Quick Pitbull4 Question

[Tandors]

Is there anyway to get Pitbull4 to limit the number of letters it shows in each characters name? Kinda like the way Grid does for its raid frames?

[Seloei]

quite sure it's limited by the font size but maybe there is something in the new lua code. Never bothered to dig into it. The old system was more easier to use unless you are very familiar with the lua coding.

[Tandors]

Right now there is definitely no limit on the player names. They go out of the fram as far as they need to get the whole name spelled out.

[Jerey-Darkspear]

http://www.wowace.com/addons/pitbull4/t ... -truncate/

This seems to address your problem.

[trellian]

sorry for necro-ing your post but it might be usefull.

I use this for Pitbull LuaText name field:

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if IsMouseOver(unit) then
  local max,cur = MaxHP(unit),HP(unit)
  local rem = max - cur
  if rem > 0 then
    local r,g,b = HPColor(cur, max)
    return "|cff%02x%02x%02x-%s|r",r,g,b,Short(max-cur,true)
  else
    return '%s',strsub(Name(unit),1,6)
  end
else
  local s = Status(unit)
  if s then
    return s
  else
    return '%s',strsub(Name(unit),1,6)
  end
end

Shows the first 6 characters of the unit name. When mouseovered, it shows either the amount of missing hp or the players name when full health.

[Tandors]

Perfect. Thank you so much.

[Jerey-Darkspear]

There's a cool way to make it alternate between two texts using a sine function. I have it alternating between Faction Name and Faction Rep Level and then displaying xp on mouseover currently. I'll go grab the code to share with you in a sec.

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[if IsMouseOver then
    FractionalXP ' ' PercentXP:Percent:Paren ' ' Concatenate('R: ', PercentRestXP:Hide(0):Percent)
elseif Sin(Rad(10 * Pi * CurrentTime)) < 0 then
    ReputationName
elseif ReputationName then
    FractionalReputation ' ' PercentReputation:Percent:Paren
end]

I think the frequency is 5 seconds. My trig is a little rusty. Don't think I've seen something like this implemented before. If you really wanted to, you could put a rotation of as many items as you wanted. Just split the sine curve into as many slices as you want items, amplify it, and adjust the frequency. If you have something specific in mind and can't do the math for it, let me know and I'll see if I can write it up.