Removing Chat Messages

[RightLegRed]

How would I go about doing this? Like if the messages includes the phrase "[ADN:001]" it would remove the message from the chat frame.


Sorry, I'm new to WoWLua, but I know regular Lua and OOP Lua.


Thanks, Grunné/RightLegRed

[Phanx]

You'd want to use the chat message filtering API, and pattern matching:

local thingsToHide = {
    "%[ADN:001%]",
    "Hide this!",
}

ChatFrame_AddMessageEventFilter("CHAT_MSG_SAY", function(frame, event, message, sender, ...)
    for i, v in ipairs(thingsToHide) do
        if message:find(v) then
            return true -- hide this message
        end
    end
end)

If you just wanted to remove certain words from the message instead of hiding the whole message:

ChatFrame_AddMessageEventFilter("CHAT_MSG_SAY", function(frame, event, message, sender, ...)
    for i, v in ipairs(thingsToHide) do
        message = message:replace(v, "")
    end
    return false, message, sender, ... -- don't hide this message
    -- note that you must return *all* of the values that were passed to your filter, even ones you didn't change
end)

[RightLegRed]

Thanks a lot. I'm new to WoWLua and currently I think they ruined the language (with such things as "SetText()" and "GetText"). Helped a lot.


Also, can I use regular Lua? Like 'object.Text = "Hello"'?

[Nobgul]

0_o

I think your best bet would be to check out the wowwiki.

[Torhal]

Originally Posted by RightLegRed Thanks a lot. I'm new to WoWLua and currently I think they ruined the language (with such things as "SetText()" and "GetText"). Helped a lot. Also, can I use regular Lua? Like 'object.Text = "Hello"'?

Methinks you're simply new to Lua. My head just exploded.

[RightLegRed]

Originally Posted by Torhal Methinks you're simply new to Lua. My head just exploded.

"INSTANCE"."PROPERTY" = "VALUE"
is standard of OOP Lua I used.

[Torhal]

When considering the fact that Lua is simply a scripting environment within the WoW Client, it isn't strange that they're using things like "region:GetText()" and "region:SetText()" considering all UI elements are thin table-shaped wrappers around C++ objects.

[Xubera]

you are allowed though to use

object.text = "someValue"

however, in order to display anything in wow, you need to make use of the widgets. the FontString widget requires you to use :SetText() in order to display properly.

if the widget for the FontString is referenced as "fs" then

fs.text = "my text" --a valid statement, but wont make any visible change

but fs.text is now a real value, moreover text is a key in the table fs

/dump fs would result in

fs = {
 [0] = FontString Object,
 ["text"] = "my text"
}

the wow client wont let us edit the table index of 0, because this is the C++ wrapper as mentioned above.

so every widget is a table, and you could do fs:SetText(fs.text) if that is a desired change