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All addons loaded are nil

So, everything is working fine as far as my other addons go. This is my first time trying to write an addon and I'm trying to d("hello world") withing my EVENT_ADD_ON_LOADED callback. I had the if addonName == MyAddon.name then d("hello world") but it never fired. Other things fired at other places so I eventually removed the if statement. Turns out every addonName is just nil when passed into this callback. I really don't understand why. Here's my code so far:

Code:

-- Addon Container

TheDeeps = {}

-- Container properties

TheDeeps.name = "TheDeeps"

TheDeeps.CombatEvents = {}



-- Initialization Function

function TheDeeps:OnAddOnLoaded(event, addonName)



        zo_callLater (function () d (addonName) end, 3000) -- addonName is always nil. I see nil the number of times in my chat log equal to how many addons I have installed.



        if addonName == TheDeeps.name then

                zo_callLater(function() d(addonName) end, 3000)

        end

end





-- Register for loaded event to trigger addon initialization

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

Hi.

Your OnAddOnLoaded signature is wrong the way you are using it.
Your either change the signature to:

Code:

function TheDeeps.OnAddOnLoaded(event, addonName)

or change the way it is called:

Code:

EVENT_MANAGER:RegisterForEvent(TheDeeps.name, EVENT_ADD_ON_LOADED, function (...) TheDeeps:OnAddOnLoaded(...) end)

Which is the same as:

Code:

EVENT_MANAGER:RegisterForEvent(TheDeeps.name, EVENT_ADD_ON_LOADED, function (...) TheDeeps.OnAddOnLoaded(TheDeeps, ...) end)

That's the way the colon works in Lua. It saves you from writing the "instance" (TheDeeps) twice. And adds an implicit parameter "self".