Widget API: MessageFrame:AddMessage

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MessageFrame:AddMessage -Documentation by Jason Citron, Additions by Dan Yankowsky, Fixes by Beladona-

Outputs text to a MessageFrame in the specified color, for a specified amount of time.

MessageFrame:AddMessage("text", red, green, blue, alpha, holdTime);

Arguments

(String text, Number red, Number green, Number blue, Number alpha, Number holdTime)

text: The message to output
red: The intensity of the red component. A clamped float between 0.0 and 1.0
green: The intensity of the green component. A clamped float between 0.0 and 1.0
blue: The intensity of the blue component. A clamped float between 0.0 and 1.0
alpha: The level of alpha opacity. A clamped float between 0.0 and 1.0
holdTime: length of time before the message fades out from the frame, in seconds

Returns

nil

Example

UIErrorsFrame:AddMessage("Testing", 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 5);

Result

Testing -- in red, fades out after 5 seconds

Description

Any of the parameters after text are optional. The hold time should also be set however, otherwise the message will remain within the ScrollingMessageFrame until it is scrolled up past the lines specified in the frame, or until you exit the game.