reduce targetname or spellname

[gmarco]

Hi all,

I am beginning to try to write my layout for OUF following the GitHub wiki and the samples code from the classic, lily and others layouts too.

Now I'd like to ask how can I reduce the len of the tag name under a given size because they are too longs and doesn't fit in my frame.

I want basically apply something like:

self:Tag(self.Info,strsub('[name]',1,15))

that obviusly seems not to work for me :-)

It doesn't give an error ... and you get the pg name ...
But if you write it in this way:

self:Tag(self.Info,strsub('[name]',1,2))

it prints:

[n

intead :-))



Also same thing for spell name if possible (that in my opionion is even more complicated :-)

self.Castbar.Text = self.Castbar:CreateFontString(nil, 'OVERLAY')

So a long spell (or a long target name ...) should be written "A very long name not yet finished here ..." adding if possible "..." at the end for the missing part.

Thanks all ....

[p3lim]

Disable word wrap and add points to both the right and the left side of a fontstring to have it automatically truncate with a "..." suffix.

As for the name, you could do the same, but if you really want to use substr, you need to do it within the tag's function, not where you assign the tag by name in the layout.

[Naisz]

I had some sort of the same problem a while ago, as i started writing my own oUF-Layout.
I found this way in the official lua-api.

oUF.Tags.Events['name:normal'] = 'UNIT_NAME_UPDATE'
oUF.Tags.Methods['name:normal'] = function(unit)
    local name = UnitName(unit)
    return string.sub(name,1,16)
end

This simply shortens the name to 16 digits beginning with the first.

Hope this can help you.

greetings

[gmarco]

Hi,

this do exactly the jobs :-)

I attach 2 screenshots from before and after the fix :-)

oUF.Tags.Events['name:normal'] = 'UNIT_NAME_UPDATE'
oUF.Tags.Methods['name:normal'] = function(unit)
    local name = UnitName(unit)
    return string.sub(name,1,22) .. "..."
end

Is there something also for spellname ? :-)

"Pietra del Ritorno alla Guarnigione" is quite long also :-)



Thanks very much to both if you really.

[Phanx]

If you want the name to truncate with a "..." after it, do not use tags; this just adds a lot of overhead calling the tag function and string.sub all the time. Just set anchors on your font string:

-- You already have something like this:
nameFontString:SetPoint("LEFT", healthBar, 5, 0)
-- Add a second anchor to limit the width:
nameFontString:SetPoint("RIGHT", healthFontString, "LEFT", -5, 0)
-- And tell it to truncate instead of wrap if the text is too long:
nameFontString:SetWordWrap(false)

[gmarco]

Thanks Phanx,

Really appreciated.

Infact it is a thing I saw sometime but I didn't understand what it was :-)

Thanks again ... rewrote incoming :-)

[gmarco]

self.Info = self.Health:CreateFontString(nil, 'OVERLAY')
self.Info:SetFont( START_font , START_fs , '')
self:Tag(self.Info,'[level] [name]')
self.Info:SetPoint('LEFT',self.Health,'LEFT', 5, 0)
self.Info:SetPoint("RIGHT", self.Health, "RIGHT", -45, 0)
self.Info:SetWordWrap(false)        
self.Info:SetJustifyH("LEFT")

Works like a charm Phanx :-)

Fixed also castbars :-)

Thanks again Phanxs :-))

[gmarco]

Originally Posted by p3lim Disable word wrap and add points to both the right and the left side of a fontstring to have it automatically truncate with a "..." suffix. As for the name, you could do the same, but if you really want to use substr, you need to do it within the tag's function, not where you assign the tag by name in the layout.

Hi p3lim,

Thanks for your tips too,
finally I have understood it is the same suggestion Phanx pointed out some comments after, but I didn't get before because for me it was not so easy to fully understand it without reading some code sample to associate to it.

Thanks again ... even if a bit in late :-)