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Works perfect now. Thanks again!

Quote from Shefki

I shouldn't have used AFKDuration(unit) and obviously DNDDuration(unit) doesn't exist. Should have used:
IsAFK(unit) and IsDND(unit)
respectively. Sorry.

Haha, no need to say sorry, I wouldn't ever get this worked out without experienced help.

Switching AFKDuration(unit) and DNDDuration(unit) for IsAFK(unit) and IsDND(unit) returns this though..

Message: Interface\AddOns\PitBull4_LuaTexts\ScriptEnv.lua:328: attempt to index global 'dnd_times' (a nil value)
Time: 11/04/10 03:35:48
Count: 5
Stack: Interface\AddOns\PitBull4_LuaTexts\LuaTexts.lua:752: in function <Interface\AddOns\PitBull4_LuaTexts\LuaTexts.lua:707>
Interface\AddOns\PitBull4_LuaTexts\LuaTexts.lua:1272: in function `AddFontString'
...ddOns\PitBull4\ModuleHandling\TextProviderModule.lua:118: in function `UpdateFrame'
...ddOns\PitBull4\ModuleHandling\TextProviderModule.lua:150: in function `ForceTextUpdate'
Interface\AddOns\PitBull4_LuaTexts\LuaTexts.lua:1344: in function <Interface\AddOns\PitBull4_LuaTexts\LuaTexts.lua:1340>
Interface\AddOns\PitBull4_LuaTexts\LuaTexts.lua:1414: in function <Interface\AddOns\PitBull4_LuaTexts\LuaTexts.lua:1410>
(tail call): ?
[C]: ?
[string "safecall Dispatcher[2]"]:9: in function <[string "safecall Dispatcher[2]"]:5>
(tail call): ?
...nfig-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0.lua:797: in function <...nfig-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0\AceConfigDialog-3.0.lua:612>
(tail call): ?
[C]: ?
[string "safecall Dispatcher[3]"]:9: in function <[string "safecall Dispatcher[3]"]:5>
(tail call): ?
...nterface\AddOns\Aloft\Libs\AceGUI-3.0\AceGUI-3.0.lua:314: in function `Fire'
...AceGUI-3.0\widgets\AceGUIWidget-MultiLineEditBox.lua:44: in function <...AceGUI-3.0\widgets\AceGUIWidget-MultiLineEditBox.lua:41>

Locals: <none>

I actually found that post when googling in an attempt to see if it had already been reported. Seemed a bit weird that a bug would occur and people wouldn't notice it for 14 months.

Awesome, thanks for the fix and everything.

EDIT: Updated my PB and the bug is gone and at least either AFK or DND will show, but never both. I can control which one displays by changing the order of afk or dnd in this last line

return "%s %s%s%s",HP(unit),Angle(dnd or afk)

but it only shows whichever is displayed first, in the above case, that's <DND>. I can fraps it if you need to see it in action.

Sorry to keep bugging you with this ;(

Didn't understand what you meant but then I realised I had just explained the problem really poorly. What is actually happening is that one of <AFK> or <DND> will NEVER show by itself, I get that you can't be both away and busy. This is controlled by whatever condition comes first in the (afk or dnd) section. Swap them and the one that displays swaps.

Using the line

return "%s %s%s%s",HP(unit),Angle(dnd or afk)

I can type /dnd and the <DND> tag will appear.
After clearing dnd, I can type /afk and the <AFK> tag will not appear.
If I type /dnd and /afk after, the <DND> will disappear and not be replaced by <AFK>.

Got screenshots when using the line

return "%s %s%s%s",HP(unit),Angle(afk or dnd)

I can type /afk and the <AFK> tag will appear. http://i.imgur.com/fK5n2.jpg
After clearing afk, I can type /dnd and the <DND> tag will not appear. http://i.imgur.com/gKpwi.jpg
If I type /afk and /dnd after, the <AFK> will disappear and not be replaced by <DND>.
http://i.imgur.com/7SLCs.jpg

I'm using the PLAYER_FLAGS_CHANGED, UNIT_AURA, UNIT_HEALTH, UNIT_MAXHEALTH, UNIT_NAME_UPDATE events.

Hopefully that clears up what's going on.

Perfect now, thank you!

Hello. I've been trying for a couple days now to figured this out but without sucess.

Im using this code for level and name.

Outline()
local dr,dg,db = DifficultyColor(unit)
return "|cff%02x%02x%02x%s%s|r %s",dr,dg,db,Level(unit),Classification(unit) and '+' or
'',Name(unit)

Is there an way to do so the name turns out in class color?
Also how would one go about if i wanted the level and the short classification in a single color?

Hey there,

I am attempting to create a custom LUA text. I have switched over from PB3 to PB4 and used to use a Trunc syntax in Dog Tags for Health.

What I used to have was of the format:

HP / MaxHP
999999/999999

with Trunc set to eg: 8 so that PB would return a maximum of 8 digits:

99999/999..

