class icon in chat

[ventilator]

Hey,

I'm trying to put next to the player name the class icon using GetPlayerInfoByGUID. So it would look this:
class icon - unit whispers: message
but instead it is shown like this:
|Hplayer: - icon - unit - :2103 - icon - unit whispers: message
2103 seems to be the lineID (http://www.wowwiki.com/CHAT_MSG_CHAN...AT_MSG_CHANNEL) but I can't figure out where the |Hplayer: comes from.
However it looks only this odd whenever I put the icon next to the player name (it works if the icon is in the message)

Maybe a screenshot will explain better what I mean:
(in the chat message)
http://img641.imageshack.us/f/doesntwork.jpg
(next to the player name)
http://img59.imageshack.us/f/workj.jpg

local classIcons = {
	DEATHKNIGHT = "Interface\\Icons\\Spell_Deathknight_ClassIcon",
	DRUID = "Interface\\Icons\\INV_Misc_MonsterClaw_04",
	WARLOCK = "Interface\\Icons\\Spell_Nature_FaerieFire",
	HUNTER = "Interface\\Icons\\INV_Weapon_Bow_07",
	MAGE = "Interface\\Icons\\INV_Staff_13",
	PRIEST = "Interface\\Icons\\INV_Staff_30",
	WARRIOR = "Interface\\Icons\\INV_Sword_27",
	SHAMAN = "Interface\\Icons\\Spell_Nature_BloodLust",
	PALADIN = "Interface\\AddOns\\addon\\UI-CharacterCreate-Classes_Paladin",
	ROGUE = "Interface\\AddOns\\addon\\UI-CharacterCreate-Classes_Rogue",
}

function addPlayerIcons(self, event, arg1, arg2, arg3, arg4, arg5, arg6, arg7, arg8, arg9, arg10, arg11, arg12)
  local _, fontSize = GetChatWindowInfo(self:GetID())
  local _, class = GetPlayerInfoByGUID(arg12)
  local arg2 = "|T"..classIcons[class]..":"..fontSize.."|t"..arg2
  return false, arg1, arg2, arg3, arg4, arg5, arg6, arg7, arg8, arg9, arg10, arg11, arg12
end

ChatFrame_AddMessageEventFilter("CHAT_MSG_CHANNEL", addPlayerIcons)
ChatFrame_AddMessageEventFilter("CHAT_MSG_SAY", addPlayerIcons)
ChatFrame_AddMessageEventFilter("CHAT_MSG_YELL", addPlayerIcons)
ChatFrame_AddMessageEventFilter("CHAT_MSG_GUILD", addPlayerIcons)
ChatFrame_AddMessageEventFilter("CHAT_MSG_WHISPER", addPlayerIcons)

[Seerah]

Have a look at ChatIcons: http://www.wowinterface.com/download...ChatIcons.html

[ventilator]

I think I figured it out. The author used this pattern

"|Hplayer:([^|:]+)

to clean the icon. I already knew the addon but I always overlooked this part of the code.

I'm new to writing addons in WoW as you can see

Thanks for the help.

[v6o]

If you let blizzard's chat system color the names of the people you could probably just use that and just do a reverse lookup (color -> class)