Purge-able auras, is it possible?

[aiikachi]

So I know that oUF has support for spellstealable auras, but what about purgeable/dispelable? Is this possible? Has it been done in another layout before?

after some searching, it seems that ouf_Phanx does something like this...would anyone be willing to help me figure out how to embed this functionality in my own layout?

[haste]

Just use a custom filter:

local customFilter = function(icons, unit, icon, name, rank, texture, count, dtype, duration, timeLeft, caster)
	if(dtype == 'Magic') then
		return true
	end
end

[Akkorian]

Hi aiikachi,

If you want to highlight frames when their unit has a buff you can purge, like oUF_Phanx does, you can feel free to copy the “dispel.lua” file into your own layout. There are instructions at the top of the file. Let me know if you have any questions!

[villiv]

Hi Akkorian, greeting from a passer‐by.

Just want to make it sure, does "UnitAura" return a dispel-type like "ENRAGE"?

I think you may test and code it but it's new to me and really good thing to know.
If any other dispel-types that "UnitAura" can return, could you please share your knowledge?

Thank you.

[Akkorian]

Hi villiv,

Unfortunately UnitAura doesn’t return “Enrage”. It only returns “Curse”, “Disease”, “Magic”, “Poison”, or an empty string (“”) for all other types. If you wanted to track Enrage effects, you’d have to keep a list of buffs to look for, or use tooltip scanning on empty-string-type buffs.

[villiv]

Thanks for your quick reply, Akkorian.

I know you maintain oUF_Phanx with Phanx now. Maybe it's not your code but ...

in dispel.lua

local i = 1
while true do
	local name, _, _, _, type, _, _, _, stealable = UnitAura(unit, i, "HELPFUL")
	if not name then break end
	-- print("UnitAura", unit, i, tostring(name), tostring(type))
	if (canPurge and type == "MAGIC") or (canTranq and type == "ENRAGE") or (canSteal and stealable) then
		debuffType = type
		break
	end
	i = i + 1
end

As far I can see the code expects "Enrage" as a dispel-type (besides capital), so I asked. But I'm not good at coding anyway ...

Again, thank you for making it clear. (And sorry for my bad English. )

[aiikachi]

Thanks for the replies!

@Akkorian

It was specifically the purging of enrage effects, and pve buffs that my shaman could remove off hostiles. I tried adding dispel.lua to my layout, following the instructions, but nothing of what I wanted to do worked out--I think it's just beyond the scope of my know-how/skill D:

[Rainrider]

InlineAura does highlighting for dispellable effects through LibDispellable-1.0. It uses a list of known spellids for this to function which are mined.

The Blizz API only returns info for isStealable, which is the last return of UnitAura. At least as far as I know. And I know nothing

[aiikachi]

Well I found this mod: http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-a...pelborder.aspx which does exactly what I wanted--but getting it to work with ouf might be tricky. To make anything show up at all I have to change UnitAura to UnitBuff in ouf/elements/aura.lua (line 84)...which is a no no. What can I put in my own layout to make this work properly?


oh, I think I figured it out, just a bit of editing in the DispelBorder lua! 8D

[Dawn]

Originally Posted by aiikachi Well I found this mod: http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-a...pelborder.aspx which does exactly what I wanted--but getting it to work with ouf might be tricky. To make anything show up at all I have to change UnitAura to UnitBuff in ouf/elements/aura.lua (line 84)...which is a no no. What can I put in my own layout to make this work properly? oh, I think I figured it out, just a bit of editing in the DispelBorder lua! 8D

Just wanted to say that you might try to edit that addon instead of oUF.

Since you figured that out anyway, you might want to share what you changed? Others might find a use for it, too.

[aiikachi]

@dawn I found that the dispelborder.lua had commented out a hook to UnitAura. Uncommenting that, paired with adding a spellsteal overlay to my layout made it work just fine.