Undocumented 1.12 changes - Page 2

Crimsonjade · 07/19/06, 3:29 PM

Originally Posted by Praetorian

One of the nicest new UI features in 1.12 is this:

Originally Posted by slouken

In 1.12, addons can send hidden chat messages to players in the party, raid or guild, using SendAddonMessage("prefix", "message", "PARTY"|"RAID"|"GUILD"). When players receve these messages, a new event "CHAT_MSG_ADDON" is sent, with arg1-arg3 being the parameters to SendAddonMessage(), and arg4 being the name of the player that sent it. The combined length of "prefix" and "message" must be less than or equal to 254 bytes.

No more sync channels.

No more constant hijacking to supress text from other mods either. The beautiful part of all this is that older mods will still work with channel syncing and hijacking. hi2u backwards compatibility.

Malan · 07/19/06, 3:33 PM

Originally Posted by Crimsonjade

No more constant hijacking to supress text from other mods either. The beautiful part of all this is that older mods will still work with channel syncing and hijacking. hi2u backwards compatibility.

I'm not much of a modder though I was a code geek back during my undergrad days, can you elaborate on exactly what this change is doing?

Razzberry · 07/19/06, 3:50 PM

If I'm understanding it correctly, basically instead of having one of your 10 numbered channels dedicated to a mod to allow it to sync with other people, the mods will instead use the main Raid channel (which obviously everyone will be in without needing to sync), but the text itself will be hidden so you won't see it.

• sp00n · 07/24/06, 5:08 AM

BTW, anyone had a chance to check out the new scrolling combat text on the PTR? One of my guildmates said that he thinks its actually superior to the SCT mod.

Hm, I checked it out for a few minutes and I think its still inferior to SCT.
You cannot alter the colors, you cannot alter which events should be shown, you cannot alter the position, etc.

Fendryl · 07/24/06, 9:33 AM

Hm, I checked it out for a few minutes and I think its still inferior to SCT.
You cannot alter the colors, you cannot alter which events should be shown, you cannot alter the position, etc.

The colors are modifiable via script, however the deal breaker for me was no horizontal scrolling.