How to color messages printed by addons?

[darkbreaker]

Why?
I am trying to develop a script/addon to make fake chat lines. Not trying to do this for shaming of guildies or so... i'm actually just doing this to prove guys on another forum that blacklisting "ninjas" by using user submmited screenshots may be not fair.

So...?
How do I color part of the string returned by AddMessage() or any other command?

Then...
Thank you for any response i may get here

[Taryble]

|crrggbb (rr, gg, bb, being the color values in hex format and RGB order) starts the colored section - to return to "normal" text color, use |r.

[ComputerNerd]

The colour of the text is defined by its red, green and blue components from 0 to 1.
Not sure of an easy way to determine the colour of any specific text you intend to recreate, but the following seems to work after testing briefly with an addon which outputted text to the chat.

AddMessage("This is some Text",1,0,0)
- Will output it in a red colour.
AddMessage("This is more Text", 255/255, 192/255, 192/255)
- Will output in the default General chat colour which is normally 255/192/192 (according to wowwiki) using the usual 0-255 terminology, and showing how to convert that to the 0-1 form.

As for determining any specific colour then that is up to you, either through a sceenshot and colour picker or through code, which is rather beyond my limited knowledge.

I used the following for reference, and maybe the third will be more helpful to you than it was to me.
http://www.wowwiki.com/API_Scrolling...ame_AddMessage
http://www.wowwiki.com/API_ChangeChatColor

http://www.wowwiki.com/Creating_your_own_chat_types

[Deleted]

Slight correction: the color code is actually

|caarrggbb

, but the alpha value does nothing - just leave it at ff.

[Taryble]

Thanks for the correction, Treeston.

And thank you for the way to make AddMessage work, ComputerNerd.

[darkbreaker]

The colour of the text is defined by its red, green and blue components from 0 to 1.
Not sure of an easy way to determine the colour of any specific text you intend to recreate, but the following seems to work after testing briefly with an addon which outputted text to the chat.

As for determining any specific colour then that is up to you, either through a sceenshot and colour picker or through code, which is rather beyond my limited knowledge.

I used the following for reference, and maybe the third will be more helpful to you than it was to me.
http://www.wowwiki.com/API_Scrolling...ame_AddMessage
http://www.wowwiki.com/API_ChangeChatColor

http://www.wowwiki.com/Creating_your_own_chat_types

Thank you for the info! I was wondering how to convert from hex to 0-1, then you saved me a lot of time

|crrggbb (rr, gg, bb, being the color values in hex format and RGB order) starts the colored section - to return to "normal" text color, use |r.

This is even better so i can color names by class.

Also tank you Treeston for the correction about the alpha.