Is there a way to disable Sticky Chat Channels?

[Thurin]

First off, love MRP. It's really really nice!

But I've noticed that MRP has sticky channels for the public channels, but I really don't like it.
So I'm wondering simply; how can I disable this?
(Also I'm suggesting a toggle-button!)

Brief, but I can provide more details if needed!

[Elandru Moonshyne]

Ah, I know this one. Here's how; open MyCommunication.lua in a text editor (like Notepad, for example, that'll work fine).

At line 132, you'll see the following piece of Lua code, which runs when the addon is loaded:—

Code:

function mcoOnLoad()
ChatTypeInfo["CHANNEL"].sticky = 1; -- EM: As much as I like sticky channels, should we really be doing this in MRP?

if (not MTI_VERSION) then
mduDisplayMessage(MCO_LOCALE_MYTIME_MISSING_ERROR, MCO_NAME, .8, .8, 0, 1, 0, 0);
end

You can probably see the line that does the thing you asked about, because I placed a little note there myself when I took over maintenance of the addon, wondering about this very thing.

Place two hyphens and one space in front of that line (the one that has ChatTypeInfo["CHANNEL"].sticky = 1;) , and save the file. This "comments it out", meaning it doesn't get run, and the chat channels won't be "stickied".

This will not adversely affect the way the addon operates in any way.

After you're done, that bit of code will look like this:—

Code:

function mcoOnLoad()
-- ChatTypeInfo["CHANNEL"].sticky = 1; -- EM: As much as I like sticky channels, should we really be doing this in MRP?

if (not MTI_VERSION) then
mduDisplayMessage(MCO_LOCALE_MYTIME_MISSING_ERROR, MCO_NAME, .8, .8, 0, 1, 0, 0);
end

And then, once you've saved that out, MRP won't make the channels "sticky" when it loads anymore.

Is that OK? ^^

[Elandru Moonshyne]

If you want to do that "on the fly", by the way, while WoW is running, the following commands will do it:—

Code:

/script ChatTypeInfo["CHANNEL"].sticky = 1

— to ENABLE sticky channels

Code:

/script ChatTypeInfo["CHANNEL"].sticky = 0

— to DISABLE sticky channels

For those who are unaware, by default, when you press return, it brings up the last sticky channel you typed in. /g and /s are "sticky" by default; /e, and the chat channels like /1 and /2 and so forth, are not, so by default you have to type the /1 each time you want to type in the General channel.

MyRolePlay has that line in it, basically, which reverses that behaviour and makes those channels (and any other custom channels you may have /joined) sticky like /say and /guild.

[Thurin]

Thank you very, very much to spend the time telling me this, and so fast too!
Worked a treat! 
Good luck with MRP, I do think it's the best RP addon I've used, and I tried 'em all out!