DoString Trouble

[Nesox]

SetSelectedBattlefield / GetSelectedBattlefield maybe not sure. Im gonna sleep now it's 4 in the morning here

[Robske]

There must be a way to do it with the new join anywhere system. I guess I could just resort to...pixel scanning...PostMessage.../wrist.

JoinBattlefield will queue for the last battleground you've manually selected in the battleground tab of the PvP panel when there's no battlemaster window open.

[schlumpf]

Didn't they add the possiblity to join a battleground from everywhere? What about looking up the functions used by them?

[Robske]

Didn't they add the possiblity to join a battleground from everywhere? What about looking up the functions used by them?

Other than JoinBattlefield there's no available API for queuing up, I guess they still want some interaction on the users part (either with a battlemaster or selecting the battleground tab)

[jjaa]

Other than JoinBattlefield there's no available API for queuing up, I guess they still want some interaction on the users part (either with a battlemaster or selecting the battleground tab)

You don't need the UI open for,
/run JoinBattlefield(0);
wait for pop...
/run AcceptBattlefieldPort(1,1);

[Robske]

You don't need the UI open for,
/run JoinBattlefield(0);
wait for pop...
/run AcceptBattlefieldPort(1,1);

Aye, horrible wording on my part. You need to have queued once manually before JoinBattlefield will work though. Do a clean login and run that macro, it won't queue.

[testout]

You don't need the UI open for,
/run JoinBattlefield(0);
wait for pop...
/run AcceptBattlefieldPort(1,1);

Yes, but this doesn't let you select *which* battleground. I also read somewhere they were allowing you to join battlegrounds from anywhere, without talking to a battle master. Must have scrapped that idea...

[testout]

It's in the pvp frame (see Warcraft: Legends - Dan Jolley - WoW.com ).

Might be worth looking at the LUA/frame xml

[jjaa]

Yes, but this doesn't let you select *which* battleground. I also read somewhere they were allowing you to join battlegrounds from anywhere, without talking to a battle master. Must have scrapped that idea...

Its already been implemented. Also you may be able to select(API JoinBattlefield - WoWWiki - Your guide to the World of Warcraft). I can't test it, my highest level character on a test account is 14

Aye, horrible wording on my part. You need to have queued once manually before JoinBattlefield will work though. Do a clean login and run that macro, it won't queue.

JoinBattlefield works fine for me on a fresh login. :S

[testout]

Ok, so Blizzards UI doe this:

When you choose your Battlground type,

RequestBattlegroundInstanceInfo(BGindex)

is called. (id is probably like 0=wsg, 1=ab, 2=ab ... but i cant confirm these yet).

EDIT
names can be got with
localizedName, canEnter, isHoliday, minlevel = GetBattlegroundInfo(BGindex);
END EDIT

Then the isntance list is populated when an event is recieved.

Then the usual

JoinBattlefield(instance);

is done. So

RequestBattlegroundInstanceInfo(battlegroundid);
Sleep(100);
JoinBattlefield(0);

should queue you for your selected BG.

Source of PVPBattlegroundFrame.lua:
FrameXML/PVPBattlegroundFrame.lua at 3191e048d861341b042320f18b0d1853c0bc95a5 from tekkub's wow-ui-source - GitHub

Please give rep if this helps. Been contributing for ages n still a "site n00b"

[tanis2000]

Has any of you guys been able to run a piece of code like this with DoString and get the result with GetLocalizedText?

              found = false
              for bag = 0,4 do
                for slot = 1,GetContainerNumSlots(bag) do
                  item = GetContainerItemLink(bag,slot)
                  if item and item:find(""{0}"") then
                    found = true
                  end
                end
              end

Whenever I query the found variable I get an empty string, no matter if it finds or not what I'm looking for. :-P

I know for certain that my found variable becomes true at some point because if I put something like a DoEmote("dance") in there I'll see it acting. So I guess the script runs fine but I can't seem to be able to read that global variable :-P

[Cypher]

Has any of you guys been able to run a piece of code like this with DoString and get the result with GetLocalizedText?

              found = false
              for bag = 0,4 do
                for slot = 1,GetContainerNumSlots(bag) do
                  item = GetContainerItemLink(bag,slot)
                  if item and item:find(""{0}"") then
                    found = true
                  end
                end
              end

Whenever I query the found variable I get an empty string, no matter if it finds or not what I'm looking for. :-P

I know for certain that my found variable becomes true at some point because if I put something like a DoEmote("dance") in there I'll see it acting. So I guess the script runs fine but I can't seem to be able to read that global variable :-P

Why are you using getlocalized text? :S

Not only are you polluting the global scope by creating non-local named variables (which in turn could lead to UI taint), theres a much better alternative already documented which is to register a callback and pass all your LUA calls through it. Your callback then grabs all the return values off the LUA stack and passes them back to your module.

Faster and safer.

[tanis2000]

I've been using global variables because GetLocalizedText can return only global variables. I don't like it either but I didn't know there was any alternative without having to redo all the LUA functions and have my own stack management for it.

To be honest I've never heard of being able to register a callback to route all the LUA calls. Time to do some research then

[Cypher]

I've been using global variables because GetLocalizedText can return only global variables. I don't like it either but I didn't know there was any alternative without having to redo all the LUA functions and have my own stack management for it.

To be honest I've never heard of being able to register a callback to route all the LUA calls. Time to do some research then

Read this:
http://www.mmowned.com/forums/wow-me...callbacks.html

[tanis2000]

Read this:
http://www.mmowned.com/forums/wow-me...callbacks.html

I've read that thread and some more and it's pretty obvious how to implement lua_tostring and lua_gettop but I can't find the function that is used to register our own function in LUA. Any hint at what's its name supposed to be?