Checking if raid group is in combat with a specific boss...

[Niketa]

Hi. I'm new to LUA and AddOn development, so this might be a pretty simple question but I'm having problems finding an efficient way to check if a raid group is in combat with a boss.

I currently have it so that when it registers that I enter combat it checks each group member's target (cycles through based on "raid1" "raid2" etc.) and gets its NPC ID then compares that to values in a table.

This sometimes work but it's very inefficient and unreliable for several reasons, but mainly being that if people don't have the boss targeted right away when their turn comes it won't register it and thus if no one does it may miss a correct ID.

I tried looking over DBM's codes but since I've only started learning this this past week, it's way too advanced for me to get an idea of what they did.


Any help is greatly appreciated!