custom emote in addon

[Clukclukboom]

I just recently started to make addons. i really like it. so i decided to make an addon for my boomkin. i want to map a button to do a custom emote (/e clucks.) but i cant seem to get this to work. been looking on various forums for about 3 hours now and cant get anything on this. also on kinda the same note how would i map a button to say something in a specific chat (i.e Guild chat) i tried

function Cluck_Button_OnClick()
DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("/gu cluck.")
end

but i had no success. it just says /gu cluck.

kinda at a loss for both these situations and any help would be awesome. ty in advance

[Sekrin]

The command you are after is SendChatMessage. To emote a cluck, use:

SendChatMessage("clucks!", "EMOTE")

A full description of this command can be found at http://www.wowwiki.com/API_SendChatMessage

[Clukclukboom]

amazing ty much. didnt even think to do it like that. much love

[Slakah]

You could also create a slash command http://www.wowwiki.com/Creating_a_slash_command.

So in your case you could do:

SLASH_MYADDON1 = "/cluck"
SlashCmdList.MYADDON = function()
   SendChatMessage("clucks!", "EMOTE")
end