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TasAbilityChargeBox
- Author(s)
- Tasyen
- Size
- 35.13 KB
- Rating
- Downloads
- 119
- Created
- Feb 7, 2024
- Updated
- Feb 4, 2026
- Resources
- 2
- State
Pending
This bundle is marked as pending. It has not been reviewed by a staff member yet.
Introduction
TasAbilityChargeBox is a small custom UI system for Warcraft 3 V1.31 or higher.
It displays custom chargeBoxes over the command buttons.
Details
Each CommandButton gets 1 custom chargeBox at the bottom right corner. This boxes are only displayed when the unit has a value set for an ability that occupies this button.
The value you set by a trigger function call.
This system does not work correctly when 2 abilities try to take one slot or in group selection.
Lua:
--API
function TasAbilityChargeBox.SetValue(unit, spellCode, value)
enforce a wanted Value for that spellCode for unit
function TasAbilityChargeBox.GetValue(unit, spellCode)
function TasAbilityChargeBox.Clear(unit)
function TasAbilityChargeBox.Init()
JASS:
function TasAbilityChargeBox_SetValue takes unit u, integer spellCode, string value returns nothing
enforce a wanted Value for that spellCode for unit
function TasAbilityChargeBox_GetValue takes unit u, integer spellCode returns string
function TasAbilityChargeBox_Clear(unit u)
function TasAbilityChargeBox_Init()
How to install
Requiers Warcraft 3 1.31+ or higher
- Copy the TasAbilityChargeBox Folder (trigger Editor).
- export (can skip export&import, if wanted)
- war3mapImported\TasAbilityChargeBox.fdf
- war3mapImported\TasAbilityChargeBox.toc
- WHEN USING THE EXPORT ALL BUTTON, IT CAN HAPPEN THAT THE CONTENT OF THIS FILES SWAP
- import them into your map
- call
TasAbilityChargeBox.Init() or TasAbilityChargeBox_Init()inside a trigger that runs at 0s. - Installed
ChangeLog
V1.b) works without fdf
V1.a vjass) small adjustments
- Joined
- Oct 31, 2011
- Messages
- 107
Your system is really cool, you always have very good systems to keep the community active. Do you have plans to create a Jass version?you change the event and then replace GetSpellAbilityId() with an abilityCode like FourCC'AHhb' or a gui variable udg_Ability which holds holy light.
Custom script: TasAbilityChargeBox.SetValue(GetTriggerUnit(), FourCC'AHhb', GetRandomInt(1,100))
- Joined
- Oct 31, 2011
- Messages
- 107
That's cool, you released a vjass version, thanks for helping keep this small warcraft community alive
- Joined
- Jul 9, 2008
- Messages
- 1,440
Battle for Lordaeron (Lordaeron WoW)
Super useful! I've been needing something like this for a while.
- Joined
- Oct 31, 2011
- Messages
- 107
It worked, Thanks!
- Joined
- Jul 18, 2010
- Messages
- 2,471
I experimented with Group selection and wrote a lib to know the current main selection, but for my own liking it is to expensive and requires Warcraft 3 V1.32+, while I mostly mod Warcraft 3 V1.31.1.
you could get the lib and replace the unit used in the system with the unit the lib gives you.
www.hiveworkshop.com
The mentioned lib has a bug in V2.0 which leads to crash, can be fixed by updating a line
Lua
local bottomUI = BlzFrameGetChild(console, 1)
->
local bottomUI = BlzFrameGetParent(BlzGetFrameByName("SimpleInfoPanelUnitDetail", 0))
vjass
local framehandle bottomUI = BlzFrameGetChild(console, 1)
->
local framehandle bottomUI = BlzFrameGetParent(BlzGetFrameByName("SimpleInfoPanelUnitDetail", 0))
you could get the lib and replace the unit used in the system with the unit the lib gives you.
[Lua] - GetMainSelectedUnit
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...
www.hiveworkshop.com
Lua
local bottomUI = BlzFrameGetChild(console, 1)
->
local bottomUI = BlzFrameGetParent(BlzGetFrameByName("SimpleInfoPanelUnitDetail", 0))
vjass
local framehandle bottomUI = BlzFrameGetChild(console, 1)
->
local framehandle bottomUI = BlzFrameGetParent(BlzGetFrameByName("SimpleInfoPanelUnitDetail", 0))
