Getting name of battleground

[Arcilux]

How do you get the name of a battleground when a player enters? Right now I am using the PLAYER_ENTERING_BATTLEGROUND event and GetRealZoneText like:

if event == "PLAYER_ENTERING_BATTLEGROUND" then
    local bgName = GetRealZoneText()
    print("Entering "..bgName)
end

But this prints out the zone I was in before entering the bg. For example, I was in Undercity, queued for Arathi Basin, accepted queue. When the loading finished, my chat log had a message "Entering Undercity". Using /reload, the screen loaded and I had the message "Entering Arathi Basin"

Is there a way to get the name of the new zone, instead of the one you came from?

Slightly related, I found the PLAYER_ENTERING_BATTLEGROUND event, but is there a way to detect when the player leaves the battleground? I know PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD is fired when leaving a battleground, but that gets fired loads of times, I only care about it when it is fired from leaving a battleground, not /reload, first log in, entering a raid or dungeon, etc.

[Woogs]

Use ZONE_CHANGED_NEW_AREA

[Arcilux]

Zone changed worked like a charm. I also solved my second problem. Just set a bool to true when the PLAYER_ENTERING_BATTLEGROUND was called and used that to check the PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD event

[Burnwild]

Does this let you see what Bg you're going to enter if it's random? If not, is there a way to do that?

[Arcilux]

This waits until the BG loads before getting the name, so it knows what BG the random is at the same time you do.

[Deleted]

If you can't be bothered to localize battleground zone names for every language (or use LibBabble), you can also work with GetBattlefieldStatus, which should fire UPDATE_BATTLEFIELD_STATUS when its returns change.

[Arcilux]

If you can't be bothered to localize battleground zone names for every language (or use LibBabble), you can also work with GetBattlefieldStatus, which should fire UPDATE_BATTLEFIELD_STATUS when its returns change.

That would probably work much better, I only care when they are actually in the BG, so would I be correct in checking GetBattlefieldStatus(1) where param1 is 'active' on a firing of UPDATE_BATTLEFIELD_STATUS? I'm assuming the active BG will always be index 1 since they can only be in one battleground.

Also, does this localize the name automatically? To be honest I had completely forgotten about localization.

I realize my explanation may not make the most sense. In pseudocode:

local bgName
if event == 'UPDATE_BATTLEFIELD_STATUS then
    local status, name = GetBattlefieldStatus(1)
    if status == 'active' then
        bgName = name
    end
end

[Deleted]

I wouldn't be sure that queue 1 is always the active BG.

if event == 'UPDATE_BATTLEFIELD_STATUS' then
    local bgName
    for q=1, MAX_BATTLEFIELD_QUEUES do
        local s,n,_,_,_,t =  GetBattlefieldStatus(q)
        if (s == 'active') and (t == 0) then -- you can leave out the second part if you want to check for arena matches, too
            bgName = n
            break
        end
    end
    if bgName then
         -- do something because player is in a BG
    end
end