, but it's still not working. The channel filters aren't sticking. This only happens with Sky enabled. I know previous versions have worked on my PC.

[KarlKFI]

I'm sorry, but it's still not working. The channel filters aren't sticking. This only happens with Sky enabled. I know previous versions have worked on my PC.

If they aren't being saved accross sessions your chat-cache might be read-only. WoW needs to be able to write to it to save settings. Deletating it should fix the problem or just make it read-write enabled. hope that helps

[dogbert_2001]

It isn't read only. I've seen it modified with WoW running, I've modified it myself many times, and I've deleted WTF and WDB many times.

It's not that the filters aren't sticking across sessions, it's that they aren't sticking at ALL. I'll uncheck Channels:General, that works fine. But then I'll try to recheck it, but the channel is still filtered out. Refreshing the menu shows the button still unchecked.

[KarlKFI]

Ya, that's a known ChannelManager bug I'm still trying to work out. If you log out and disable sky, log in, leave all of your channels, log out, reenable sky and log back in it seems to fix it... no idea why.

[Quiet]

Update at bottom

This is pre 1.6 patch. I am using the release version of Cosmos. (Though I was using a prerelease about a week ago.) Today is Monday (night). For the past two days I have been having problems with Ironforge. The trade channel would remain even after I left IF. Furthermore, it would exceed the 10 channel limit fairly quickly if I flew anywhere. Logging out and in seemed to clean up the chat until I returned to Ironforge.

Today, I can't even talk on the trade channel, so I go thru the published "when all else fails" for Sky.

I removed the interface folder.
I removed the chat-cache.txt file for the character.
Started game, logged in char, /charinfo, /removed the worldDefence chat (only one listed)
/join General
/join Trade
/join LookingForGroup
--- no response to any of these commands ---
Checked the "check marks" the above 3 channels were set
/1 <text>
--- type /help
same for /2 /3

I then tried deleting both of the files in the character folder, the variable saving, the key bindings...

None helped. I can't seem to get it to reset the /# shortcuts at all. I do hear the channels, but can't talk on them.

Your help is appreciated, but I have to say that this is the third time the channels have gotten messed up since I started using cosmos. There really needs to be a better way of cleaning up after.

*** Update ***

After following the link in a previous post in this thread... deleteing the WTF and WDB folder and restarting fixed it. Dang this is frustrating. I hope the tone above wasn't too bad - but grrrr. For the moment it is working, but I have cosmos disabled anyway for the patch tomorrow.

[bandyn]

You might want to be aware that Curse Gaming may no longer have the current version of SkyLight, or the other SkyLight-related addons.

A couple days ago, Curse lost their database, and had to revert to a backup from 15 days previous. They've been encouraging all authors to upload their addons again.

[CrashCat]

I am in channels, such as [1. General] and [4. ooc] as it says "You are already in that channel" if I try to join them. I can leave the channels, and I can rejoin them or join new channels. However, no text that I type or that other people type shows up in my chat window. When I whisper people that I know are in the channels they tell me they can see what I type also. When I right-click on the General tab > Channels it shows the channels unchecked, so I check them so that it is not muting the said channel. But when I leave the tab and re-enter General > Channels it shows them unchecked again. Is there anything that I can do to fix this? They were working fine for a few hours after installing Cosmos, then they stopped working out of the blue on me.I'm getting this same problem with Sky from the r2167 zip. If I disable Sky I can fiddle with setting which channel is on which chat window with no problem, but if Sky is running I can't get any checkmarks to stick (at least among the custom channels such as General, the non-custom ones like Party and Guild work just fine). As far as I know PartyQuests was the only addon I had that got disabled when I turned off Sky.

This problem started for me after the 1.6 patch though, I was fine before then. I did try deleting both chat-cache and layout-cache (actually tried that before I tried disabling sky) but it didn't really help. The channels that I had joined before became re-checked, but only in the main chat window and not any channels with a custom name. After unchecking them (which worked) I was not able to get them to stay checked again until disabling Sky.

Maybe I need to find a quest viewer like Partyquest that doesn't use Sky. I like the sorting and big list view but I'll be happy to sacrifice the party progress information (even if that makes the addon name a bit pointless).

[Rici1981]

i have the same problem :/

[BlackRazor]

Check my post here (http://www.cosmosui.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=9471&start=45), a warkaround has been found, just do a /reloadui every time you log in to make checkmarks sticky, I know it's annoying but for now it's the only way to make this work.

