| 00:00.17 | Aieny | Your function would look like this: |
| 00:00.49 | Aieny | local function combatDamage(params) |
| 00:01.27 | Aieny | You can also check out the Altometer SVN on RiftUI.com, I've been testing the dps meter events for that exact information |
| 00:01.52 | Marru_Home | so if my function takes "params" how do i use that to access damage? |
| 00:02.10 | Aieny | params.damage |
| 00:02.14 | Marru_Home | great, ty |
| 00:02.23 | Aieny | you can check critical hit by params.crit ~= nil |
| 00:02.25 | Marru_Home | so r u building a dps meter as well? |
| 00:02.50 | Aieny | no, but I was trying to figure out events, as well as work on filling in wiki information |
| 00:02.59 | Marru_Home | ok |
| 00:03.14 | Aieny | since that seemed pretty important to people (and my Altometer can't do anything yet), I tested the dps events |
| 00:03.48 | Marru_Home | lol kk |
| 00:04.54 | Marru_Home | while i have some help here mind answerin another question? |
| 00:05.04 | Aieny | i can try, sure =) |
| 00:05.36 | Marru_Home | how would i print out the name of a player with the damage event? i know it gives me unit id, and i know inspect.unit.detail(unit id) has the info |
| 00:05.55 | Marru_Home | would i do somethin like "user = inspect.unit.detail(params.unit) |
| 00:06.00 | Marru_Home | then call user.name? |
| 00:07.04 | Aieny | you can shorten it even more......print (Inspect.Unit.Detail(params.caster).name) |
| 00:07.37 | Marru_Home | cool thanks |
| 00:07.38 | Marru_Home | got it |
| 00:08.33 | Marru_Home | ok new problem |
| 00:08.36 | Marru_Home | it works |
| 00:08.37 | Marru_Home | but |
| 00:08.44 | Marru_Home | i just targeted the target dummy |
| 00:08.47 | Marru_Home | and ppl are whackin on it |
| 00:09.04 | Marru_Home | and half the time its spittin out "118 Diabolik" thats damage done and casters name |
| 00:09.16 | Marru_Home | the other half its shootin errors saying unit is nil |
| 00:09.23 | Aieny | hrm |
| 00:09.47 | Marru_Home | brb one sec, if u can explain plz do |
| 00:10.17 | Aieny | i've noticed that, when outside the group, it doesn't always display damage |
| 00:11.19 | Aieny | you may want to check for params.caster ~= nil, then check if Inspect.Unit.Detail(params.caster) ~= null |
| 00:11.46 | Marru_Home | ok |
| 00:12.03 | Marru_Home | well i didn't expect my dps meter to work outside of group |
| 00:13.00 | Marru_Home | and in lua can u actually do ~= nil? |
| 00:13.16 | Marru_Home | or do u say not params.caster = nil |
| 00:14.04 | Aieny | ~= in lua is "not equal" |
| 00:14.04 | purl | Aieny: what are you talking about? |
| 00:14.12 | Marru_Home | kk |
| 00:14.14 | Marru_Home | gotcha |
| 00:14.21 | Aieny | about what> |
| 00:14.23 | Aieny | ? |
| 00:14.27 | Marru_Home | still gettin error |
| 00:14.35 | Aieny | hrm, dunno then |
| 00:14.39 | Marru_Home | but i only ran the check one params.caster |
| 00:14.49 | Marru_Home | lemme try on the name check too |
| 00:15.20 | Aieny | You may not be able to get unit info on someout outside the group, which would give you an error if you cant |
| 00:15.54 | Marru_Home | wtf |
| 00:16.04 | Aieny | what? |
| 00:16.05 | Marru_Home | im getting an error now |
| 00:16.11 | Marru_Home | on my ~= nil check |
| 00:16.40 | Aieny | you can also just check for : if Inspect.Unit.Detail(params.caster) then |
| 00:16.57 | Aieny | nil will falsify the "if" |
| 00:17.27 | Marru_Home | ok so heres what i have |
| 00:17.36 | Marru_Home | if params.caster ~= nil then |
| 00:17.52 | Marru_Home | if Inspect.Unit.Detail(params.caster).name then |
| 00:18.02 | Marru_Home | and that line used to be ~= nil included |
| 00:18.05 | Marru_Home | neither one worked |
| 00:18.08 | Aieny | i'll check it in a sec |
| 00:18.12 | Marru_Home | and its erroring out on the second part |
| 00:23.42 | Marru_Home | so its getting past params.caster ~= nil |
| 00:23.47 | Marru_Home | so its got the unit id |
| 00:24.12 | Marru_Home | but when you check the inspect unit on it against nil, it doesn't just not check out it actually errors out in rift |
| 00:24.39 | Marru_Home | damnit wheres zorbathut when you need him lol |
| 00:31.29 | Marru_Home | anyone have any ideas? |
