textures in fontsstrings

[zork]

Can I add a scull or a lootrollcancel icon in a fontstring?

If yes, how?

Need this example for my tag because my problem is that the tag has no access to the object. or does it?

skull texture: "interface\\targetingframe\\ui-targetingframe-skull"

basically what I want to do is to display the skull if the unit is dead and the lootroll cancel if the unit is disconnected.

Or if that is possible...can I add tags to textures? So to speak.?

Example what I want to do:


*edit* just saw that health has the UNIT_CONNECTION registered aswell. So I'm going to do the texture artwork in the postUpdateHealth and the fontstring via tags. Alright for me.

Done:

[Waverian]

Just for future reference it is possible to add textures to a fontstring.

http://www.wowpedia.org/UI_escape_sequences#Textures

For example: "|TInterface/Icons/Ability_Rogue_SliceDice:20:20:0:0:64:64:5:59:5:59|tMyText"

That's a 20x20 S&D icon (cropped by 5 pixels on each size to remove border) followed by MyText.

[zork]

Awesome. Ty. Exactly what I was looking for.

|T
  TexturePath:
  Width:
  Height:
  PositionX:
  PositionY:
  OrigTextureWidth:
  OrigTextureHeight:
  CropTop:
  OrigTextureHeight-CropBottom:
  CropLeft:
  OrigTextureWidth-CropRight
|t

[drakull]

Wow, that's a great idea. And I thought that textures inside fontstrings where limited by the font's height.

PS: Can someone please teach me the best way to find out the game's textures name and path? Thanks a lot!

[yj589794]

You can either extract them yourself with the WoW developer SDK, or check the listing on wowprogramming.com.