Viewing emotes in WIM

[DevTeam] [Zeke]: I love that I get emailed when someone reports spam on the boards, but I can't do anything about it.
[DevTeam] [Nachonut]: lol i got you
[DevTeam] [Astaldo]: How about "hide email address from public checked" and it's still visible in all my posts...
[DevTeam] [Astaldo]: I'd delete my account on this site, but by the time I realized the problem half the spambots on the planet had it already
[Developer] [Pazza]: Astaldo if you log out and view your profile with a refresh you'll see that your email is hidden.
[Developer] [Pazza]: Your user level on the forums permit you to see emails even though they are marked hidden.
[DevTeam] [Astaldo]: Ah.. thanks for the clarification and apologies for "crying wolf" in that case :
[DevTeam] [Kaidenn]: PAZZA! i miss you.
[DevTeam] [Nachonut]: Lol, it's funny how it takes spam message reports to get me to come back
[DevTeam] [sylvanaar]: Check out the beta tester forum. Need alpha testers and feedback so I can come up with a maintenance plan.
[Developer] [Pazza]: loaded some new spam prevention modules... lets see if this stops the bastards.
[DevTeam] [Maziel]: Thought I'd check in and say Howdy Doody from Australia
[DevTeam] [Maziel]: Yeah the spam from shoes salesmen was becoming insane
[Guest] [Delakando]: What ever happened to the ability to track friend's location by wim? Other then just showing their general zone location.
Zeke pokes his head around the corner.
[DevTeam] [Zeke]: Anybody home?
[Guest] [Theillur]: I would like to know if it is just me.
[Guest] [Theillur]: http://www.wimaddon.com/forums/index.php/topic,1796.0.html
[Guest] [Nev]: I'm here
[Guest] [Nev]: I don't think anyone else is though
[Guest] [tomasio]: great site [url=http://freeonlinemusicvideos.net].[/url] [url=http://freepeopleclothing.org].[/url]
[Guest] [Theillur]: Nev it is not working for Zeke as well.
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: im here
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: ...
lothaer yawns sleepily.
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: sooooooooooooooooo
[Guest] [j3ff]: Hello. It is very quiet. I would love a response to my thread directly below your "Been very quiet" thread!
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: Check out my new post in the Skins forum
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: Posted a new download in the skins forum check it out
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: Zeke, Maziel, Pazza, Nachonut, sylvanaar, Kaidenn, Astaldo where are you?
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: It would be a real shame if WIM was left to die.
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: i think these forums are dead, Sylvanaar dosnt post on them as he only bug fixes when possible. WIMs future isnt very bright
[Guest] [justgiz]: Yea, its rather sad.
[Guest] [silvercola]: I wish it had skype
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: noy possible for a addon to do.
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: ...........
[Guest] [elzershark]: where is the download file?
lothaer beckons everyone over to you.
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: has anyone been able to take WIM to the beta yet?
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: PTR*
[DevTeam] [Maziel]: *sticks head up and looks around*
lothaer cries.
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: who the hell flagged my post as spam?
[Guest] [primalforce]: Hey guys
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: hello Primalforce.
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: PAZZA COME BACK!!!
[DevTeam] [Nachonut]: Ahhh memories
[Guest] [Ignis]: wtb update
[DevTeam] [lothaer]: soooo.....
Pazza starts to complain... Kinda reminds you of Sloans dont it?

[jaw]

I'm not sure where this post should go on the forums.  Forgive me if it is in the wrong place.

Basically, I'm an RP'er.  And it is very important that I see emotes.  But I -hate- the chat window and I love the WIM interface.

I've set up WIM to show anything in /say in it's own window/tab but I would like to be able to view emotes in the same window.

Is there some LUA code I can add to make WIM see /em and display them?

Thanks and WIM is a great add-on!

[jaw]

I hacked ChatEngine.lua and got my say window to display emotes - both /em and the built in emotes that WoW has.

However, in my opinion, it's bad form to hack someone else's code so I apologize for that.  Basically, I copied the register functions in the say channel and then copied the send message functions in the same block of code.  I just changed CHAT_MSG_SAY to CHAT_MSG_EMOTE, CHAT_MSG_TEXT_EMOTE and CHAT_MSG_YELL.

Now, what I'd like to do is try to separate my hack into a plugin?  1. it'll be cleaner if I separate my crappy coding from WIM and 2. I don't want to have to edit the chatengine.lua everytime there is an update to WIM.

I've tried to search for information regarding creating plug-ins for WIM but I can't seem to find anything that I can understand.  The plugins in the plugin forum look to be outdated, so I think I can't use them as a template.  Is there any plug-in out there that currently use the new system - as far as I can tell the WIM_Guild, WIM_Party, etc have all been integrated into WIM and it seems as though the system has changed?

If I include WIM as a dependency (and the dependencies that WIM needs) in an add-on will I have access to the same functions that are in the ChatEngine.lua file?

I'm not new to programming just to LUA and WoW addons.

I doubt I'll be releasing this as a plug-in if I do figure it out.  It's fairly specific to my needs and I kind of doubt that anyone else would be interested.

Any input would be appreciated.

[Pazza]

I will just add it. Also add options to not suppress them.

[jaw]

That's awesome!  Thank you.

[Maziel]

What I'd like is a tooltip when I mouse over an emote showing me what characters create that emote.

So if I see a love heart, mousing over the love heart would bring a tooltip up with '<3' (not all of us remember the characters used for some of the emotes in game)

[Pazza]

Maz, I'm not sure you can link textures, I would have to look into that. As far as remembering them or not, remember to right mouse click the message box (where you type) for a drop down of all available emotes :-)

aside from that, I believe was jaw was referring to are textual emotes ie: "Pazza falls on the floor laughing."

[Maziel]

Yeah, different subject to me, but figured emotes, why make another thread. =D

What, a right click? I'm too lazy for that Paz, do it for me! =D rofl