| 00:37.55 | Aieny | Ok, rather than using the short form, check first if Inspect.Unit.Detail(params.caster) ~= nil |
| 00:38.51 | Marru_Home | so after the if params.caster then "if Inspect.Unit.Detail(params.caster) ~= nil" |
| 00:39.51 | Marru_Home | ok |
| 00:39.59 | Marru_Home | so |
| 00:40.18 | Marru_Home | a lot fewer ppl hitting the dummies now |
| 00:40.56 | Marru_Home | but im not getting any numbers anymore, from anyone |
| 00:41.33 | Marru_Home | wait |
| 00:41.34 | Marru_Home | now i am |
| 00:41.41 | Marru_Home | cool no more errors |
| 00:41.47 | Marru_Home | getting rid of .name fixed it |
| 00:41.53 | Marru_Home | checking the whole table not just name |
| 00:41.53 | Aieny | good =) |
| 00:43.01 | Marru_Home | for some though, im getting damage readings from kaja while i have the dummy targeted |
| 00:43.19 | Marru_Home | and not the other ppl attackin |
| 00:43.27 | Marru_Home | but if i mouse over em i can get their damage too |
| 00:44.19 | Marru_Home | now i stopped mousing over and im gettin the other guys dmg too |
| 00:44.35 | Marru_Home | its like its not sure who i have info on and who i dont |
| 00:52.52 | Aieny | It depends on whether the unit is "available" or not.....mousing over a target triggers the Event.Unit.Available |
| 00:53.12 | Aieny | groups are always available, but people outside the group aren't guaranteed to be available |
| 00:53.41 | Marru_Home | right, but if i mouseover them their available, but if i unmouseover aren't they not available? |
| 00:54.16 | Aieny | Sometimes, yes.....when I was playing with the Event.Unit.Available, it always triggered on mouseover, even if i just moved the mouse off then back on |
| 00:54.34 | Marru_Home | right |
| 00:54.53 | Marru_Home | but im talkin i have my mouse off screen entirely for lengths of time and im still getting damage readings from em |
| 00:55.38 | Aieny | I don't know why, Zorba might be able to answer whenever he pops in |
| 00:55.43 | Marru_Home | ok |
| 00:55.53 | Marru_Home | well for now ty for the help on gettin rid of the error |
| 00:56.08 | Marru_Home | i should be able to turn this into a viable dps meter |
| 00:56.29 | Marru_Home | is there a way to check if the unit is in your group or not? |
| 00:59.05 | Aieny | there's something, maybe in LibUnitChange or something, that is supposed to convert unit IDs to string IDs (like "group01", "player", etc), but I don't know it |
| 01:04.02 | Marru_Home | i think ur right |
| 01:05.01 | Marru_Home | ill look more into that in a bit |
| 01:08.39 | Marru_Home | read the source code |
| 01:08.48 | Marru_Home | dont understand how it works or what it changes |
| 01:08.52 | Marru_Home | but it was written by zorba |
| 01:09.01 | Marru_Home | so i'll ask him next time i see him active in here |
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| 16:39.11 | Sunspots | Anyone else having problems accessing the official dev forum listings? |
| 16:40.16 | nicoli_co | they changed it to beta from alpha |
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| 16:44.33 | Sunspots | Yeah, but it redirects me to alpha and then gives me an error |
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| 16:51.14 | nicoli_s | odd |
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| 17:08.08 | Sunspots | Indeed |
| 17:08.20 | Sunspots | I can view page two but not page one |
| 17:08.27 | Sunspots | well, page 2-7 |
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| 21:13.10 | Marru_Home | anyone on? |
| 21:13.16 | Marru_Home | zorba could use ur help if ur there |
| 21:13.17 | ZorbaTHut | hey sunspots, around? we're trying to debug those forum issues you mentioned earlier - can you /msg me your forum name? |
| 21:13.43 | Marru_Home | oh hey zorba u are here, are you busy or could you answer a few questions? |
| 21:13.47 | ZorbaTHut | marru, I'm here, though generally busy :) ask the question and I'll give you a short answer at least |
| 21:13.53 | Marru_Home | ok cool |
| 21:13.55 | Marru_Home | libunitchange |
| 21:14.00 | Marru_Home | how do i take advantage of it? |
| 21:14.11 | Marru_Home | how do i get raid members information |
| 21:14.17 | ZorbaTHut | embed it in your addon, read the documentation at the top of its source file :) |
