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jduartedj wrote:I just remembered an option that might be useful. Instead of using just pet slot for the pet use a class specific pet slot like:

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<option="MAGE_PET_SLOT" value="1">
<option="KNIGHT_PET_SLOT" value="2">
<option="WARRIOR_PET_SLOT" value="4">
(...)

it makes sense because usually pets are class specific, Light=Knight, Fire=Mage, etc...

if player.Class1 == CLASS_MAGE then
    settings.profile.options.EGGPET_SLOT = 1
elseif player.Class1 == CLASS_KNIGHT then
    settings.profile.options.EGGPET_SLOT = 2
end

rock5 wrote:I set up something last night that should work. It's a simple in-game addon that watches for whisper events and remembers them by saving to variables. Then a romscript checks those variables and prints the pets memory region to screen when a whisper is received.

Unfortunately, after about 6 hours, no whisper. But I wasn't keeping the pet fed. I'll try again while keeping it fed. That probably plays a part.

When you get a pet event, there will be green text in your main chat window (the same one where all the world chats go) saying your pet wants to talk to you, green text across the center of the screen saying your pet wants to talk to you, and the little message window to the left of the minimap that you can click the "open" button of to get the event dialog.

All as shown in screenshots in this thread. (well, other than the green text in your chat window).

And again, it's quite possible you will have to wait a WHILE with your pet out w/o unsummoning/summoning, changing zones, logging off, entering/exiting instance, recalling, etc. before you will get one. (recalling doesn't ALWAYS reset the timer, but usually does) Minimum time I've heard of is an hour, maximum I've seen is 3 hours.

botje wrote:if i recall properly, it says "your pet wants to talk with you" in chat.

dont pin me on it though, been a while since i saw it.

Botje

rock5 wrote:The problem is, what is green text? It's not a 'system' message, those are orange. So I don't know which chat event to monitor.

jduartedj wrote:

rock5 wrote:The problem is, what is green text? It's not a 'system' message, those are orange. So I don't know which chat event to monitor.

this might not be the best way but can't you monitor ALL chat? and compare to "wants to talk to you"...

rock5 wrote:

jduartedj wrote:

rock5 wrote:The problem is, what is green text? It's not a 'system' message, those are orange. So I don't know which chat event to monitor.

this might not be the best way but can't you monitor ALL chat? and compare to "wants to talk to you"...

I couldn't find an event that covers all chat. i could try monitoring all of the chat events I guess. It's a big list though.

jduartedj wrote:a Window also comes up! But you need its address to be able to detect it unless there is an event for that
If you do detect it get the windows address maybe it's better that chat logging... if you need any help testing just say so I'm available!

rock5 wrote:

jduartedj wrote:a Window also comes up! But you need its address to be able to detect it unless there is an event for that
If you do detect it get the windows address maybe it's better that chat logging... if you need any help testing just say so I'm available!

I just saw one, but the code I had setup to capture details of the message failed on me. I'm not sure why. Anyway, there's no way to know what the box frame name is otherwise looking for that, if it's visible, would be and easier solution.

jduartedj wrote: I just found the following event in Rom Wiki: UPDATE_CHAT_FRAMES
Do you think this could contain the chat frames id? if it did you could detect the pet's chat frame! anyway I suppose that if the pet has it's own chat frame this event should arise when the pet talks to you!

swietlowka wrote:i belive its not the top priority to use this chats, they are really rare...

jduartedj wrote:Now that i think about it, the pet must be summoned for that so much time and Nourisment drops after so much time also, so both are time dependent which makes me think It'll happend when nourishment drops so much! So lets say it takes 2 hours and nourishment drops 10/h (i have no idea how much it is) it'll be when nourismnet drops 20 that he says that!

I think that It could be worth it if: 1. we knew exactly how much Nourishment the pet must drop. (if it's only 10-20% it might be ok!) 2. We could know when exactly it will happen so it is done right away and the pet fed.