ESO event registration

[belialamiee]

Hi Guys,

I am struggling with something that is probably fundamentally easy.

I have written a quick addon that prints xp to screen. at present it is triggering on update. obviously this is not optimal. So i want it to only update on xp gain.

But I can't seem to get the event to actually work.

here is my current code.

local curXP = GetUnitXP("Player")
local maxXP = GetUnitXPMax("Player")


function OnUpdate()
    MahaliaXpgain:SetText(string.format("XP: %d/%d", curXP, maxXP))

end

function UpdateXP()
curXP = GetUnitXP("Player")
maxXP = GetUnitXPMax("Player")
OnUpdate()
end

--this was bastardised from yout tutorial at http://wiki.esoui.com/AddOn_Quick_Questions#How_do_events_work.3F
function Mahalia_OnInitialized(self)
    --Register on the top level control...
    self:RegisterForEvent(EVENT_EXPERIENCE_GAINED, UpdateXP)
 
    --OR, register with a string unique to your add-on
    EVENT_MANAGER:RegisterForEvent("Mahalia", EVENT_EXPERIENCE_GAINED, UpdateXP)
end

I can have it trigger by using

<OnMouseDown>
                UpdateXP()
 </OnMouseDown>

But I can't just seem to get the event to trigger UpdateXP() even when it is was just d("print me") it woudn't trigger on xpgain

What am i doing wrong with event registration?