Fixing the chat

[Ammako]

http://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/20748605404

Does anyone here have enough knowledge on how the default chat frame works to know if this is something we could fix via add-ons?
This has been driving me (and many others) crazy since pre-patch dropped and it's still not been fixed, and I've yet to see it being publicly acknowledged by someone at Blizzard.

If we could fix that on our own without having to wait for Blizzard to maybe fix it on their end, that would be amazing and also really appreciated. :s

[Phanx]

Is it fixable by an addon? Yes, pretty easily. You'd just need to hook the "open a chat edit box" function (I don't know its name offhand), find the last whisper received in the currently visible chat frame, and update the edit box accordingly.

[Ammako]

Sounds relatively straightforward, would still need to fix it for the General chat tab too though.

If I switch to a whisper tab and talk to that person, switching back to General tab should put me back in whichever channel it was I was talking in, be it /say, General, Trade /i, etc.

How can we figure out which chat channel the player last spoke in?

Also like that thread mentions it looks like clicking the tab a few times "corrects" the chat focus, so the code for it must already be there but just not working properly... maybe that'd make it easier to figure out.

[Ammako]

This seems to fix it:

hooksecurefunc("FCF_Tab_OnClick", function(self, button)
    local chatFrame = _G["ChatFrame"..self:GetID()];
    if ( GetCVar("chatStyle") ~= "classic" ) then
        ChatEdit_SetLastActiveWindow(chatFrame.editBox);
    end
end)