Loot strings problem

Haleth · 02-12-11, 04:27 AM

Hello.

Sorry for creating an other topic in such a short period of time, but there's something that's been bugging me and I can't really figure out what's wrong with it.

These are defined in GlobalStrings.lua:

Code:

COPPER_AMOUNT = "%d Copper";
COPPER_AMOUNT_SYMBOL = "c";
COPPER_AMOUNT_TEXTURE = "%d\124TInterface\\MoneyFrame\\UI-CopperIcon:%d:%d:2:0\124t";

GOLD_AMOUNT = "%d Gold";
GOLD_AMOUNT_SYMBOL = "g";
GOLD_AMOUNT_TEXTURE = "%d\124TInterface\\MoneyFrame\\UI-GoldIcon:%d:%d:2:0\124t";

SILVER_AMOUNT = "%d Silver";
SILVER_AMOUNT_SYMBOL = "s";
SILVER_AMOUNT_TEXTURE = "%d\124TInterface\\MoneyFrame\\UI-SilverIcon:%d:%d:2:0\124t";

So to get coin icons to show in the chat frame rather than text, I simply did this:

Code:

COPPER_AMOUNT = COPPER_AMOUNT_TEXTURE
SILVER_AMOUNT = SILVER_AMOUNT_TEXTURE
GOLD_AMOUNT = GOLD_AMOUNT_TEXTURE

Or this:

Code:

COPPER_AMOUNT = "%d\124TInterface\\MoneyFrame\\UI-CopperIcon:%d:%d:2:0\124t"
SILVER_AMOUNT = "%d\124TInterface\\MoneyFrame\\UI-SilverIcon:%d:%d:2:0\124t"
GOLD_AMOUNT = "%d\124TInterface\\MoneyFrame\\UI-GoldIcon:%d:%d:2:0\124t"

The strange thing is that most of the time, it works just fine, but about 20% of the time it'll simply print the entire texture path, like this:

Anyone have an idea how I can prevent this?

Thanks.

Ailae · 02-12-11, 07:04 AM

Looks like there's a value passed to the format that it doesn't like, in your example it's the 6904978~ part, which probably makes the texture far too wide and as such it fails. Dunno where that number is coming from though.. guess overwriting GlobalStrings can have unexpected results. Maybe you can try setting the size-related %d's to 0.

Like this:

Code:

COPPER_AMOUNT = "%d\124TInterface\\MoneyFrame\\UI-CopperIcon:0:0:2:0\124t"
SILVER_AMOUNT = "%d\124TInterface\\MoneyFrame\\UI-SilverIcon:0:0:2:0\124t"
GOLD_AMOUNT = "%d\124TInterface\\MoneyFrame\\UI-GoldIcon:0:0:2:0\124t"

Haleth · 02-12-11, 08:14 AM

That worked, thank you.

Moxie · 02-12-11, 01:04 PM

Thanks for this! Was looking for a way to do it for a long time.

Moxie · 02-12-11, 09:24 PM

Something that's bugging me about this is, how would I remove the comma in the printed chat message?

Before, it printed as "+ 27g 34s 23c" but now it's printing as ""+ 27[gold icon], 34[silver icon], 23[copper icon]".

The snippets below are what I'm using (credit to both previous posters in this thread):

Code:

"|cffffffff+|r |cffffffff%s"

Code:

COPPER_AMOUNT = "%d\124TInterface\\MoneyFrame\\UI-CopperIcon:0:0:2:0\124t"
SILVER_AMOUNT = "%d\124TInterface\\MoneyFrame\\UI-SilverIcon:0:0:2:0\124t"
GOLD_AMOUNT = "%d\124TInterface\\MoneyFrame\\UI-GoldIcon:0:0:2:0\124t"

Nibelheim · 02-12-11, 09:53 PM

Originally Posted by Decabah

Something that's bugging me about this is, how would I remove the comma in the printed chat message?

Before, it printed as "+ 27g 34s 23c" but now it's printing as ""+ 27[gold icon], 34[silver icon], 23[copper icon]".

The snippets below are what I'm using (credit to both previous posters in this thread):

Code:

"|cffffffff+|r |cffffffff%s"

Code:

COPPER_AMOUNT = "%d\124TInterface\\MoneyFrame\\UI-CopperIcon:0:0:2:0\124t"
SILVER_AMOUNT = "%d\124TInterface\\MoneyFrame\\UI-SilverIcon:0:0:2:0\124t"
GOLD_AMOUNT = "%d\124TInterface\\MoneyFrame\\UI-GoldIcon:0:0:2:0\124t"

A gsub may work:

Code:

COPPER_AMOUNT = gsub(COPPER_AMOUNT, ",", "")

Moxie · 02-12-11, 10:11 PM

That didn't seem to do anything. : (

Akkorian · 02-13-11, 05:32 PM

Hi Decabah,

There’s nothing in the code you posted that actually adds any text to the chat frame. If you’re doing that yourself, could you post the rest of the code? If you’re letting Blizzard do it, and you’re just changing the global strings, which global string are you overwriting with "|cffffffff+|r |cffffffff%s" ?