Bye.

[pail]

Well it looks like the bug where we couldn't talk in a new chat channel until doing a "/console reloadui" is fixed in the latest Alpha version. Hooray!! But I have noticed one sort of similar problem (similar in the sense that the workaround is the same). When I first load wow, the "/chatwho <channelName>" and "/chatinfo <channelName>" commands do not report a username list. Doing "/chatinfo" by itself, however, will list the channels that I am currently in. To get the "/chatinfo <channelName>" functionality working again I have to do a "/console reloadui" to reload my UI and then it works fine from there.

Thanks for all the fixes! Everything else is looking great
Dune

[ivellios]

I uninstalled and reinstalled Cosmos becuase of some issues since the changeover with Khaos, and since then I get the following message every time i log in:

[string "Interface\FrameXML\FloatingChatFrame.lua"]:992:attempt to perform aritmetic on a nil value

After parusing the forums, I went to check for a FrameXML folder in my interface folder, but I don't find it. Even after a thourough scan of my C: drive, nothing. Need some help on this one.

Edit:

Just noticed I also get a FrameXML issue as the following:

[string "Interface\FrameXML\FriendsFrame.lua"]:676:C stack overflow C stack overflow

This occurs when I go to the Guild tab and uncheck "show offline members" so that only online members show up. In checking the error, C stack overflow comes up twice, first time as "Count: 2" and second time as "Count: 6". Each time i go back to the Guild tab, the Counts double, i.e. "Count: 2" becomes "Count: 4" then "Count: 8", etc. Need help on this too.

[Mertens]

I cannot use shift+click item to make the [item name] appear in any chat anymore. I get this error:

File: Interface\FrameXML\ChatFrame.lua
Line: 1323
Count: 7
Error: bad argument #1 to 'strsub' (string expected, got nil)

[KarlKFI]

I don't believe either of the past two posts are Sky bugs.

[ivellios]

I don't believe either of the past two posts are Sky bugs.

Name of the topic thread is, "All sky/in-game chat issues." The first of my two problems was in in-game chat issue. If it's too much to help me on this thread, just direct me to more suitable thread to find useful help please.

[KarlKFI]

well, I believe your second issue is a census problem that has been posted elsewhere on the forum and the first one might be channelmanager but i'm not sure why. Where do you have your chatframe positioned and are you using any non-cosmos chat mods?

[ivellios]

i can try disabling census to see if that gets rid of it, so thank you for that one. as for the other, i tried disabling channel manager before and i don't remember if that changed anything, but the positions are all in their original spots and i'm not using any other non-cosmos chat mods. i post again with an update on channel manager as a potential problem.

edit: disabiling census plus did solve my second problem. thank you. as for the floatingchat issue, i disabled channel manager and the error still came up. it happens right when i log on. what boggles me is how i can have a framexml issues when i can't find a framexml folder anywhere.

edit #2: a friend suggested that it might be a problem with mobileframes, something i had not yet checked and can't figure out why i hadn't yet. anyway, after disabling mobileframes, i no longer had the error. i then logged in, turned off "simple chat" and turned on "remove chat hover delay", logged back out, turned mobileframes back on, and there is no more problem. dunno if it was luck or what, but it worked. any others having this problem might want to try that.

[KarlKFI]

ah, you had 'simple chat' on. Ya simple chat sucks, no one ever debugs for it. I'll look into it.

[digi421]

I am not exactly sure where my problem originates but I'll bring it up anyway.
Simply, the /chatlist command doesn't work. I type it, and nothing happens. No error message, no channel listing, nada. I could live with this since I don't manually change channels.
However, more annoying is a problem with the colours. I am always joining WorldDefense (WeltVerteidigung in my german client) and I have assigned a different colour for it.
Now, the first odd thing is that the channel number keeps changing each time I log in. Sometimes it's /3 while another time it may be /4 or even /5.
Second odd thing is that the color I have assigned to the WeltVerteidigung channel seems to be bound to the number rather than the name. So for example: I assign blue to channel 3 (Weltverteidigung). It appears in blue, fine. Next time I log in, channel 3 is "Looking for Group", now that appears blue while WeltVerteidigung reverted back to the default whatever reddish color.
I have already deleted my cache-layout.txt file, but it didn't solve any of those problems.
I am using a couple of non-cosmos addons, but to my knowledge, none of them have anything to do with channel management.
Edit: I have updated Sky and Meteorologist to the latest versions available (I think it's 1.2), that didn't help.

