Pitbull4/LUA text: Dropping decimals with Percent(cur,max)?

[Luminee]

Hello,

I have a specialised question with LUA text and Pitbull4. I have set up my powerbar to this:

local cur,max = Power(unit),MaxPower(unit)
if max > 0 then
  return "%s/%s - %s%%",VeryShort(cur,true),VeryShort(max,true),Percent(cur,max)
end

which will concurr to

90k/90k - 100%.

However, when going below 100% it will show the first decimal place, alas it reads 94.6%. But I only want it to show (in this example) 95%. This is easily accomplished with HP by adding VeryShort, however it won't work with Percent. Anyone got some ideas how to fix it?

Thanks in advance,
Luminee

Edit: Actually, another viable option would be to have it show 96.0% instead of 96%, because it would stop flashing (it shows 95.1, 95.2, 95.3, etc., but not 96.0)..

[gollie]

local cur,max = Power(unit),MaxPower(unit)
if max > 0 then
  return "%s/%s - %s%%",VeryShort(cur,true),VeryShort(max,true),string.sub(min / max * 100),1,4
end

Try it, you might want to laborate with the last digit there, perhaps changing the 4 to a 3, or even 2. I can't test it right now but it should work.

[Luminee]

Thanks for the reply, but unfortunately your code results in an {err}. I tried to play around a bit with brackets without luck.

Does lua know what min means? I tried replacing it with cur or cur,true, but then nothing at all would be visible.

Any more ideas?

Edit: Cool, i just replaced %s with %d and it rounds up now. Hoorah!

local cur,max = Power(unit),MaxPower(unit)
if max > 0 then
  return "%s/%s - %d%%",VeryShort(cur,true),VeryShort(max,true),Percent(cur,max)
end

[Chaltione]

Try this, may have a performance hit, but shouldn't be too bad

local cur,max = Power(unit),MaxPower(unit)
if max > 0 then
  local p = 100*cur/max
  if p%1 >= 0.5 then p = math.ceil(p) else p = math.floor(p) end
  return "%s/%s - %s%%",VeryShort(cur,true),VeryShort(max,true),p
end

---------- Post added 2011-04-06 at 03:15 PM ----------

This is what i think gollie meant, but it has a flaw, as in the sub() function will return 4 (or 3 or 2) characters, which means that if you have 94.6%, it'll return "94.6", if you use 3, it'll return "94.", if you use 2, it'll return "94". But if you have 5.66% (for example), it'll still return "5.". So it'd need some logic to pick the right number of decimals, with a special case for 100%.

local cur,max = Power(unit),MaxPower(unit)
if max > 0 then
  return "%s/%s - %s%%",VeryShort(cur,true),VeryShort(max,true),string.sub((cur / max * 100),1,4)
end

[Luminee]

As I edited above I was able to fix the issue by replacing %s with %d. It seems %d rounds up by default.

Thank you for your input though!

[gollie]

God, I'm so sorry, I didn't even check the variable names. I sorta copy pasted it from another addon. I'm glad you managed to figure it out though.

And of course Chaltione is correct, I really need to work on my LUA :P

[Chaltione]

I hope you are aware that %d is used for integer value, and the casting from floating to int will just strip the decimals, which means you are rounding down all percentages, even if it's .99.

[Luminee]

Well, I guess it serves my purpose right. I just need a hint of percentages for when to use mana cooldowns. I really don't care if it's 75,9 or 75.