Authors CurseForge

I've been looking through the library, but have been unable to change the font on candy bars. My best attempt involved

local _fontName, _fontSize = "Interface\AddOns\ElvUI\media\fonts\Action_Man.ttf",13

But no luck. Any ideas?

A quick look at the BigWigs bar plugin suggests this:

local font, size = "Interface\\AddOns\\ElvUI\\media\\fonts\\Action_Man.ttf", 13
bar.candyBarLabel:SetFont(font, size)
bar.candyBarDuration:SetFont(font, size)

Also, note that the backslash is a "magic character" in Lua strings, causing the character immediately following it to be escaped. Thus, your string:

"Interface\AddOns\ElvUI\media\fonts\Action_Man.ttf"

...is interpreted as this:

"InterfaceddOnslvUIediaontsction_Man.ttf"

...which obviously does not exist. Several escape sequences actually produce some effect, such as \n for a new line, and \t for a tab, though WoW ignores these in many contexts (eg. newline characters in chat messages are ignored).

To avoid this issue with file paths, you can either escape your backslashes by adding a second backslash in front of each one, as in my example above, or you can use doubled square brackets instead of quote marks to enclose your string, as in:

[[Interface\AddOns\ElvUI\media\fonts\Action_Man.ttf]]

This is similar to the syntax for multi-line comments:

--[[
This is a really
long comment.
]]

As with comments, if your string contains literal square brackets, you can modify the opening and closing delimeters by adding equal numbers of equal signs between the brackets on both ends:

myString = [=[This string has "quotes" and "[[brackets]]" in it!]=]

That did it, thank you so much. Google kept telling me that the candy bar library had no option to change font. I really appreciate it Phanx.

Looking at other addons that use the library is generally a better idea than trying to find documentation about the library. WoW library authors tend to either write no documentation at all, or use Luadoc to auto-generate documentation from comments in the code, which usually results in documentation that reads like something BabelFish might have spit out in 1995. :(