I'm sunk on this problem. I'm currently running the latests Drox, but this problem began when I was running Core, so it seems to be UI independent.
I want to separate guild / group / tells into different windows. Not window tabs, but actual chat windows.
However I've found that every time I try to do this, certain things "seem" to happen.
1) Renaming chat windows causes a crash-to-desktop. Frequency: 99%
Upon returning to the game after crash the following is evident:
2) Windows have returned to their default settings "Chat 1, Chat 2, SPAM, Chat 3, etc.
Rinse and repeat if you try to re-name and re-assign them to specific channels. Lots of time, lost.
Now after the last few updates and quick-fix patches, I've found that when I crash I get a brand-spankin new "SPAM" tab on at LEAST one of my chat windows.
Guess what happens when I try to delte and/or rename and repurpose them?
Yes! Got it in one CTD FTW.
Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated. I'm actually startin to like Vent cuz the chat system is sooo clunky.
pretty sure this is a client problem, not a UI problem. For the most part, no UI mods make any changes to the default chat window xml file. For my part, I looked at those files and they're so... fubar.. that i figured it wasn't worth it.
so, it could be a problem in the xml file for the chat window, or it's the way the client is working with the chat xml file. I know that I have seen the same type of behavior not just in myUI, but also in the default--but it's also been very sporatic for me. sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't.
but again, the short answer is: I think it's a problem with the vgclient.exe file itself.
Last night I decided to comment out some of my unused Drox windows, and when that seemed to have worked, I got ambitious and attempted to DELETE some of my self-spawned spam windows.
I deleted two of the four and discovered the following:
1) I have two spam tabs "burned-in" on my ui - they don't reveal/open a window, they just sit there, sorta like cat-prints on your screen.
2) CRASH to the desktop error file reveals ONLY an unrecoverable error, nothing more specific sadly.
3) Loading a saved UI from the 5 preset Drox saves restores chat windows as they were previously saved... as long as you don't try to rename them from the default "chat 1" "chat 2" etc.
Trying to get rid of it, I deleted the entire VGUIAssets folder and downloaded a fresh one via the patcher ... but it didn't work and loading a saved preset from DroxUI doesn't help neither.
I looked in every .ini and .xml file without success, does anyone has an idea where the chat window config is stored ?
I was able to fix it by deleting the bin folder. I had to reconfigure everything but at least it works now.
The bin folder is where the client saves all the window configuration files, so it makes sense that deleting this folder would help with the situation. the file that most likely contained the information you were trying to delete was probably vgwindows.xml. that's where the layout of your UI is saved--all the windows and such, so that chat window locations and settings would have been in this file. it's been my experience that this file is often the root of a lot of problems with the UI layout not saving or repositioning certain windows upon reloading the game.
I managed to fix the "Chat Spam Bug" by switching over to Xnyder's "myUI."
Hmmm, was that plug to shameless?
On a side note, I haven't really messed with renaming the chat windows since I switched to myUI, since renaming those windows seemed to have caused my nights of "chat-window-hell."
Is the chat-window code in Vanguard just that bizzare that changing the name of the window is enough to send the ui into a death spin? I'm just curious.
"Spam" window spawns
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