Creating a private message

[pottstv]

I am new at lua but I am currently teaching myself slowly. I ran into something that I have been unable to pinpoint or find any information on. I have a function in my lua file that I defined and that function prints a message to the screen much like a system message that would be displayed from blizzard...however...I can't find the code to actually make it print the text I want.

For instance:

function ECSM Event()
--Send a message to your chat console that is only viewable by you
SendChatMessage("You have now entered combat."," ????");
end

I don't know for sure but I am pretty sure there are no API commands associated with the SendChatMessage(); function that will allow me to do this but I have been unable to locate any other predefined API command that I can use. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[pottstv]

Well anyone looking for an answer to this question I simply overlooked the actual process to what I wanted to do.

fucntion ECSM Event()

DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("You have entered combat.");

end

This allows me to print a message to the default chat frame when the fucntion is called within my addon...problem solved .

[Seerah]

Yeah - you only want the addon to print a message, not send one to one of the channels.