[KarlKFI]

Yes colors are assigned to numbers and the numbers don't stay standard when you reload unless all lower numbers are also there. Use Reorder Channels when u log in. I might add an option to do a reorder automaticly onload...

ivellios: would you go into Chronos.lua and edit line 577 to:

local player = UnitName("player");
if (player) and (player ~= UKNOWNBEING) and (player ~= UNKNOWNBEING) and (player ~= UNKNOWNOBJECT) and (ChronosData.variablesLoaded) and (ChronosData.enteredWorld) and (UIParent:GetLeft()) then

tell me if that stops the error.

[digi421]

Thanks for the quick reply. But what do you mean by "Use Reorder Channel"?

[morbid_o]

after using partyquests to get the status on a group member's quests, I double-clicked her name in telltrack, and in the window it brought up, all the data that PQ was sending showed up. I'm not sure if it was intended to be hidden, but i thought it might be worth mentioning.

[KarlKFI]

Thanks for the quick reply. But what do you mean by "Use Reorder Channel"?

open the channelmanager channel drawer and click 'reorder channels' or type '/reorder'

As for the sky messages showing I know. I need to hide Sky messages. I'll do it soon.

[staind25]

I can't talk in my seperate channels even though I've joined them.

I join my channels, then people can hear me, I cannot hear them, and I cannot see my own writing.

Earlier I deleted the WDB and WTF folders because of another issue, and it fixed it, but later caused this problem.

What should I do?

[KarlKFI]

http://www.wowwiki.com/Chat#Chat_Channel_Troubleshooting

[morbid_o]

Karl - not a 'sky issue', but i keep my telltrack window underneat my chatframe, and if there is a linked item to click, the invisible border of telltrack (ie the area outside of the names, where you can drag-to-move) interferes with clicking on the item link.

[Zxurian]

just a bump on the "/chatwho" command not working.
/chatinfo, /chatwho, and /chatlist all list what channels i'm in
but if i perform a "/chatinfo <channel name>", or "/chatinfo <channel number>" for either of the three commands, i do not get any type of user listing. Verified that the comands do work when I don't have ChannelManager enabled.

also, as a side note. I just downloaded the latest alpha release (r2370), and where as before a /chatinfo would yield
"[1. General - Ironforge] [2. Trade - Ironforge] [3. LookingForGroup - Ironforge]"

Now, a /chatinfo gives me
[1. General] [2. Trade] [3. LookingForGroup]

not sure if its a bug, or the way it's supposed to be, but I and everyone I talk to prefer's the previous method.

the /chatwho working is definately a priority though.

[KarlKFI]

try "/who" and "/list"

[Zxurian]

/who is the in game command for looking up character information searches, ie. "/who Zxurian", or "/who z-"Loch Modan""
so if you are aliasing that, i wouldn't becuase thats a major in game command that alot of people use

/list performs the same function as /chatlist, and again, doesn't give a listing of users inside a channel when used.


*UPDATE* - an interesting side note. I can get a listing of users in an auto-joined channel (CT_RaidAssist channel) just fine with the normal commands (/chatlist, /chatwho), but if i manually join a channel, i can't get any listing of users, no matter what command i use.

[morbid_o]

/who is the in game command for looking up character information searches, ie. "/who Zxurian", or "/who z-"Loch Modan""
so if you are aliasing that, i wouldn't becuase thats a major in game command that alot of people use

/list performs the same function as /chatlist, and again, doesn't give a listing of users inside a channel when used.


*UPDATE* - an interesting side note. I can get a listing of users in an auto-joined channel (CT_RaidAssist channel) just fine with the normal commands (/chatlist, /chatwho), but if i manually join a channel, i can't get any listing of users, no matter what command i use.

yeah, i messed with this as well, same results. if I am on user-created channel xxyy no form of '/who xxyy' or '/chatwho xxyy' prints results the show who is in a channel

[pail]

I have the same problem with "/chatwho <channelName>" not working. To get it to work youc an do a "/console reloadui" and then when you come back in it will work as it should. I think each time you join a new private chan you have to do a new reloadui to get /chatwho to work for that channel.

