Get Message

[yayofelipe]

How i can do a addon get any message and save in a table for use it?

sorry for my english

[Akryn]

To read chat messages, you need to

1. Create a frame if you don't already have one.
2. Register the frame for the chat event (or events) that you want to watch.
2a. See http://www.wowwiki.com/Events/Communication for a list.
2b. See http://www.wowwiki.com/Events if you need more information on the event system.
3. Create an event handler along the lines of:

function me.EventHandler(self, event, ...)
    if event == "SOME_EVENT" then
        local msg, sender = ...
        --do other stuff
    elseif event == "SOME_OTHER_EVENT" then
         local msg, channel, language, sender = ...
         --do other stuff
    end
end

3b. The specific parameters for each event are described on the wiki page that I linked above.

[Nafe]

If you are looking to see if any message is put into a ChatFrame, including messages from other Addons, I believe you would need to hook the ChatFrame :AddMessage() method.

I'm not an expert on hooking, but here's a WoWwiki link to get you started:
http://www.wowwiki.com/Hooking_functions

[Akryn]

Originally Posted by Nafe If you are looking to see if any message is put into a ChatFrame, including messages from other Addons, I believe you would need to hook the ChatFrame :AddMessage() method.]

That is correct; if you want addon messages as well, the best way would be to do something like:

hooksecurefunc(ChatFrame1, "AddMessage", function(msg) tinsert(someTable, msg) end)

where someTable is the name of the table you want to add the message to.