SetCurrentTitle(titleId); Help

[seancwatson]

Ok so I went to download Title Swapper but it won't work because SetCurrentTitle() is now a hardware protected event.
My question is why do these work?

/run SetCurrentTitle(111);

/run local t={}; for titles=1,GetNumTitles()-1,1 do if IsTitleKnown(titles)==1 then table.insert(t,titles) end; end; local x=random(#t); print("Using title: "..GetTitleName(t[x])); SetCurrentTitle(t[x])

Does entering these either in chat or as a macro count as a hardware event?

[Sidriel]

I think its a protected function so you have to use hooksecurefunc

[Saiket]

The <Enter> keypress when you run those slash commands counts as the hardware event. If you ran it on a timer, i.e. "/in 1 /run ...", it would fail like you expect.

[Vlad]

I wonder why it's a HW function, hmm...

[Motig]

I used to have an addon that would swap my title every 0.1 second, that was great fun

[Torhal]

Originally Posted by Vladinator I wonder why it's a HW function, hmm...

Because every time you change your title, an event (I forget exactly which one) fires which caused most every UnitFrame AddOn to instantly refresh all UnitFrames (which was especially CPU-intensive when in a raid with everyone showing), making the game barely playable. Blizzard tends to break stuff that behaves this way.

[Seerah]

Originally Posted by Motig I used to have an addon that would swap my title every 0.1 second, that was great fun

Maybe for you. As Torhal noted, people abusing title changes with those addons are the reason why it was changed to a hardware event. Person A's addon should not have a negative impact on the performance of Person B's game.

[Motig]

Originally Posted by Seerah Maybe for you. As Torhal noted, people abusing title changes with those addons are the reason why it was changed to a hardware event. Person A's addon should not have a negative impact on the performance of Person B's game.

Hmmm, I didn't know it could actually negatively affect other people, that changes things of course