Trouble in creation of my First addon..

[icyfresh]

I have trouble in my first expirience of creating my first addon for myself.. Im new in Lua coding too.

So here are my code:

EventFrame:RegisterEvent("UNIT_AURA")
EventFrame:SetScript('OnEvent', function(self, event, unit, ...)
if(unit == "player") then

			if(UnitAura(unit, "Arcane charge", nil)) then
			
			local name, rank, icon, count, debuffType, duration, expirationTime, unitCaster, isStealable, shouldConsolidate, spellId = UnitAura("player", "Arcane charge", nil)
			
			abStacks = tonumber(count)
			
			ChatFrame1:AddMessage("Testing AB:" .. tostring(abStacks) .. ", MS:" .. tostring(msStacks) .. ", CC:" .. tostring(ccStacks), 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 53, 5)
			
			end		end		
end)

The problems is UnitAura("player", "Arcane charge") always returning nil.. I know what im doing it wrong but I cant understand what exactly Im doing wrong. Thx.

[Crudor]

Code snippet looks alright. UnitAura always returns nil when the buff is not up.

[pnutbutter]

A couple possibilities:

• UnitAura is case-sensitive (I would hope it is, but don't know for sure) and the aura is actually "Arcane Charge"
• UnitDebuff or UnitBuff will return a value for this specific aura, but UnitAura will not
• Arcane Charge is not actually an aura

[Crudor]

UnitDebuff or UnitBuff will return a value for this specific aura, but UnitAura will not

How should this be possible? I thought UnitBuff/Debuff were functions which call UnitAura with a specific filter?

[icyfresh]

How should this be possible? I thought UnitBuff/Debuff were functions which call UnitAura with a specific filter?

In Reference the UnitBuff/Debuff is alias of UnitAura with build in Filter Harmful/Helpful so I dont think what problem in that.

A couple possibilities:

• UnitAura is case-sensitive (I would hope it is, but don't know for sure) and the aura is actually "Arcane Charge"
• UnitDebuff or UnitBuff will return a value for this specific aura, but UnitAura will not
• Arcane Charge is not actually an aura

Thank you. That Help but in reference UnitAura are returning a value too...

[Crudor]

Just tested on my mage twink: Arcane Charge is a debuff, which is why it does not show up for UnitAura (which has the HELPFUL filter by default). Use UnitDebuff or the HARMFUL filter with UnitAura.

[pnutbutter]

How should this be possible? I thought UnitBuff/Debuff were functions which call UnitAura with a specific filter?

Just tested on my mage twink: Arcane Charge is a debuff, which is why it does not show up for UnitAura (which has the HELPFUL filter by default). Use UnitDebuff or the HARMFUL filter with UnitAura.

derp, I always forget this, I just assumed it was the aura itself being wacky with UnitAura, but it's just that it was a debuff and UnitAura didn't have an explicit filter...