FontString for value and percent?

[10leej]

How would I go about this? Never dealt with FontStrings before (my UI uses whoa unitframes, which I have no idea as to what I'm looking at when i look there)

I know a basic fontsring can be done doing this

frame = f:CreateFontString(nil,"ARTWORK","GameFontHighlight")
frame:SetPoint("BOTTOM",frame,0,0)
frame:SetText("health text")

wouldn't mind having something like this, course that example is using the script I have above

[Phanx]

I'm not really sure what you're looking for. The code you posted should work, though you probably want to give it a more useful name so you can access it later:

f.HealthText = f:CreateFontString(nil, "ARTWORK", "GameFontHighlight")
f.HealthText:SetPoint("BOTTOM")

Then whenever you want to make it show some other text, just set its text:

f.HealthText:SetText("15%")

If your text involves any string.format or concatenation, use :SetFormattedText instead of :SetText to move the formatting C-side:

local currentHealth, maxHealth = UnitHealth("player"), UnitHealthMax("player")
f.HealthText:SetFormattedText("%d/%d", currentHealth, maxHealth)

[10leej]

I'm making health text for a HUD addon I'm working on I got the bars updating I just gotta work on the text that I've honestly never dealth with before.

Then if I want the numbers to run and update with health changes I can just do this?

f.HealthText = f:CreateFontString(nil, "ARTWORK", "GameFontHighlight")
f.HealthText:SetPoint("BOTTOM",f.hp,0,0)
local currentHealth, maxHealth = UnitHealth("player"), UnitHealthMax("player")
local function update(self)
  local unit = self.unit
  f.PowerText:SetFormattedText("%d/%d", currentPower, maxPower)
f:SetScript("OnEvent",update)
f:RegisterUnitEvent("UNIT_HEALTH",f.unit)
 
update(f) --initial update

[myrroddin]

Are you assigning currentHealth/maxHealth or currentPower/maxPower? Your code retrieves the former and (fails to display) the latter.

Also, whether you use "frame" or "f" please, for the love of the Light, make that a local variable.

[semlar]

Also UnitHealth and UnitHealthMax need to be inside of the update function or their values will never change.

[Resike]

Originally Posted by myrroddin Are you assigning currentHealth/maxHealth or currentPower/maxPower? Your code retrieves the former and (fails to display) the latter. Also, whether you use "frame" or "f" please, for the love of the Light, make that a local variable.

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[10leej]

Originally Posted by Resike Some men, just want to watch the taints burn.

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[Aanson]

Haha!! I'm sure it's 6 and half a dozen