WIM (WoW Instant Messenger) v3
WIM (WoW Instant Messenger) is a World of Warcraft addon which brings an instant messenger feel to communication in game.
Features
- Whispers in their own windows.
- Chat in their own windows.
- Tabbed windows
- Highly configurable.
- History
- Copy and paste as:
- Raw Text
- BBCode
- Copy and paste as:
- Advanced, intellectual window behaviors & animations.
- Skins
- Emoticons
- Clickable web URLS for easy viewing. No more retyping a long url a friend sends you.
- Customizable sound options.
- Expose - great way to clear your screen of windows when you are in combat.
- Addon Compatibility: (Always make sure you are running the latest versions.
- Prat
- DBM
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Posted Mar 7, 2026In reply to DerrMikey: Interesting... Can you tell me the game version you're using? I'll have to reproduce it on my end.
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Posted Mar 8, 2026In reply to RealPazza:
Whatever the current iteration of Retail is. I believe that's 12.0.1? That's what everything I'm seeing says. However, I've seen this error happening for years, I've just been more patient with it in the past.
If it also helps you, I installed WIM via CurseForge, and it says WIM-3.16.7.zip as the addon's version.
https://imgchest.com/p/92499p8zm4n - This is a link to an example of what it looks like, for me. My friend and I both use TRP3, but this happens with people who haven't registered in TRP3's directory for custom names and such, as well. I know that's some "trustmebro" there, but I only thought to snap this one after posting to you.
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Posted Mar 10, 2026In reply to RealPazza:
Heya, no rush, just adding to my pile:
https://imgchest.com/p/ljyq6aakn42 - Received a whisper in-combat, which propagated the whisper to the main chatbox. Out of combat, it spawned the usual window, and then on reply it spawned the blank one.
I also noticed that the "use tab to switch windows" function isn't working, even when these duplicate windows aren't appearing.
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Posted Mar 10, 2026Can you use a bug catcher addon like bug sack and see if any errors are being generated when this happens. Maybe it'll help us get to the root of the problem.
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Posted Feb 24, 2026There's a bug when trying to copy character name in the whisper windows by rightclicking on the name for "Copy Character Name":
It always causes "disable addon or ignore" popups, LUA errors like:
"Message: [ADDON_ACTION_FORBIDDEN] AddOn 'WIM' tried to call the protected function 'CopyToClipboard()'. Time: Tue Feb 24 12:45:17 2026 Count: 1 Stack: [tail call]: ? [C]: in function 'securecallfunction' [Interface/AddOns/Blizzard_Menu/Menu.lua]:896: in function 'Pick' [Interface/AddOns/Blizzard_Menu/MenuTemplates.lua]:74: in function <Interface/AddOns/Blizzard_Menu/MenuTemplates.lua:68> Locals: (*temporary) = "LeftButton" (*temporary) = false"
This happens for me on Classic Era (Soulseeker HC).
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Posted Feb 24, 2026In reply to mkdarker: It's not possible. It's a protected function. Right click the top icon on the right side of the window, there are profiler links. one is there to help you copy the name.
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Posted Feb 27, 2026In reply to RealPazza: Okay, thx for replying.
Any chance to make the window nickname then unclickable like I fell into trap so people don't get used to / build up a habit that doesn't work anyway?
Just as suggestion, if implementable.
Thanks a lot!
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Posted Feb 18, 2026Works better now but doing /r doesnt reply.
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Posted Feb 18, 2026In reply to shifftwee: yeah, 'R' reply isnt opening the last received message window
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Posted Feb 18, 2026In reply to shifftwee: /r is understandable, and I will see if there is a trivial way for me to include that because of WIM having to handle its own replies and retells (if WIM sends the data to the chatframe it taints everything and secrets cause error hell). R and Shift-R should work. It would only open the window if intercepting is turned on and its set to open on send in the window behaviors.
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Posted Feb 17, 2026With the newest Update (and also the Alphas) the WIM Window opens whenever i try to answer someone whispering to me via the Chat Reply Keybind
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Posted Feb 17, 2026In reply to Sunaruqtx:
That is correct. I had to separate the default behavior and WIM's. because of tainting interfering with secrets.. You're right though, they need to respect your intercept rules.
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Posted Feb 17, 2026In reply to Sunaruqtx: Give the latest alpha a try. see if that works the way you're expecting.
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Posted Feb 17, 2026In reply to RealPazza: works like a charm now, thanks
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Posted Feb 13, 2026Just posted a quick fix for the slash commands always being intercepted and for the processChatType error which was introduced in the last update.
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Posted Feb 16, 2026In reply to RealPazza: Thank you for keeping this addon updated!! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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Posted Feb 16, 2026In reply to RealPazza: Had this happen again today, and it doesn't seem to only happen to slash commands. I have gotten essentially locked out of chat because pressing enter always defaults to placing the cursor in the wim window.
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Posted Feb 16, 2026In reply to sirsquirrels:
I'm working on a fix
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Posted Feb 16, 2026In reply to sirsquirrels: Give tonight's alpha a try if you don't mind. Let me know if it still happens.
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Posted Feb 13, 2026since the newest Update the WIM Window pops up everytime i type /w <name> and i cant disable that.
also if you try to disable WIM with the AddOn option (the Checkbox in Main) it still has this behavior