How to preserve default channel order

[Freki]

Hi,

I'm trying to create a chat channel to send data through to other users of the addon. This is fine. The problem arises with my addon taking over the default channel order... people get used to doing "/1 slj" or "/2 jasdlkfj" and I don't want my addon to make, say, channel 1 to FrekisAmazingAddon. What's the simplest way to go about avoiding this? Should I manually scan the channels every load and make sure they're in proper order?

Thanks for the help,
Andrew

[Sekrin]

Who are you trying to share information with? If it's people in the same raid/group or the same guild, then WoW has built-in functionality to deal with this - take a look at http://www.wowwiki.com/API_SendAddonMessage for info.

If it's just random people across the entire server then you could try looking for the events that indicate a player is logging or reloading the UI (such as "PLAYER_LOGOUT"), and then leaving the channel, before joining it again when the player next enters the world....

Note that I haven't actually tried this, but it should work.

[Bangerz]

Could you just create/join the channel say 5 seconds after login?

[Sekrin]

Originally Posted by Bangerz Could you just create/join the channel say 5 seconds after login?

The problem with just doing that is that WoW remembers what channels you were last joined to when you logout/login.

Since my first post, I've also remembered when I had a whole bunch of custom channels open. WoW would always choose the next channel in order and it only re-ordered those when I left a channel (and after a UI reload).

The long and the short of it is that I don't think you need to worry about it too much as the only time it's likely to be an issue is when WoW goes and forgets all about the channels you're supposed to be in (which it does on occasion).