1. Posted by kevinmd88 on Wed, 17 Jul 2013 18:32:53

    I'm attempting to write a section of code that will monitor a specific unit's health and do some stuff at a percentage. Specifically, the "boss1" unit. More specifically, Megaera.

    I tried registering the event to my addon object (I'm using AceAddon) like so:

    MyAddon = LibStub("AceAddon-3.0"):NewAddon("MyAddon", "AceEvent-3.0");
MyAddon:RegisterEvent("UNIT_HEALTH_FREQUENT", "HealthChanged");
function MyAddon:HealthChanged(u)
    if UnitName(u) == "Name of desired unit" then
        --Do stuff...
    end
end

    But the event doesn't fire a single time... Which has made me wonder, does this event need to be registered to the specific unit frame I want to monitor? Something like

    boss1:RegisterEvent("UNIT_HEALTH_FREQUENT", "HealthChanged");

    And if this is the case, how do I access a specific unit frame in this manner? I don't recall ever coming across a "GetUnit" function or anything like that...

    Any and all guidance is appreciated :) Thanks!

  2. Posted by jnwhiteh on Thu, 08 Aug 2013 05:16:51

    You may need to use RegisterUnitEvent in order to get that event. It's worth testing this out with something simple like a mob in the world-- using /eventtrace to see what events fire in different situations.