Simple NPC ID addon for WoD beta

[Voxxel]

Hey there,

Is there any addon available to show NPC IDs in WoD Beta yet?

In case of not, I found the very lightweight IdTip quite useful in the past and it's partially working in the Beta already, showing IDs for items and spell/auras but unfortunately not for the NPCs.

As the author told us that he isn't actively playing wow anymore would someone take a look at the .lua and correct the "Unit" section for the beta please? (it seems to be a very simple code but I don't have lua knowledge even that close.)

thank you very much.

[semlar]

This should do it..

GameTooltip:HookScript('OnTooltipSetUnit', function(self)
    local name, unit = self:GetUnit()
    if unit then
        local unitType, _, _, _, _, npcID = strsplit(':', UnitGUID(unit) or '')
        if npcID then
            self:AddDoubleLine(unitType, npcID)
            self:Show()
        end
    end
end)

[Voxxel]

Thank you so much, works very well!

[zork]

I think I want that for my tooltip addon aswell. Marked.

[ObbleYeah]

Haha, yep - just pinched this for my own use too. Thanks!

[silverwind]

Originally Posted by semlar This should do it..

Excuse me for asking, but I wonder how this pattern of your example could match a GUID. Did the UnitGUID() return value change in WOD?

> = string.match("0xF130890300002235", "^([^:]+):%d+:%d+:%d+:%d+:(%d+)")
nil

My approach to extract the ID would probably be:

> = tonumber(string.sub("0xF130890300002235", 6, 10), 16)
35075

[Vlad]

Yes silverwind, it changed.

http://wowpedia.org/Patch_6.0.1/API_changes

[silverwind]

Ah, of course. I shall RTFM next time.