An event to take place when entering Vehicles?

[Mayron]

Hi, I want to create an event that when a player enters a vehicle something happens. In this case I want to hide two action bars using bartender. I have that part covered but I want to find an event for this to work but I am having difficulties.

Could anyone help me out with this? Thank you for your time!

[Xrystal]

You could try http://wowprogramming.com/docs/event...TERING_VEHICLE.

[Mayron]

Thank you, that was what I needed

[Seerah]

Or you could just put

[vehicleui]hide;show

in the macro conditionals section for each bar in Bartender.

[Mayron]

Having a real problem with this. When I use:
self:RegisterEvent("UNIT_ENTERING_VEHICLE")

it works but not just for the player but for the target too since I noticed the bars were disappearing on their own whether or not I was in a vehicle.

I changed it to

self:RegisterEvent("PLAYER_ENTERING_VEHICLE")

but nothing works at all. No idea why.

[Phanx]

That's because there is no PLAYER_ENTERING_VEHICLE event.

If you only want to respond to the event when it's the player entering a vehicle, use frame:RegisterUnitEvent("UNIT_ENTERING_VEHICLE"[b], "player"]) instead of frame:RegisterEvent("UNIT_ENTERING_VEHICLE") so that your frame only receives the event when it fires for the player unit.

If you want to respond to the event for other units, but in different ways, add code to your frame's event handler to check the first argument passed with the event to see which unit the event fired for:

frame:SetScript("OnEvent", function(self, event, unit)
    if event == "UNIT_ENTERING_VEHICLE" then
        if unit == "player" then
            print("You are entering a vehicle.")
        else
            -- Anyone else.
            print((UnitName(unit)), "is entering a vehicle")
        end
    elseif event == "UNIT_EXITED_VEHICLE" then
        if unit == "player" then
            print("You left a vehicle.")
        else
            -- Anyone else.
            print((UnitName(unit)), "left a vehicle")
        end
    end
end

[Mayron]

Thank you, I will try that out. I would have thought of this sooner but I am using KgPanels for this script and I thought it works a little differently and it is really confusing me. This is because I have to place the script in a GUI OnEvent page so I did not think it was necessary to state that it was an OnEvent script.

[Phanx]

It's not; for kgPanels, you can either (still) use RegisterUnitEvent instead of RegisterEvent in the panel's OnLoad code box, or you can just copy everything inside the OnEvent script function I posted above into the panel's OnEvent code box. You don't need the SetScript and function() .. end parts in kgPanels.

[Mayron]

I've tried this for the OnEvent Panel:

if event == "UNIT_ENTERING_VEHICLE" then
    if unit == "player" then

-- Do stuff	
	
    end
elseif event == "UNIT_EXITED_VEHICLE" then
    if unit == "player" then

-- Do other stuff	
	
    end
end

and tried having this in the OnLoad Panel as well as without it:

self:RegisterUnitEvent("UNIT_ENTERING_VEHICLE")
self:RegisterUnitEvent("UNIT_EXITING_VEHICLE")

But none of that worked. Did I miss understand? This is giving me a head ache lol.

[Phanx]

Don't use both RegisterUnitEvent and the if unit == "player" then check. Just use one or the other. If you use RegisterUnitEvent, your frame only receives events for the specified unit, so the argument passed will always be that unit, so there's no need to check it.

Though, it just occurred to me that with kgPanels, the event arguments are just named arg1, arg2, and so on, so you'd need to either change unit to arg1, or rename it by declaring local unit = arg1 in the OnEvent script.

[Mayron]

Nothing would work until I added:

local unit = arg1

and

if arg1 == "player" then

and now it appears to finally be working. That was all I needed to do it seems. Now to test it out in a bg. Thank you so much for your help. Could not have done that without you. KgPanels confuse me. Hopefully all works well, fingers crossed lol

[Phanx]

Again, one or the other. Pick one of these three:

ONLOAD:

self:RegisterUnitEvent("UNIT_ENTERING_VEHICLE", "player")
self:RegisterUnitEvent("UNIT_EXITING_VEHICLE", "player")

ONEVENT:

if event == "UNIT_ENTERING_VEHICLE" then
    -- Do stuff
elseif event == "UNIT_EXITED_VEHICLE" then
    -- Do other stuff
end

ONLOAD:

self:RegisterEvent("UNIT_ENTERING_VEHICLE")
self:RegisterEvent("UNIT_EXITING_VEHICLE")

ONEVENT:

if event == "UNIT_ENTERING_VEHICLE" then
    if arg1 == "player" then
        -- Do stuff
    end
elseif event == "UNIT_EXITED_VEHICLE" then
    if arg1 == "player" then
        -- Do other stuff
    end
end

ONLOAD:

self:RegisterEvent("UNIT_ENTERING_VEHICLE")
self:RegisterEvent("UNIT_EXITING_VEHICLE")

ONEVENT:

if event == "UNIT_ENTERING_VEHICLE" then
    local unit = arg1
    if unit == "player" then
        -- Do stuff
    end
elseif event == "UNIT_EXITED_VEHICLE" then
    local unit = arg1
    if unit == "player" then
        -- Do other stuff
    end
end