On verifying resulting target from a /assist...

[OldNecro]

If I /assist my main tank, I can verify that he has targeted an NPC by using $target(type). What if he has someone's pet targeted? Will it return NPC, or is pet a specific type? The documentation says $target(type) can only return PLAYER or NPC...

[Gumby]

If I /assist my main tank, I can verify that he has targeted an NPC by using $target(type). What if he has someone's pet targeted? Will it return NPC, or is pet a specific type? The documentation says $target(type) can only return PLAYER or NPC...

Returns NPC, hence seperate check:

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/if n $target(master)!=0 {
   //then target is a pet
}

My check for determing whether the pet is actually an NPC's pet or a PC's didn't work too well and I've never bothered tweaking it but to give you an attempt of what I was trying:

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/if "$spawn($target(master),type)"=="player"

If you figure out something workable for it, let me know por favor :).

G

[OldNecro]

you almost had it...

$target(master) returns a name, not an ID. $spawn() requires an id.

so, this should work:

/if $spawn($id($target(master)),type)=="PLAYER"

Also, different people use lots of different syntax regarding quotes an whatnot... I don't use them unless i'm passing a hard string rather than a variable or function returning a string and that seems to work.

[Gumby]

$target(master) returns a name, not an ID. $spawn() requires an id.

$target(master) returns the ID for me when I first wrote it, and still does when I just checked it against a BST warder :).

As for the quotes, I simply quote every string variable, even if one doesn't need it for any string which doesn't include spaces.

I've a tendency to reuse code, once got bitten when switching to a multi-word string so now /shrug.

G

[OldNecro]

Yup, sure enough I read it wrong... It does return the id. Hmm, in that case, I don't know why your code wouldn't work, G....