[implemented] GetWeaponType()
 

If this exists, I have no clue where to find it. My asking around has gotten nowhere as well.

GetEquipType() covers armor well enough, but I wish there was a GetWeaponType() to return this set of globals about weapons: http://wiki.esoui.com/Globals#WeaponType

*edit: I figured that while I'm here, I'll extend this quest to GetArmorType() too; we need a way to get heavy, medium or light without having to resort to fallible icon parsing.

The only place I've seen those used is in crafting, i.e. patterns in smithing. The tooltip displays it so it seems it must be there somewhere, but like the crafter I have no idea where.

I had to resort to pulling this data out of the icon file name. I hope ZOS doesn't stray from this "standard" they've set up.

Unfortunately this isn't infallible. A few users have reported the occasional armor piece missing from their appropriate subfilters in my Advanced Filters add-on. It's rare, but it happens and there isn't really anything I can do about it :/.

Also, there is no way to differentiate between the four types of staves using this method.

We don't know, do we? I mean, do you know the icon names of the items that failed?
It might be something silly, like a typo like _ligth, so there could be a way to include them.

I found a better way! :)
GetItemSoundCategory(bagId, slotIndex)

But there is still no way to differentiate between healing staff and destro staff. :(
http://wiki.esoui.com/Globals#ItemUISoundCategory

No. There isn't. Anywhere.

Neat!

Still dumb, but neat! This *should* be infallible for armor types now...

This still isn't infallible... some items have a sound category of 0. Doing an "or" against the icon parse and the sound may fill in the gaps, however...

New API functions with 100004!

• weaponType GetItemWeaponType(itemLink)
• armorType GetItemArmorType(itemLink)

Read more here: http://www.esoui.com/forums/showthread.php?p=8263

:D:banana::D

Yeah, I cried for it on reddit and they said they'd add it. :D