Something Similar to a Chat Window

[circonian]

Are there any xml controls you can inherit from to create something similar to a chat window that handles scrolling, resizing, maxHistoryLines, & link mouse clicks ect... without having to write that stuff yourself?

I don't need it to receive or send chat messages I was just wanting something I could easily make with little code to add debug messages to, with a scrollable window, & clickable links.

If it helps I was hoping to do something simple like this:

<GuiXml>
 <Controls>
   <TopLevelControl name="MyDebugWindow" inherits="ZO_ChatContainerTemplate" resizeHandleSize="8" clampedToScreen="true" mouseEnabled="true" movable="true" hidden="false" layer="OVERLAY" tier="HIGH" allowBringToTop="false" alpha="1" >
       <Dimensions x="200" y="400" />
      <Anchor point="TOPELFT" relativeTo="GuiRoot" relativePoint="TOPELFT" offsetX="750" offsetY="150"/>
      <Controls>
         <TextBuffer name="$(parent)TextBuffer" font="ZoFontChat" layer="OVERLAY" tier="LOW" level="0" maxHistoryLines="200" mouseEnabled="true" movable="true" >
         <AnchorFill/>
         <LineFade fadeBegin="0" fadeDuration="0" />
         </TextBuffer>
      </Controls>
   </TopLevelControl>
 </Controls>
</GuiXml>

and then just add messages to the textBuffer:

MyDebugWindowTextBuffer:AddMessage("Some debug message")

[merlight]

I'm looking for the exact same thing. Unfortunatelly ZO_ChatContainerTemplate seems to be heavily intertwined with the chat system. I wanted a separate debug logging window, so right now I'm going with plain textbuffer. I'm so lazy that I haven't even added scrollbar yet

[circonian]

Yeah, I'm feeling lazy too. Was just hoping there was something I wasn't finding that would do the job.

[circonian]

Well theres one up here now.
I went ahead and made my own, since you said you were looking for the same thing it made me think others might be as well. So I made it into a library & posted it in case anyone else wants an easy to create Msg Window for anything: LibMsgWin-1.0