Possible to send Strings between add-ons

[SetiHunter]

Hello. To start with: I have just started to read the first wiki-tutorials about lua.
I would like to know if its possible to send strings between add-ons. "SendAddonMessage" can only be of the types: "PARTY", "RAID", "GUILD", "BATTLEGROUND", "WHISPER". Possible for a message of type "WHISPER" to be whatever I like?

[Akryn]

Originally Posted by SetiHunter Hello. To start with: I have just started to read the first wiki-tutorials about lua. I would like to know if its possible to send strings between add-ons. "SendAddonMessage" can only be of the types: "PARTY", "RAID", "GUILD", "BATTLEGROUND", "WHISPER". Possible for a message of type "WHISPER" to be whatever I like?

Those types refer to who the recipient list should be. Both the prefix and body of the message must be a string value. That is, if you

SendAddonMessage("myAddon", "hello world", "RAID")

then every frame (that has CHAT_MSG_ADDON registered) on every client in your raid will see that event fire with the values: "myAddon","hello world","RAID",<your name>.

[SetiHunter]

Ok. Thanks. Think I get it. One more follow up question:
Is there any way to test this by myself if I dont have 2 WoW accounts?

[Akryn]

Unless they've changed it recently, you can send addon whispers to yourself.

[SetiHunter]

Ah. Tons of thanks. Time to get to job then =D