Battle text from MoP

[KiLLMasTer]

this there anyway some one can make the battle text that mop has that would be sweet..

[Seerah]

Could you be a little more specific?

[KiLLMasTer]

make the battle text look like this 2,480 not 2480

[p3lim]

It's handled by the game world, so it cannot be changed by an addon.
MSBT should do something similar, but not the exact same.

[Xrystal]

They probably just added a formatter to the display to make it easier to see. Maybe one of the existing combat text addons will do the same.

[Phanx]

p3lim already posted about the new number-formatting functions here:

Originally Posted by p3lim New API: AbbreviateLargeNumbers(num) (defined in Lua, see UIParent.lua) BreakUpLargeNumbers(num) (defined in Lua, see UIParent.lua)

Since they are defined in Lua, you could easily just copy them to use now.

If you wanted to use them in the default UI, you'd need to write all the code yourself to hook into all of the default UI functions that update and display numbers, or hope someone else finds it interesting enough and has the time to write it.

If you wanted to use them in addons, you'd either need to edit each addon yourself, or convince all their authors to add better formatting. Unfortunately, that will still be the case after MoP comes out.

[KiLLMasTer]

so there is no way to put it in a addon like xDamageFont

[Phanx]

No, because the Blizzard combat text is rendered as part of the game world, not as part of the UI, so while addons can tell the game which font file to use when rending the text, they can't actually affect the rendering.

This is why combat text addons like SCT or Mik's Scrolling Battle Text (MSBT) have to create their own text, instead of just modifying the Blizzard text.

If addons were able to modify the Blizzard text, then they'd be able to tell where it was, which would also enable them to tell where units were in the game world, which is something Blizzard doesn't want addons to be able to do.

[KiLLMasTer]

This makes me sad....

[Phanx]

Well, the simplest solution is to just use a combat text replacement addon like MSBT until MoP comes out. I used to use it, but eventually decided it was too much clutter on the screen, and now just use the default combat text. I don't really look at the numbers anyway. I just like having some visible indication that I'm successfully hitting my target.