[implemented] GetWeaponType()

[ingeniousclown]

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.

[LilBudyWizer]

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.

[Seerah]

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.

[ingeniousclown]

Originally Posted by Seerah 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.

[Iyanga]

Originally Posted by ingeniousclown 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 :/.

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.

[Seerah]

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

[Garkin]

Originally Posted by Seerah 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

[Seerah]

No. There isn't. Anywhere.

[ingeniousclown]

Originally Posted by Seerah I found a better way! GetItemSoundCategory(bagId, slotIndex)

Neat!

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

[ingeniousclown]

Originally Posted by Seerah I found a better way! GetItemSoundCategory(bagId, slotIndex)

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...

[thifi]

New API functions with 100004!

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

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

[ingeniousclown]

Originally Posted by thifi New API functions with 100004! weaponType GetItemWeaponType(itemLink) armorType GetItemArmorType(itemLink) Read more here: http://www.esoui.com/forums/showthread.php?p=8263

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