I have always had trouble with the responding.... if I get a PM from one player and am involved in a discussion and do not notice a new PM then respond to second player with a chat text meant for first player... this is truly bad.

At one time I thought maybe assign a number when the chat opens so the response is /r1 or /r2 with the number being the open chat sequence for a given person and delete / reassign the numbers after a period of time but that seemed a bit cumbersome to deal with SO then I thought what about a GIU open with chat going on and tabs to show who you are chatting with.

Many mods have similar type GUIs -- for example Trade might be a great one... just turn those into chat windows and have a way to toggle between chats.... also make it so the chat window opening is a command in game so that when someone PMs you you do not get a giant window opening while you are int he middle of a firefight.

Thoughts??

Sadly again I did not research enough I did not know that PrivateMessagesGUI was available.... I will look it over and comment there.  @wulf you may delete this thread if you like.

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Turns out the PrivateMessageGUI is not anything like I was describing above.  In fact since it uses the in game tagging method and you type a long sentence it looks very odd.  I would prefer a GUI with tabs for the different PMs that are open with the ability to chat in them and close them.  I think this type of PrivateMessageGUI is better.  I will also post this in the area but either author can tackle it.