class-coloring text

[Coldkil]

going into detail, i have this code to spawn the raid frames

		self:SetSize(38,18)
			
			Health:SetSize(38, 18)
			Health:SetPoint("TOP", self, "TOP")
			HealthBackground:SetPoint("LEFT", Health:GetStatusBarTexture(), "RIGHT")
			HealthBackground:SetPoint("RIGHT", Health, "RIGHT")
			HealthBackground:SetAlpha(1)
			HealthBackground:SetHeight(Health:GetHeight())
	
			Name:SetPoint("LEFT", Health, "LEFT", 2, 0)
			Name:SetPoint("RIGHT", Health, "RIGHT", -2, 0)
			self:Tag(Name, '[nameshort]')

is there any simple way to get the class colors from a table i have defined and color the name/strings on the raid frames accordingly?

[Deleted]

:SetTextColor on the FontString? Also, use RAID_CLASS_COLORS[(select(2,UnitClass(unit)))].

---------- Post added 2011-10-26 at 09:16 PM ----------

If you don't have access to the fontString, use |cffrrggbbTEXT|r

[palthis]

Below Code is from the LitePanels addon core.lua. Maybe this will help

local class = (CUSTOM_CLASS_COLORS or RAID_CLASS_COLORS)[strupper(lpanels.cinfo.c)]
local function setcolor(color)
if color == "CLASS" then
return class.r, class.g, class.b
elseif is(color,'string') then
return strmatch(color, "([%d%.]+)%s+([%d%.]+)%s+([%d%.]+)")
else return unpack(color) end
end

If this does work and you implement as-is, maybe out in a good word for the original author

[Coldkil]

I wanted to use the SetTextColor tbh, just when i set up the color all goes wild. Going to try your suggestions, then post results

[Deleted]

--assumption: you have a local 'text' containing the string you want to display
local col = RAID_CLASS_COLORS[(select(2,UnitClass("player")))]
if col then
    text = ("|cff%02x%02x%02x%s|r"):format(col.r,col.g,col.b,text)
end

[Coldkil]

The local i use is Name displayed above. Thanks again for the help, when i get home from work i'll give a try.

EDIT: wouldn't a code like this work?

local col = RAID_CLASS_COLORS[(select(2,UnitClass("player")))]
if col then
  Name:SetTextColor(col.r, col.g, col.b)
end

[Deleted]

Sure, should work fine - like I said, you only need to use color coded strings if you can't access the FontString for whatever reason.

[Coldkil]

It works, but not the way i want. I need to color the text for each frame differently corresponding to the class of the unit. is it possible? Probably i just need to change the "player" part.

EDIT: works if i put "party1", "party2", etc. I need to do a for cycle to run through the units, is there a method to get the party/raid number of members? Thanks again.

EDIT 2: got it. for anyone who needs it, the methods GetNumPartyMembers() and GetNumRaidMembers() are just here for this kind of issues

[Deleted]

GetNumPartyMembers() / GetNumRaidMembers()? Not sure I understand the question.

[Coldkil]

Best way to explain myself is showing the code

			local num = GetNumPartyMembers()
			for i = 1, num do
			  local col = RAID_CLASS_COLORS[(select(2,UnitClass("party"..i)))]
			  if col then
			    Name:SetTextColor(col.r, col.g, col.b)
			  end
			end

This way, you get every name on every party frame colored with the class color of the party member. Same way works for raid.

EDIT: need to put it into a better place (maybe spawn code) because as for now when i log in text stay white, with a reload ui all goes well

EDIT 2: for raid it doesn't work, it keeps to get the player còass color and you'll get all the names equal. for party all goes well.