Hooking ChatFrame_MessageEventHandler before WIM

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[sammy]

Hi there,

Trying to create an anti-spam addon which is compatible with WIM but I am having problems hooking ChatFrame_MessageEventHandler before WIM for some reason.  I have tried to setup the hook to ChatFrame_MessageEventHandler on the ADDON_LOADED event for my own addon which triggers before WIM.  But I am thinking I actually want to hook this function last to get the first order hook?

Could you enlighten me as to how to do this properly? I am thinking what I actually want to do is hook last after WIM has setup it's hook?

[Pazza]

Hey Sammy. The problem you are having is not because of the order in which your addon is hooking. You would want it to be done after WIM and to enforce this, you would want to add WIM to your optional dependencies in our TOC file.

For an explanation on how WIM is hooking please read the following thread:
http://www.wimaddon.com/forums/index.php?topic=44.0

To sum it up, WIM catches events from two locations. One from the ChatFrame_MessageEventHandler and the other, it listens to events itself. The only reason WIM hooks the ChatFrame_MessageEventHandler is so it is able to suppress whispers.

What does this mean? Well it would mean that you would have to create a custom hook just for WIM. I have listed the best way to do so in the WIM API section of the site.

If you need anymore help let me know. I am still trying to devise a way to make this task easier for other developers.

[Maziel]

Perhaps another Author of a mod that has successfully done a /who level check and block of whispers and is compatible with WIM is this guy OctaneBlade, his mod is SpamMeNot which allows you to choose which level you don't want to recieve whispers from: http://ui.worldofwar.net/ui.php?id=4387

This guy is another brainiac like Pazza, so if devs are needing to know how to do things compatible with WIM, I'd say chat to OctaneBlade as well as Pazza, as well as the author of SpamSentry.

Between SpamSentry's report system, WIM's ignore filter system, and SpamMeNot's gold blocking / level blocking, i don't think people need any other form of spam blocker. O_O