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Quote from Phanx

@egingell: The chat frame's AddMessage method doesn't get an event parameter.

Quote from arnath2

What do you mean by "everything else that's related"? You mean my usage of arg2 and stuff?

Quote from arnath2

I wrote a mod (ForumName2 on WoWI) a while back that pastes a custom note next to peoples' names in chat messages by running the code below in a hook of ChatFrame.AddMessage for each chat frame. In the post 4.0 UI code though, the code below doesn't do anything because "event" doesn't exist.

function ForumName2:AddMessage(frame, msg, ...)
    if(event == "CHAT_MSG_SYSTEM") then
        for i, info in pairs(systemMessageInfo) do
            local output = self:SystemMessageHelper(msg, info, string_match(msg, info.pattern))
            if(output) then
                msg = output
                break
            end
        end
    elseif(chatEvents[event]) then
        local note = self:GetNote(arg2)
        if note then
            msg = string_gsub(msg, "|h(.*)" .. arg2 .. "(.*)|h", "|h%1" .. arg2 .. " (" .. note .. ")" .. "%2|h", 1)
        end
    end
    self.hooks[frame]["AddMessage"](frame, msg, ...)
end

I tried changing this to use the chat message filter system, but the message you are passed in a chat filter does not contain the full formatting so I can't put the note next to the player's name as in the above code. I also tried just changing the name (which IS passed to you in the chat filter) but this causes issues with display in further messages.

So, I'm looking for a way to either a) get access to "event" in ChatFrame_AddMessage or b) accomplish the above using chat message filters. Any ideas?

function ForumName2:AddMessage([B]event[/B], msg, ...)
    if(event == "CHAT_MSG_SYSTEM") then
        for i, info in pairs(systemMessageInfo) do
            local output = self:SystemMessageHelper(msg, info, string_match(msg, info.pattern))
            if(output) then
                msg = output
                break
            end
        end
    elseif(chatEvents[event]) then
        local note = self:GetNote(arg2)
        if note then
            msg = string_gsub(msg, "|h(.*)" .. arg2 .. "(.*)|h", "|h%1" .. arg2 .. " (" .. note .. ")" .. "%2|h", 1)
        end
    end
    self.hooks[[B]self[/B]]["AddMessage"]([B]self[/B], event, msg, ...)
end