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API changes in Legion

See this thread for diffs: http://www.wowinterface.com/forums/s...ad.php?t=53455

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12-06-15, 01:14 PM   #2
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Current changes Live (20779) vs Beta (20773): http://paste2.org/p02kj199.
 
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Originally Posted by TOM_RUS View Post
Current changes Live (20779) vs Beta (20773): http://paste2.org/p02kj199.
Global dump?
 
12-07-15, 11:59 AM   #4
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Originally Posted by p3lim View Post
Global dump?
Yes.

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12-11-15, 09:31 AM   #5
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They have added events and API for nameplates, am I dreaming?
 
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Originally Posted by Spyro View Post
They have added events and API for nameplates, am I dreaming?
They are units like anything else (nameplate1-30). What we've seen so far is only 30 units though, but the system may be dynamic and create more that we couldn't see from our scraping.
 
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I had read somewhere that they will be moving their nameplate code into their Blizzard_Addon portion of the UI. Along with adding much needed easy access to the frames instead of authors needing to scan for them.

However I am unable to recollect where I had read this so do not take my word for it.
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Originally Posted by jeruku View Post
I had read somewhere that they will be moving their nameplate code into their Blizzard_Addon portion of the UI. Along with adding much needed easy access to the frames instead of authors needing to scan for them.

However I am unable to recollect where I had read this so do not take my word for it.
Probably right here, although the original post was a reply to someone, it was probably split off for being off-topic.
 
12-15-15, 07:32 PM   #9
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Current changes Beta (20773) vs Beta (20810) http://paste2.org/8KHsj26B
 
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Are we gonna activated any beta accounts through WOWINTERFACE, just as what we did in WoD beta?
 
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Globals diff dump build 20810 vs 20914
 
01-14-16, 01:24 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by siweia View Post
Are we gonna activated any beta accounts through WOWINTERFACE, just as what we did in WoD beta?
This isn't the place to discuss this but, when addons are enabled via Blizzard and not edited clients then sites such as this and others in the ZAM Network as well as Curse will more than likely get them. Do not expect anything for at least another 3 months.
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Originally Posted by Spyro View Post
They have added events and API for nameplates, am I dreaming?
Looks like a few events (lifecycle-related: create, display size changed, buff/debuff manifest changed, etc), and indeed some sort of API available via the "C_NamePlate" global.

Another poster seems to suggest that the "name plate unit" concept I am seeing in the Blizzard LUA is not an actual unitid, but some sort of simplistic numbering scheme. However, I am seeing this identifier used in conjunction with checks to see if it corresponds to the player or a friendly unit, to fetch the nameplate corresponding to it (via a function member of "C_NamePlate"), and collect buff/debuff information, etc. This suggests this is not some vacuous abstraction, but something that can be used to validate certain information about the unit in question. Maybe an actual unit "GUID"?

Dunno what restrictions on changing look/feel will come along with this. Some of their changes in the past have seemed to be aimed at making it difficult to use nameplates as a targeting aid in PvP.
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Globals diff dump build 20914 vs 20979
 
02-05-16, 05:04 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by TOM_RUS View Post
Current changes Live (20779) vs Beta (20773): http://paste2.org/p02kj199.
I feel like I'm going to like these:
  • CreateFramePool
  • CreateFromMixins
  • CreateObjectPool
  • CreateTexturePool
  • FramePool_Hide
  • FramePool_HideAndClearAnchors
  • FramePoolMixin.Acquire
  • FramePoolMixin.EnumeracteActive
  • FramePoolMixin.GetNextActive
  • FramePoolMixin.GetNumActive
  • FramePoolMixin.OnLoad
  • FramePoolMixin.Release
  • FramePoolMixin.ReleaseAll
  • ObjectPoolMixin.Acquire
  • ObjectPoolMixin.EnumeracteActive
  • ObjectPoolMixin.GetNextActive
  • ObjectPoolMixin.GetNumActive
  • ObjectPoolMixin.OnLoad
  • ObjectPoolMixin.Release
  • ObjectPoolMixin.ReleaseAll
 
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These seems intresting:
  • CreateRectangle
  • DrawLine
  • GetTickTimeMs
  • GetUICameraInfo
  • HasAttachedGlyph
  • Model_ApplyUICamera
  • PercentageBetween
  • Saturate

What the hell are these?
  • Lerp
  • FrameDeltaLerp
  • IsKioskModeEnabled
 
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Originally Posted by Resike View Post
What the hell are these?
  • Lerp
  • FrameDeltaLerp
  • IsKioskModeEnabled
Lerp is linear interpolation, kiosk mode is a more restricted environment for when they set up the demo on blizzcon computers and such.
 
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Globals diff dump build 20979 vs 21063
 
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Man I'm eager to play around with this stuff.

All I can read atm is "GetNamePlateForUnit(unit)". I cri evrytim.
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02-14-16, 12:39 PM   #20
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Man I'm eager to play around with this stuff.

All I can read atm is "GetNamePlateForUnit(unit)". I cri evrytim.
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