Need LUAtexts/Dogtag help!

[Virroo]

Hey guys!
So recently I had to delete WoW due to an addon messing up my reigion file. There was no way back and after numerous of phonecalls to Blizz, I gave up and made a clean install!
Now, I had a pretty neat UI that took me quite a while to setup and while I feel like I have a pretty decent understanding of how addons work, I am lost when it comes to LUAtext and Dogtags.
Am I right to assume that Dogtags is a little outdated and that I should focus on Luatext?
Anyway, I used this text for Pitbull and I would love it if you guys could help me out so that I may recreate it
This is what i need:

Player Frame:

Player HP: (i.e."250k")
I need this text to be hidden when I cast a spell using; Quartz
Player HP percentage inside the unitframe. Changing color to match the appropriate HP


Target Frame:

Player HP: (i.e."250k")
Player HP percentage inside the unitframe. Changing color to match the appropriate HP


I really hope this is not too much to ask for and i would really appreciate it if you could help me out

Thanks in advance!

PS: Here are a few screenshots. They give a good idea of what I am looking for

http://i.imgur.com/mHoVY.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/n8KVu.png

[Tim]

Glancing over the luatexts section for Pitbull 4...


Casting stuff...

local castInfo = CastData('player')
if castInfo then
   return
else
   return HP('player', false)
end

Health coloring...

local cur, max = HP(unit), MaxHP(unit)
local r, g, b = HPColor(cur, max)
return "|cff%02x%02x%02x%s|r", r, g, b, cur

[Virroo]

Originally Posted by Cirax Glancing over the luatexts section for Pitbull 4... Casting stuff... local castInfo = CastData('player') if castInfo then return else return HP('player', false) end Health coloring... local cur, max = HP(unit), MaxHP(unit) local r, g, b = HPColor(cur, max) return "|cff%02x%02x%02x%s|r", r, g, b, cur

Awesome!
Oh now that Im at it, you know any 1pixel borders I can use?
I had such a hard time with Kgpanels last time and it took forever :/

[Tim]

I'm sure if you search for media packs on here you'll find some.

[Virroo]

I will give that a try!
So i got the LUA text working, but is there no way to kinda nudge the text pixel by pixel so that it fits? right now its still hovering a little outside my unitframe :/

[Tim]

There's no way to do it using dogtags or luatext. There would have to be some option in the config area for the frames to adjust it. I've never used Pitbull4 so I can't really help you much there.

[Virroo]

Yea okay thats fair enough.
About the whole media pack with 1pix borders, I cant find any. Whenever I scale them down they get filled with gaps and it takes forever to put together a border out of 100 small pieces. I will do it, but I would prefer not to xD

[Phanx]

In order to have a sharp 1px border you need to disable UI scaling under the game's video options. This will cause each UI pixel to match up with a physical pixel on your monitor.

Either that or you need to use a bunch of convoluted function calls and math to set your frame's scale to some ridiculous 10000-point decimal value that achieves the same result, but I have no idea why anyone favors this over just disabling global UI scaling.