Help! Reading a text file from a WOW addon during gameplay

[mercea]

Hi Everyone,
I am trying to create an addon that does different things depending on the numerical value it reads off a text file that is being continuously updated (by a completely separate program) with numerical values . Is this technically possible? I have tried doing this with Lua's io but it doesn't seem to work.

Thanks!

[DrakeFish]

Addons don't have IO anymore sicne some times now. Saved vars are now loaded in the addon by game's system on addon init. This means what you want to do is not possible.

The only possible way I can see without getting into some bigger game modifications would be to memory write into addons structure to modify a variable the addond is using or something. If you don't know how to do this, then I'm not sure how you could achieve what you want.

[mercea]

Thank you for your reply. Could you please explain what you mean by " memory write into addons structure to modify a variable the addond is using". I am not sure I get it. Thanks!!