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Heimdall

07-30-09 06:57 AM

STUF Lua editor

Hi all,
i'm trying to color a string using the class color in STUF, the problem is that i don't know how to do that...
I tryied usin the table RAID_CLASS_COLORS but i must be missing something:

local DB = {}
for class, color in pairs(RAID_CLASS_COLORS) do
DB.[class] = { color.r, color.g, color.b }
end

This code seems to be wrong or i can't access the table RAID_CLASS_COLORS but i don't get any error in that way however it seems that the structure DB in empty....
There another way to do that? Maybe using the 'cache' parameter? But using cache i only know how to get info like name, level ecc (info that anyway i can get using standard API), any thoughts?

Thank you

xConStruct

07-30-09 07:04 AM

Code:

DB.[class] = { color.r, color.g, color.b }

The dot doesn't belong here and likely causes errors :)
Otherwise I don't have any idea of STUF.

Heimdall

07-30-09 07:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cargor (Post 149972)

Code:

DB.[class] = { color.r, color.g, color.b }

The dot doesn't belong here and likely causes errors :)
Otherwise I don't have any idea of STUF.

You are right about the dot, let's hope is the reason of my problem ;)
as soon as i get home i'll check in game what happens.

thanks for the help

Heimdall

07-30-09 10:54 AM

I don't know,
for example this simple code here:

Code:

function(unit, cache)

local DB = {} 

for class, color in pairs(RAID_CLASS_COLORS) do 

DB[class] = { class }

end

return DB["ROGUE"]

end

i take an error (string expected, got table). i need some time to figure out how the tables work because i was expecting to get the string "ROGUE" as a result...

Regards

xConStruct

07-30-09 11:24 AM

Because you put the class in { } brackets, there's a sub-table created for the class-string.

So, just write DB[class] = class to correct it.

But I'm wondering what you're trying to achieve, because you basically get "ROGUE" back, if you're accessing the table with "ROGUE"?

Normally class colors are stored in RAID_CLASS_COLORS and you just can access them via RAID_CLASS_COLORS["ROGUE"]. It returns a table holding the r,g,b, a-values for the color.
And then you'd have to return it in the correct format (and there's the problem that I don't know, how STUF wants the data back).

So basically, what string should the function return? Just the name, a classcolored name or just the class-color-values? That's not really clear for me ;)

Heimdall

07-30-09 12:07 PM

Actually i want a class-colored text and i need the rgb code for that but i can't get it and unpack in three local variables, i'll give it a try after dinner ;)

Seerah

07-30-09 12:13 PM

Is this something that you can't do with STUF's tag system?

Heimdall

07-30-09 12:33 PM

Ok, for future reference i've done this ugly code here (:D):

Code:

function(unit, cache)

DB = {} 

for class, color in pairs(RAID_CLASS_COLORS) do 

DB[class] = { r=color.r, g=color.g, b=color.b}

end

r = DB["PALADIN"].r

g = DB["PALADIN"].g

b = DB["PALADIN"].b

return "|cff%02x%02x%02x%s",r*255,g*255,b*255,cache.level

end

it color the level with the class color (it's not what i needed in the beginning but at least i colored something :P)

Regards

Seerah

07-30-09 12:41 PM

I'm still not sure why you didn't just use the regular (original) text patterns/tags to do this. :p I haven't been playing wow, so I don't recall exactly (there's a help window in-game), but it would just be level:class or somesuch.

jasje

07-30-09 01:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Seerah (Post 150011)

[classcolor=level] ? or is that dogtags

celebros

07-30-09 01:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Heimdall (Post 150010)

Ok, for future reference i've done this ugly code here (:D):

Code:

function(unit, cache)

DB = {} 

...

DB[class] = { r=color.r, g=color.g, b=color.b}

...

I'm not sure why you're wasting tables here though.
You're creating a DB table, and then one extra table for every class, every time this function is called (yes they will be collected but why waste the cycles in the first place?

Why can't you do:

Code:

for class, color in pairs(RAID_CLASS_COLORS) do 

    if CLASS == "PALADIN" then

        return string.format("cff%02x%02x%02x%s",color.r*255,color.g*255,color.b*255,cache.level)

    end

end

Or better yet:

Code:

function (unit, cache)

    local _,class = UnitClass(unit)

    local color = RAID_CLASS_COLORS[class]

    if color then

        return string.format("cff%02x%02x%02x%s",color.r*255, color.g*255,color.b*255, cache.level)

    else

        return cache.level

    end

end

Heimdall

07-31-09 12:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Seerah (Post 150011)

Because i had to truncate a string and to do a check on the power value, and also i want to experiment with lua :P

Heimdall

07-31-09 12:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by celebros (Post 150022)

Code:

for class, color in pairs(RAID_CLASS_COLORS) do 

    if CLASS == "PALADIN" then

        return string.format("cff%02x%02x%02x%s",color.r*255,color.g*255,color.b*255,cache.level)

    end

end

Or better yet:

Code:

function (unit, cache)

    local _,class = UnitClass(unit)

    local color = RAID_CLASS_COLORS[class]

    if color then

        return string.format("cff%02x%02x%02x%s",color.r*255, color.g*255,color.b*255, cache.level)

    else

        return cache.level

    end

end

Thanks for the tip, i will test this when at home today, i'm new to Lua and i still don't know enough, also i didn't know that UnitClass return two strings (the second one that i need is capitalized), in my code i used the function string.upper(value) to do that.

Regards

Limb0

08-03-09 01:31 PM

Stuf has tons of options and is extremely configurable and easy to get lost in... from what I've read here, everything you want to do can be done with Stuf's "dogtags."

Sample text coding for hp
[difficulty:curhp] [hpthreshold:(][hpthreshold:perchp][hpthreshold:%][hpthreshold:)]

If you guys are exploring LUA, then definitely cool discussion, but if you simply want to make Stuf look nice, use the in game editor, or just pull my Stuf and StufRaid layouts from my UI.. (completely color coded, with a cowtip feel regarding info).

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