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maybe we should make a "interresting LuaText's" forum thread like the dogtag one. I would love to see what other people come up with, I were pretty good with dogtags, but I have not coded anything besides that, so this is a bit challenging.

Quote from Radry

maybe we should make a "interresting LuaText's" forum thread like the dogtag one. I would love to see what other people come up with, I were pretty good with dogtags, but I have not coded anything besides that, so this is a bit challenging.

Sounds like a great idea to me, gief some more advanced stuff i can "steal" for now since i just can't seem to find any material for studying .lua properly :p

Quote from Kerecha

Sounds like a great idea to me, gief some more advanced stuff i can "steal" for now since i just can't seem to find any material for studying .lua properly :p

dunno if its advanced, but I'm making a text for:

(current power)/(max power) (power type)
hidden if (power type)=rage/runic and (current power)=0
hidden if (power type)=mana/energy and (current power)=(max power)

gotta start somewhere :)

Ugh. I've been trying for hours now to recreate the [TalentTree] dogtag. Each time I think I've got it something messes it up. This is what I have atm:

local dr,dg,db = DifficultyColor(unit)
local cr,cg,cb = ClassColor(unit)
if UnitIsPlayer(unit) then
    if CanInspect(unit) then
        local current = {}
        local tree , _ = 1        
        for i = 1, 3 do
            _, _, current[i] = GetTalentTabInfo(i,true)
            if (current[i] > current[tree]) then
                tree = i
            end
        end
        current.talent = GetTalentTabInfo(tree,true)
        return "|cff%02x%02x%02x%s|r %s |cff%02x%02x%02x%s|r",dr,dg,db,Level(unit) or '', current.talent or '',cr,cg,cb,Class(unit)
    else
        return "|cff%02x%02x%02x%s|r |cff%02x%02x%02x%s|r",dr,dg,db,Level(unit) or '',cr,cg,cb,Class(unit)
    end
end
return "|cff%02x%02x%02x%s|r |cff%02x%02x%02x%s|r %s",dr,dg,db,Classification(unit) or '',dr,dg,db,Level(unit),SmartRace(unit) or ''

Atm this works for targets other than myself. However... it seems to show the spec that the player currently isn't... either that or it's pulling some random numbers from somewhere. Can anyone more experienced in lua see what I'm doing wrong?

Quote from Shefki

Yeah I probably need to give you ShortRace because there's really no good way to do that atm. Short() is for numbers btw. Does nothing to text. I'd be interested in the error messages you were getting. I should probably protect it from throwing errors if you're using wrong or at least throw an error saying that you're using it wrong.

[2009/05/29 09:01:22-7-x1]: <string>:"PitBull4_LuaTexts:PICTTARG:Lua:Class":2: attempt to call global 'ShortRace' (a nil value)
PitBull4-r20090528195509\Modules\LuaTexts\LuaTexts.lua:1099: in function `AddFontString'
PitBull4-r20090528195509\ModuleHandling\TextProviderModule.lua:109: in function `UpdateFrame'
PitBull4-r20090528195509\ModuleHandling\Module.lua:271: in function `Update'
PitBull4-r20090528195509\UnitFrame.lua:492: in function `Update'
PitBull4-r20090528195509\UnitFrame.lua:517: in function `UpdateGUID'
PitBull4-r20090528195509\Main.lua:1086: in function `CheckGUIDForUnitID'
PitBull4-r20090528195509\Main.lua:1090: in function `?'
CallbackHandler-1.0-3:146: in function <...ack\Libs\CallbackHandler-1.0\CallbackHandler-1.0.lua:146>
<string>:"safecall Dispatcher[1]":4: in function <[string "safecall Dispatcher[1]"]:4>
<in C code>: ?
<string>:"safecall Dispatcher[1]":13: in function `?'
CallbackHandler-1.0-3:91: in function `Fire'
AceEvent-3.0-3 (PitBull4):119: in function <...e\AddOns\PitBull4\libs\AceEvent-3.0\AceEvent-3.0.lua:118>
<in C code>: in function `TargetUnit'
<string>:"TARGETSELF":4: in function <[string "TARGETSELF"]:1>

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This is the error code I have if I simply replace on the Target(Unit) the value SmartRace(Unit) by ShortRace(Unit) in that example :
local dr,dg,db = DifficultyColor(unit)
return "|cff%02x%02x%02x%s%s|r %s",dr,dg,db,Level(unit),Classification(unit) and '+' or '',ShortRace(unit) or ''

I hope this will help you but there is no hurry with that, I understand that you have a lot to do actually.
This was tested with only PB4, and Bugsack/Buggrabber, so I dont get any other addons mixing in the error feedback.

Thank you for doing a so great job for us

if I want white text, can I write this

local afk,dnd = AFK(unit), DND(unit)
if afk then
     return afk
elseif dnd then
     return dnd

[...]

instead of this one

local afk,dnd = AFK(unit), DND(unit)
if afk then
     return "|cffff0000%s|r",afk
elseif dnd then
     return "|cffff0000%s|r",dnd

[...]

