1. Posted by jc on Fri, 01 Apr 2011 07:41:46

    Hi Jim,

    right now I'm in process to add a Tranquility Monitor to my existing Druid Raid Addon. So, I want to watch Tranquilitiy's ready or on cooldown (for all druids). Within the creation and testing phase of this new module I don't want to code it for raid only.

    My question would be, is it possible to use COMBAT_LOG_EVENT_UNFILTERED without being in Raid or Combat to include something like spellID == 740 and event == "SPELL_TRANQUILITY" etc.?

    If so it would be alot easier to program this module first and after everythings working I could include it showing up in raids only etc.

    Thanks.

    JC

  2. Posted by jnwhiteh on Fri, 01 Apr 2011 08:07:02

    Hi Jim,

    right now I'm in process to add a Tranquility Monitor to my existing Druid Raid Addon. So, I want to watch Tranquilitiy's ready or on cooldown (for all druids). Within the creation and testing phase of this new module I don't want to code it for raid only.

    My question would be, is it possible to use COMBAT_LOG_EVENT_UNFILTERED without being in Raid or Combat to include something like spellID == 740 and event == "SPELL_TRANQUILITY" etc.?

    If so it would be alot easier to program this module first and after everythings working I could include it showing up in raids only etc.

    The event wouldn't be SPELL_TRANQUILITY, it would be SPELL_CAST_SUCCESS. You don't just make up event names, there's quite a rigid set of sub-events for COMBATLOGEVENT_UNFILTERED. But rather than using the spell id, I would get the spell name from the spell id (this way its properly localised, but handled different ranks and variations of the same spell).

  3. Posted by jc on Sat, 02 Apr 2011 09:20:13

    Thanks Jim - working now. Thanks for the Tip again.

    Greets,

    JC

  4. Posted by jc on Sat, 02 Apr 2011 18:44:11

    Jim,

    found another qustion. Within a function I want to check if a variable is nil (without any input) so I included a if then else - but I guess I have something wrong , because I always get true also if the variable has a value.

    So here's a example to show what I mean:

     if tostring(rezzer.cdnamesmessage) == "nil" then
    msg = "All Druids have Rebirth >> Ready"
    SendChatMessage(msg, "RAID_WARNING")
 else
    msg = msgformat .. tostring(rezzer.cdnamesmessage)
    SendChatMessage(msg, "RAID_WARNING")
 end

    I always get a nil is true, also when rezzer.cdnamesmessage has a value. I'm sure it's a logical problem. But want to act when the variable has a nil value to prevent getting a LUA error whenever rezzer.cdnamesmessage is empty.

    Thanks!

  5. Posted by jnwhiteh on Sat, 02 Apr 2011 22:24:52

    Jim,

    found another qustion. Within a function I want to check if a variable is nil (without any input) so I included a if then else - but I guess I have something wrong , because I always get true also if the variable has a value.

    All you need to do is:

     if value == nil then 
   -- do something
 else 
   -- do something else
 end

    What you have is a bit too complicated, and definitely not the same.

    So here's a example to show what I mean:

     if tostring(rezzer.cdnamesmessage) == "nil" then
    msg = "All Druids have Rebirth >> Ready"
    SendChatMessage(msg, "RAID_WARNING")
 else
    msg = msgformat .. tostring(rezzer.cdnamesmessage)
    SendChatMessage(msg, "RAID_WARNING")
 end

    I always get a nil is true, also when rezzer.cdnamesmessage has a value. I'm sure it's a logical problem. But want to act when the variable has a nil value to prevent getting a LUA error whenever rezzer.cdnamesmessage is empty.

    Thanks!

  6. Posted by jc on Sun, 03 Apr 2011 11:57:40

    Hi Jim,

    I found the problem and everything is working as it should. The thoughts was good - but there was a small typo in between my function so the value was always nil. Sometimes its a pain with this minor typos :)

    Thanks.