trigger based off chat message | WeakAuras Community | Page 1

near mason Oct 22, 2023, 1:31 AM

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Hi, i have a WA i am using to have a background texture behind my chat window as my chat addon doesnt allow this.

The functionality I want it to have is to fade in and out based off of if my chat is visible or not. ie, when i get a message it appears, and when the messages fade out, the background fades with it. Currently this works perfectly with most chat messages by using the "other events>chat message>message" trigger. The only problem is it doesnt activate on all messages. Loot messages and a few other types dont count for some reason.

So i think i need a custom trigger for the CHAT_MSG_LOOT but i dunno how to write it.

Alternatively if there is a better way to trigger the texture off of the chat window alpha that works for me also.

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i have uploaded the WA to wago.io incase that helps https://wago.io/M1GV_B0kc

fiery spoke Oct 22, 2023, 1:36 AM

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https://wago.io/_NNDUF_RT
I guess if you'd want a custom trigger for CHAT_MSG_LOOT this should work

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near mason Oct 22, 2023, 3:08 AM

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thanks! ill test it out

near mason Oct 22, 2023, 3:23 AM

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that works perfectly! thanks a ton!

near mason Oct 22, 2023, 4:26 AM

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Okay now im really confused. it works perfectly, and i added the couple other message types it wasnt working with before. but now it works everywhere except Valdrakken?

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I have updated to be a v1.0.1 if anyone has any ideas

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https://wago.io/M1GV_B0kc

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wild bay Oct 22, 2023, 4:43 AM

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? seems to work in valdrakken for me

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I had to change the texture being used to see it though

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I dont seem to have the texture that you've selected for some reason

near mason Oct 22, 2023, 5:36 AM

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oh yea its a custom texture

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very weird that its working for you in valdraken but not me

near mason Oct 22, 2023, 5:53 AM

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interesting, its cities its not working in

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not just valdrakken

wild bay Oct 22, 2023, 6:14 AM

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how are you testing it?

near mason Oct 22, 2023, 7:58 AM

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im just in valdrakken and its not fading out

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but as soon as i fly out to thaldrasus it goes away

wild bay Oct 22, 2023, 8:34 AM

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yeah probably because in the city there is a massively large amount of chat messages

fiery spoke Oct 22, 2023, 4:37 PM

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That would also be my guess maybe you're in trade / service chat and cause of the constant spam it would not hide, afaik you don't need to have it shown to get the message event for the channels you'd need to completely remove them from your channel list

wild bay Oct 22, 2023, 10:14 PM

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yep, any chat channel that's open you'll still recieve events

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