ChangeChatColor()

[neverg]

Hi people!

I need a little help, I think this should be pretty easy and obvious, but well... I can't figure it out.

I want to change the color of the whisper, so that when I receive a whisper it will differentiate from the ones I send. This is something Blizzard had and somehow, dunno why took back from the default options.

The Whispers we receive are triggered by the event "CHAT_MSG_WHISPER" and the ones we send by "CHAT_MSG_WHISPER_INFORM".

By using the method ChangeChatColor() ingame it's easy to set the Color of the Message Type we want, the one I'm looking for is "WHISPER". Setting it this way contrary to what Blizzard Color picker does, only sets the color for "WHISPER" and not also for "WHISPER_INFORM".

My problem is somehow, dunno why, when using ChangeChatColor inside an addon, it just doesn't do nothing, no errors but no output either. Simply calling it ChangeChatColor("WHISPER", 1, 0, 0.45) inside a function and nothing.

What am I missing?

Thanks.

[Haleth]

You might need a function.

Like

local f = CreateFrame("Frame")
f:SetScript("OnEvent", function()
	ChangeChatColor("WHISPER", 1, 0, 0.45)
end)
f:RegisterEvent("eventwhichiscalledwhenyousendorgetawhisper")

[neverg]

The thing is, I would be registering the color each time a whisper would come. What this method does is it changes the color one time per char and that's it. It would be more than enough to call this each time the plugin would be loaded, which is what I'm doing, but simply does nothing. But used inside the game with a /script ... it does change the font color of the whisper or any other message type if desired. :S

Well, anyway going to do it that way since I'm not seeing any other way. :P Thought it could be done without an event, but maybe not. Thanks mate.

[Haleth]

It works with a /script? Then you probably simply need to delay the code. Try registering PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD and see if it works.

Otherwise, do something like this:

local msg = "eventwhichiscalledwhenyousendorgetawhisper"
local f = CreateFrame("Frame")
f:SetScript("OnEvent", function(event)
	if event == msg then
		ChangeChatColor("WHISPER", 1, 0, 0.45)
		f:UnregisterEvent(msg)
	end
end)
f:RegisterEvent(msg)

[neverg]

Originally Posted by Haleth It works with a /script? Then you probably simply need to delay the code. Try registering PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD and see if it works. Otherwise, do something like this: local msg = "eventwhichiscalledwhenyousendorgetawhisper" local f = CreateFrame("Frame") f:SetScript("OnEvent", function(event) if event == msg then ChangeChatColor("WHISPER", 1, 0, 0.45) f:UnregisterEvent(msg) end end) f:RegisterEvent(msg)

Thanks mate. That is exactly what I did. With the Addon loaded event wasn't working but with player entering world it is, most probably a problem with a delay or something.

Thanks!

[Haleth]

Glad it works

If you want you can unregister it as well after the first call to avoid the function from being called when you go through a portal (though it's exactly a huge function).

[neverg]

Ah, that is a nice idea. Anything that forces the game to load triggers Player_Entering_World I suppose?

Thanks Haleth for the help.

[Dainton]

Are the colors not saving between sessions? I just use a slash command to set my chat colors for new characters and I don't have any issues afterward.

SlashCmdList["SETCHAT"] = function()
    local chatColors = {
        CHANNEL1 = {1, 0.36078, 0.75686},
        CHANNEL2 = {0.57647, 0.79608, 1},
        CHANNEL3 = {1, 0.51372, 0.33725},
        CHANNEL4 = {1, 0.84314, 0.41176},
        CHANNEL5 = {0, 1, 0.95294},
        WHISPER = {0.92157, 0.26667, 1},
        WHISPER_INFORM = {0.81960, 0.44314, 1},
    }

    for k, v in pairs(chatColors) do
        ChangeChatColor(tostring(k), v[1], v[2], v[3])
    end
end
SLASH_SETCHAT1 = "/setchat"

[neverg]

Yes Dainton they are saved between sessions. But this way I set it for all my chars using the same addon, just set it and forget it.

But that is another way to do it.

[Xubera]

you can edit your chat-cache.txt file, it has the color settings as well i do believe


inside chat-cache.txt

...
COLORS
...
WHISPER 255 128 255 N
WHISPER_FOREIGN 255 128 255 N
WHISPER_INFORM 255 128 255 N
...