PitBull4 Lua texts - Colored health and power?
 

I'm using PitBull4 for my unit frames, and I've been trying to figure out how to get the health text to be health colored and the power text the color of the characters power using PB4's Lua texts. I've tried a few things, but only get errors. I found an example somewhere to color my characters' level by class, but can't seem to find anything about health color or power color.

What I'm using at the moment:

Class colored level:
Health (which is always bright green, but I want the color to change as the health goes down, if possible):
Power (which I'd like to be power colored):
The characters' name is just fine in white, and this is what I use for that:
I have posted a similar question on the WoWAce PitBull forum (Post), but I am posting it here, also, to try to get a "broader audience", as it were. Hopefully, someone can help me with this problem.

Some examples:

Power (supports Druid Mana and Alt Power types)


Health (green to red)

Thank you very much for your help, Nibelheim, I appreciate it.

The health text code works perfectly. The power text code, however, is another matter. I copied it and pasted it directly into PB4, and got this error through !BugGrabber.lua in my SavedVariables:

I hope it makes sense to you, since it's like trying to read martian to me.

I'm not sure if it makes a difference, but PB4 uses another module for alternate power. There is nothing about alternate power in the "Events" drop down menu, but I am unsure if that would have caused a problem since, to my uneducated eyes, it appears to be written in such a way that it doesn't matter if it checks for that and finds it not there.

Anyway, thank you again. I really appreciate your help.

Let's try something a bit simpler first, see if we can narrow down the error. I can't login to WoW these days, so dry coding can be a pain.

The only events you should need are:
UNIT_POWER
UNIT_DISPLAYPOWER

Many thanks, Nibelheim!! Both texts are working correctly (as far as I can tell). I'll know more tomorrow when I wake up and can try it on some other power types on different characters. One thing, though: There is no "UNIT_DISPLAYPOWER" in my Events drop down menu. Not that it matters, since it is apparently working.

Here's my PB4 frames (with your text coloring) for my Warlock:
Attachment 6273

As you can see, my goal was to make everything gray-scale, except for the health, power and level texts. The "green steps" on the left of the name are from an addon I'm sure you are familiar with: nibPointDisplay. They represent my shards, and I have them set to display as: 1 - red, 2 - 1red 1yellow, 3 - all green.

Again, many thanks. I do appreciate your help, and the fact that you can't even log on to check out your code speaks volumes about your Lua skills.

Another attempt at full Power functionality. May work, may not :p

Yes, thank you. That code also seems to work well.

I haven't gotten a chance to try all of the power types, and probably won't for quite some time. I don't raid, so raid bosses I won't be able to test. I know that there are some other types of alternate power that show up while doing quests, but I have absolutely no idea when I would get to test that, since I don't know what quests it shows up on.

I have tried both codes on my Warlock (Mana), a Hunter (Focus) and a Warrior (Rage), and they both work for those. I'll try them on my Druid and DK later today.

Once again, many thanks. I was (and still am) totally clueless about how to get this to work.

OK. I finally got to play my Druid for a little bit, and the last block of code you posted works for showing Druid Mana, but the second doesn't.

Attachment 6280

At least, I'm guessing that's what the second mana bar is for (in cat form). I don't play Druids enough to remember.:o

Woops, try this:
Yep, you should get two power bars, and two power texts. I.e. In cat form, it'll be Energy and Mana.

OK. Thank you for letting me know (for sure :)) what the other bar was. I do have a question, though, if you don't mind. What is the difference between the last block of code and the one posted in post #6? That one seems to work OK, and, as I mentioned, I don't know when I'll get a chance to test the alternate power you get with several other things (for want of a better word).

Please, do not misunderstand. I am not complaining, rather trying to understand the differences between the two codes. Believe me, I appreciate the work you do and all the help you give. Thank you.

Hmm, the last code I posted just had a bit of code cleaning done. Same functionality. Though I'm getting a little confused, too much code going on. :p Does any particular code block (in the latter posts) not work for you?

