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Introduction

TabbyChat is a client-side mod for Minecraft that aims to make the multiplayer chat interface more organized, managable, and user-friendly. It can be installed (or loaded) into the Minecraft client by patching minecraft.jar or loaded at runtime via several different supported APIs.

Primary Features

The primary feature of TabbyChat is to organize chat messages into different channels, and to represent those channels via tab-like buttons displayed above the chat interface. There are several different ways to configure TabbyChat to organize chat, including:

• Auto-searching for new chat channels or PM messages
• Selecting the appropriate Chat-Channel delimiters and manually creating the desired tabs
• Using custom filters to direct messages matching the desired expression to a specific tab

Custom Filters

Custom filters allow the user to tell TabbyChat to perform various actions when a chat message matches the defined Regular Expression. These actions include the following:

• Highlight the matching text (with color and/or formatting)
• Play a notification sound
• Send the message to a specific tab
• Send the message to all tabs
• Prevent the message from displaying

Additional Features

• Unread Message Notifications
• Timestamps prepended to chat messages
• Suppress spammed chat messages
• Log all chat to logfile with timestamps
• Force Unicode font rendering
• Interactive scroll bar
• Dynamically movable/resizable chat box
• Customize the number of messages retained (displayed) for each tab
• Customize the length of time a message remains on-screen during normal gameplay
• Each tab can have a 'command prefix' that can be applied to your messages
• Multi-line chat with configurable transmission delay
• New mouse controls and Key-binds added for interacting with TabbyChat

Settings Interface

All TabbyChat settings are accessed and managed through the graphical settings interface. These settings are split into the following categories:

• General settings
• Server settings
• Custom Filter management
• Advanced settings
• Chat Channel settings

Mouse/Keyboard Controls

• Shift+Left-click on the master tab to access TabbyChat's settings
• Shift+Left-click on any other (tab)[wiki/Tabs] to delete it
• Right-click on any (tab)[wiki/Tabs] besides the master to access its Chat Channel settings
• Left-click on any (tab)[wiki/Tabs] to activate it (display its message contents)
• Control+Left-click on a (tab)[wiki/Tabs] to activate or deactivate additional (tabs)[wiki/Tabs] Note that this can also be used to hide the display of chat by deactivating all tabs
• Control+Tab will activate the next (tab)[wiki/Tabs] (if only one (tab)[wiki/Tabs] is currently active)
• Control+Shift+Tab will activate the previous (tab)[wiki/Tabs] (if only one (tab)[wiki/Tabs] is currently active)
• Control+O while the chatbox is focused will open TabbyChat's settings