Whats a round about way to detect cooldowns?

[Bond009]

So i want to be able to detect if a unit has any abilities that are on cooldown, whats a good way to do this since there is no standard method.

 

[pOke]

Custom cooldown system
Or
Cataloging the cooldowns on all spells at all levels and using a timer to keep track

 

[Adiktuz]

do the 2nd one... that is a bit easier... but be wary of cooldown reset triggers, coz that means you would also need to reset the tracking....

 

[Zwiebelchen]

You can basicly use abuse the IssueOrder jass natives to check if an ability is on cooldown. They will return false if the ability can not be cast (but that could also be because of mana cost or an invalid target, so you need to catch those cases aswell).

You can instantly order the unit to stop after that to prevent the unit from actually casting that ability (and triggering the cooldown/manacost).


However, keeping track of the cooldowns via timers is probably the better, less bug-prone solution.

 

[Bond009]

yeah not a bad idea with that, but for this purpose using timers is probably the way to go with it i guess