The Context strip at the top of the launcher showed which room the
mod is currently observing — green pill + door icon when in a room,
zinc strip when not. In practice it's noise: the Room Tool / Chatlog
Tool buttons right under it already gate on the same in-room state
(disabled when not in a room) and carry their own tooltip explaining
that. The strip duplicated the signal without adding actionable info.
Remove the section, the now-unused FaDoorOpen / FaDoorClosed imports,
and the matching `modtools.window.section.context` /
`modtools.window.context.room` locale keys (from both the runtime
UITexts.json and the versioned UITexts.example template).
The launcher panel was a flat stack of four buttons (Room Tool, Chatlog
Tool, selected-user + presence dot inline, Report Tool) with no visual
hierarchy. The selected-user row was particularly cramped — name, the
2px dot and the 4×4 close-X all crammed into a single button row, easy
to misclick.
Reorganize into four logical groups, each with a small uppercase
section label:
Context — gradient strip (emerald when in a room, zinc when not)
showing "Room #<id>" or "Enter a room first" with a
matching door icon. Source of truth for "what is the
mod observing right now"; both Room Tool and Chatlog
Tool feed from the same currentRoomId.
Room — Room Tool + Chatlog Tool stacked. Both still gate on
isInRoom; the disabled state now reads from a single
flag instead of repeating `currentRoomId <= 0`.
User — When a user is selected: a card with the presence dot
(emerald = still in room, zinc = left), the username at
a real legible size, a bigger close button, plus a
dedicated "Open Info" button to toggle ModToolsUserView.
Splitting the click target from the close action removes
the misclick footgun.
When no user is selected: a dashed-border empty state
with a FaUserSlash icon and the "Select a user" hint —
reads as a clear "no selection" instead of an active
button you can't press.
Reports — Report Tool with the open-ticket badge. Badge gets a 2px
rose halo box-shadow so a new ticket pulses into view
instead of competing with the button background.
Locale keys added under modtools.window.section.* and
modtools.window.context.room / modtools.window.user.open_info, in both
the runtime UITexts.json and the versioned UITexts.example template.
The "Open Info" button label is a fix in flight — the old layout
overloaded the username row to also open user info, with no separate
label. The new explicit button gets its own key so the action is
unambiguous (the previous version mislabelled the button as "Mod
Action", which is actually a different sub-panel).
typecheck + vitest 214/214 + JSON validation all clean.
The ModTools template refresh introduced ~80 hardcoded English strings
(labels, placeholders, tooltips, empty-state copy, button text). Move
every one of them onto the modtools.* namespace and read via
LocalizeText so the panels translate alongside the rest of the client.
UITexts.example (versioned template) extended with the full set:
modtools.window.* Launcher box (toolbar item, tools,
selected-user state, ticket count)
modtools.userinfo.* User info card — already had the
legacy modtools.userinfo.{userName,
cfhCount, …} keys from before; added
refresh tooltip, presence pill labels
(in_room / online / offline with
matching .title tooltips), section
headings, action button labels, stat
card labels
modtools.roominfo.* Room info card — title, refresh, loading,
owner pill (here/away + tooltips), stat
labels, action buttons, moderate panel
heading + checkboxes + textarea
placeholder + caution/alert CTAs
modtools.user.message.* Send-message dialog (recipient label,
body label, placeholder, char counter,
empty state, send button)
modtools.user.modaction.* Mod Action form — header, sanctioning
label, 3-step section titles, select
placeholders, message label + optional
note, message placeholder, preview
heading, default/apply buttons, every
sendAlert error message
modtools.user.visits.* Room visits — title, header strip
heading, entry count (singular/plural),
empty state, column headers, visit
button + tooltip
modtools.user.chatlog.* User chatlog — title (with username
variant), loading state
modtools.room.chatlog.* Room chatlog title
modtools.chatlog.* Shared ChatlogView — column headers,
empty state, room-separator Visit/Tools
buttons
modtools.tickets.* Tickets window — title, tab labels
(open/mine/picked), column headers,
empty states, action buttons (pick/
handle/release), issue resolution
window (title, label, details heading,
field labels, chatlog toggle, resolve-as
heading, resolution buttons, release
back to queue), CFH chatlog title
The same 130 entries land in Nitro-Files/.../UITexts.json (runtime).
Both files validate as JSON. The runtime additions take effect on
next client reload; the template additions ship the strings to any
fresh deploy.
Notes:
- The MOD_ACTION_DEFINITIONS sanction names ("Alert", "Mute 1h",
"Ban 18h" …) stay hardcoded for now since they're keyed off
server-side action IDs that don't have an existing locale key
convention. Worth a follow-up if needed.
- help.cfh.topic.* keys (CFH topic display names) are already in
ExternalTexts.json and were already read via LocalizeText, so
they didn't need changes.
typecheck + vitest 214/214 + lint:hooks all clean.
ModToolsView
- Subscribe to useRoomUserListSnapshot so the selected user's
"still in room" state is reactive — green dot when the user is
in the current room, gray dot when they've left. Previously the
selection was a static capture at click time.
- Add an inline X to clear the selected-user slot without having
to click a different avatar.
- Report Tool button shows a count badge for OPEN tickets
(IssueMessageData.STATE_OPEN) so a new ticket arriving while
the panel is open is visible immediately. Caps display at 99+.
- Tooltip on the room-bound buttons explains why they're disabled
("Enter a room first") instead of showing a silent disabled state.
- Buttons grow their labels with `flex-grow text-start` so the
trailing dot / badge / clear-X sits flush right.
useModTools
- Fix splice(index) → splice(index, 1) in close{Room,RoomChatlog,
UserInfo,UserChatlog} — the omitted second argument was
silently deleting EVERY subsequent open panel, not just the one
being closed. Visible whenever a moderator had two or more panels
of the same kind open.
- Fix toggleUserChatlog reading from openRoomChatlogs instead of
openUserChatlogs — copy-paste typo made the toggle inconsistent
with the underlying state.
Replace ~70 hardcoded English strings across 15 mod-tools files
with LocalizeText() calls using moderation.* keys matching the
existing ExternalTexts convention. Includes mod-tools-external-texts.json
with all required keys for ExternalTexts.json.
- Fix icon alignment using flexbox instead of absolute positioning
- Add active state indicators on buttons when sub-panels are open
- Add min-width constraints to prevent cramped layouts
- Improve user button with placeholder text and truncated username
- Improve room info panel with better spacing, clickable owner, colored owner status
- Improve chatlog with scrollable container, alternating row colors, compact headers
- Clean up room info header and room name display
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