| 21:14.33 | ZorbaTHut | it'll tell you when the unit ID associated to a unit specifier changes |
| 21:14.34 | Marru_Home | i did read it, was confused about the create event thing |
| 21:15.05 | Marru_Home | what im doin is tryin to make a dps meter, and right now its gettin damage events from people nearby as well as myself |
| 21:15.21 | Marru_Home | basicly i want libunitchange so i can check if they are in group or w/e |
| 21:16.29 | ZorbaTHut | in general, table.insert(Library.LibUnitChange.Register("group01"), {function (newid) print("group01 is now character id", newid) end, "YourAddonIdentifier", "this is my group hook"}) |
| 21:16.46 | ZorbaTHut | you'll have to keep track of which unit IDs you care about |
| 21:17.16 | Marru_Home | so do i add 20 of those and change group01 each time? |
| 21:17.27 | ZorbaTHut | pretty much, yeah (though I'd recommend making it a loop) |
| 21:17.52 | ZorbaTHut | (duplicate code is pretty much always a bad idea :P) |
| 21:18.26 | Marru_Home | so make a string group and and then add 1 to it everytime and concatenate? |
| 21:19.05 | ZorbaTHut | whatever method you prefer to do that. Or use twenty copy-pasted lines if you're more comfortable with it. |
| 21:19.29 | ZorbaTHut | I tend to give api help, not general coding help ;) |
| 21:19.36 | Marru_Home | i'll try n do it the right way with a loop, if not i'll revert to 20 lines lol |
| 21:19.38 | Marru_Home | yeah i know |
| 21:19.52 | Marru_Home | btw, is there any other way to check if a unit id is a member of your group/raid? |
| 21:21.30 | Marru_Home | last question i swear... for the moment lol... when you say embed it, do you mean add your "main.lua" file into my addon folder? |
| 21:21.37 | ZorbaTHut | you can do Inspect.Unit.Lookup({"group01" = true, "group02" = true, etc etc etc}) and then look in that resulting table |
| 21:21.40 | Marru_Home | and adding it to my list in the toc? |
| 21:21.54 | ZorbaTHut | no, I mean use the "Embed" feature. Check out Trion Development Tools' RiftAddon.toc for a little info on that. |
| 21:22.22 | Marru_Home | kk, and wait, so i can do inspect unit lookup without adding libunitchange? |
| 21:24.40 | Sunspots | Zorba, I cleared the browser's cache and it works like it's supposed again, I don't know much about redirecting but I'm guessing there's some file that is downloaded and chached that does some part of the redirection... I tried logging out so it shouldn't be ab account issue |
| 21:29.42 | Sunspots | I'm still failing in entering secure mode in any way btw |
| 21:35.06 | ZorbaTHut | sunspots, what's the issue with secure mode? and did you read the docs on the function? :) |
| 21:35.16 | ZorbaTHut | marru, yep, inspect.unit.* is part of the base system |
| 21:35.38 | Marru_Home | whats wrong with it? i have a timer in my addon that starts and stops when u enter/exit secure mode, it happens when u enter/exit combat |
| 21:37.42 | Sunspots | I'll reread any documentation I find and get back to you if I don't see that I've done anything wrong |
| 21:38.03 | Marru_Home | what are you trying to use it for? |
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| 21:38.23 | Marru_Home | and zorba |
| 21:38.32 | Marru_Home | so if i just dont include libunitchange |
| 21:39.04 | Marru_Home | and when the person enters combat, if i run a inspect.unit.lookup, how could i get a list of group members that i could then attribute damage to? |
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| 21:39.55 | ZorbaTHut | marru, as I said, query each groupXX identifier, check the return value. Though note that groupmembers may leave or join the group in the middle of combat |
| 21:40.14 | Sunspots | I'm attempting at using SetMouseoverUnit |
| 21:40.52 | Marru_Home | i know they can leave in combat but atm that seems like the best place to do the check |
| 21:41.18 | Marru_Home | so are you saying that in the api right now without libunitchange ppl in my group are already unit id'd to group01 group02 etc? |
| 21:42.14 | ZorbaTHut | realize that there are two ways to specify units in the game. there's the unit specifiers, group01/group02, and there's the unit IDs |
| 21:42.24 | Marru_Home | ooooooh |
