#Can a WeakAura trigger on a layer ID change

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oak quiver
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I currently use melroy999 ShardTracker from github. His addon displays and also prints text in chat but cant seem to find a way to track with an aura what it prints. trigger -other events -chat message- message type- system- contains "Moving to shard"? Just looking for a way to make a weak aura that announces when the shard has changed (which happens ALOT). Gonna make it Large text , wiggle and red in the center of screen .

chrome reef
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No event for print. You'd need to hook it which it a bit yikes.
You could edit the addon to send a ScanEvents, or ask the author to add it if you're in touch with them.

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!scanevents

vocal echoBOT
chrome rover
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Specifically, the print you mentioned happens in Line 64 of ShardTrackerEventHandler.lua

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As asakawa mentioned, just make a ScanEvents call there and have an aura with a custom trigger react to that

oak quiver
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Lua noob here with zero custom knowledge.
How would I change line 64

print("<ST> Moving to shard "..zone_uid..".")

to have it come up in the "say" channel instead ? That I am guessing I could track without any custom stuff.

I did try to enter WeakAuras.ScanEvents("CUSTOM_EVENT_NAME", argument1, argument2, ...) but just killed the addon LOL.

I have tweaked sizes of text / colors / opacities and such but never moved code around.
Thank you all for the replies.

chrome rover
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that said, implementing the ScanEvents call is simple

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and then have a WA that has a custom event trigger for that event

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I tried it, it works fine.

oak quiver
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OK ty very much will try it. I put it below it not above .

oak quiver
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Well for my first time ever making a custom trigger I think I did it right.

--Event(s): YOUR_SHARD_CHANGED
--Trigger
function(event, zone_uid)
if event == "YOUR_SHARD_CHANGED" then
--Use the arguments for this event
return true
end
end

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Now to see if i can make one from the same event that shoots something to chat for the time stamp.