MessageFrame:AddMessage

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Outputs text to a MessageFrame in the specified color.

MessageFrame:AddMessage(text [, colorR, colorG, colorB, a, messageID])

Arguments

text

string - The message to output

colorR

number? [0.0 - 1.0] - The intensity of the red component.

colorG

number? [0.0 - 1.0] - The intensity of the green component.

colorB

number? [0.0 - 1.0] - The intensity of the blue component.

a

number? [0.0 - 1.0] - The opacity of the message. 0 is fully transparent, 1 is fully opaque.

messageID

number? - A user-defined number that specifies which "color group" this message fits into. See the list of system-defined symbolic names. GetChatTypeIndex() can be used to turn a symbolic name into an integer index.

Details

• If you call UpdateChatColor with messageId as an argument, you can change the color of a chat message dynamically.

Example

Prints a red colored message to the UI error frame with 50% opacity.

/run UIErrorsFrame:AddMessage("Hello world", 1, 0, 0, .5)