SendChatMessage and illegal chars

[gmarco]

Hi all,

I continue to ask questions on questions and I am sorry about it, but I googled a lot but could not find a solution to this.

I'd like to write something in a CHAT channel. And it works fine, but I was unable to write a something with the escape code to make string colored.

A sample...

local prgname1 = "|cffffd200addon1|r"
local prgname2 =  "addon2"
local msg1 = string.format("Hello %s !", prgname1)
local msg2 = string.format("Hello %s !", prgname2)
 
print (msg1)
print (msg2)
SendChatMessage(msg1, "GUILD")
SendChatMessage(msg2, "GUILD")

The print(msg?) works quite well but the SendChatMessage only work when the var is prgname2 because in the other case it contains illegal chars.

I check them here: http://www.wowwiki.com/ValidChatMessageCharacters

The problem is that the code doesn't complains but doesn't print either when it found such strings.

I check also:

SendAddonMessage( "ADDON", "Test", "GUILD" );

But it also don't print either and probably it is not I need.

So the question is ?

Have I to convert the string with some function before passing to SendChatMessage or I have to use different output type ?

Thanks very much for attention as usual.

[Haleth]

You can't send coloured chat messages to other people, only show them for yourself using AddMessage().

SendAddonMessage uses a hidden channel to send data between addons, e.g. to synchronize timers or to check if someone has a newer version.

[gmarco]

Hi, thanks for your reply...

The code is this:

local prgname = "|cffffd200autopsy|r"
 
local function color(destName)
   if not UnitExists(destName) then return string_format("|cffff0000%s|r", destName) end
   local _, class = UnitClass(destName)
   local color = _G["RAID_CLASS_COLORS"][class]
   return string_format("|cff%02x%02x%02x%s|r", color.r*255, color.g*255, color.b*255, destName)
end
 
        -- begins code on parsing CLEU
 
    local timeStamp, event, _, sourceGUID, sourceName, _, _, destGUID, destName, _, _, prefixParam1, prefixParam2, _, suffixParam1, suffixParam2 = ...  
    
    -- proceed with CLEU handling
    if not playerGUID then
        playerGUID = UnitGUID("player")
    end
    
    if destGUID == playerGUID or (destName and UnitClass(destName)) then
 
    -- prevent the case the sourceName is nil (sometimes it is happened)
    sourceName = sourceName or "Someone"
    
    if event == "SWING_DAMAGE" then
            if prefixParam2 > 0 then
                print(string_format("%s: [%s] killed [%s] with %s Melee overkill %s", prgname, sourceName, color(destName), prefixParam1, prefixParam2))
                autopsy_msg = string_format("autopsy: [%s] killed [%s] with %s Melee overkill %s", sourceName, destName, prefixParam1, prefixParam2)
                SendChatMessage(autopsy_msg, autopsy_chn)
            end
 
         -- proceed with other code and damage types...

The print() works fine and I think I can use as a self output.
The SendChatMessage is not able to to color both the "prgname" nor the color(destName) ...

The only problem of this approach is that I have to deal with 2 different string format for the output if I'd like to mantain the colors in the "self" output.

Btw if can't be solved it is not a problem, so ... :-)

Thanks very much for your kind reply.

[Haleth]

I'm not sure what the problem is now. Like I said, you can't send coloured chat messages to other people.

If you only want to colour the print(), then you should use DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage() instead. You can provide rgb values in the parameters so you don't need to format the string yourself.

[gmarco]

There wasn't any problems I was only explaining why I asked so I posted the real code :-)

Just to clarify better I post an image:

http://s20.postimage.org/icdo1j1od/autopsy.png

As you can see the print works fine coloring the addon name and the name of the mage pg (Frostanzo).

The SendChatMessage(autopsy_msg, autopsy_chn) instead prints in the default chat color without any color modification for name and pg class.

What I would to obtain was that the SendChatMessage(autopsy_msg, autopsy_chn) can write the same string of the print(), but you said it is not possible so I have to forget to have a colored chat :-)

Thanks very much for your answers.
I really appreciated.

[SDPhantom]

Also to add, there are special exceptions such as color codes that are associated with spell and item links as these codes are considered part of the link themselves by the chat server.