[General] BlzGetAbilityByIndex Failing to Return An Ability

[Elprede]

Is it just me or is this native not working on the latest patch?

I have attempted to display the name of the ability by first using the new native, BlzGetAbilityId, to get the rawcode of the ability. All I am getting, however, is four dots, which indicate no ability exists. I also tried several indexes to be sure and made sure that the unit had abilities.

 

[Retera]

I just updated to patch 1.33.0.19308 on my PC and then tried this native in a tiny trigger in a test map. I looped the indices of the unit and printed the ability names for this priest:

My trigger was hacked together in the editor and is very lazy, just looping the abilities and printing their object names using the new native you mentioned:

function Trig_Untitled_Trigger_001_Actions takes nothing returns nothing
local unit u = GetTriggerUnit()
local integer i = 0
local ability a = null

loop
    set a = BlzGetUnitAbilityByIndex(u, i)
    exitwhen (a == null)
    call BJDebugMsg(I2S(i) + ": " + GetObjectName(BlzGetAbilityId(a)))
    set i = i + 1
endloop
endfunction

//===========================================================================
function InitTrig_Untitled_Trigger_001 takes nothing returns nothing
    set gg_trg_Untitled_Trigger_001 = CreateTrigger(  )
    call TriggerRegisterEnterRectSimple( gg_trg_Untitled_Trigger_001, gg_rct_Region_000 )
    call TriggerAddAction( gg_trg_Untitled_Trigger_001, function Trig_Untitled_Trigger_001_Actions )
endfunction

Does this work for you? (You might need to change the region that fired my trigger to a region from your map.) If not, are you using a different language localization?


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Edit: If I use the Patch 1.32 natives instead of the new Patch 1.33 native, and so I print the instanced name instead of the map-wide ability type's name from the object editor, the instanced versions worked for me as well using the following code (really only the print line changed):

function Trig_Untitled_Trigger_001_Actions takes nothing returns nothing
local unit u = GetTriggerUnit()
local integer i = 0
local ability a = null

loop
    set a = BlzGetUnitAbilityByIndex(u, i)
    exitwhen (a == null)
    call BJDebugMsg(I2S(i) + ": " + BlzGetAbilityStringField(a, ABILITY_SF_NAME))
    set i = i + 1
endloop
endfunction

//===========================================================================
function InitTrig_Untitled_Trigger_001 takes nothing returns nothing
    set gg_trg_Untitled_Trigger_001 = CreateTrigger(  )
    call TriggerRegisterEnterRectSimple( gg_trg_Untitled_Trigger_001, gg_rct_Region_000 )
    call TriggerAddAction( gg_trg_Untitled_Trigger_001, function Trig_Untitled_Trigger_001_Actions )
endfunction