How to check if you've stopped following.

[eqjoe]

I'm trying to write an addon that sends a messsage from my slaves to my main whenever they stop following, but there doesn't seem to be anything in the API that returns whether or not the character's in the "following" state.

Wondering if anyone has some good ideas about how to do this.

TwoBoxToolkit is an addon that has this built in. Check it out and see how that handles follow breaking...

-j

[zanthor]

Personally at this point I'd check Jamba-Follow. It's very good at notifications of follow failure.

[mmcookies]

Personally at this point I'd check Jamba-Follow. It's very good at notifications of follow failure.

Nah, after having some room to think about the features I need, I'm probably just going to make the AutoFollowStatusText more noticeable (bigger and brighter).

[mmcookies]

Success! This is the extremely simple addon I wrote just now.
I run the 4 shammies on a second comp and monitor so this is perfect for me.
It makes the follow text big and bright yellow on my slave screens (with shadowed outline).
On breaking follow, it displays huge red text that fades away as normal.

function PM_BigFollow_OnLoad()
  this:RegisterEvent("AUTOFOLLOW_BEGIN");
  this:RegisterEvent("AUTOFOLLOW_END");
end;

function PM_BigFollow_OnEvent(event)
  if PM_IsSlave(UnitName("player")) then
    if event == "AUTOFOLLOW_BEGIN" then
      AutoFollowStatusText:SetFontObject(NumberFont_Outline_Huge);
      AutoFollowStatusText:SetTextHeight(40);
      AutoFollowStatusText:SetTextColor(1.0, 1.0, 0.0, 1.0);
    elseif event == "AUTOFOLLOW_END" then
      AutoFollowStatusText:SetFontObject(NumberFont_Outline_Huge);
      AutoFollowStatusText:SetTextHeight(80);
      AutoFollowStatusText:SetTextColor(1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0);
    end;
  end;
end;