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rocketman10404 edited this page Jul 16, 2013 · 27 revisions

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:

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:

Additional Features

Settings Interface

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

Mouse/Keyboard Controls

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