UI Feature Request for SecureActionButton_OnClick()

Guides UI and Macro
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ISSUE: SecureActionButtonTemplate’s helpbutton and harmbutton attributes do not cover all reasonable macro-like cases for changing a secure button’s behaviour.

AIM: Improve SecureTemplates.lua beginning at line 591 to take a different action when the target is dead.

DISCUSSION:

  • Macros may be written to cast a different spell when a target is dead, versus a target who is alive and friendly or alive and harmful.
  • Addons commonly use the “macrotext” attribute to do something like /cast [dead] Ressurection; [harm] Magic Missile; At Darkness
  • If there were a deadbutton attribute, addons could use the normal type attributes to just cast clever spells directly, without coding it as a macro.

SAMPLE SOLUTION:

        if ( UnitCanAttack("player", unit) )then
            button = SecureButton_GetModifiedAttribute(self, "harmbutton", button) or button;
        elseif ( UnitCanAssist("player", unit) )then
            button = SecureButton_GetModifiedAttribute(self, "helpbutton", button) or button;
        elseif ( UnitIsDeadOrGhost(unit) )then
            button = SecureButton_GetModifiedAttribute(self, "deadbutton", button) or button;
        end