This worked great because as the mob got low on HP, MaxHP would fill out the other digits.

In PB4 I have come up with the following Lua Text:

local s = Status(unit)
if s then
return s
end
return "%s/%s",string.sub(HP(unit),1,6),string.sub(MaxHP(unit),1,6)

but because HP and Max(HP) are two separate variables I am having to fix the size of each variable. As a result, as HP changes, MaxHP stays fixed at 6 when there is ample room to display more.

Anyone know how I can do this with LUA Texts? Is there any way to treat HP+MaxHP as one string of text and apply the string.sub to the whole thing?

Thanks very much in advance.

Quote from fengor1

Hey there,

I am attempting to create a custom LUA text. I have switched over from PB3 to PB4 and used to use a Trunc syntax in Dog Tags for Health.

What I used to have was of the format:

HP / MaxHP
999999/999999

with Trunc set to eg: 8 so that PB would return a maximum of 8 digits:

99999/999..

This worked great because as the mob got low on HP, MaxHP would fill out the other digits.

In PB4 I have come up with the following Lua Text:

local s = Status(unit)
if s then
return s
end
return "%s/%s",string.sub(HP(unit),1,6),string.sub(MaxHP(unit),1,6)

but because HP and Max(HP) are two separate variables I am having to fix the size of each variable. As a result, as HP changes, MaxHP stays fixed at 6 when there is ample room to display more.

Anyone know how I can do this with LUA Texts? Is there any way to treat HP+MaxHP as one string of text and apply the string.sub to the whole thing?

Thanks very much in advance.

Woulnt it work better to use a version of "short" or "Very short" ?

ie showing 99999/99999 as 99,99k or 99.9k

Quote from Kerecha

Woulnt it work better to use a version of "short" or "Very short" ?

ie showing 99999/99999 as 99,99k or 99.9k

I'm really a bit of a perfectionist and I'm trying to recreate my previous UI as closely as possible. I'm also trying to get my head around LUA a bit better. Dog Tags was much easier but was more resource intensive compared to LUA texts.

Create the whole string first, then truncate it :

return string.sub(HP(unit).."/"..MaxHP(unit),1,8)

(untested)

Quote from contrebasse

Create the whole string first, then truncate it :

return string.sub(HP(unit).."/"..MaxHP(unit),1,8)

(untested)

Wicked! That does the trick. Thanks heapz =)

I've recently switched to PitBull4 from xperl and I miss a feature that would show on raid units when they were being resed and who was doing the resing. I've been attempting to come up with an luatext for casting that can do something like this but it suffers from two major flaws. First, it displays the name of the res target on the casters cast bar as opposed to showing the name of the reser on the units frame somewhere, and this isn't exactly ideal. Second, if the reser changes to a new target while the res is still casting it doesn't maintain the original target..it just flips over to the new target. I know I like to pick up my next res target while I'm still casting the previous.

Here's a trimmed down version of what I've been trying:

local cast_data = CastData(unit)
local r,g,b = 255,255,255
local reslist = {
"Rebirth",
"Revive",
"Redemption",
"Resurrection",
"Ancestral Spirit",
"Goblin Jumper Cables",
"Goblin Jumper Cables XL",
"Gnomish Army Knife",
}

if cast_data then
 local spell,stop_message,target = cast_data.spell,cast_data.stop_message,cast_data.target
 local stop_time,stop_duration = cast_data.stop_time

 for i=1,#reslist,1 do
  if spell == reslist[i] then
   return "|cff%02x%02x%02xRes %s|r",r,g,b,UnitName(unit.."-target")
  end
 end

end

I considered trying to use a global variable to set the target name, but then it occurred to me that id have to make a global variable for each reser in the raid somehow. And I don't want to start making too many global variables. However it would be possible to set a variable during only the first few ms of casting then stop for the rest of the duration of the cast by comparing cast_data.start_time with GetTime().

I've tried googling and searching this thread but haven't found any examples. Any assistance would be very much appreciated, and I apologize if this has already been covered somewhere else.

I am a bit curious as to why cast_data.target doesn't seem to return anything. The documentation says it returns the target of the spell "if available".

I'm trying to make the power text as dynamic as possible.
I have - of course - checked the Pitbull Unit Frames 4.0 pages on WowAce, and various pages on Wowpedia.

My code is as follows:

local cpwr = Power(unit)
local mpwr = MaxPower(unit)

if Power(unit,rage) and Percent(cpwr,mpwr) >= 1 then
  return Power(unit)

elseif Power(unit,mana) and Percent(cpwr,mpwr) >= 1 then
  return "%s/%s",Power(unit),MaxPower(unit)
end

Neither the rage check nor the mana check works.
They do the opposite of what I want them to do.
The rage check does "return "%s/%s",Power(unit),MaxPower(unit)"
and the mana check does "return Power(unit)".

I'm guessing it's just some pathetic error on my part, but it's annoying me.
Anyone who can give me some insight on what's wrong with my code?