WIM (WoW Instant Messenger) v3
wow-instant-messenger
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
- 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.
Known Issues
- Addons can not process messages while chat is in lock down. To get around this, WIM logs all events and then rebuilds and processes them once you have excited lock down. During this time, chat is routed as normal to the default chat frame so you don't miss anything. Unfortunately, /r and similar keybindings to reply during this time will NOT work. Allowing the default chat frame to handle these events cause severe tainting issues and breaks everything.
- Community Chat is now supported. It comes with limitations though because the sender name and message are protected and can not be read by addons or saved.
- No filtering
- No History
Addon Compatibility: (Always make sure you are running the latest versions.)
- Prat
- DBM
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Posted Nov 10, 2026Hi, In the chat window, the font size within the text input box does not adjust; even if you increase the font size elsewhere, it remains small inside the input box. Could an option be added to address this? Also, it used to be possible to invite players to a guild directly via the chat box—that button is now gone; is this no longer supported? Regards !!
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Posted Nov 10, 2026@godlike1 Unfortunately the edit box hasn't made it to the skinning engine yet and is on my todo list. So for the time being, the font can not be resized.
Guild Invites in Forever have been protected and are no longer accessible by addons.
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Posted Nov 9, 2026After update "Your WIM has been destroyed beyond repair. This bug has been fixed but your messages cannot be recovered." This is happening every reload. I've cleared saved variables, I even copy/pasted my WTF folder to the desktop then deleted the WTF folder and let Warcraft rebuild it, I then re-installed WIM and yet again, after a reload, the addon bugs out.
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Posted Nov 9, 2026@user_mh1pa2k0rtb3siaf Only seems to happen when communicating with a player that is on your friends list via adding their character as a friend/not a battlenet friend. Weird behaviour also appears while the bug occurs, the WIM window title becomes corrupted showing their character name twice i.e. <PlayerName> (PlayerName) with the second entry (PlayerName) becoming weirdly formatted and uses an irregular font.
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Posted Nov 9, 2026@user_mh1pa2k0rtb3siaf Your WIM sounds possessed! Does this happen with WIM being the only addon loaded? That isn't one WIM's strings...
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Posted Nov 10, 2026@RealPazza The WIM string I quoted is thrown when you right click the WIM icon and then select the option to view your conversation history! The text output is also thrown from WIM! I'm trying to see if y'all have a discord, a lot of this would make significantly more sense with a screenshot haha
Reinstalling to copy/paste the quote verbatim. Had to uninstall as it tampers with whispers actually being outputted
Verbatim: "Your WIM history is damaged beyond repair and must be erased before it can be used again due to having conversation with a realid friend that has no battletag. This bug has been fixed in WIM but your history cannot be repaired."
Right clicking the WIM icon and clicking History Viewer throws this error followed by the window being displayed with a "Loading History..." text and a yellow loading bar that extended off the side of the screen and never resolves from that state.
The text output for the verbatim error I mentioned above is output to the general chat as a readable message to myself only
Lastly WIM windows will randomly spawn/trigger out of the blue. I could be sitting at a camp or walking down a path, not being flagged in combat and a window from a person I was talking to two days ago for example will randomly pop itself onto the screen!
Your addon is fantastic and with Blizzard ever coming down on addons, changing the API and forever being fresh out of the oven, the fact WIM is still alive is a feat of its own, your work is most appreciated!
Edit: Weirdly enough BugGrabber doesn't detect it as an interface violation
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Posted Nov 10, 2026@user_mh1pa2k0rtb3siaf sent you a DM
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Posted Nov 8, 2026I had the wim window not popping up when I was whispering or when I was receiving whispers. This behaviour change since yesterday. What's the deal? I cannot find how to disable the window popping up.
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Posted Nov 7, 2026Hello. When you copy names from Wym into the guild invitation field and then click "Invite," an error message appears, suggesting that Wym should be disabled. Furthermore, if I choose to ignore the error, it persists to such an extent that the invitation fails to go through.
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Posted Nov 7, 2026@Bossbagoh Blizzard locked down guild invites so much. In my testing, I was able to copy the name, then type /ginvite space and paste the name
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Posted Nov 7, 2026Feature request: Archive individual whisper conversations
Hello,
Would it be possible to add a small Archive / Save Conversation button directly to each WIM whisper window?
The idea would be to let users permanently save an individual conversation with one click, so it is not deleted by the automatic history cleanup (for example, the five-week retention limit).
Archived conversations could remain accessible through the History Viewer, independently of the normal retention settings.
This would be very useful for keeping important conversations without having to manually copy and paste them elsewhere.
Thank you for your work on WIM!
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Posted Nov 6, 2026Why no images in the gallery?
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Posted Nov 5, 2026I have bug every time when i try inv to guild
10:57:51 ADDON FORBIDDEN: GuildInvite()
[C]: in function 'GuildInvite'
[Interface/AddOns/WIM/Modules/ShortcutBar.lua]:476: in function 'OnClick'
[Interface/AddOns/WIM/Modules/ShortcutBar.lua]:69: in function <Interface/AddOns/WIM/Modules/ShortcutBar.lua:65>
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Posted Nov 5, 2026@ama83 Some quick testing, I am not able to reproduce this. It's working when I try to invite someone. I am adding a combat check trap to maybe make sure its not being called while you are in combat, otherwise, it is possible that GuildInvite is being tainted by another addon.
Do me a favor and check to see if you still get the error when WIM is the only addon loaded. I assume you are using the 3.19.x version of WIM. If you still get the error, also check to see if you get the error with 3.8.2.
Let me know. Thanks.
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Posted Nov 5, 2026@RealPazza I am having the exact same issue. I also use ellesmere and Naowh forever, incase that helps. But turning off wim let me ginvite again.
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Posted Nov 6, 2026@Xraytango57 We have a path to reproduce this. Will see if there is a solution.
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Posted Nov 6, 2026@ama83 Sorry, but Blizzard has completely blocked the ability to call this anywhere but from Blizard's UI. Next release will be removing the shortcut from the shortcut bar. As a tool to assist in getting the player's name, you can Shift Click the location shortcut to open a dialog where you can easily copy the name.
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Posted Nov 5, 2026With new WIM version trade and trade services are going into the same window (trade tab) and services does not disable when unchecking the capture option in options>WIM>Conversations>Channels
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Posted Nov 6, 2026@user_sw2rx13zshfke1ms Fixed in next release.
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Posted Nov 5, 2026Every time i'm typing and window pops up from a whisper it switches from the chat box to the whisper, anyway to fix that?