UpdateFrom replaced persistent tabs with Tab.Clone()s. Clone deliberately
omits the NonSerialized Messages list to avoid shared mutable state on
disk-load — but on a settings save (Plugin.Config.UpdateFrom(Mutable))
that path means every persistent tab loses its in-session chat history
the moment the user clicks Save.
Capture the live MessageList plus LastSendUnread counter by Identifier
before the replace and restore them onto the cloned tabs. Tab.Clone()
already preserves Identifier so the lookup matches one-to-one for
unchanged tabs. New tabs added in settings get a fresh empty list,
deleted tabs lose their history (both intended).
Reported by Flo in-game 2026-05-05 — chat got wiped on every settings
save during v1.2.0 testing in Limsa.
Sin-based alpha scaling between 60% and 100% with a 2-second cycle.
Subtle enough to register peripherally without becoming distracting.
Respects Plugin.Config.ReduceMotion (field exists since v1.1.0,
toggle UI lands in v1.3.0) — static render when disabled.
The sidebar child window's ChildBg painted the upper top-padding area
(reserved for header-toolbar alignment) with the theme's frame color,
making it look like a stub block above the buttons. Pushing ChildBg
to transparent keeps the buttons floating on the window background.
Vertical separation to the message column stays intact via the
TabTable's BordersInnerV flag.
Sidebar buttons sat at the window top while messages began below the
chat header toolbar — vertical mismatch flagged by Flo. Adding a
GetFrameHeightWithSpacing dummy at the top of the sidebar child shifts
the entire button column down to align with the first message row.
Reverted the previous TextLineHeight+4f button shrink (commit 8a78390):
buttons size was fine, only their vertical position needed correction.
Updated the documentation to clarify the upstream sync workflow, including changes to cherry-picking practices and conflict handling. Added sections on intent, contributing back, and handling upstream changes.
Updated the contributing guidelines to reflect changes in project scope, contribution acceptance criteria, and response times. Clarified sections on translations and continuous integration.
Tofu-squares rendered in-game (verified by Flo 2026-05-05 19:21).
ImGui TabItem labels render in a single font frame; mixed-font
(FontAwesome icon + default font for tab name) is not possible
without Font-Atlas merging at FontManager level — out of scope
for v1.2.0.
Top-Tabs visual modernization is now driven by the Underline-Pill
alone (T6, kept). Sidebar (icon-only) remains the use case where
icons earn their keep. v1.2.0 Akzeptanzkriterium AC1 wird auf
"Top-Tabs haben Pill-Underline" reduziert.
Adds .github/workflows/forge-announce.yml — auto-posts a bilingual
changelog embed to the Hellion Forge #changelog Discord channel on
every vX.Y.Z tag push. DE bullets come from .github/forge-posts/
<tag>.md (frontmatter: subtitle, versionsnatur), EN block from
HellionChat.yaml.
Hard cap 5500 chars total. Major releases that exceed get a clear
manual-post message and stay off the auto-channel.
Decoupled from release.yml — failures in either workflow don't
block the other.
New workflow: when a vX.Y.Z tag is pushed (or workflow_dispatch
runs with a tag input), reads .github/forge-posts/<tag>.md for the
DE bullet body plus frontmatter (subtitle, versionsnatur), pulls the
matching English block from HellionChat.yaml, builds the Discord
webhook embed and posts it to the Hellion Forge #changelog channel.
Decoupled from release.yml — a fail here doesn't block the release,
and a fail there doesn't block the announce. Hard caps at 5500 chars
total (title + description + footer); major releases that exceed
that get a clear fail message and stay manual.
Tag is read via env: TAG_NAME and validated against ^v\d+\.\d+\.\d+$
before any string interpolation; frontmatter is regex-parsed with
explicit length caps (subtitle 60, versionsnatur 40). Curl posts the
payload via stdin so the secret never appears in process args.
Single retry on transient 5xx after 30s, hard fail on 4xx.
First major UI cycle after the standalone v1.0.0 cut. Theme engine
with five built-in themes (Hellion Arctic, Chat 2 Klassik, Event
Horizon, Moonlit Bloom, Mint Grove), customisable JSON themes,
modernised settings layout (card-grid overview + breadcrumb detail
view), opt-in per-theme chat-channel colours, and the plugin icon
swap to the Hellion Forge hammer.
Configuration v13 → v14: all users land on Hellion Arctic. Pick
Chat 2 Klassik in Settings → Themes for the upstream look.
See HellionChat/HellionChat.yaml changelog and docs/CHANGELOG.md for
the full release notes; docs/THEME-AUTHORING.md is the new guide for
writing custom themes.
Three new screenshots replace the v1.0.x set: chatWindow (in-game
sidebar with FreeCompany tab), settingsOverview (card grid with all
nine sections), themesPicker (built-in themes plus example custom).
ImageUrls in repo.json + yaml updated; old withSimpleTweaks.png
dropped.
.github/forge-posts/v1.1.0.md seeded for the eventual auto-announce
workflow (Discord changelog post on tag push). Format matches the
forge-announce spec — frontmatter (subtitle, versionsnatur) plus DE
bullet body.
The chat plugin now ships under the Hellion Forge plugin-workshop
brand. Icon is the 512x512 hammer mark from the Forge logo set
(was 256x256 ChatTwo derivative).
When a theme defines its own chat channel colours and the current
Configuration.ChatColours don't match, a dezent banner offers Apply /
Keep — opt-in, never auto-overwriting user picks. Switching themes
re-arms the banner so each theme can be evaluated separately.
Hellion Arctic, Event Horizon, Moonlit Bloom and Mint Grove each
ship a distinct chat-channel palette tinted toward their brand
family while preserving the FFXIV channel identity (Say light, Yell
yellow, Shout orange, Tell pink-magenta, Party blue, FC cyan, NN
green). Chat 2 Klassik intentionally ships without — users picking
that theme keep their existing channel colours.
Theme-card grid was stacking diagonally for the same reason the
settings overview did: SetCursorScreenPos plus SameLine in the
caller loop don't compose. Wrap each card in BeginGroup/EndGroup,
draw name and author via DrawList instead of cursor hops, and let
ImGui handle row wrapping naturally.
SettingsOverview now wraps each card in BeginGroup/EndGroup so SameLine
in the loop can wrap rows. The card content is drawn directly into the
DrawList (icon, title, subtext) without cursor hopping that broke the
flow.
DrawDetail no longer renders the second-column tab list — the user has
already picked a section from the overview, the redundant column made
the detail view feel like the old vanilla settings layout. Section
content now uses the full width.
The pre-engine StyleModel override in ChatLogWindow.PreDraw and
Popout.PreDraw was layering an extra Dalamud style on top of the
Hellion theme, locally tinting the chat window back to a non-Hellion
look while every other plugin window rendered correctly. Theme is
now the single source of truth — pick chat2-classic for the upstream
flavour.
JonKazama-Hellion