Authors CurseForge

Hello!
Whats the best way to check if the player is in a party/raid group?

i think hooking

 :addEvent("RAID_ROSTER_UPDATE")

and

bool = UnitInRaid("player")

GetNumPartyMembers() > 0
GetNumRaidMembers() > 0

Quote from essmene

bool = UnitInRaid("player")

UnitInRaid() does not return a boolean value.

sorry - returns 1 or nil

http://www.wowwiki.com/API_IsInInstance better All in One api

Hmm what's wrong with UnitExists("party1") and UnitInRaid("player") ? :s

These functions should be able to do whatever you need. Pseduo code.

EDIT: Crap, Nevcairiel posted while I was posting. =(

local numRaid = GetNumRaidMembers();
if (numRaid==0) then -- In a raid
-- Do stuff
else -- In a party or solo
-- Do stuff
end

http://www.wowwiki.com/API_GetNumPartyMembers

http://www.wowwiki.com/API_GetPartyMember

http://www.wowwiki.com/API_GetNumRaidMembers

http://www.wowwiki.com/API_GetRaidRosterInfo

Quote from Arrowmaster

GetNumPartyMembers() > 0
GetNumRaidMembers() > 0

^this is how I do it.

Quote from essmene

sorry - returns 1 or nil

Actually it does not.

They never changed. WoWWiki was never correct.

And I'm not sure if wowprogramming is even correct. I swore it returned numeric index of the position in the raid starting at 0 (so UnitInRaid("raid1") == 0 and UnitInRaid("raid40") == 39).

Quote from Arrowmaster

And I'm not sure if wowprogramming is even correct. I swore it returned numeric index of the position in the raid starting at 0 (so UnitInRaid("raid1") == 0 and UnitInRaid("raid40") == 39).

See TargetFrame.lua:

        elseif ( UnitIsPlayer("target") ) then
                id = UnitInRaid("target");
                if ( id ) then
                        menu = "RAID_PLAYER";
                        name = GetRaidRosterInfo(id +1);

Which confirms it.


Back to the OP's question.

[URL="http://www.wowwiki.com/API_GetNumPartyMembers"]GetNumPartyMembers[/URL]() > 0
[URL="http://www.wowwiki.com/API_GetNumPartyMembers"]GetNumRaidMembers[/URL]() > 0

This is the solution used prominently by Blizzard code, so it is likely to stay a good way to determine if the player is in a party or raid.