announce for casts in progress on the player

[launchcodemexico]

i want to write an addon that performs the following:

if ([Ability1, Ability2,... AbilityX] is being cast upon you from any NPC's or players) -> announce

for example, if a warlock somewhere/anywhere has targeted you and has begun to cast Chaos Bolt, and it's an ability you've selected to parse, an announcement will be made on screen.

does the API allow for such calls?

[semlar]

The combat log doesn't provide a target for SPELL_CAST_START events so the only way you could guess at a target would be if someone was targeting the warlock and you got which unit the warlock was targeting when they started casting, which isn't necessarily the target of the spell since they could be using mouseover or focus macros.

[Nibelheim]

Originally Posted by semlar The combat log doesn't provide a target for SPELL_CAST_START events so the only way you could guess at a target would be if someone was targeting the warlock and you got which unit the warlock was targeting when they started casting, which isn't necessarily the target of the spell since they could be using mouseover or focus macros, but I think that would be the best you could do.

With the re-introduction of cast bars on nameplates, would using Nameplates as a reference work? Not sure if you can get target info from Nameplates, though.

[Phanx]

Nope. Watching nameplate castbars will still only tell you that someone, somewhere, is casting the spell, not who they're casting it on. You can only find out who they're targeting if you target them or mouse over them (or their nameplate) so they get a unit token.

[Nibelheim]

Originally Posted by Phanx Nope. Watching nameplate castbars will still only tell you that someone, somewhere, is casting the spell, not who they're casting it on. You can only find out who they're targeting if you target them or mouse over them (or their nameplate) so they get a unit token.

Ah well, was a bit much to hope for

[ravagernl]

Kollektiv's SpellAlerter used to be able to do this, but I have no idea if it works for MoP.

[EDIT] There's a fan update of spellalerter for 5.1.