Authors CurseForge

Hi,

I have decided to make an library from my RaidVoice addon.
Key features:

custom voice events
hooked UnitIsTalking global function

How it should work:

Library captures raidvoice addon communication a create voice events, that can be ebedded into other addons(like unitframes) and there you can use the global function to ask who is speaking over external voicechat.(Pretty much what raidvoice does)


Can somebody please anser me how...

1) to include AceComm into a Library ?
I need it to capture the communication on addon channel to create voice events

Okay, I think i need to explain the purpose more thorouhly. My addon raidvoice can show people speaking on external voicechat if and only if the people have have my addon. The major drawback is that not many people do. In order to solve this problem I want to make this library that can be embedded into unitframes, so even people who do not have my addon will see people speaking and using my addon. This way if spreaded everybody should see someone speaking on voicechat.

I am not sure is it possible to send communication with AceComm from my addon and accept it in library without AceComm ?

Tainting is not a problem, it works pretty well.

P.S. I do use the push-to-talk mapping trick you mentioned but i went further and i support even voice activated chat with another trick :)

I do not want that in library, you missed my point, i only need to know how can addon and library communicate. I will write and example.

Player A:
has raidvoice addon -full functionality- he can broadcast and recieve voice event messages

Player B:
has some unitframe which supports my library(libRaidVoice) -works as reciever only- can accept voice events

Player B should be able to see player A speaking. If player B wants to be seen too he should get the raidvoice addon.

I only need to know if and how I can accept messages broadcasted from addon with aceComm to this library. Do I need to embedd aceComm there? If so then how?

Your fully featured RaidVoice addon should be built on top of your communication library.

Your communication library should handle all communication without the use of acecomm.

Quote from sylvanaar

I still dont see how he knows that someone is talking on the out-of-game voice-chat. I know its not impossible, just wondering how he did it.

I use 2 Things

1) push to talk key as mentioned by Adirelle
2) voice activated chat is made as follows:
User enables blizzard ingame chat and set activation volume
addon records loopback sound at regular intervals and reads microphone value
if value is above activation volume the user is speaking

Hi, i have finally achieved what i wanted and submitted libraidvoice for approval. Simple library that can be included in unitframes and used there.

example of addon that uses my library and prints speaking players (who have raidvoice)

RV =LibStub:GetLibrary("libRaidVoice-1.0");
RV.RegisterCallback(self,"RAIDVOICE_UPDATE","voiceUpdate")
			 	

function MyAddon:voiceUpdate(event, arg1)

print(arg1);
--prints playername or nill if player stops speaking

end

If you are author of unitframe please do try it.You can make those speakers like in blizz interface now. I am expecting feedback.

Hi,
after a longer time i have decided to rewrite the library to provide transparent layer over blizzard api.
I will try to hook ace event frame and call voice events in this fashion.

if AceEvent30Frame then
	AceEvent30Frame:GetScript( "OnEvent" )( AceEvent30Frame, "VOICE_START", <unit> )
end

But i have encountered one small problem.For obvious reasons i am sending player names of the speaking players, but blizzards events fire with UnitID arguments.So i have a question. Is there a function to change playername to unitid? I guess that one playername can result in multiple unitids
and i will probably have to write it myself but i would like your thoughts about how to do this efficiently

Edit:I have came up with something like this:
http://paste.curseforge.com/3058/