WoWInterface - SendAddonMessage to Channel not working

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SendAddonMessage to Channel not working

As a followup to my previous post about sending messages around...

It seems that using SendAddonMessage with a custom channel doesn't work (or I'm doing something totally wrong).

If I send a message with SendAddonMessage to a party, it works fine, but if I do it to a (custom) channel, nothing get's received.

Sample project attached. What am I doing wrong? It looks right...

Code:

SLASH_ZSCT1 = "/zsct"



SlashCmdList["ZSCT"] = function(msg)

    print("Sent message through party ...")

    C_ChatInfo.SendAddonMessage(prefix, "sent using party")

    print("Sent message through channel (" .. channelid .. ") ...")

    C_ChatInfo.SendAddonMessage(prefix, "sent using channel", "CHANNEL", channelid)

end



local function zSendChatTest_EventHandler(self, event, pre, msg, distribution, sender)

    if pre == prefix then

        print("Received message " .. msg)

    end

end



channelname = "zsendchattest"

prefix = "zsendchattest"

password = "secret"



JoinChannelByName(channelname, password)

channelid = GetChannelName(channelname)



C_ChatInfo.RegisterAddonMessagePrefix(prefix)



zSendChatTest_Frame = CreateFrame("Frame")

zSendChatTest_Frame:SetScript("OnEvent",  zSendChatTest_EventHandler)

zSendChatTest_Frame:RegisterEvent("CHAT_MSG_ADDON")



print("ZSCT Loaded")

Results:
Client 1 ("master")

Client 2 ("slave")

This works for me fine on Retail (I didn't bother writing code to join a specific chat channel and get the index from that)

I also didn't test it with another player or account, just with myself

Lua Code:

local prefix = "SomePrefix123"
local playerName = UnitName("player")
 
local function OnEvent(self, event, ...)
    if event == "CHAT_MSG_ADDON" then
        print(event, ...)
    elseif event == "PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD" then
        local isInitialLogin, isReloadingUi = ...
        if isInitialLogin or isReloadingUi then
            C_ChatInfo.RegisterAddonMessagePrefix(prefix)
            C_ChatInfo.SendAddonMessage(prefix, "Hello world!", "CHANNEL", 5)
        end
    end
end
 
local f = CreateFrame("Frame")
f:RegisterEvent("CHAT_MSG_ADDON")
f:RegisterEvent("PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD")
f:SetScript("OnEvent", OnEvent)

Hm... that also works across different chars on different accounts, so yeay :).

I think the problem is/was, that my program was joining the channel too early in the loading process (immediately instead of after entering the world). With that change, it now works in my bigger addon, as well.

Thank you!