| 21:42.27 | ZorbaTHut | most APIs will take either specifiers or IDs, but most APIs will only return IDs |
| 21:42.28 | Marru_Home | unit specifiers |
| 21:42.47 | Marru_Home | so basicly what your saying is i could take the damage event |
| 21:42.51 | Marru_Home | get the casters unit id |
| 21:42.56 | ZorbaTHut | if you're querying information, you can use the specifier. if you're trying to retrieve information that may refer to various units, you'll get IDs. |
| 21:43.04 | Marru_Home | and check it against the unit id from unit specifier group01 through group 20? |
| 21:43.10 | ZorbaTHut | marru, exactly :) |
| 21:43.14 | Marru_Home | awesome |
| 21:43.16 | Marru_Home | i'll try that then |
| 21:43.18 | Marru_Home | sounds simpler |
| 21:43.21 | Marru_Home | but |
| 21:43.26 | Marru_Home | if i do that every damage event... |
| 21:43.31 | Marru_Home | would that cause significant lag? |
| 21:43.35 | ZorbaTHut | it may be a bit slow, depending on how often you're doing it, but it's a reasonable first shot. you can improve it later. |
| 21:43.41 | ZorbaTHut | and you can always check to see what the speed is actually like. |
| 21:43.47 | Marru_Home | true |
| 21:43.56 | Marru_Home | does the cpu usage thing work yet? |
| 21:44.08 | ZorbaTHut | it underestimates rendering CPU time, but outside rendering, it works fine |
| 21:44.18 | Marru_Home | ok |
| 21:44.40 | Marru_Home | so it would help tell me how much its slowing stuff down, but not too accurately? |
| 21:45.28 | ZorbaTHut | it'd help for anything that isn't related to UI elements. since this isn't a UI element, it'll be quite accurate |
| 21:45.44 | ZorbaTHut | it's just that if you put a few thousand frames on the screen, it'll be wrong about how much CPU it takes to render them. |
| 21:45.53 | Marru_Home | oh another question, my personal unit specifier will be player? or group01? |
| 21:46.08 | ZorbaTHut | note that a unit can have two specifiers. it may well be bother. |
| 21:46.09 | ZorbaTHut | *both |
| 21:46.16 | ZorbaTHut | however, group01 isn't guaranteed to be you. |
| 21:46.21 | Marru_Home | ok |
| 21:46.22 | Marru_Home | but player is? |
| 21:46.22 | ZorbaTHut | you'll be one of the groupXX specifiers. :) |
| 21:46.31 | ZorbaTHut | yup, that's pretty much the definition :) |
| 21:47.03 | Marru_Home | so player will always refer to my character, and group01 may, but if thats not me it could be any group01-20? |
| 21:47.16 | Marru_Home | depending on when i got added to group or where i am placed etc |
| 21:48.03 | Marru_Home | if your busy btw feel free to ask me to stop, otherwise i probly have like a million questions... im workin hard to get my dpsmeter decently functional for 1.5 release |
| 21:48.14 | Snstr | Zorba how is the addon feedback btw, I mean regarding having addons. Lots of hate? :P |
| 21:50.53 | Marru_Home | has the changelog been updated since 9/20? |
| 21:52.02 | Sunspots | http://wiki.riftui.com/AddOn_ChangeLog |
| 21:52.26 | Sunspots | I and some others try to keep it up to date |
| 21:52.33 | Marru_Home | cool thx |
| 21:53.07 | Marru_Home | wats that in the most recent one about data table being passed to a file? |
| 21:53.52 | Sunspots | I think that's just about making it easier to chech the documentation |
| 21:53.58 | Sunspots | check* |
| 21:54.05 | Marru_Home | oh ok |
| 21:54.11 | Marru_Home | not somethin i should worry about yet? |
| 21:54.21 | Sunspots | Probably not |
| 21:54.24 | Marru_Home | kk |
| 21:54.28 | Marru_Home | well |
| 21:54.35 | Sunspots | wait |
| 21:54.38 | Marru_Home | has anything changed with setbackgroundcolor recently? |
| 21:54.44 | Marru_Home | cuz mines actin up |
| 21:54.49 | Sunspots | Not that I know of |
| 21:54.58 | Marru_Home | it works in the top of the lua file |
| 21:55.03 | Marru_Home | but i tried making a slash command |
| 21:55.19 | Marru_Home | and just doing like /color 1 would pass 1 to a function |
| 21:55.40 | Marru_Home | and tried doing setbackgroundcolor(var,1,1,1) and it errors |
| 21:55.59 | Sunspots | The slahs command passes a string, make sure you turn int into numbers |
| 21:56.04 | Marru_Home | oooooh |
| 21:56.09 | Marru_Home | how do i convert a string to a number? |
