Follow detection (bug?) windower.ffxi.get_player().follow_index

In my gearswap lua I was trying to determine if I was running or following someone - to pause and re-cast.  Then - keep running again.

I don't want to re-invent the wheel - so if this is already made let me know.. but the problem I'm having here is specifically in the windower.ffxi.get_player().follow_index.   

If I have something on auto-follow - that is valid.  If I don't have something on follow - it's 'nil'.

If I simply auto-run after a follow - then it has the index of the last person following (regardless if I'm following that index or not).   Shouldn't it be nil upon follow cancel and stay that way until I start following something again?

Recreation steps: 

Stopped: 

print(windower.ffxi.get_player().follow_index)  == nil

/follow (character)

print(windower.ffxi.get_player().follow_index)  == 1502

stop following character

print(windower.ffxi.get_player().follow_index)  == nil

autorun anywhere random

print(windower.ffxi.get_player().follow_index)  == 1502

Doesn't even reset on zone.

Anyway otherwise this is what I'm starting up:  (part of precast in Gearswap)

	if type(windower.ffxi.get_player().autorun) == 'table' and spell.action_type == 'Magic' then 
		windower.add_to_chat(3,'Currently auto-running - stopping to cast spell')
		windower.ffxi.run(false)
		autorun = 1
		print(windower.ffxi.get_player().follow_index)
		if windower.ffxi.get_player().follow_index then
			print("Following - figuring this out")
			last_follow_target = windower.ffxi.get_player().follow_index
			windower.ffxi.follow()
			follow = 1
		end
		cancel_spell()
		send_command('wait 1; input /ma '..spell.name)
		return
	end

check_run_status()

function check_run_status()
	if follow == 1 then
		windower.ffxi.follow(last_follow_target)
		follow = 0
		return
	end
	if autorun == 1 then 
		windower.ffxi.run()
		autorun = 0
	end
end

By the way I just randomly am testing if I'm on-follow based on the follow_index().  Is there any better way to test if I'm on follow?

ok - sorry to ramble.. continued testing.

Apparently

"windower.ffxi.follow()" by itself seems to not do much of anything

simply "windower.ffxi.run(false)" stops running.. then if you auto-run it automatically re-engages follow on target.    It doesn't seem that the "windower.ffxi.follow()" actually stops following???

-Sam

Ok - last bit of rambling.  (off topic of the windower.ffxi.follow - but was the original intent/goal of the script.)

Resetting Goal:  To be able to pause when auto-running to cast a spell; then continue auto-running when complete.  Really useful for a drag-along mule, but also quite useful in Kiting scenarios.

My problem with the original code snipit I wrote - was that i was canceling the spell, then sending a wait 1; /ma (spell)    -   This assumed 'shortcuts' addon; as well if the target were something other than what Shortcuts recognized, it wouldn't be a replica.   So I already had code around to send the spell via packets so i could track actual targets etc - but that didn't allow me to work because gearswap specifically blocks the 'coroutine.sleep' function.   I didn't realize Gearswap had a cast_delay(#seconds) function built-in - so this did all the proper delay for me and not needing to re-send the actual casting packet.

So anyway - final code snipit:

(Inside of PRECAST)

	if type(windower.ffxi.get_player().autorun) == 'table' and spell.action_type == 'Magic' then 

		windower.add_to_chat(3,'Currently auto-running - stopping to cast spell')

        windower.ffxi.run(false)
        windower.ffxi.follow()

		autorun = 1

		cast_delay(1)

		return

	end

Inside of aftercast:

check_run_status()

function check_run_status()

	if autorun == 1 then 

		windower.ffxi.run()

		autorun = 0

	end

end