In your face, interface - Preliminary chat design specs...

What is up HackWarriors. Here are some early design pics a new chat interface. Feedback is welcome. Keep in mind that it is still quite rough (I made it with the GUI builder in NetBeans :p), so this is just to communicate the general idea. We will be preserving/enhancing the existing chat functions that already work (so we won't focus on them here). This document focuses entirely on the most significant changes we will be making to the system.

The chat will be given its own window (and separated from Game Messages, more on that later) but will keep using the tab/channel system. However, there will also be working friends list and an optional channel listing (if available).



If you go up to the 'Tabs' menu, you'll get the ability to create your own custom Tab. You can apply filters so that the tab you create has messages from multiple channels in it (or just one, as before). You'll also be able to set which Tabs load by default.



Anyway, that is the long and short of it. Comments and feedback are appreciated as usual. Follow me on twitter if you want to have your say on the more specific issues.

keep hackin'

the HW dev team