Druid Mana

[Luzzifus]

Hi,

I have a druid mana bar working in my layout, the update is handled this way:

local function PreUpdatePower(self, event, unit)
	if (self ~= oUF_player) then return end
	local _,class = UnitClass('player')
	if (class ~= "DRUID") then return end

	local p = UnitPowerType('player')
	local min,max = UnitPower('player', SPELL_POWER_MANA), UnitPowerMax('player', SPELL_POWER_MANA)
	
	if (min ~= max) then
		self.DruidManaText:SetFormattedText("|cff8080ff%s|r", number(min))
		self.Power.value:SetPoint("LEFT", self.Health, "LEFT", 2, 5)
	else
		self.DruidManaText:SetText()
	end

	self.DruidMana:SetMinMaxValues(0, max)
	self.DruidMana:SetValue(min)
    
	self.DruidMana:SetAlpha((p ~= 0) and 1 or 0)
	self.DruidManaText:SetAlpha((p ~= 0) and 1 or 0)

	if (p==0) then
		self.Power.value:SetPoint("LEFT", self.Health, "LEFT", 2, 0)
	end
end

Now this is working great, but if the shapeshifted powertype of the druid stops updating (power full or rage empty), the druid mana is not updating anymore either.

So is there anything I can do about that?

so long,
luzzi.

**edit: It's working correctly if I disable frequentUpdates, but that is something I explicitly do not want.

[zork]

Use PostUpdatePower instead of PreUpdatePower?!

[Luzzifus]

Same result.

[p3lim]

oUF stops updating if the health/power regenerating is stopped (only applies to the frequentUpdate option).
Here is the onupdate script that the power uses, I highlighted the argument check that stops your function from working.

OnPowerUpdate = function(self)
	if(self.disconnected) then return end
	local power = UnitMana(self.unit)

	if(power ~= self.min) then
		self.min = power

		self:GetParent():UNIT_MAXMANA("OnPowerUpdate", self.unit)
	end
end

Use your own events and handling instead, I would also recommend that you add UPDATE_SHAPESHIFT_FORM to that function.

[Luzzifus]

I tried to understand that code from oUF but I'm far from it. So I found this one:

	local power = self.Power
	if(power) then
		if(power.frequentUpdates and (unit == 'player' or unit == 'pet')) then
			power.disconnected = true
			power:SetScript("OnUpdate", OnPowerUpdate)
		else
                ...

Why is power.disconnected set to true if frequentUpdates is active for player and pet? Wouldn't that stop that OnPowerUpdate function from working entirely?

And to use my own handler I'd have to override that SetScript, right?