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Is there a way to query if a texture is available?

Do you know a way to query if a special texture (specified by a texture path) is available or not?

I'm almost sure that it is not possible. But ... well ... you never know ... ;)

Thank you.

I think that :SetTexture returns true if the texture was found. It returns true under some circumstances, at least. Not 100% sure that it's that.

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Originally Posted by Lombra (Post 291554)

I think that :SetTexture returns true if the texture was found. It returns true under some circumstances, at least. Not 100% sure that it's that.

Thank you. Unfortunaly as far as I experienced it SetTexture always returns 1 ... if the texture path exists or not. :/

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SetTexture("") returns nil. Whatever this is good for. ;)

I think when they introduced the streaming client they broke SetTexture's ability to determine if a texture exists.

Anyway, I developed a way to do this a while back for a map project I was working on. As long as the dimensions of the texture you're checking aren't 8x8 you can use it.

It works by taking advantage of the fact that setting a texture's size to 0 causes it to default to the real texture's actual dimensions, if it fails to load the texture then it falls back on the green "missing" texture which seems to be 8x8.

If you need to check a lot of textures at once you'll need to make some sort of queue since textures take time to load if they aren't cached. You can use an OnUpdate script or frames with OnSizeChanged scripts, whatever's more convenient for your situation.

Lua Code:

function TestTexture()
    local f = CreateFrame('frame') -- Don't create a new frame for every texture, this is just an example
    local tx = f:CreateTexture()
    tx:SetPoint('CENTER', WorldFrame) -- The texture has to be "visible", but not necessarily on-screen (you can also set its alpha to 0)
    f:SetAllPoints(tx)
    f:SetScript('OnSizeChanged', function(self, width, height)
        local size = format('%.0f%.0f', width, height) -- The floating point numbers need to be rounded or checked like "width < 8.1 and width > 7.9"
        if size == '88' then
            print(tx:GetTexture(), "doesn't exist or can't be determined")
        else
            print(tx:GetTexture(), "exists")
        end
    end)
    tx:SetTexture('interface/icons/inv_mushroom_11')
    tx:SetSize(0,0) -- Size must be set after every SetTexture
end

Keep in mind if the texture gets parented to another frame its size is going to get scaled.

That's a very clever workaround Semlar. :)

Wow. That's a fantastic idea. Thanks a lot sir. :)

This method still works however the size is 1x1 pixel now. Which is a lot better since a proper texture can't be this size. So:

Lua Code:

if size == '11' then

Method I'm using in 9.0.2

Lua Code:

local f = CreateFrame('frame')
local t = f:CreateTexture()
function TextureExists(path)
    t:SetTexture("?")
    t:SetTexture(path)
    return (t:GetTexture() ~= "?")
end