API Reference for looted item

[Haegr]

I'm new to the API, brand new - this is the first addon I've ever bothered to try to create.

I'm crawling through the API but I can't find what I need so I figured I'd ask here.

First what I am trying to write; an addon that tells me what I have prospected / disenchanted. So I need to find the item I have just prospected / disenchanted as well as the addons that I have just looted from what I just prospected / disenchanted.

Any help / a point in the right direction would be fantastic.

Thanks.

[Duugu]

I would say you'll have to monitor an event that fires if you disenchant something or prospect something. I have no idea which are the proper events. But there are a least two ways to find it out:

1. Look at http://wowprogramming.com/docs/events for the events.

2. Or create a test frame and try RegisterAllEvents (http://wowprogramming.com/docs/widge...isterAllEvents). Then disenchant/prospect something and see which events are fireing.

[Dridzt]

There's an default tool for tracing events /eventtrace or /etrace

[Haegr]

/etrace helped me find the events I was looking for but none of them have given me the quantity of the item I am receiving, nor an ID it seems.

[Clamsoda]

Often times, events just let you know when information is available. That being said, I've never tried to attempt what you are doing. If the events associated with DEing items don't return amounts and such, you may be able to filter chat events.

I know amounts DEed/prospected are printed to chat; you could pattern match chat to get the values.

That's off of the top of my head. I am sure someone knows a better way.

[Duugu]

Originally Posted by Dridzt There's an default tool for tracing events /eventtrace or /etrace

Wow. Never heared of it. Thanks.

[Cybeloras]

Use UNIT_SPELLCAST_SUCCEEDED to determine when you have cast disenchant or prospect: http://wowprogramming.com/docs/event...CAST_SUCCEEDED
Use ITEM_LOCK_CHANGED to determine what item was targeted: http://wowprogramming.com/docs/events/ITEM_LOCK_CHANGED
Use the loot API to figure out what you have received: http://wowprogramming.com/docs/api_categories#loot

[Haegr]

I looked at the loot API before Cybeloras but I don't know how it will perform when I am autolooting and there doesn't seem to be any method to return a count of a stacked item, just total items to be looted - unless GetNumLootItems is per slot, which it probably is.

I may actually just use the "GetItemInfo" method and count up all the known items when logging in and when logging out, which would suit my needs.

Thanks for all the help.