| 21:56.23 | Marru_Home | also, how do i make a slash command pass multiple values? |
| 21:56.46 | Marru_Home | or would i pass it one and split it in the function? |
| 21:56.50 | Sunspots | I think LUA has something akin to tonumber() |
| 21:56.55 | Marru_Home | kk |
| 21:56.57 | Marru_Home | thx |
| 21:57.35 | Sunspots | If you have an array of numbers (like /color r, g, b, a) you will have to do some more haxxing |
| 21:57.55 | Marru_Home | kk |
| 21:58.00 | Marru_Home | oh |
| 21:58.03 | Marru_Home | another question |
| 21:58.13 | Marru_Home | i know its complicated but i know theres a simple line to do it |
| 21:58.22 | Marru_Home | how do i pin a frame to the bottom of another frame? |
| 21:58.32 | Sunspots | ah |
| 21:59.40 | Sunspots | childFrame:SetPoint("BOTTOMCENTER", parentFrame, "BOTTOMCENTER") |
| 22:00.09 | Sunspots | it will set the childframe's "BOTTOMCENTER" point to the parentFrame's "BOTTOMCENTER" point |
| 22:00.11 | Marru_Home | ok so when u say parentFrame, do i have to set that somehow? or do i replace that with the name of the frame im connecting to |
| 22:00.27 | Sunspots | yeah, the name of the parret you're pinning it to |
| 22:00.31 | Marru_Home | ok |
| 22:00.37 | Sunspots | frame |
| 22:00.45 | Marru_Home | and can i do somethin like "BOTTOMLEFT" instead? |
| 22:00.49 | Marru_Home | so they line up on the left? |
| 22:01.06 | Sunspots | (I don't even remember what I was intending to write when I wrote parret... I do dhat some times) |
| 22:01.11 | Sunspots | Yup |
| 22:01.16 | Marru_Home | and wait |
| 22:01.22 | Marru_Home | wouldn't that put them on top of eachother? |
| 22:01.29 | Sunspots | Ah, yea |
| 22:01.30 | Marru_Home | wouldn't i want BOTTOMLEFT and TOPLEFT? |
| 22:01.40 | Marru_Home | which one is which? |
| 22:02.03 | Marru_Home | is the first one the point of the child to attach to the 3rd values point of the parent? |
| 22:02.18 | Sunspots | First point is the one of the frame you're moving, the second one is for the frame you're pinning it to |
| 22:02.27 | Marru_Home | ok cool |
| 22:02.37 | Marru_Home | btw, whats nameSecondary? lol |
| 22:03.12 | Sunspots | so it's like (mypoint, targetframe, targetpoint) |
| 22:03.13 | Sunspots | no idea |
| 22:03.21 | Marru_Home | kk cool thx |
| 22:03.27 | Marru_Home | zorba, whats nameSecondary? lol |
| 22:06.11 | Sunspots | I'm still not getting how I should make frame:SetSecureMode() stop giving me errors |
| 22:06.28 | Marru_Home | idk anything about frame set secure mode stuff |
| 22:06.41 | Marru_Home | but i thought you couldn't set that? |
| 22:06.42 | Snstr | is Secure mode "in combat"? |
| 22:06.54 | Marru_Home | i thought you could only affect its function while in secure mode |
| 22:07.01 | Marru_Home | and as far as we know atm yeah it is i think |
| 22:07.12 | Marru_Home | its what im using to start/stop my in combat timer |
| 22:08.34 | Marru_Home | theres no += in lua is there? |
| 22:08.43 | Marru_Home | i have to do like a = a + 1 |
| 22:09.30 | Snstr | dont think there is smth like that |
| 22:09.48 | Marru_Home | kk |
| 22:10.19 | Sunspots | We have events when the system enters secure mode, once that happens I believe that all frames that are set to "restricted" secure mode are locked so that you can't change their position or size, which makes things like mouseoverui unexploitable |
| 22:10.40 | Marru_Home | kk |
| 22:10.56 | Marru_Home | makes sense |
| 22:11.37 | Sunspots | Out of combat, you can rearrange unit frames and change their targets but in combat it will not be possible |
| 22:13.41 | Sunspots | The only time Frame:SetSecureMode() doesn't give me an error is if I set it to the default Frame:SetSecureMode("normal") |
| 22:17.45 | Marru_Home | zorba, any idea why i am unable to connect to the PTS right now? |
| 22:18.13 | ZorbaTHut | marru, nope. I'm actually logged in to PTS right now |
| 22:18.17 | ZorbaTHut | (new changelog posted, btw) |
| 22:18.23 | Marru_Home | ugh its really annoying |
| 22:18.30 | ZorbaTHut | sunspots, what causes the error? |
| 22:18.31 | Marru_Home | i can only log into it certain times |
| 22:19.43 | Sunspots | local context = UI.CreateContext("HUD"); local frame = UI.CreateFrame("Frame","MyFrame",context); frame:SetSecureMode("restricted") |
