Detecting spell casting

[Nyrine]

Hi,

I'm writing an addon, and I need to be able to count genuine spells cast by the player.

Currently, i'm hooking into :

CHAT_MSG_SPELL_SELF_DAMAGE
CHAT_MSG_SPELL_SELF_BUFF

And this works fine - to a point.

These events also fire if certain items proc, or spell effects work etc., and I would like to discount these.

For example :

I have Windfury up, and it goes off, this triggers the CHAT_MSG_SPELL_SELF_BUFF event.

The drain life effect on my shield goes off, this triggers both CHAT_MSG_SPELL_SELF_BUFF and CHAT_MSG_SPELL_SELF_DAMAGE

Is there a way to determine which are genuine spells cast by a player vs which are procs ?

EDIT : I did think of maybe trying to see if the global cooldown timer was active, but some spells genuinely cast by a player (long heals f/ex) have a casttime loinger than the cooldown, so by the time the spell goes off and fires the event, the cooldown timer has already reset.

I'd prefer not to have to have a list of proc effects and skip those !

Thanks for any help =)

EDIT2: Seems a different set of search criteria would have helped. Reading this post :http://www.wowinterface.com/forums/s...ead.php?t=4009 suggests that the SPELLCAST_STOP event may work - I'll give that a go !

[Esamynn]

Have you tried playing around with

SPELLCAST_CHANNEL_START
SPELLCAST_CHANNEL_STOP
SPELLCAST_CHANNEL_UPDATE
SPELLCAST_DELAYED
SPELLCAST_FAILED
SPELLCAST_INTERRUPTED
SPELLCAST_START
SPELLCAST_STOP

I don't know if any of the non-CHANNEL events fire prior to a channelling bar starting, but certainly for all other spells the following should work:

Monitor the SPELLCAST_STOP and SPELLCAST_FAILED events.

Whenever SPELLCAST_FAILED fires set a "dirty" flag

Whenever SPELLCAST_STOP fires and the dirty flag is NOT set, the player has sucessfully cast a spell. If the "dirty" flag is set, the spellcast failed. Don't forget to CLEAR the dirty flag every time this event fires.


Also see:

http://www.wowwiki.com/HOWTO:_Detect...nt_Cast_Spells

[Nyrine]

OK - got this working (mostly) - thanks !

This is using ACE, so I do :

self:RegisterEvent("SPELLCAST_INTERRUPTED", "SO_INT")
self:RegisterEvent("SPELLCAST_STOP", "SO_INC")
self.spellsuccess = 0

Then I have :

SO_INT = function(self)
	if (self.spellsuccess == 1) then
		self.charData.so_cnt = self.charData.so_cnt-1
		self:Update()
	end
	self.spellsuccess = 0
end

SO_INC = function(self)
	self.charData.so_cnt = self.charData.so_cnt+1
	self.spellsuccess = 1
	self:Update()
end

This works mostly, but SO_INC still fires for First Aid, which isnt really a 'spell' as such !