PB4: Show <info> on mouseover. (lua texts)

[Palaranger]

What is the lua code to show my own and my target's health on mouseover, and then name when not moused over? Is this even possible?

[Taryble]

It's possible, but I have no idea. Try the LuaTexts discussion thread over at http://www.wowace.com/forums/

[Palaranger]

It's possible, but I have no idea. Try the LuaTexts discussion thread over at http://www.wowace.com/forums/

I think my eyes are bleeding from all the searching I've done there, but while I continue I'm still hoping someone can give me a less general direction ^_^

[Nd]

What is the lua code to show my own and my target's health on mouseover, and then name when not moused over? Is this even possible?

Haven't touched the lua stuff in 3+ years but iirc , from: http://www.wowwiki.com/Events/Unit_Info
You would register your event handler in the xml , probably for the event UPDATE_MOUSEOVER_UNIT, ( though says for the event it would only work mousing over the actual unit, not the frame ;/).

Anyway, from : http://www.wowwiki.com/World_of_Warcraft_API , you'd then call UnitHealth("unit"), (the return value would be it's health) with the unit id triggered in the event. As for displaying purposes, that's up to you where and how you'd want to display it, there are many ways.

[Darkness Seraph]

I trudged through the lua code for this about a week ago, so to save you the trouble, here's my code.

I'll tell you this now, this was made for a healer UI. So, i have the code placed into it to show a percent when not moused over, and scale in color as the person reach's different levels of health/mana.

First, the health:
Events that must be on - Unit_Aura, Unit_Health, Unit_Healthmax

local s = Status(unit)
local cur,max=HP(unit),MaxHP(unit)
local per=Percent(cur,max)
if s then
 return s
end
if IsMouseOver() then
return "|cff009900%s|r",HP(unit),MaxHP(unit)
else
if per<10 then
 return "|cffff0000%s|r",Percent(HP(unit),MaxHP(unit))
else
if per<25 then
 return "|cffff5511%s|r",Percent(HP(unit),MaxHP(unit))
else
if per<50 then
 return "|cffffcc33%s|r",Percent(HP(unit),MaxHP(unit))
else
return "|cff009900%s|r",Percent(HP(unit),MaxHP(unit))
end
end
end
end

Now the code for mana:
Events that must be on - Unit_DisplayPower, Unit_Energy, Unit_Focus, Unit_Mana, Unit_Maxenergy, Unit_Maxfocus, Unit_Maxrage, Unit_Maxrunic_power, Unit_Rage, Unit_Runic_Power

local s = Status(unit)
local cur,max=Power(unit),MaxPower(unit)
local per=Percent(cur,max)
if s then
 return s
end
if IsMouseOver() then
return "|cff1188ff%s|r",Power(unit),MaxPower(unit)
else
if per<10 then
 return "|cffff0000%s|r",Percent(Power(unit),MaxPower(unit))
else
if per<25 then
 return "|cffff5511%s|r",Percent(Power(unit),MaxPower(unit))
else
if per<50 then
 return "|cffffcc33%s|r",Percent(Power(unit),MaxPower(unit))
else
return "|cff009900%s|r",Percent(Power(unit),MaxPower(unit))
end
end
end
end

Edit: Noticed you wanted it to switch to name, this is very possible, in fact, here's the code(Note - For health):
Events that must be on - Player_Flags_Changed, Unit_Aura, Unit_Health, Unit_Healthmax, Unit_Name_Update

local s = Status(unit)
local cur,max=HP(unit),MaxHP(unit)
local per=Percent(cur,max)
if s then
 return s
end
if IsMouseOver() then
return "|cff009900%s|r",HP(unit),MaxHP(unit)
else
return '%s %s%s%s',Name(unit),Angle(AFK(unit) or DND(unit))
end

In the odd case you want the above code for mana:
Events that must be on - Player_Flags_Changed, Unit_Aura, Unit_Name_Update, Unit_DisplayPower, Unit_Energy, Unit_Focus, Unit_Mana, Unit_Maxenergy, Unit_Maxfocus, Unit_Maxrage, Unit_Maxrunic_power, Unit_Rage, Unit_Runic_Power

local s = Status(unit)
local cur,max=Power(unit),MaxPower(unit)
local per=Percent(cur,max)
if s then
 return s
end
if IsMouseOver() then
return "|cff009900%s|r",Power(unit),MaxPower(unit)
else
return '%s %s%s%s',Name(unit),Angle(AFK(unit) or DND(unit))
end

A not about colors - These are all set to my own colors. Lua uses hex based colors. To change the color to a color of your choice, refer to "|cff009900%s|r" The number's in bold must be changed to the correct hex value's. They go as such, with 2 numbers for each, Red, Green, Blue. numbers may range from 0-9, and a-f. Letters are higher value then numbers.

A quick search of google gets me http://www.december.com/html/spec/color.html i recommend that sight for all your color value finding needs.

[Taryble]

Thank you, Darkness Seraph. Now we can point to your post the next time this comes up.

[Darkness Seraph]

Yar, i spent about 8 hours studying and scripting the original health/percent scripts recreating a druid UI that a saw in the "healers post your ui" thread(it's a hobby of mine to find complicated ui's a recreate them from scratch). and a side effect is that i learned a lot about lua along the way, as you can see by my quick rig of that code to work with names.

I could make a thread or something, but i'm pretty lazy so it'd likely just fall into disarray.... heh.

[Palaranger]

Thank you so much