API changes in Legion

[Spyro]

They have added events and API for nameplates, am I dreaming?

[p3lim]

Originally Posted by Spyro They have added events and API for nameplates, am I dreaming?

They are units like anything else (nameplate1-30). What we've seen so far is only 30 units though, but the system may be dynamic and create more that we couldn't see from our scraping.

[jeruku]

I had read somewhere that they will be moving their nameplate code into their Blizzard_Addon portion of the UI. Along with adding much needed easy access to the frames instead of authors needing to scan for them.

However I am unable to recollect where I had read this so do not take my word for it.

[semlar]

Originally Posted by jeruku I had read somewhere that they will be moving their nameplate code into their Blizzard_Addon portion of the UI. Along with adding much needed easy access to the frames instead of authors needing to scan for them. However I am unable to recollect where I had read this so do not take my word for it.

Probably right here, although the original post was a reply to someone, it was probably split off for being off-topic.

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Current changes Beta (20773) vs Beta (20810) http://paste2.org/8KHsj26B

[acapela]

Originally Posted by Spyro They have added events and API for nameplates, am I dreaming?

Looks like a few events (lifecycle-related: create, display size changed, buff/debuff manifest changed, etc), and indeed some sort of API available via the "C_NamePlate" global.

Another poster seems to suggest that the "name plate unit" concept I am seeing in the Blizzard LUA is not an actual unitid, but some sort of simplistic numbering scheme. However, I am seeing this identifier used in conjunction with checks to see if it corresponds to the player or a friendly unit, to fetch the nameplate corresponding to it (via a function member of "C_NamePlate"), and collect buff/debuff information, etc. This suggests this is not some vacuous abstraction, but something that can be used to validate certain information about the unit in question. Maybe an actual unit "GUID"?

Dunno what restrictions on changing look/feel will come along with this. Some of their changes in the past have seemed to be aimed at making it difficult to use nameplates as a targeting aid in PvP.

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Globals diff dump build 20914 vs 20979