Another issue I have which may be unavoidable... is that ever since the Cosmo 2.0 version of Sky came out about a month ago or so, mods that I have that try to alter the color of text in ANY channel do not work. For example, I have a mod called Chat Highlight that detects my name (or any other of a list of words that I give it to listen for) and when it finds it in any chat channel it will 1) beep and 2) hilight the line containing said text in a color of my choice. After the new version of Sky that came with Cosmo 2, Chat Highlight no longer successfully colors the line of text. It DOES detect the text event, however, as it still does the "beep" noise as it should. Chat Highlight is available for download from: http://ui.worldofwar.net/ui.php?id=1098 if you'd like to see for yourself. My only guess is that Sky is controlling the color of text lines a little to much?

Anyway, thanks for your time and for the excellent work. Using Sky is well worth it IMO, even though Chat Highlight gets the short end of the stick.

[Aindolaf]

I've started getting the following Error merssage on startup since the 1.7 patch.

Interface/Addons/Sky/Sky.lua:3102 : Attempt to index local 'v' (a nil value)

My Sky basically does now no longer work. Anyone know what i can do to cure this. I've deleted the Sky folder and reinstalled the latest Sky from Cosmos, but that doesnt work.

[digi421]

open the channelmanager channel drawer and click 'reorder channels' or type '/reorder'
Ugh, I don't use channelmanager. I tried it once or twice before and it really screwed up my channels. Everything works for now though, and I am quite happy. Thanks KarlKFI.

[pail]

Boy am I glad the "/chatwho <channelName>" bug is squashed! Thanks guys :))

But I got anther one now... for the last 3 weeks or so, my g/f has had a problem with private chat channels where she'll be talking in the channel just fine and then the next time she goes to say something her text does not get said. She types it in just as always but after pressing enter she doesn't see the text appear in the channel. Also, through PM she has verified that nobody can see anything she's tryign to say anymore. Ability to chat doesn't seem to come back either. She does a "/console reloadui" and then she can chat again without problem. There doesn't seem to be a set way to reproduce this. It just happens kind of at random... after some length of time. I'd say every 30 minutes to 2 hours or so. This has been going on for about the last 3 weeks. I know this is the worst kind of bug :( But it's also annoying to have happen. She wants to disable Sky but is torn because we both love Cosmos so much. Not sure how much of cosmos would be knocked out by disabling Sky :( I, however, do not have this problem with any private channels that I'm in so I have no idea what's up. She does have the latest alpha of cosmos and we both download latest version every time we start WoW. Anyone have an clue? :o

EDIT: also, she can see what other people are saying in the private channel still. they just never receive the text that she's typing anymore.

Thanks

[Ambro2000]

Just downloaded the new 1.8 cosmos alpha and like it a lot. (never been using cosmos before) I do have one problem though.

I can't enter the "old" chat channels (you know; /1 = general chat /4 =LFG etc etc...

How do I enter those?

[pail]

But I got anther one now... for the last 3 weeks or so, my g/f has had a problem with private chat channels where she'll be talking in the channel just fine and then the next time she goes to say something her text does not get said. She types it in just as always but after pressing enter she doesn't see the text appear in the channel. Thanks

Quite a while ago I posted the above (2 posts back in this thread). I think we've finally found out what was causing it and it wasn't Sky. It turns out she was using a mod that had a dependency on a function library similar to Crhonos called Timex or something. Anyway, she removed that last night and hasn't had a problem with it again so far. So sorry if you spent any time on this at all. And just remember that Timex and Cosmos don't mix. :)

[Malakai811]

Currently I am joining every channel 3 times whenever I log in or change zones. Needless to say this spams my chat window since I am in 7 channels. I disabled addons one by one and sky is the source of this problem. I tried reinstalling sky (delete->redownload) and when that didn't work I deleted the wtf saved variable for sky but it hasn't fixed it. The only other addon I am using that requires sky is partyquest but with sky active and partyquest disabled it still does the triple join. Is there anything else I can do besides a full wipe of wdb and wtf?

[HunterZ]

I'm seeing the same issue, except it's more like 6 join messages per channel. Very annoying.

Malakai811: It sounds like wiping wdb and wtf won't help either, if deleting the savedvariable for Sky didn't fix the problem for you.

I think I might just disable Sky, and possibly also Libram and PartyQuests, as they seem to be the cause of most Cosmos issues in 1.10.