who is targeting

greegree · 10-21-09, 08:22 AM

Hello.

I have the request from my arena mate to write an addon that announce if one of the our teammates are targeted more then two enemy players.

so i understand that i can get tagets throw arenaXtarget, but i cant understand in what event do this check?
Is it some event that fires when player becomes targeted?

If you have other ideas/examples/expirience how to do it, plz tell me =)

thx.

Soulofsin_007 · 10-21-09, 08:30 AM

PLAYER_TARGET_CHANGED will fire when you target or change targets.

greegree · 10-21-09, 12:00 PM

may be i told something wrong, but i dont need MY target.

i want to know when 2 or more enemy target one of my arena party member.

zero-kill · 10-21-09, 02:48 PM

TARGET_TARGET_CHANGED then

**Seerah** · 10-21-09, 03:57 PM

UNIT_TARGET: http://wowprogramming.com/docs/events/UNIT_TARGET

Though I'm not sure if it fires for arena1target, etc.

Dridzt · 10-21-09, 04:49 PM

I'm pretty sure UNIT_TARGET doesn't fire for anything other than primary units ("player" "pet" and the like)

I think target scanning with an onupdate timer would be needed and assuming
all enemy players will be targeted of focused by someone in your team.

greegree · 10-21-09, 05:14 PM

Thx. Will try

acapela · 10-21-09, 06:50 PM

Originally Posted by Seerah

UNIT_TARGET: http://wowprogramming.com/docs/events/UNIT_TARGET

Though I'm not sure if it fires for arena1target, etc.

UNIT_TARGET definitely fires for friendly grouped units (including pets). dunno if it fires for "arena1" through "arena5", though i would not be surprised either way (after all, Blizzard went to the trouble of putting those unitids into the API/etc). it definitely does not fire for "targets" (i.e. targets of the base unitids), though that won't be relevant to your application (you want UNIT_TARGET events for "arena1" through "arena5").

event-driven would be nice, but if it turns out not to be possible, as Dridzt says, you are stuck with "polling" (waking up 3 times a second, or whatever, and checking to see if "arena1target" through "arena5target" have changed). for 5 unitids, this should not be too onerous.

greegree · 10-21-09, 11:19 PM

as i understand you mean that UNIT_TARGET will not work for "enemy" units. So i have to check "target changing" of my arena opponents.

and you wrote:
you are stuck with "polling" (waking up 3 times a second, or whatever, and checking to see if "arena1target" through "arena5target" have changed). for 5 unitids, this should not be too onerous.

but i still couldn't understand in what event i have to do "polling"? can u show me example?

sry, english is not my native so time to time it is heavy for me to fully understand "complex" phrases.