Guild Bank API

Malsomnus · 09-06-13, 06:24 AM

In a nutshell: the guild supplies flasks for raid nights by putting stacks of 3 flasks each in a GB tab and letting each raider withdraw one stack. I reckon it would save the officers time if I could write an add-on that automatically splits stacks for them.
So I've found the function that lets me pick up part of a stack from guild bank, so I can take 3 flasks out of a bigger stack, and I just can't find a function that drops the item from the cursor into a guild bank slot.
Am I missing something? Is this somehow fundamentally impossible to do? Or is the function just hidden somewhere with an uninformative name?

Resike · 09-06-13, 07:19 AM

Maybe this?
http://www.wowwiki.com/MACRO_click

Like this macro simulates right click on your item in your main bag on the 16th slot:

/click ContainerFrame1Item16 RightButton

Malsomnus · 09-06-13, 07:55 AM

Even better is the first note in that link. Yeah, this should probably do the trick, thanks

Resike · 09-06-13, 08:13 AM

The bad part it's seems like you cant call macros like that from addons. However i saw a nasty workaround: To open the chat box, paste some string into it and simulate enter. But i dont remember which addon was that.

Malsomnus · 09-06-13, 08:39 AM

Originally Posted by Resike

The bad part it's seems like you cant call macros like that from addons. However i saw a nasty workaround: To open the chat box, paste some string into it and simulate enter. But i dont remember which addon was that.

That is practically a war crime

I'm just going to do what that link says that the macro does, and directly call the OnClick of the bank buttons (I'm almost positive that they are buttons).

Dridzt · 09-06-13, 08:49 AM

You're over-complicating things.

All you need is SplitGuildBankItem(tab,slot,amount) and PickupGuildBankItem(tab,slot)
(at the core, obviously you'll need more code to find the appropriate items/stacks, and empty space, or make empty space etc)

Neither is protected.
PickupGuildBankItem() works as both a 'pick-up' or 'place-down' depending what's on the cursor / not, what's in the bankslot / not.

Malsomnus · 09-06-13, 09:25 AM

That does sound simpler. That function needs a more informative name

myrroddin · 09-06-13, 01:38 PM

If you do end up writing an AddOn to work with the guild bank, you could look at LibGuildBankComm. It doesn't have APIs for what you want, but as Dridzt said, you don't need much. However, it offers many other benefits.

Malsomnus · 09-08-13, 02:59 PM

The bug I ended up with is quite interesting.
It appears that I cannot call SplitGuildBankItem and PickupGuildBankItem more than 4 times at once - after that I can see that they are called correctly but they don't do anything. I wonder if there's any way around that except waiting a bit before calling them again.

Dridzt · 09-08-13, 03:24 PM

I think there's a round-trip server side somewhere in guild bank updates so you'll have to put a delay in yeah.

I don't know specifics but I remember some addons that do sorting/stacking etc had that issue and a delay between updates was the solution.

humfras · 09-09-13, 01:03 AM

Originally Posted by Dridzt

I think there's a round-trip server side somewhere in guild bank updates so you'll have to put a delay in yeah.

I don't know specifics but I remember some addons that do sorting/stacking etc had that issue and a delay between updates was the solution.

Correct, there is a server-side delay to prevent picking/moving a bazillion items from the guild bank at once.
Seems to be roughly 0.5 seconds (at least that's a good delay to make it work).