| 22:20.25 | *** join/#riftuidev Dramiel (~Adium@134.140.broadband5.iol.cz) |
| 22:20.45 | ZorbaTHut | hmm, checking the documentation, it looks a bit incomplete. a frame's parent must be set to secure mode also |
| 22:20.58 | ZorbaTHut | lemme go update docs. anyway, yeah, you'll need to set "context" to secure mode. |
| 22:21.05 | Sunspots | Including the context? |
| 22:21.16 | ZorbaTHut | yup |
| 22:22.07 | Marru_Home | zorba i know this is asking a lot but any chance you could talk to someone about checking why im unable to log into pts? sometimes it lets me log in just fine, sometimes it kicks back saying invalid login even though i know the password is right |
| 22:22.27 | Marru_Home | its making testing this addon impossible |
| 22:24.19 | Sunspots | So, I could use two contexts for my unit frames, one that changes shape and stuff during combat (like progress bars) and one that is basically just the mouseover mask pinned to the others... Or possibly one context for the base frames and then one context with indicators that are pinned to the secure frames |
| 22:24.26 | ZorbaTHut | I'll see what I can find out |
| 22:24.30 | Sunspots | Maybe that didn't make lots of sense |
| 22:24.34 | ZorbaTHut | sunspots, note that a *child* of a secure frame isn't required to be secure |
| 22:24.40 | Marru_Home | thank you so much zorba, really appreciate it |
| 22:25.10 | ZorbaTHut | there shouldn't be any reason to need more than one context per UI element (and doing so would be a bad idea, since you can't currently control what order contexts are rendered in) |
| 22:25.36 | Sunspots | Okay, so I can change a child around even if the context or parent frame is secured, I just thought that all children would automatically be locked |
| 22:26.13 | ZorbaTHut | since key and mouse events don't propogate from frames to their parents, there's no reason for children to be locked - it's not a security vulnerability :) |
| 22:26.21 | nicoli_s | ZorbaTHut:are there gonna be any rules about importing in large data sets from outside the game to use in an addon? |
| 22:26.33 | Sunspots | goodie! |
| 22:26.55 | ZorbaTHut | nicoli, this isn't a binding legal promise, but I can't think of any reason there would be. |
| 22:27.02 | nicoli_s | ok cool |
| 22:27.07 | nicoli_s | cuz my addon kinda relies on it :P |
| 22:27.20 | Marru_Home | whats ur addon? |
| 22:27.25 | ZorbaTHut | yeah, should be fine. :) |
| 22:27.32 | Sunspots | Off I go then and create some magnificent healing frames (soon to be released as "Friendly Neighbourhood Healing Frames") |
| 22:27.47 | nicoli_s | Marru_Home:it is basically a tool to lookup the locations of npcs and vendors and stuff |
| 22:28.20 | Marru_Home | ah very cool |
| 22:28.20 | seebs | * Added new RiftTextfield frame type. This acts and looks like a native Rift textfield. |
| 22:28.20 | seebs | * Added new RiftWindow frame type. This acts and looks like a native Rift textfield. |
| 22:28.28 | seebs | ^-- both native rift textfields? |
| 22:28.42 | ZorbaTHut | oops |
| 22:28.47 | ZorbaTHut | one sec |
| 22:29.13 | ZorbaTHut | fixed. thanks :) |
| 22:29.15 | ZorbaTHut | (the dangers of copy/paste) |
| 22:30.22 | nicoli_s | ZorbaTHut:also, any rules about exporting .pak assets and using them so we can match in game stuff?\ |
| 22:32.04 | ZorbaTHut | nicoli, I think that's a bit iffier and moves into the realm where I don't want to say anything without running it past legal :) Technically, I think you're not supposed to look through .pak's at all. That said, if you happened to know the internal texture names for things that lived in our pak files, you could use them in addons. |
| 22:32.14 | nicoli_s | ok sweet |
| 22:32.27 | nicoli_s | cuz my map needs arrows and im terrible at graphics |
| 22:32.34 | nicoli_s | so if i could just use the internal ones thatd be awesome |
| 22:32.44 | ZorbaTHut | we're actually planning to release an addon that duplicates an existing Rift window, entirely within the Addon system, so people can see how to reconstruct our UI. |
| 22:32.49 | nicoli_s | nice |
| 22:33.16 | nicoli_s | man im excited for this addon launch, ready to make some curse bucks :) |
