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09-28-10, 07:04 AM   #1
Lane
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Lua help UnitDebuff

I'm trying to calculate the time remaining for a specific debuff. I'm not getting any errors but I think my lack of lua Math and Rounding is causing a nonsensical return.

Given:
Code:
local function getSpellTime(spell)
	local name, _, _, _, _, dur, exp, caster = UnitDebuff("target", spell)
	if name ~= nil and caster == "player" and name == spell then
		return exp - GetTime();
	end
end
My return value is usually something like 2... or 4...

Any idea what I need to get whole second times?
 
09-28-10, 07:34 AM   #2
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So I realized part of my problem was having a narrow frame to display the value. I solved that part so it is now working except for the zillion decimal places showing up. How do I just drop the decimal values?
 
09-28-10, 08:54 AM   #3
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If you want to round up the value you can use math.ceil, or to round down the value you can use math.floor (http://lua-users.org/wiki/MathLibraryTutorial).

If you want to print a formatted value, but retain the actual value in the parameter, you can use string.format (http://www.lua.org/pil/20.html).
 
09-28-10, 08:58 AM   #4
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Or something like:

Code:
FontString:SetFormattedText("%.0f", floor(timeleft))
http://wowprogramming.com/docs/widge...tFormattedText
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09-28-10, 09:13 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by Ailae View Post
Or something like:

Code:
FontString:SetFormattedText("%.0f", floor(timeleft))
http://wowprogramming.com/docs/widge...tFormattedText
I don't know C at all so I started to go this direction but couldn't figure out what any of those options mean.

What does %.0f mean in english?
 
09-28-10, 09:15 AM   #6
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Also, to clarify I don't want to round at all I just want to drop the decimal place.

From: 20.34546825638
To: 20

From: 20.67483
To: 20
 
09-28-10, 09:24 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by Lane View Post
What does %.0f mean in english?
%.0f means that it will format the number you're inputting to a float with 0 decimals. So if you hand it 24.1241 you'd get 24 out.

You can try it ingame with
Code:
/dump string.format("%.0f", 24.1241)
which would yield..

Code:
Dump: value=string.format("%.0f", 24.1241)
[1]=24
If you'd want one decimal, you would use 1 instead of 0.
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09-28-10, 11:14 AM   #8
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Cool I'll try that tonight. While I was doing research on this I found some printf resources that said "%d" would give me the same results. Would that work in Lua too?
 
09-28-10, 11:22 AM   #9
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It would, but then it doesn't round the value.

With %.0f 21.7 becomes 22.
With %d 21.7 becomes 21.
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09-28-10, 11:55 AM   #10
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Place holder for when I get home:

Code:
local function getSpellTime(spell)
	local name, _, _, _, _, dur, exp, caster = UnitDebuff("target", spell)
	if name ~= nil and caster == "player" and name == spell then
	    --return math.ceil(exp - GetTime());
	    return string.format("%d", exp - GetTime());
	end
end
 
10-10-10, 03:35 AM   #11
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You can try
Code:
local function getSpellTime(spell)
	local name, _, _, _, _, dur, exp = UnitDebuff("target", spell, nil, "PLAYER")
	if name then
	    return string.format("%d", exp - GetTime())
	end
end
 
10-10-10, 08:26 AM   #12
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In my mod I use
Code:
function PallyPower:FormatTime(time)
        if not time or time < 0 or time == 9999 then
                return ""
        end
        local mins = floor(time / 60)
        local secs = time - (mins * 60)
        return sformat("%d:%02d", mins, secs)
end
 
 

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