Power vs AltPower

[Pyrates]

There are some bosses that use special abilities based on some sort of power, but not all of them use the AltPower. For example, omnotron council and the conclave use the regular power bar for this, but Onyxia (from the nefarian encounter in bwd) uses the altpower bar.

Is there any good way to show all of this in one bar? I do have an altpower bar, that works nicely for onyxia. Could I somehow use this to show power for omnotron and conclave? I think just something along the lines of "self.Power = self.AltPowerBar" could do the trick, but I'm unclear on when to make this change and when to revert it.

Did anybody bother with this particular problem and solve it, or does anyone have an idea what to do about it? I'd like to avoid making 2 bars for power and altpower separately, because it's always only just 1 being relevant. Thanks for any pointers

[grom]

I'm quite the newb, but couldn't you do something like

if altPower then powerValue = altPowerValue

?

I guess it's the other way round how you want it.

You could do some kind of list to check whether to show power or not

if UnitName == table[v] then
use powerValue
elseif altPower then
use altPowerValue
else
show nothing

[haste]

Just so you know: I want to support this within the current Power element as well. I just need to allocate some time for it first.

[Pyrates]

@grom: Thanks, but the question would be when to actually run this code, since it's supposed to work for different bosses.

@haste: Great news

In the meantime, I think I found the "right" solution: I'll just make the AltPowerBar the same as the Power bar, just at a higher framelevel. That way, whenever there's AltPower, one can only see that, in all other cases one can see the Power bar. Just the way I want