| 22:33.27 | ZorbaTHut | I'm lookin' forward to see what people make with it :) |
| 22:33.27 | Marru_Home | lol |
| 22:33.36 | nicoli_s | i think if i tidy up my addons a bit i can have enough to pay for my sub |
| 22:34.37 | Marru_Home | hell if you could get my pts to work right now i'd pay ur sub for a month lol |
| 22:35.56 | Marru_Home | hmm, theres no way to reference a variable with a variable is there? like a while loop that hits group01 group 02 etc and if its that one it then adds the number to the variable named group01 group02? |
| 22:38.41 | ZorbaTHut | marru, sent you a private message, respond plzkthx :) |
| 22:39.17 | Cairenn | zomg, skeerits! |
| 22:39.27 | Marru_Home | lol |
| 22:39.34 | Cairenn | (also, hi all, hope you enjoyed your break from me, but it's over now) |
| 22:41.21 | Snstr | Event.Unit.Available < how often does that trigger? just after loading or lets say, whenever it was unavailable? |
| 22:43.21 | nicoli_s | Cairenn:lookin forward to blizzcon? |
| 22:43.31 | Cairenn | yup |
| 22:43.57 | nicoli_s | ditto, looking forward to meeting all my zam counterparts |
| 22:45.16 | nicoli_s | and our battle to the death! |
| 22:45.45 | Cairenn | rofl |
| 22:47.14 | nicoli_s | ZorbaTHut:you gonna be there? trion should send you as a spy |
| 22:47.50 | ZorbaTHut | nicoli, I sorta want to, but I may not have time. If I'm there I'll just be there as a vacation and to meet friends, not to actually go to blizzcon |
| 22:48.04 | nicoli_s | well if yer in town, come to the curse party |
| 22:48.14 | nicoli_s | and the addon dinner |
| 22:48.20 | ZorbaTHut | if I am, I will :) |
| 22:57.07 | Marru_Home | well its ugly ass code atm, and im not able to test it til i can get onto the pts, but i think i have the start of a dps meter coded |
| 22:58.29 | Marru_Home | can anyone lead me in the right direction as to how to do something like create a loop that will create 20 frames naming them, lets say, group01FRAME through group20FRAME? |
| 22:59.47 | Sunspots | for i=1,20 do addUnit("group" .. string.format("%02d", tostring(i))) end |
| 23:00.02 | Marru_Home | addUnit? whats that do? |
| 23:00.08 | Sunspots | Sorry |
| 23:00.18 | Sunspots | That's my function |
| 23:00.38 | Marru_Home | whats it do? |
| 23:00.38 | Sunspots | change it to print and you will print out group01 through group10 |
| 23:00.40 | Sunspots | 20* |
| 23:00.49 | Sunspots | It creates my unit frames |
| 23:00.57 | Marru_Home | right, print it out, but i want to create a variable each time |
| 23:01.03 | Marru_Home | or edit a variable |
| 23:01.05 | Marru_Home | etc |
| 23:01.08 | Marru_Home | basicly |
| 23:01.33 | Marru_Home | i want a loop to check if the unit is group01 or group02 or group03 etc |
| 23:01.52 | Sunspots | hm |
| 23:01.56 | Marru_Home | and if it comes true at group03 then i want it to add the damage to group03.dmg |
| 23:02.12 | Marru_Home | i just finished making a giant copy and paste mess |
| 23:02.19 | Marru_Home | thats an if statement |
| 23:02.24 | Marru_Home | and 19 elseif statements |
| 23:02.29 | Sunspots | Yeah |
| 23:02.29 | Marru_Home | and its literally checks one by one lol |
| 23:02.31 | starlon | blows bubbles. |
| 23:02.43 | Marru_Home | theres gotta be a way... |
| 23:02.47 | Marru_Home | oooooh |
| 23:02.49 | Marru_Home | fml |
| 23:02.58 | Marru_Home | i should be using an array... should i |
| 23:03.06 | Marru_Home | *shouldn't i |
| 23:03.27 | Sunspots | You could use an array |
| 23:03.36 | Marru_Home | how do you do arrays in lua? |
| 23:04.11 | starlon | lua> {} |
| 23:04.11 | lua_bot | starlon: table: 0x81dfaa0 |
| 23:04.25 | Marru_Home | ? |
| 23:04.27 | Sunspots | we don't do arrays, we do tables |
| 23:04.31 | starlon | local tbl = {} |
| 23:04.31 | Marru_Home | oh |
| 23:04.40 | Sunspots | hold on |
| 23:05.44 | Sunspots | I read some good documentation on arrays and stuff versus tables |
| 23:05.59 | Snstr | night night |
| 23:06.10 | Marru_Home | well i could definately figure out how to use a table to do the dps etc |
| 23:06.22 | Marru_Home | but what about to create frames? |
| 23:09.29 | Marru_Home | think i got it |
| 23:09.33 | Marru_Home | http://lua-users.org/wiki/TablesTutorial |
