character name function?

[Vuelhering]

I cannot find the function to return your character's name. It looks like you can get the login name but I don't see how to find your currently logged in character. I would expect a simple call for that.

Would GetUnitName("player") be what I need?

[Xrystal]

There were 3 functions that returned your name. One for your character , one including the server name and one for your @ name. I put it in one of the threads somewhere but will check again when I get home.

[Vuelhering]

Thanks!

I can't test these out until live, but I've been coding an addon and I just couldn't find that functionality.

[Xrystal]

Here you go:

local charName = GetUnitName("player")
local serverCharName = GetUniqueNameForCharacter(charName)
local accountName = GetDisplayName()

This was tested during the weekend test before the last one so about a month or so old testing wise. But I don't recall these functions amongst the ones that were deprecated.

[Vuelhering]

Originally Posted by Xrystal Here you go: local charName = GetUnitName("player") local serverCharName = GetUniqueNameForCharacter(charName) local accountName = GetDisplayName() This was tested during the weekend test before the last one so about a month or so old testing wise. But I don't recall these functions amongst the ones that were deprecated.

Thanks!

I saw GetDisplayName(), but was pretty sure that was the @name.

But now, that leads to another question... what's the server? Is that EU/US/PTR?

[Xrystal]

Can't remember what was displayed when I tested it on myself but it was something along the lines of charname - server name .. I'll see if I happened to screenshot it but I don't think I did.

nope: Just screenshotted the big data grabs I did in case I needed to check the info.