Chat Utilities

Chat Utilities 2.2.1

🟢 New | 🟡 Changed | 🔴 Fixed

🟢 New — Rendering & Performance

• 🟢 Render cache for wrapped message lines — chat windows now only rebuild their wrapped lines on actual changes instead of every frame; on a cache hit, only fade-alpha gets updated per line
• 🟢 Render limit of 3000 messages per window — all messages still stay in memory, but only up to 3000 get rendered (newest or oldest depending on newestOnTop), plenty for normal scrolling while saving performance on large chat histories
• 🟢 New renderVersion field on ChatWindow — bumped on every relevant change to invalidate the render cache

🟡 Changed

• 🟡 Toast messages (closed chat) now break out early once a message is older than TOAST_DURATION_MS (10s), instead of always looping through all 3000 messages — down to ~50 messages processed per frame instead of 3000
• 🟡 Toast rendering extracted into its own renderToastLine method for cleaner code and correct yOffset handling
• 🟡 Highlight background now spans the full window width and uses global opacity instead of a hardcoded alpha value
• 🟡 MessageLine.fadeAlpha is no longer final — allows in-place updates on cache hits without creating new objects

🔴 Fixed

• 🔴 Cache invalidation from setSearchQuery fixed — previously bumped every frame since renderFull called setSearchQuery continuously, even with an unchanged query string, making the cache effectively useless
• 🔴 Same issue fixed for setSearchActive — now only invalidates the cache on an actual state change