ESOUI - EVENT_CHAT_MESSAGE_CHANNEL issues since yesterday?

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EVENT_CHAT_MESSAGE_CHANNEL issues since yesterday?

Code:

chatlog = {}

chatlog.name = "chatlog"



function chatlog:OnAddOnLoaded(event, name)

    if name == "chatlog" then chatlog:Initialize() end

end



function chatlog:Initialize()

    EVENT_MANAGER:RegisterForEvent(self.name, EVENT_CHAT_MESSAGE_CHANNEL, self.OnChatMessage)

end



function chatlog:OnChatMessage(event, channel, from, message)

  d(self.name .. ": OnChatMessage was tripped")

end



EVENT_MANAGER:RegisterForEvent(chatlog.name, EVENT_ADD_ON_LOADED, chatlog.OnAddOnLoaded)

with barebones manifest as follows:

Code:

## Title: chatlog

## Description: chat log analyzer

## APIVersion: 100022



chatlog.lua

Which did not produce any output either, so I gave up and went to bed. Now in the light of day it still does not provide output. This minimal code still looks fine to me, however, and I could swear I was successfully handling this event as recently as yesterday afternoon.

Does anyone know if there has been a change to how this event is handled? or if I'm doing it wrong? Is it working for you?

Any advice appreciated.

Thanks.

Quote:

Originally Posted by motorheadabega (Post 34554)

Hello , this is my first post to this forum.

I have been dabbling in lua addon scripting for ESO for a couple of weeks now and everything was coming along well. I really enjoy it. Everything was working (or at least failing with expected error messages) yesterday afternoon. At some point last night I noticed that I was not getting any output from my EVENT_CHAT_MESSAGE_CHANNEL handler.

I was tired and did not want to take apart my (rather medium sized) script, so I disabled it and wrote a new test stub as follows:

*snip*

Which did not produce any output either, so I gave up and went to bed. Now in the light of day this minimal code still looks fine to me, and I could swear I was successfully handling this event as recently as yesterday afternoon.

Does anyone know if there has been a change to how this event is handled? or if I'm doing it wrong? Is it working for you?

Any advice appreciated.

Thanks.

Hi.

your OnAddOnLoaded is not correct that way:
chatlog:OnAddOnLoaded(event, name) => chatlog.OnAddOnLoaded(event, name)

Otherwise this has three parameters (the implicit self)

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ThankYouThankYou

Your comment not only set me straight, but explained how I got so turned around late last night.

I am still struggling with the dot vs colon thing.

Many thanks again.

Cheers,

votan already explained it, but I'll give an example:

lua Code:

str = "HELLO"
 
string.lower(str) -- uses lower's parent class string and applies the function to our argument str. GOOD
str:lower() -- passes str to lower and lower assumes str is a string. GOOD
str.lower() -- str does not have any functions and this will fail. BAD