Mod Request- Outside Chat Panel

My roommate and I were talking, and we're wanting to know if it would be possible to run the chat panels on our desktop in a separate window.

-The purpose would be to have these separate chat windows run on a second monitor so there would be less intrusion on the viewing area.

-Or at least have something sync up on our desktop and just turn the opacity down all the way in game (on the panels)

Is this possible?

thanks|||Addons run inside World of Warcraft, so they can only "draw" on those parts of the screen that World of Warcraft controls. So, if I'm taking your meaning right, and you want the chat panels as separate windows on another screen, while the rest of WoW runs on the other screen, then no.

The second option, having a separate program that "reads" the chat info and displays it outside WoW, is theoretically possible, but violates the Terms of Service.

:-(|||I've had this running and working quite well.... you have to fool warcraft into thinking that your screen resolution is the same size as both of your screens together. You then use CT_viewport to display the rendered world on one screen and your UI on the other screen.

For example:

I have 2x24" monitors running at 1920x1200. I used a custom resolution in Warcraft of 3840x1200. I then told CT_Viewport to display the rendered world as 1920x1200 (which would take up half the "screen" - or one of my monitors). I then used another addon to unlock the UI and move it onto my second monitor - for the life of me I can't remember which addon unlocks everything!

TBH it's a lot of faff for not much gain. I would lose the ability to run firebox, media player, outlook etc on my second screen while playing WoW (and 24" monitors are plenty enough real estate to shrink the UI anyway).