Retain a reference to targeted unit

[Keppler]

Hi Folks

A quick question, as I'm just getting my feet wet (or should that be dirty) in the Addon scenes.

Is it possible to maintain a reference to a unit, or list of units, after the user has moved target to another unit? I ask because the API's I've trawled through seem to have a restricted list of UnitIDs ("target", "raidN" etc) but don't seem to have a method to retrieve an in game handle on a unit. Is this deliberate, or am I missing something?

Useful site, by the way.

Kepps

[Cairenn]

Thanks Keppler. We are hoping it is going to become even more useful, now that folks are actually using it.

[Gello]

No unfortunately there is no unique id for targets available to us in WoW

A macro/script can target in only one of four ways:
1. Target by name
2. Target by unit type ("player", "mouseover", "party1", "party2", "raid1", etc)
3. Target last enemy
4. Target nearest enemy/friend

If there are two mobs of the same name then it's totally random which you'll target. Eventually I'm sure they'll give us a way to uniquely identify targets. It's a huge problem until then.

[Keppler]

Thanks for the info folks.
Yes, it's as I expected - I suspect it's a deliberate decision to restrict this to avoid anything too fancy being done from a botting point of view.
Alas my nice and simple "Polymorph counter" is now pretty useless, as I'd be restricted to either
a) keeping the poly'd targeted, rendering it pointless
b) only switch targets once
c) rely on luck.

Pity, cos there's a definate lack of mage-specific mods out there.
Better get cracking on my other ideas.
Thanks for the help.
Kepps

[Keppler]

Update: found the event CHAT_MSG_SPELL_AURA_GONE_OTHER which sorted me out. This fires when a buff or debuff not on self expires.