How to tell if someone is using remote guild chat?

[Animor]

Hi,

I'm trying to find a way to know if a player chatting with me is really connected to the game, or just using the remote guild chat (by using the mobile Armory application).

For some reason, I couldn't find an API that returns that info... Perhaps I missed something.
Can it be done?

Thanks in advance!

[Xrystal]

The only way I can think of is usings the information received from GetGuildRosterInfo

http://wowprogramming.com/docs/api/GetGuildRosterInfo

[Vis]

I just checked in with my Guild and while I am talking in /g on the remote app, my name has a speaker looking icon next to it. My guess is that they built it into the default chat frames. The Guildmate I was talking to is one of a few that doesn't run addons.

[SDPhantom]

This is also given as the 14th argument from a chat message event.

[Animor]

Thank you! You've been very helpful :-)

[Animor]

Ok, I can tell if someone chatting with me is using the mobile application by using arg14.

However, I have no idea how to tell if the player I'm whispering to is using the mobile.
I have the editbox, and I can get the whisper target name by using:

editBox:GetAttribute("tellTarget")

However, I couldn't find a way to tell if that name is using the mobile.

The API GetGuildRosterInfo gets index as a parameter, not a name.

Any ideas how to get that information from a tellTarget name?

[myrroddin]

If I am understanding your question correctly, then do the following. However, I am not sure if the UnitName call will work on "telltarget" so someone will have to tell me please.

local numOnline = select(2, GetNumGuildMembers())
for i = 1, numOnline do
    local isMobile = select(14, GetGuildRoster(i))
    if isMobile then
        local memberName = GetGuildRoster(i)
        print(("%s is chatting on the mobile app"):format(memberName))
        local tellName = UnitName(editbox:GetAttribute("telltarget")) -- not sure if UnitName will convert this
        if tellName == memberName then
            -- yes, I am whispering a guild member who is using the mobile app
        end
    end
end

[Animor]

Thank you for this suggestion!

I'm afraid that this is a bit "heavy" to call every time the user sends a whisper to someone.

Perhaps the solution should be to somehow create a list of online guild members, using your code. But this is problematic too, since I'm not sure when to update that list. For example, players on mobile might login to the game, new players are invited to guild, etc.

[myrroddin]

Register for GUILD_ROSTER_UPDATE and every time it fires, parse GetNumGuildMembers.

[Phanx]

You should avoid using select(). Function calls are basically the slowest thing you can do, and are totally unnecessary here. Plus, you're actually using two calls to GetGuildRosterInfo() instead of just using variables properly.

Here is some code that will keep track of who is currently mobile in your guild:

local mobileStatus = {}

local eventFrame = CreateFrame("Frame")
eventFrame:RegisterEvent("GUILD_ROSTER_UPDATE")
eventFrame:SetScript("OnEvent", function()
	wipe(mobileStatus)
	
	local _, numOnline = GetNumGuildMembers()
	for i = 1, numOnline do
		local name, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, _, isMobile = GetGuildRosterInfo(i)
		mobileStatus[name] = isMobile
	end
end)

Then, when you want to find out if a specific player is mobile, just check their status in the table:

if mobileStatus[name] then
	print(name, "is using the Mobile Armory app.")
else
	print(name, "is logged into WoW.")
end

[Animor]

Hi,

Thank you both for your help. Unfortunately, this doesn't work as expected, so I can't use this approach.

1. Iterating from 1 to numOnline doesn't work, since the online members are not necessarily indexed from 1 to numonline. The indexes depend on the sorting method and whether offline members are shown or not.
So, the whole roster should be iterated to see who are online and who has isMobile == true.
But that's not even the worse problem...

2. GetGuildRosterInfo() is bugged and totaly unreliable. Guild members connected to the game appear as connected from mobile. It happened also to my toon...
I think that unless you log off the smartphone application, your toon is displayed as isMobile, even if you login to the game afterward.

The only reliable way I've found to tell who is really isMobile, is using arg14 of the chat message event. So I took another approach and I put into an array players chatting with the user, according to their arg14. The only flaw with this approach is that the first message from the addon user to the mobile player is not detected as "to mobile" message. If the addon user is the first to chat, then there is no issue.