CopyThat

A lightweight, no-fuss way to copy your chat — one button, instant text, nothing else in the way.

Overview

CopyThat adds a single, tidy button to your chat frame that pulls every visible line out of the active chat window and drops it into a clean, scrollable text box — ready to select and copy. No menus to dig through, no clutter, no overhead.

Instead of fighting Blizzard's chat frame to manually drag-select text, you click once and the whole window is right there as plain, copyable text — links flattened to their words, textures and icons stripped out, original colours preserved. Built on the same modular engine patterns as NexEnhance, but focused on doing one job and doing it well.

• One click — grab the entire visible chat window instantly.
• Clean output — links become readable text, textures/animations are removed, message colours are kept.
• Stays out of the way — a small icon on the chat frame, positionable and fade-adjustable to taste.
• Native settings — a clean options panel built on Blizzard's own Settings API, with live-apply toggles.
• Light by design — a hidden frame and a reused line buffer; effectively zero cost when idle.
• Plays everywhere — works across Midnight, The War Within, Cataclysm Classic and Classic Era.

Installation

Via an addon manager (recommended)

• CurseForge — search for CopyThat and install.

Manual

1. Download the latest release from the Releases page.
2. Extract the CopyThat folder into World of Warcraft\_retail_\Interface\AddOns.
3. Restart the game (or /reload if already in-game).

Getting Started

Hover the chat frame and you'll find the Copy icon in the corner you chose. Click it to open the copy window; click it again (or press Escape) to close. Inside, select the text and copy it with your usual shortcut.

Features

CopyThat ships as a single self-contained module — everything lives under Chat in the options panel.

Chat

• Copy Button — a small icon on the chat frame that captures every visible line of the active chat window into a scrollable, copyable text box. Follows the selected General-chat tab when you switch windows.
• Clean Text Extraction — strips textures (|T...|t) and animations (|A...|a), flattens hyperlinks to their display text, and preserves each message's original colour.
• Icon Position — place the button in any corner of the chat frame: Bottom Right, Top Right, Top Left or Bottom Left.
• Icon Transparency — set the resting opacity of the icon (it fades to full opacity on hover so it's never hard to find).
• Enable / Disable — turn the whole addon on or off live, with the button and copy window respecting the setting immediately.
• Movable Window — drag the copy window anywhere; its position is remembered between sessions.
• Instance-Safe (Midnight) — fully compatible with World of Warcraft: Midnight's Secret Values model. Inside instances, chat content that the game marks Secret is skipped gracefully instead of erroring, and all other lines stay fully copyable.

Configuration

Open the panel with /copythat (or /ct), or through the Blizzard AddOns settings. Every option applies live:

Contributing

Contributions, bug reports and ideas are welcome! Open an issue or a pull request. When filing a bug, including your client version and a /reload-able repro helps a ton.

Credits

CopyThat borrows with respect and adapts ideas from addon authors who solved this problem first:

• Siweia (NDui) — the original chat-copy module that NexEnhance's Chat Copy (and this addon) trace their roots to.
• NexEnhance — the modular engine, settings patterns and Midnight secret-value discipline this rewrite is built on.

Thank you both. CopyThat would not exist without you.

Support

Appreciate the work that goes into CopyThat? Consider showing your support:

• PayPal — paypal.me/KkthnxTV
• Patreon — patreon.com/Kkthnx
• Battle.net / Balance — Kkthnx#1105 or JRussell20@gmail.com
• In-game gold — Kkthnx on Area 52 (US)

License

Released under the MIT License. See LICENSE for details.