end of arena event?

[b3vad]

i want to make an addon to whisper another char something when arena ends / or number of rival team changes (how hard it can be??)
but i cant find any event fired for it ! searched and found people talking about blizzards arena UI but i cant find anything in it either ! who knows this event ?
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and i made an input box to insert 2nd character (that must revive the whisper) into a variable but i cant type anything in it . do anyone have a simple example?
tnx

[b3vad]

it seems nobody in whole world knows this
any suggestion ? like checking something in UI

and another question is :
do you know any addon to transfer chat/or combat log from one character to another?

[voodoodad]

12 hours isn't a whole lot of time to wait for a reply from someone with that very specific knowledge.

[Psychophan7]

Try these events: (any arguments are unknown, according to WoWWiki)

ARENA_OPPONENT_UPDATE
ARENA_SEASON_WORLD_STATE

Then there are these battleground events. I don't know how useful these will be:

UPDATE_BATTLEFIELD_SCORE - Fired whenever new battlefield score data has been recieved, this is usually fired after RequestBattlefieldScoreData() is called.
UPDATE_WORLD_STATES - Fired within Battlefields when certain things occur such as a flag being captured.

Then there is this event, which deals further with world states:

WORLD_STATE_UI_TIMER_UPDATE

[b3vad]

Originally Posted by voodoodad 12 hours isn't a whole lot of time to wait for a reply from someone with that very specific knowledge.

well i said that after searching whole wowwiki and any other site i know and i didn't mean nobody in this forum knows . many people know but they dont share .

Originally Posted by Psychophan7 Try these events: (any arguments are unknown, according to WoWWiki) ARENA_OPPONENT_UPDATE -- fired only at start of arena (about 5 time) ARENA_SEASON_WORLD_STATE -- not fired in arena i think. UPDATE_BATTLEFIELD_SCORE -- fired whole time in arena every time something being cast or changed . UPDATE_WORLD_STATES -- fired at start of arena(about 10 time) and at end of arena(2 time) WORLD_STATE_UI_TIMER_UPDATE --not tested yet

I think UPDATE_WORLD_STATES is perfect to find out end of arena but the question is : how we can find out if this event is fired for start of arena or end of arena ? do they have any args?

[Ferous]

Can't you do something like this?

(pretend code)

local function tellme()
 
if event == "UPDATE_WORLD_STATES" then
print("This event just ran")
 
end

?

[Torhal]

Indeed, you can:

local event_frame = CreateFrame("Frame")
 
event_frame:RegisterEvent("ARENA_OPPONENT_UPDATE")
event_frame:RegisterEvent("ARENA_SEASON_WORLD_STATE")
event_frame:RegisterEvent("UPDATE_BATTLEFIELD_SCORE")
event_frame:RegisterEvent("UPDATE_WORLD_STATES")
event_frame:RegisterEvent("WORLD_STATE_UI_TIMER_UPDATE")
 
event_frame:SetScript("OnEvent",
              function(self, event, addon)
                  print(string.format("Caught event: %s", event))
              end)

[Ferous]

So much smarter than me Torhal :P

[b3vad]

each of this events fired many times in arena and my chat window looks like

This event just ran
This event just ran
This event just ran
[party]someone : LETS Do IT!
This event just ran
This event just ran
This event just ran
This event just ran
[party]other one : yea!
This event just ran

how i can find out if this event has been fired for end of arena?

[yj589794]

Try checking the return values from IsActiveBattlefieldArena when the event fires?

[Torhal]

Originally Posted by b3vad <snip> how i can find out if this event has been fired for end of arena?

By using the code I supplied above. It will tell you exactly which event just fired instead of saying an event fired.