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Quote from siemal

edit: took a close look and there is a bug in whole VehicleName function.
For now output is "Darkspear Raptor's Darkspear Raptor" xD
I'll try to look further and pick it out.

edit2: found it:

local owner_unit = unit:gsub("vheicle", "")

See it?;P

Oops. Will be fixed in my next push. Does that resolve what you wanted it to do? Or did you still just only want the players name?

Quote from Shefki

if UnitAura(unit,"Unbalancing Strike",nil,"HARMFUL") then
  -- something
end

Honestly, I have no idea how to put icons in FontStrings. I simply haven't looked at how that is implmented. I'll probably add a function like Icon to help with that. I just haven't gotten to it. I'm assuming there's some sort of escape code to put them in.

I looked into this. Icons are very easy to use, I'm not going to bother to add a utility function for it since all the DogTag one does is cat stuff together.

|TPATH_TO_ICON:SIZE|t

If SIZE is zero it seems to just use the default size for the texture.

So your DogTag to LuaText would be:

if UnitAura(unit,"Unbalancing Strike",nil,"HARMFUL") then
  return "|TInterface/Icons/ability_warrior_decisivestrike:0|t"
end

If you're going to be looking for a lot of debuffs and setting icons something like this might be best:

local i = 1
while true do
  local name = UnitAura(unit,i,"HARMFUL")
  if not name then
    break
  elseif name == "Something" then
    return "|TSomeIcon:0|t"
  elseif name == "Something2" then
    return "|TSomeIcon2:0|t"
  end
  i = i + 1
end

Just keep repeating the elseif block for more. Repeated calls to C space looking for multiple auras by name probably isn't efficient but I haven't benchmarked it.

Quote from Shefki

After looking at that PVP thing a bit more this would be more efficient:

local afk,dnd = AFK(unit), DND(unit)
if afk then
     return "|cffff0000%s|r",afk
elseif dnd then
     return "|cffff0000%s|r",dnd
else
     local pvp = UnitIsUnit(unit,"player") and IsPVPTimerRunning()
     if pvp then
       UpdateIn(0.25)
       return "|cffff0000%s|r",FormatDuration(GetPVPTimer()/1000)
     end
end

Added PVPDuration() to the ScriptEnv best way to do this is now:

local text = AFK(unit) or DND(unit)
if not text then
  local pvp = PVPDuration(unit)
  if pvp then
    text = FormatDuration(pvp)
  end
end
if text then
  return "|cffff0000%s|r",text
end

Quote from Aethwyn

Is there some way to implement wrapping in a textstring? I did an ugly job of this in DogTags by replacing all spaces with \n but I do not know enough about Lua to know whether this can be done. Or is it possible to add this feature to Pitbull itself?

I don't think there is directly. You can use \n in the format string it'll behave the same way as it did in DogTags e.g.:

return "foo\nbar\nbaz"

On a related note, I've noticed that while left aligned strings truncate, right aligned strings do not and the text continues outside of the frame it's in. Or at least that's the case on frames that are mirrored horizontally.

That would be a PB4 bug. Truncation is handled by PB4 core. Open a ticket I can try and nudge ckknight into looking at it. The layout code that does all of that gives me a headache. :D

Something I hadn't mentioned but I figured I would since it was something that I remembered just now. Errors from your scripts should look like so:

[string "PitBull4_LuaTexts:Target:Test"] line 1:
attempt to call global 'retrun' (a nil value)

or

PitBull4_LuaTexts:Target:Test caused the following error:
bad argument #2 to 'SetFormattedText' (string expected, got nil)

In the case of the first type this means there's some sort of syntax or run time error in your script. In the case of the second it means that argument #2 to SetFormattedText was nil when it should have been a string. Your return values from your script are the arguments to SetFormattedText. The FontString is actually argument #1 so argument #2 is the first return value and so on.

You'll note that both have this text:
PitBull4_LuaTexts:Target:Test

This is there to help you identify the text causing the error. PitBull4_LuaTexts is of course the module.
Target is the Layout the text is configured in.
Test is the name of the text configuration.

You can catch those errors with any sort of error catcher that you'd usually use such as Swatter, BugSack, etc...

Scripts that produce any errors will also set the actual text to {err} to help people who might not have an error catcher realize it's not working right.

All of these errors are trapped so at no point in time should an error ever cause PitBull4 or LuaTexts to stop working properly.

Quote from Shefki

Hmm the color stuff was largely copy and paste jobs, but I'll look into it.

You were right. HostileColor will be fixed in the next push.

Added a few more color functions.

local r,g,b = AggroColor(unit)

local cur,max = HP(unit),MaxHP(unit)
local r,g,b = HPColor(cur,max)

local _,power_type = UnitPowerType(unit)
local r,g,b = PowerColor(power_type)

local name,reaction = GetWatchedFactionInfo()
local r,g,b = ReactionColor(reaction)

Enjoy.

Quote from toml

I don't get Abbreviate() working, maybe I'm just blind. There is this abbreviate() funciton talked about some pages ago, but how exactly do I get a unit name abbreviated to 3 chars? *confused*

Looks like I goofed up when I put it in. However, I don't think it works the way you think it does, here's the example from DogTags:
Hello World => HW

If you just want the first 3 characters for the name do this:
string.sub(Name(unit),1,3)

Quote from Radry

is the dogtag [Zone] being resurrected in LuaTxt?

Hmm, probably not. I think it's mostly useful for tooltips. For one thing it has to tooltip scan to get the information. If you're wanting text for your current zone and not some arbitrary unit you can use these functions:
http://www.wowwiki.com/API#Location_Functions

But I'm very disinclined to add any tooltip scanning code. Because it sucks.

and the
local text = AFK(unit) or DND(unit)
if not text then
local pvp = PVPDuration(unit)
if pvp then
text = FormatDuration(pvp)
end
end
if text then
return "|cffff0000%s|r",text
end

you posted earlier is {err}'ing on me when not dnd/afk'ing

Working fine here, I'm guessing you haven't updated to the new PVPDuration(unit) function.

You should prolly use Abbreviate(SmartRace(unit)) instead of string.sub

string.sub => Truncate from DogTags

Abbreviate was bugged until just a bit ago. I added it but didn't bother to test it and it wasn't working right. It's fixed now if you update to the latest version.

However, Abbreviate(SmartRace(unit)) is probably not what he wants because I'm pretty sure there's at least one creature with a space in the name. Maybe I'm wrong.

Incidentally, I think Abbreviate is a horrible name. It's more like Acronymize (not that is really a word).

Quote from Radry

if type = 0 then

Should be:

if type == 0 then