?

Or do I HAVE TO use the "|cffff0000%s|r" thing?

Quote from Radry

dunno if its advanced, but I'm making a text for:

(current power)/(max power) (power type)
hidden if (power type)=rage/runic and (current power)=0
hidden if (power type)=mana/energy and (current power)=(max power)

gotta start somewhere :)

Its something along those lines i need to get done, but with an extra twist.
(i use a PerfectRaid style layout for my raidframes with 3 texts)

Name:
green ! for leader, yellow ! for ML, red ! if pvp on, Name classcolored, Druidform (2 letters)/Shadowform, white * indicating not max level.

(set to left as text 1)


Power/status:
If dead Rip!:time(not released) / Run!:time(released)
If AFK/Offline AFK/DC:time
else power(mana only) as XX.xk when full, and if not full XX.x%

(set to leftas text 2)

HP:
Maxhp short when full, missing HP when not full, hide when dead/DC

(set to right)


these should be pretty east to fix i think from what i have read about lua texts.

However my target ones i dun even know where to start :/
to much to explain so i just post my current dogtags...

lvl/class:

[(~IsPlayerOrPet ? CreatureType:Hide("Unknown", "Not specified"):Append(" ")) (~IsPet ? Level:Hide("??"):DifficultyColor:Append(" ") ! Level) " " (~IsPlayerOrPet ? Classification:Contains("Rare") ? "R":Gray) (~IsPlayerOrPet ? Classification:Contains("Elite") ? "E":Yellow) (~IsPlayerOrPet ? Classification:Contains("Boss") ? "B":Red) Faction:IsIn("Alliance", "Horde"):Truncate(1, ellipses=false):Prepend([~IsFriend ? "player":PvP] ? [PvP ? Red ! Yellow] ! [PvP ? Green ! Blue]) " " (IsPet ? Guild) (IsPlayer ? Class:ClassColor:Prepend(" "))]

Name:

[Name:ClassColor " " (IsPlayer ? Guild:Truncate(34, nil):Bracket:Color("eeaaee")) " " (HasAura("Unstable Affliction") ? "UA":Color("Red"):Angle) (HasAura("Shadowform") ? "S":Color("dda0dd"):Angle) ShortDruidForm:Color("dda0dd"):Angle (PvP ? "!":Color("FF0000"):Prepend(" "))]

Quote from jokeyrhyme

Text is white by default, I believe. And those colour codes you have there are for red, not white. :)

Yea, just wasn't sure if it's "correct" to write

return afk

instead of

return "|cffff0000%s|r",afk

The first one is the one I am using now, since it shows white text :) I think I could have added the code for white color as well, but atm I don't have any reference for those colorcodes, perhaps someone could link something like a "color to code" converter/reference table for those alphacolors :)

Quote from Xedriell

but atm I don't have any reference for those colorcodes, perhaps someone could link something like a "color to code" converter/reference table for those alphacolors :)

I use this one. A click on the color you want shows the hex code on the left side.

Quote from Shefki

Umm yeah ShortRace() doesn't exist. I haven't written it. I was interested in errors with Short(...)

I guessed that but as you know I am learning LUA to apply and use LUA.text so I may not be for now the best to test something I dont understand very well.

I dont even for now have an idea for what is use Short(...) : numbers probably.

Anyway husband will help me on that to find a way to test that out.

Quote from Shefki

Talent stuff is a pain in the butt because your make a request and then an event responds. Everyone sees the event you're not sure if it's your request or some other addons.

I'll probably need to add some talent stuff for this to work reliably. Since you'll need something else to trigger updates when you actually receive the talent info.

Ah makes sense now. I thought I had it working but then I realized that it was actually my tooltip addon that was making it possible. Explains why it only ever updated if I manually moused over the unit or its frame. Nevermind, shall put the code aside til later.

On another topic, what function do I use to find the name of a pet's owner or NPC 'guilds'? GetGuildInfo() only seems to work for actual guilds.

Quote from Radry

dunno if its advanced, but I'm making a text for.

(current power)/(max power) (power type)
hidden if (power type)=rage/runic and (current power)=0
hidden if (power type)=mana/energy and (current power)=(max power)

gotta start somewhere :)

If it helps I've already made what you're working on. Only issue is when the powertype returns values I haven't included. I'm not sure when they'd be used. Like #5/Runes (when is this used?), #4/Happiness (when is this returned instead of 2/focus when used on hunter pets?), 7, 8 for vehicles.

local cur, max, type = Power(unit), MaxPower(unit), UnitPowerType(unit)
if type == 0 or type == 3 or type == 2 then
    if cur == max then
        return ''
    end
elseif type == 1 or type == 6 then
    if cur == 0 then
        return ''
    end
end
return "%s/%s",Short(cur,true),Short(max,true)