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[board_lurker_01]

Is there any way of determining if an item in the buffcollection happens to be detrimental instead of good?

(other than enumerating every know dot/debuff/ae in the game and comparing names, cause that would suck). I just wanna know if its good or bad, and ill figure something out from there.

[aChallenged1]

Each icon is attached to a certain group of spells. Find the spell numbers for all the debuffs that can be landed on a PC and you could make it work with an /if statement, possibly.

[Cr4zyb4rd]

${Me.Buff[1].SpellType} should do it for you, if not use
${Spell[${Me.Buff[1].ID}.SpellType}

should return:
Beneficial(Group), Beneficial, Detrimental, Unknown

not 100%, but it's a start

[aChallenged1]

So you should be able to do something like

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/if (${Spell[${Me.Buff[1].ID}.SpellType} ! clear) ${Me.Buff[1].ID}

as an example?

[Night Hawk]

I think he's just trying to get at making the good (beneficial) spells show one color and the bad (detrimental) spells show another color.

[board_lurker_01]

You guys rawk, thanks!

Where do you find the info, or have you just reversed engineered more stuff than I have?

[aChallenged1]

Much of it in the manual, though I sometimes don't quite understand it.
There is a search on the 2nd tab of the manual (Readme.chm) and it does pretty good.

[Cr4zyb4rd]

Aye, seems I spend about 3 hours a day reading the FM, and I still feel like I'm flailing about. Also the forum search rairly fails to turn up at least a few hints.

[blueninja]

${Me.Buff[1].SpellType} should do it for you, if not use
${Spell[${Me.Buff[1].ID}.SpellType}

The first one is the correct one. ${Me.Buff[].ID} returns the buff slot number not the spell ID so the second one won't work. The datatype buff inherits spell but that particular member is overridden, which might be a bit confusing. If you want the spell ID use ${Me.Buff[].Spell.ID}.

[Cr4zyb4rd]

Hey, I was close. :)

[board_lurker_01]

More help =/

Cant get string comparisons to work....I dont understand the syntax fully, i know its sad.

/if (${String[${Param1].NotEqual[${Me.Name}]})

is from the manual on string comparisons.

so

/if ( ${String[Beneficial].Equal[${Me.Buff[1].SpellType}]} ) { do something here }

Did I totally misunderstand this? Im totally stuck.

[Cr4zyb4rd]

Um, that should work I think, but as SpellType is already a string go the other way and do

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/if (${Me.Buff[1].SpellType.Equal[Beneficial]}) { stuff } 

[blueninja]

Hey, I was close. :)

You were right.. And wrong at the same time.. Quite an accomplishment :) ..

[blueninja]

Cant get string comparisons to work....I dont understand the syntax fully, i know its sad.

That's a typo in the example you quoted, it needs an end brace after ${Param1. I notified wassup who writes the manual. However, the code you posted looks ok, one thing that might cause a problem there is that you have spaces in the beginning and end of your condition, /if ( ${} ) should be /if (${}). The parser can be a little stingy about that kind of stuff sometimes.

Anyway, what Cr4zyb4rd posted is still a better way of doing it so go with that, just figured I would elaborate a little on it :).

[Chill]

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/if (${Me.Buff[1].SpellType.Equal[Beneficial]}) { stuff } 

Close, but assuming you were right with the 4 return values I would actually go the other way and use:

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/if (!${Me.Buff[1].SpellType.Equal[Detrimental]}) { stuff } 

if you want to include "Unknown" in with beneficials
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/if (${Me.Buff[1].SpellType.Find[Beneficial]}) { stuff } 

to catch just: "Beneficial(Group)" and "Beneficial"