Working on a Battleground/Arena Addon. Need some help with events and commands

[ManaCrevice]

So right now I'm trying to make my first add-on that functions with Battlegrounds and Arenas. I'm hoping to do specific kinds of things when something important happens, but I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out how I should utilize the Events for my purposes.

-Is there any way to check and see how much time there is left before a BG/Arena starts or ends? I think I could maybe exploit GetBattlefieldInstanceRunTime() but I'd need information about how long the 'preparation' time is from when the BG is created to when it starts.

-Is there an way to somehow exploit the events so the add-on knows when there are specific changes in the BG(Flag picked up/captured, control points being taken)? The only way I think I can do it right now is to use CHAT_MSG_BG_SYSTEM_... and try and parse the message sent.

If anyone has any suggestions or help it would be very much appreciated.

[Seerah]

You can take a look at how other addons do it. SSPVP3, Capping, Deadly Boss Mods... These should all have something for you learn from in their code.