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rocketman10404 edited this page Jun 30, 2013 · 6 revisions

Chat-channel delimiters refers to the type of characters used in the server's configuration to denote to players which channel a chat message was sent through. For example, in the following image, several different chat channels can be discovered.

example chat

Ignoring the timestamps, we can see several different chat channels, with each channel name surrounded by bracket characters: specifically "[g]" (global chat) and "[MOD]" (moderator chat), as well as "[Server"] and "[Announcement]" (for automated messages).

The Chat-channel delimiter setting allows you to tell TabbyChat what type of characters to look out for when attempting to identify chat channels. In the previous example, "Brackets" would obviously be the correct choice. When attempting to parse chat channels from messages, TabbyChat will assume the chat channel to be the very first portion of a chat message (again, ignoring timestamps if displayed).

Additionally, a color and/or format may be specified for these delimiters. If these are un-checked, TabbyChat will ignore any color and formatting codes encountered. If these are specified, TabbyChat will enforce that at least the first delimiter portion have this color and formatting applied to be considered a potential chat channel delimiter. In the previous example, the white/default color could've been specified to ignore occurrences of [Server] and [Announcement], since those contained pink delimiters.

The following delimiter choices are available:

  • Angles - <Channel>
  • Braces - {Channel}
  • Brackets - [Channel]
  • Parenthesis - (Channel)
  • Angles/Parenthesis - <(Channel)Player>
  • Angles/Brackets - <[Channel]Player>

Note that, for the two combination delimiters, when a color/format is specified, both types of delimiters must adhere to that color/format.

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