Messaging during game play questionFollow

I"ve noticed that occasionally when someone messages my it will pop up as a small BLACL rectangle with bold white pring right in the middle of my screen. Very cool. The rest of the time it's in the lower left hand corner of my screen and in regular colored font size, etc. Not easy to see at all.

Is there a way I can have all messages to me or my group flash in front (middle) of me as above in all cases? I'm afraid that I'm otherwise missing the text when someone messages me, particularly when I'm not expecting it (friend says hello, etc.).

Thanks much,

Bill (on a Mac)

ChatAlert addon

http://wow.curse-gaming.com/en/files/details/3659/chatalert/


Another option is to make a separate chat window for guild/party/whispers. Then those don't get cluttered up with all the general chat.

Edited, Jan 8th 2007 7:23am by dadanox

The chat bubble shows when someone (or an NPC) within earshot and eyesight does a /s or /y.

/1, /g, /r etc doesn't show up like that.

Yes, ChatAlert is excellent for those who miss messages in the actual chat box. It can work with all kinds of chat, too, and you can reposition the text anywhere on your screen, make the font as big or as small as you wish. I'd like to change the noise it makes to alert you (should your attention be off the screen) but that's just nitpicking.

This is what I’ve done for the last couple of years. I almost always missed tells when they were in the general chat box. So I made a new window, place it in the bottom right corner of the screen and directed all guild chat, party chat and tells to it.

Regarding missing tells: Theres an addon I've been using recently called WIM (Wow instant messenger)

http://wow.curse-gaming.com/en/files/details/3921/wim-wow-instant-messenger/

Basically it put up chatboxes for people you are having conversations with, you can close em move em around and whatnot. It can be set to auto minimize them in combat. It keeps track of your conversations both in current session and a full log I think.