Getting Event Info

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Greetings,

In general, how is additional information to be obtained from events in order to respond appropriately? For example, for the COMBAT_LOG_EVENT_UNFILTERED I can call the CombatLogGetCurrentEventInfo() method and get loads of event specific information. Not so for other events.

For example, when my code gets a BAG_UPDATE event, I’d like to find out more information about that specific update - which bag, which slot in the bag, was it a deletion, insertion, etc.?

Does documentation exist (online or extracted) that will allow the programmer to get specific information from any arbitrary event?

Cheers,

2

For the majority of eventw, the extra information is passed with the event rather than needing the extra function call as required by COMBAT_LOG_EVENT_UNFILTERED

Event handlers have 3 parameters (self, event, …)
self being the frame that the event ids registered for, event being the event name (for frames with more than one event registered) and … being the payload of “extra parameters” depending on the event

BAG_UPDATE has a payload of bagID (one parameter of type number)

The event handler would:

Frame:SetScript("OnEvent", function(self, event, ...)
	if event == "BAG_UPDATE" then
		local bagId = ...
	elseif event == "COMBAT_LOG_EVENT_UNFILTERED" then
		local timestamp, eventType, hideCaster, sourceGUID, sourceName, sourceFlags, sourceRaidFlags, destGUID = CombatLogGetCurrentEventInfo()
	end
end)
Frame:RegisterEvent("BAG_UPDATE")
Frame:RegisterEvent("COMBAT_LOG_EVENT_UNFILTERED")

Type
/api search BAG_UPDATE
in-game or search for the event(s) at
wow.gamepedia.com

1 Like
3

Thanks. I didn’t know about the /api command

4

https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/apiinterface

Makes it more useful and friendly

5

Downloaded and installed the AddOn, APIInterface. What a great and useful resource. I would strongly recommend that you write a short post enumerating a few resources including this one but also some links (if allowed).

Anyway, I’ll be using this extensively.

Thanks, so much.