OK. Just tested the last code, and it gives an error:
The code from post #6 works perfectly for Druid Mana, and I also put it on a character that doesn't use mana, but a different power (I think it was a Warrior, so Rage) and it worked fine.

Oh well, at least one of them worked ;)

Yes it does! Thank you very much! Your work is much appreciated.

Gosh that's all kinds of confusing... Let try it using Luatext's... I believe you'll find this runs just a tad bit faster.

Try this for HPColor:
Try this power color...

Nope. Health gives an error (it just says "table" in Bugsack). Power just puts my power, which on my Warlock is 2902 Mana, at a greyed-out 0 (zero).

Diffrent text!
 

[quote=Nibelheim;239706]Some examples:

Power (supports Druid Mana and Alt Power types)

Is it possible to make this code show as "current insted of short" f.ex show mana aka power as 32000 insted of 32.0k ?

I think swapping the two instances of "Short(pCur, true)" with "pCur" no quotes, and the one instance of "Short(pCurMana, true)" with "pCurMana" no quotes should work

it worked! thank you, i have an otther issue aswell if you'd like to help me out? here it goes!
This code is displaying player health names like this "100%" with some nice coloring from green -> orange -> red depending on your health, but I want it to look like this "418500" with the coloring ofc., also displays bosses like this "17.2k/17.2k" with no coloring but that's fine, but whatt I want is it to display bosses like this "17200 | 100%", I really do appreciate in advance!

local perc = Percent(cur,max)

Would appear to be converting current health into a percentage of max so if you just change perc to cur as the return by:
You also have duplicate
Statements.

For the boss (this will change the display for any unfriendly target) you woulld need to substitute
for

Could you possible give me my code back fixed the way that you'd do it? I'm not really that good at coding.

an issue has accured, on target "friendly" it shows their name exactly as i want it however with a % behind it, so let's say i got 418500 health it displays like this 418500% and on unfriendly target it displays like i want ut however 100 instred of 100%

Apologies, too early in the morning ;).

NICE! you have no idea how long i've been working on getting this fixed!!!, if it's not to much to ask since you're so good at this xD is it possible to make the unfriendly text colored like the friendly one to? i am a perfectionist xD

Something like:

Doesn't work :P

Way too early ..

worked xD thank you, i wish i was as good in coding, would've made this so much easyer lol xD

want to do 1 last before i got my whole ui complete? this one shouldn't be complicated :)
this code is showing the text code like this "32.0k | 32.0k" but I want it to display it like this "32000"

local _,power_name = UnitPowerType(unit)
local r,g,b = PowerColor(power_name)
local max = MaxPower(unit)
if max > 0 then
return "|cff%02x%02x%02x%s|r",r,g,b,Power(unit)
end

i think that's it ;O thank you so much for the assistance m8, if i can do anything for you!

Not sure if you want it at all but here is my coding for health and power bars

I only color the health or power percentage and not the current/max health amount.

Health:


Power:


Druid mana

Druid Mana
 

how can i get this code
to show Cur insted of Percent?

like so "32000" if that's whatt my mana is? :)

Thanks in advanse

Thanks
 

heh it's you again, seems like my UI just refuse to be done, there seem to duck up problems, after problems are solved heh ^ glad i got you to back me up though!

You don't happen to know a code that displays the spec of the player?

let's say i meet a "Holy Paladin" i got a own code that says f.ex "Holy" with class colored text or eventually show a img of the spec? pref the img is possible but text is more than fine!

I don't know Pitbull well enough to tell you exactly how but the process of getting a specialisation comes in two parts.

First determine if the target can be inspected and if so send an inspect request to the server.
Once the server has gathered the information it will send an "INSPECT_READY" event to the designated frame(s) which can then retrieve the information.

Frames OnEvent script for the "INSPECT_READY" event:

How do i perform this action?