SendChatMessage behaviour

gmarco · 01-22-23, 01:29 PM

Hi all,

I had an old addon that prints in a chosen channel when someone died and for what it is happened.
Now I have expanded it with the announces also of the spells interrupts/dispell/steals.

But the problem is that it only randomly works.
It never, never, SendChatMessage the spell interrupts/dispell in the channel chosen but it works only with a simple print().
It sometimes SendChatMessage the death of someone in the chosen channel, and always works with print().

I know that now SendChatMessage() is a restricted in outdoor for the the "SAY", "YELL" and others.
But it should work in INSTANCE/GUILD and other channel as well without problems.

The code I use is something similar to these:

Lua Code:

local msg = "This is the message of the death or of the interrupted spell"
if CONFIGURED_CHANNEL == "GROUP" then 
    SendChatMessage(msg, IsInGroup(LE_PARTY_CATEGORY_INSTANCE) and 'INSTANCE_CHAT' or IsInRaid() and 'RAID' or IsInGroup() and 'PARTY' or 'SAY')
else 
    print(msg)
end

Lua Code:

local msg = "This is the message of the death or of the interrupted spell"
if CONFIGURED_CHANNEL == "GROUP" then
    if IsInGroup(LE_PARTY_CATEGORY_INSTANCE) then
        channel = "INSTANCE_CHAT"
    elseif IsInRaid() then
        channel = "RAID"
    elseif IsInGroup() then
        channel = "PARTY"
    else
        channel = "SELF"
    end
    SendChatMessage(msg, channel)
else 
    print(msg)
end

Both versions doesn't work

Could be related to the fact that sometime this is triggered while in combat sometime while I am out of combat ?
Or there is something else I am missing ?

Basically I can simplify it because what I want to achieve is to find a method to announce what was happening to the party members.
.... If possible

Thanks for any helps.

gmarco · 02-20-23, 01:55 AM

Hi all,

I'd like to refresh this topic because it drives me crazy

Is possible that in DragonFlight (latest patch) the

Lua Code:

SendChatMessage()

has known limitations that unfortunately I am unable to find ?

I explain better.

Lua Code:

[... parse COMBAT_LOG_EVENT_UNFILTERED ... ]
if clevent=="SPELL_DISPEL" then
    p_autopsy_msg = string.format(L["%s: %s dispelled %s %s %s"],prgname,classcolor(sourceName), destName, GetSpellLink(suffixParam1) or suffixParam2, usedSpell)
    autopsy_msg = string.format(L["%s: %s dispelled %s %s %s"],prgname,sourceName, destName, suffixParam2, usedSpell)
end
 
-- I want to send in chat the dispel announce for example.
-- I made 2 message because I remembered that there was problem with color code in sendchat.
 
-- if , for example, I am in a dungeon5 finder I am inside here:
if IsInGroup(LE_PARTY_CATEGORY_INSTANCE) then
    print(p_autopsy_msg)
    SendChatMessage(autopsy_msg, "INSTANCE_CHAT")
end

to test I have used also a print() and it works while the second SendChatMessage() no.
And I dont understand why :/

Same story for:

Lua Code:

if IsInGroup(LE_PARTY_CATEGORY_HOME) then
    if IsInRaid() then SendChatMessage(autopsy_msg, "RAID") end
    if IsInGroup() then SendChatMessage(autopsy_msg, "PARTY") end
end
 
if not inGroup then 
    print(p_autopsy_msg)
end

I have tried also to use in this way:

Lua Code:

SendChatMessage(autopsy_msg, IsInGroup(LE_PARTY_CATEGORY_INSTANCE) and 'INSTANCE_CHAT' or IsInRaid() and 'RAID' or IsInGroup() and 'PARTY' or 'SAY')

But it doesnt want to work.

Any idea will be, as always, really appreciated.

Thanks.

Dridzt · 02-20-23, 02:27 AM

SendChatMessage behavior changes based on instance/non instance status not group.

gmarco · 02-20-23, 01:00 PM

Hi Dridzt,

thanks for your answer.

Can you explain better please because I was not able to fully understand

The compact code:

Lua Code:

SendChatMessage(msg, IsInGroup(LE_PARTY_CATEGORY_INSTANCE) and "INSTANCE_CHAT" or IsInRaid() and "RAID" or IsInGroup() and "PARTY" or "SAY")

I have found this code was suggested a lot of times and it should work without problems...

Only take care of these:
https://wowwiki-archive.fandom.com/w...sageCharacters

Really thanks !

P.s.
I found also this that I wrote on the same addon on 2012

Time flies..

https://www.wowinterface.com/forums/...ad.php?t=45493

gmarco · 02-23-23, 12:41 AM

Hi guys,

I wrote this only to let you know that I found finally why I was not able to use sendchat.

I thought I had cleaned everything and make a plain vanilla string output to send but I was wrong

The strings were these:

Lua Code:

p_autopsy_msg = string.format(L["%s: %s dispelled %s %s %s"],prgname,classcolor(sourceName), destName, GetSpellLink(suffixParam1) or suffixParam2, usedSpell)
autopsy_msg = string.format(L["%s: %s dispelled %s %s %s"],prgname,sourceName, destName, GetSpellLink(suffixParam1), usedSpell)

where I used the first in print() the second in sendchat() thinking it was a clean one.

But it wasn't because in the first lines of addon I have:
local prgname = "|cffffd200"..ADDON.."|r"

I really forgot about it and it didn't capture my attention before.

Now I have converted the string in something like:

Lua Code:

autopsy_msg = string.format(L["%s: %s dispelled %s %s %s"],ADDON,sourceName, destName, GetSpellLink(suffixParam1), usedSpell)

... and everything automagically begins to works like a charm :-)

Thanks and sorry for the spam.