Any way to get to intercept system messages?

[SnowmanDK]

I would like to know if I can intercept the system messages?

The reason is that I made the addon ChatStamp, which adds a timestamp to chat messages, like this:
[12:15] [@Someone] This is a chat message.
This only works for normal chat messages though. Friends logging on is still shown without that timestamp.
Is it possible to grab it so I can add a timestamp to those too?

[Garkin]

Originally Posted by SnowmanDK I would like to know if I can intercept the system messages? The reason is that I made the addon ChatStamp, which adds a timestamp to chat messages, like this: [12:15] [@Someone] This is a chat message. This only works for normal chat messages though. Friends logging on is still shown without that timestamp. Is it possible to grab it so I can add a timestamp to those too?

local handlers = ZO_ChatSystem_GetEventHandlers()
local originalHandler = handlers[EVENT_FRIEND_PLAYER_STATUS_CHANGED]
handlers[EVENT_FRIEND_PLAYER_STATUS_CHANGED] = function(...)
   return GetTimeString() .. " " .. originalHandler(...)
end

A slightly different code that does the same:

local originalHandler = ZO_ChatSystem_GetEventHandlers()[EVENT_FRIEND_PLAYER_STATUS_CHANGED]
ZO_ChatSystem_AddEventHandler(EVENT_FRIEND_PLAYER_STATUS_CHANGED, function(...)
    return GetTimeString() .. " " .. originalHandler(...)
end)

And do not forget that there are also other events that displays chat messages. For example EVENT_SERVER_SHUTDOWN_INFO or EVENT_GROUP_MEMBER_JOINED.
If you want to have timestamp for everything, you will have to hook or redefine all chat event handlers:

local handlers = ZO_ChatSystem_GetEventHandlers()
 
for event, handler in pairs(handlers) do
   --you probably have EVENT_CHAT_MESSAGE_CHANNEL already covered, so skip this one
   if event ~= EVENT_CHAT_MESSAGE_CHANNEL then
      local originalHandler = handler
      handlers[event] = function(...) return GetTimeString() .. " " .. originalHandler(...) end
   end
end

How to add timestamp to debug messages:

local AddMessage = CHAT_SYSTEM.AddMessage
function CHAT_SYSTEM:AddMessage(text)
   AddMessage(self, GetTimeString() .. " " .. text)
end

[katkat42]

Originally Posted by Garkin local handlers = ZO_ChatSystem_GetEventHandlers() local originalHandler = handlers[EVENT_FRIEND_PLAYER_STATUS_CHANGED] handlers[EVENT_FRIEND_PLAYER_STATUS_CHANGED] = function(...)    return GetTimeString() .. originalHandler(...) end

Does that still work? None of the social and guild-social events were in the ESOUIDocumentationP3.txt file that was released (and I had changed the events wiki page to reflect the documentation).

[Garkin]

Originally Posted by katkat42 Does that still work? None of the social and guild-social events were in the ESOUIDocumentationP3.txt file that was released (and I had changed the events wiki page to reflect the documentation).

Yes, it works. Do you want me post code from EsoUI\Ingame\ChatSystem\ChatHandlers.lua where is defined formating function for this event?

[katkat42]

Originally Posted by Garkin Yes, it works. Do you want me post code from EsoUI\Ingame\ChatSystem\ChatHandlers.lua where is defined formating function for this event?

Nah, I just want the ZO-released documentation to be complete. Mind you, this was a big improvement over the last patch, so I'm not going to kvetch.

[SnowmanDK]

Thanks for the fast replies
I consider this matter solved

[SnowmanDK]

Hm...
I wanted to check out all the events I could intercept, so went to the esoui wiki.
Accoding to that then "EVENT_FRIEND_PLAYER_STATUS_CHANGED" has been removed from API 100008 along with quite a few other events.
I guess I would have to use "EVENT_CHAT_MESSAGE_CHANNEL" but can't seem to find what codes cover what type of message (channelID's).

[mra4nii]

Originally Posted by Garkin Yes, it works. Do you want me post code from EsoUI\Ingame\ChatSystem\ChatHandlers.lua where is defined formating function for this event?

How did you get it?

[Garkin]

Originally Posted by SnowmanDK Hm... I wanted to check out all the events I could intercept, so went to the esoui wiki. Accoding to that then "EVENT_FRIEND_PLAYER_STATUS_CHANGED" has been removed from API 100008 along with quite a few other events. I guess I would have to use "EVENT_CHAT_MESSAGE_CHANNEL" but can't seem to find what codes cover what type of message (channelID's).

"EVENT_FRIEND_PLAYER_STATUS_CHANGED" is still present ins 100008, ZOS just "forgot" to mention some envents in ther documentation.

I have this code in modified pChat and it works:

local originalHandler = ZO_ChatSystem_GetEventHandlers()[EVENT_FRIEND_PLAYER_STATUS_CHANGED]
ZO_ChatSystem_AddEventHandler(EVENT_FRIEND_PLAYER_STATUS_CHANGED, function(...)
    if pChat.opts.showTimestamp then
        return pChat.createTimestamp(pChat.opts.colours.timestamp, GetTimeString()) .. "|r" .. originalHandler(...)
    else
        return originalHandler(...)
    end
end)

Check this topic:
PTS 1.3.0 API changes (100007 to 100008 diff)
As you can see, no events were removed, just those were added:
EVENT_GAMEPAD_PREFERRED_MODE_CHANGED
EVENT_GUILD_BANKED_MONEY_UPDATE
EVENT_GUILD_KIOSK_CONSIDER_BID_START
EVENT_GUILD_KIOSK_CONSIDER_BID_STOP
EVENT_GUILD_KIOSK_CONSIDER_PURCHASE_START
EVENT_GUILD_KIOSK_CONSIDER_PURCHASE_STOP
EVENT_GUILD_KIOSK_ERROR
EVENT_GUILD_TRADER_HIRED_UPDATED
EVENT_HERALDRY_FUNDS_UPDATED
EVENT_LUA_LOW_MEMORY
EVENT_VIBRATION


You can use Zgoo to check which events are present in game: