API:SendChatText

UI Lua API · Chat functions
Version: WAR 1.4.8

Sends a line of chat text or a slash command, exactly as if the player had typed it.

SendChatText(text, channel)

Arguments

text: wstring – The text or slash command, for example L"/afk" or L"Hello".
channel: wstring – Channel command to put in front of text, for example L"/guild", or L"".

Nothing.

Only one call per frame is processed. The client remembers the frame of the last call; any further call in the same frame is ignored, even if its arguments are wrong. Spread several commands over several frames (for example with an OnUpdate handler).
If text is empty, nothing happens.
text is first handled on its own as a chat command. If it is not handled that way, the client builds channel.." "..text, or "/say "..text when channel is empty, and handles that. The built line is limited to 1050 characters.
The stock UI uses this function both for normal chat (passing the current channel's server command) and for many slash commands with an empty channel.
The function needs at least two arguments and only reads the last two.

None besides the generic Invalid Parameters message when an argument is not a wide string.

Sending a slash command, from default/ea_socialwindow/source/socialwindowtaboptions.lua:

SendChatText(  L"/afk "..afkNote, L"" )

Sending what the player typed to the current channel, from default/ea_chatwindow/source/chatwindow.lua:

if( chatText ~= L"" )
then
    SendChatText( chatText, chatChannel )
end