Any interest in an auto /lockstyle on addon?

I was messing around with add-on development, and think I might have a functional one that issues a /lockstyle on upon zone change. I might try to integrate it with spellcast to look for a particular vanity set before applying lockstyle.

Woot! I got  it working

It will detect a zone change, use a vanity set (if you enable it in the settings), turn lock style on, swap back to idle set.

I do have some coding questions, I'm not convinced just adding @waits to make sure enough time has passed after zoing is the best way to do this. Also is there a better way to integrate with spellcast from an addon? Any more experienced developers who might be able to help, that would be great. I LOVE this API, so easy to work with, this is the first time I've done any programming with lua also, and digging that as well.

-- Setup

require('luau')
require('logger')
_addon = _addon or {}
_addon.name = 'Stylish'
_addon.author = 'tarutarupanic'
_addon.command = 'sty'
_addon.commands = {}
_addon.version = '1.0.0.0'

defaults = {}
defaults.usesets = false

settings = config.load(defaults)

-- Currently trying to set style
try = false

function reset()
    try = false
end

-- Style handler
windower.register_event('Zone change', function(old, new)
        try = true
        try_style()
end)

function try_style()
    log(settings.usesets)
    if try then
        if settings.usesets then
            windower.send_command('@wait 9; input //sc set van')
        end
        windower.send_command('@wait 10; input /lockstyle on')
        if settings.usesets then
            windower.send_command('@wait 11; input //sc set idle')
        end
        reset()
        log('Lookin good!')
    end
end

-- Reset outstanding events
windower.register_event('load', 'login', reset)

I'm not sure about the delay, as /lockstyle is a pretty new command, I don't think many of us have experimented with it as of yet, best to just try what the minimum is that works for you, then add 2~3 seconds to that.

And unfortunately there's no better way to interact with SC, although you can shorten the commands a bit. Instead of "input //sc something" you can just do "sc something".

In general, you could shorten the addon by quite a bit, but that's up to you. If you want any advice with code like that you should hit us up on IRC, we're always happy to help there.

Thanks! Will do.

I think this is a great idea.