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A System using the new Framechild natives (added in 1.32.6) to know the current main selected Unit.
How this works?
This System finds the index of the first shown yellow groupunitbutton background, this number is taken. Then the current selected units are enumed and ordered in the way the game displays them, this 2 combined are the mainselected unit.
When one has the System code in your map use GetMainSelectedUnitEx() to get the mainselected unit.
A example code: it prints the name of the current main Selected Unit once per second
Edited: Replaced selfexecution with a less problematic approach
How this works?
This System finds the index of the first shown yellow groupunitbutton background, this number is taken. Then the current selected units are enumed and ordered in the way the game displays them, this 2 combined are the mainselected unit.
When one has the System code in your map use GetMainSelectedUnitEx() to get the mainselected unit.
Lua:
do
-- returns the local current main selected unit, using it in a sync gamestate relevant manner breaks the game.
function GetMainSelectedUnitEx()
return GetMainSelectedUnit(GetSelectedUnitIndex())
end
local containerFrame
local frames = {}
local group
local units = {}
local filter = Filter(function()
local unit = GetFilterUnit()
local prio = BlzGetUnitRealField(unit, UNIT_RF_PRIORITY)
local found = false
-- compare the current unit with allready found, to place it in the right slot
for index, value in ipairs(units) do
-- higher prio than this take it's slot
if BlzGetUnitRealField(value, UNIT_RF_PRIORITY) < prio then
table.insert(units, index, unit)
found = true
break
-- equal prio and better colisions Value
elseif BlzGetUnitRealField(value, UNIT_RF_PRIORITY) == prio and GetUnitOrderValue(value) > GetUnitOrderValue(unit) then
table.insert( units, index, unit)
found = true
break
end
end
-- not found add it at the end
if not found then
table.insert(units, unit)
end
unit = nil
return false
end)
function GetSelectedUnitIndex()
-- local player is in group selection?
if BlzFrameIsVisible(containerFrame) then
-- find the first visible yellow Background Frame
for int = 0, #frames do
if BlzFrameIsVisible(frames[int]) then
return int
end
end
end
return nil
end
function GetUnitOrderValue(unit)
--heroes use the handleId
if IsUnitType(unit, UNIT_TYPE_HERO) then
return GetHandleId(unit)
else
--units use unitCode
return GetUnitTypeId(unit)
end
end
function GetMainSelectedUnit(index)
if index then
GroupEnumUnitsSelected(group, GetLocalPlayer(), filter)
local unit = units[index + 1]
--clear table
repeat until not table.remove(units)
return unit
else
GroupEnumUnitsSelected(group, GetLocalPlayer(), nil)
return FirstOfGroup(group)
end
end
--init
do
local real = MarkGameStarted
function MarkGameStarted()
real()
local console = BlzGetFrameByName("ConsoleUI", 0)
local bottomUI = BlzFrameGetChild(console, 1)
local groupframe = BlzFrameGetChild(bottomUI, 5)
--globals
containerFrame = BlzFrameGetChild(groupframe, 0)
group = CreateGroup()
-- give this frames a handleId
for int = 0, BlzFrameGetChildrenCount(containerFrame) - 1 do
local buttonContainer = BlzFrameGetChild(containerFrame, int)
frames[int] = BlzFrameGetChild(buttonContainer, 0)
end
end
end
endA example code: it prints the name of the current main Selected Unit once per second
Lua:
--demo
do
local real = MarkGameStarted
function MarkGameStarted()
real()
TimerStart(CreateTimer(), 1, true, function()
local u = GetMainSelectedUnit(GetSelectedUnitIndex())
if IsUnitType(u, UNIT_TYPE_HERO) then
print(GetUnitName(u), GetHeroProperName(u))
else
print(GetUnitName(u))
end
end)
end
end
endEdited: Replaced selfexecution with a less problematic approach
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