| 23:09.35 | Marru_Home | helped me |
| 23:12.51 | Sunspots | Yeah |
| 23:14.25 | Marru_Home | ugh im so afraid of whats gonna happen when i get onto the pts and actually test this... sooooo much added without testing... |
| 23:15.48 | Marru_Home | soooo |
| 23:15.52 | Marru_Home | another question |
| 23:16.00 | Marru_Home | while this chat is fairly active |
| 23:16.08 | Marru_Home | how do you guys plan on doing menus? like to set options? |
| 23:16.09 | Sunspots | Hey, the SetMouseoverUnit() will work for @mouseover macros but not @mouseoverui |
| 23:16.38 | Marru_Home | are you guys gonna do it all via slash commands? or are you gonna have like pop up windows with options? |
| 23:16.50 | Marru_Home | if your gonna go the pop up window route, how are you gonna code that? |
| 23:18.13 | Sunspots | We have checkboxes and soon textfields |
| 23:18.20 | Sunspots | maybe it''s even implemented |
| 23:18.28 | Marru_Home | how do we do checkboxes? |
| 23:18.42 | ZorbaTHut | and windows |
| 23:19.01 | Sunspots | http://wiki.riftui.com/RiftCheckbox_Frame |
| 23:19.23 | Sunspots | Are the windows draggable? |
| 23:20.03 | Marru_Home | so the checkbox frame is just a little checkbox? so we'll put that on a window and put text frames n stuff with it? |
| 23:20.06 | Sunspots | or how do they work? |
| 23:20.21 | Sunspots | Pretty much |
| 23:20.50 | Sunspots | You could probably make a function that adds checkboxes and labels for all variables in a table (or something nifty like that) |
| 23:21.24 | Sunspots | Either update in real time on each change of checkbox or save it temporary variables and overwrite on save |
| 23:22.10 | Marru_Home | oh |
| 23:22.13 | Marru_Home | that reminds me |
| 23:22.28 | Marru_Home | i also wanted to ask you guys how you do the whole move the addon window thing? |
| 23:24.24 | Sunspots | My healing frames will have a point where you set the first square and then the rest will be stacked following some rules you set up (left-to-right, top-to-bottom, amount of columns/rows etc) |
| 23:24.49 | Marru_Home | ok, but how did u code it so you can move the one point? |
| 23:24.55 | Marru_Home | i know its like event.move or somethin |
| 23:25.01 | Marru_Home | but im confused on how to work it |
| 23:25.22 | Sunspots | I dunno anything about the move event |
| 23:25.37 | Marru_Home | you haven't done anything with moving ur frames yet then? |
| 23:29.26 | Sunspots | Nope, not yet but it shouldn't be a problem |
| 23:31.42 | Marru_Home | holy crap... just got onto pts and loaded my addon and unless fixing this error causes a billion more i only have 1 :) |
| 23:33.05 | Marru_Home | aha and all it was was if * do when it shoulda been if * then |
| 23:35.33 | Marru_Home | alright |
| 23:35.54 | Marru_Home | a couple if statement syntax fixed and now the real errors arrive... great |
| 23:36.27 | Marru_Home | is there a way to make the whole error log print to a text file? |
| 23:36.34 | Marru_Home | cuz im not able to see all of it |
| 23:36.56 | ZorbaTHut | "/log" |
| 23:37.06 | Marru_Home | oh... wow... i feel dumb lol |
| 23:37.12 | Marru_Home | also |
| 23:37.54 | Marru_Home | i think my first problem is im running inspect.unit.detail(player).name near the beginning of the addon, thats not workin, how do i know when that will be available? |
| 23:40.47 | Sunspots | you need to use "player" |
| 23:40.57 | Sunspots | YOu call unit identifiers with strings |
| 23:41.05 | Marru_Home | ooooh |
| 23:41.08 | Marru_Home | ok |
| 23:41.13 | Marru_Home | so just put quotes around it? |
| 23:41.14 | Sunspots | unless you have the variable player = "player" |
| 23:41.19 | Sunspots | yup |
| 23:41.25 | Marru_Home | cool |
| 23:41.38 | Marru_Home | zorba, do addons right now have any control over inventory? no right? |
| 23:41.52 | Sunspots | not afai |
| 23:41.53 | Sunspots | k |
| 23:42.49 | Marru_Home | zorba any chance in the future we'll get the ability to control inventory? so we can make an addon like onebag or something? or even if we can't do that i would love an auto stort addon |
| 23:45.39 | ZorbaTHut | there are a lot of things planned. no comment on the ordering, we reorder our plans rather regularly |
| 23:45.47 | Marru_Home | ok |