text vars in ui xml

[Celestian]

I've got a click to cast button on a group menu and when they press it I also have it gsay Focus healing %T. However when it fires it actually says %T not PlayerName.

I can only assume the UI has to use something else, how would I get the players target in there?

[Pixi]

Seems to me (blissfully ignorant that I am) that there are two different interpreters in this situation. One that reads and renders your XML code and another that interprets your chatline commands and returns text depending on what is targetted. I'm pretty sure there should be a command that works like "%T" but is written more like "target.name" in your XML file.

Of course, I could be totally wrong too but it just seems logical to me in that quirky computer geeky kind of way hehe.

[mother9987]

I don't personally use click to cast for anything, but...

My experience with changing targets in a macro and saying something to the group is that the target change actually happens a split second after the macro runs, while the /gsay happens immediately.

For example:
/target_pet
/gsay %t has outlived it's usefulness and must die!
/pet getlost

Which I use on my coercer would always put the name of the tank on the group line, since I tend to keep the tank targetted. Even though after the macro ran, I would properly have my ex-pet targetted so I could root, mez, recharm, or nuke him as I see fit.

It was good for many a laugh, but it did annoy me. So, for my marco, I ended up replacing %t with "My ex-pet".

So, good luck! But you might just have an intractable timing problem.

[Celestian]

Let me try this again and perhaps people can understand better my problem:

I am having trouble finding out how to place a target name or player name into text output by a UI mod.

I currently have a group mod that has a push to cast option (like the click to cure stuff) and I want to alert my group when I use that spell on that player. It would do something like

OnPress="useability Focused Intercession;gsay Focus healing %T, stunned for the duration"

The spell fires off on the player properly however the text comes to the gsay channel just like above, %T is %T, not the target. I've tried using GameData fields for the name as well and it does the same.

Is there a way to do this?

[Talyns]

you might be able to do something like this:

Onpress = "
useability Focused Intercession
gsay ('Focus healing ')##(Parent.Parent.Target.Name.LocalText)##(', stunned for the duration') "

[Celestian]

I tried:

useability Focused Intercession ; gu ('Focus healing')##(Parent.Parent.Target.Name.LocalText)##(',stunned for the duration')

And it didnt display anything at all this round of tests. Note I used /gu for testing but that produced the same results as the original as well.

I am not familiar with this type of formating so posted what I used here case I did something incorrect.

[Pixi]

Aha!

I knew it, my geeky senses were true!

Now where are my spandex, it's time to go save the world...