WoW:USERAPI printMSG

This page documents a <i>user-defined function</i> that you can copy and paste into your addon. Replace PREFIX with your addon or lib prefix to avoid conflicts between different versions of these functions.

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Displays a custom message to the default chat frame, for the user to see. A prefix and suffix can also be added, with ease, in the function. This is just to save you from typing out, DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("Prefix " .. "Hello world!" .. " Suffix", 1, 1, 1); everytime you want to tell the user something.

<PREFIX>_printMSG("Hello world!");

Function Parameters

Arguments

msg

String - This is the message you wish to display.

Returns

nil

Example

<PREFIX>_printMSG("Hello world!");

Result

Displays the words Prefix Hello world! Suffix, in the default chat frame.

Code

 function <PREFIX>_printMSG(msg)
    DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("Prefix " .. msg .. " Suffix", 1, 1, 1);
 end