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Overview

This is a library of common convenience functionality that I use with most of my addons. It is installed as a standalone library/addon. Load the library within your addon code using the global variable LibSFUtils

local SF = LibSFUtils

and then use the variables and functions defined in here with your local variable as the prefix for them. For example:

d(SF.bool2str(true))

Colors

Convenience color tables Defines values for : junk, normal, fine, superior, epic, legendary as well as some other colors that I commonly use

LibSFUtils.colors - master table of colors in both hex and rgb
LibSFUtils.hex - an alias table for just the hex color values
LibSFUtils.rgb - an alias table for just the rgb color values

Strings

function LibSFUtils.str(...)
Concatenate varargs to a string. Uses table concatenation to combine the parameters to be slightly more efficient to multiple uses of the .. string concatenator.

function LibSFUtils.dstr(delim, ...)
Concatenate varargs to a delimited string. Uses table concatenation to combine the parameters separated by the specified delimiter to be slightly more efficient to multiple uses of the .. string concatenator.

function LibSFUtils.GetIconized(prompt, promptcolor, texturefile, texturecolor)
Create a string containing an optional icon (of optional color) followed by a text prompt. (Without the parameters, it simply prepares and optionally colorizes text.) The prompt parameter is a string or a localization string id. The color parameters are all hex colors.

function LibSFUtils.ColorText(prompt, promptcolor)
Create a string containing a text prompt and a text color. The text color is optional, but if you do not provide it, you just get the same text back that you put in. The prompt parameter is a string or a localization string id. The color parameter is a hex color.

function LibSFUtils.bool2str(bool)
Turn a boolean value into a string suitable for display. Returns the string "true" or "false". This function uses LibSFUtils.isTrue() to decide if bool is true - which will have different results from the lua standard definition of "true". Lua decides that anything not false (or nil) must be true (including 0). This function decides that anything not true (or 1) is false.

Function Wrapping

function LibSFUtils.WrapFunction(namespace, functionName, wrapper)
Used to be able to wrap an existing function with another so that subsequent calls to the function will actually invoke the wrapping function.

The wrapping function should accept a function as the first parameter, followed by the parameters expected by the original function. It will be passed in the original function so the wrapping function can call it (if it chooses).

Can be called with or without the namespace parameter (which defines the namespace where the original function is defined). If the namespace parameter is not provided then assume the global namespace _G.

Examples: WrapFunction(myfunc, mywrapper)
will wrap the global function myfunc to call mywrapper

WrapFunction(TT, myfunc, mywrapper)
will wrap TT.myfunc with a call to mywrapper

Saved Variables and Defaults

(All of the Saved Variables functions work on the variables for the current server that you are logged in on.)

Note: You should only ever use one of the functions getToonSavedVars(), getAcctSavedVars(), or getAllSavedVars() because they are loading saved variables from files (that only get changed when you log out or /reloadui) and so are very slow and you don't want to waste time doing it multiple times for no good reason.

function LibSFUtils.getToonSavedVars(saveFile, saveVer, saveDefaults)
Get saved variables table toon only. In addition to calling the appropriate ZO_SavedVars function, it will call LibSFUtils.defaultMissing(). Note: This does NOT automatically add an accountWide variable to the table if it is not already there!

function LibSFUtils.getAcctSavedVars(saveFile, saveVer, saveDefaults)
Get saved variables table account-wide only. In addition to calling the appropriate ZO_SavedVars function, it will call LibSFUtils.defaultMissing().

function LibSFUtils.getAllSavedVars(saveFileName, saveVer, saveAWDefaults, saveToonDefaults)
Get saved variables tables when we deal with both toon and account-wide settings.

Toon and account-wide can have different default tables (but don't have to). If you only specify one default table it will be used for both account-wide and toon.

An "accountWide" variable will be automatically added to the toon table if it does not already exist, because the currentSavedVars() function works off of that. It is used to designate whether the settings for account-wide are currently in effect or the toon settings are in effect.

function LibSFUtils.currentSavedVars(aw, toon, newAcctWideVal)
Return the currently active table of saved variables. If newAcctWideVal is not nil, then the toon.accountWide value will be set to the new value before deciding which of the tables aw or toon will be returned (based on if toon.accountWide evaluates to true or false).

function LibSFUtils.defaultMissing(svtable, defaulttable)
Recursively initialize missing values in a table from a defaults table. Existing values in the svtable will remain unchanged. This function is needed because the ZO_SavedVars functions do not recurse into a table inside the defaulttable if the table itself exists in svtable.

Basic Utility Functions

function LibSFUtils.isTrue(val)
Returns true if val was some value equivalent to true or 1. Any other value will return false. (This is different from the lua standard definition of "true". Lua decides that anything not false (or nil) must be true (including 0). This function decides that anything not true (or 1) is false.)

function LibSFUtils.nilDefault( val, defaultval )
Return the value of val; unless it is nil when we then will return defaultval instead of the nil.

The lua standard "var = val or default" does not do the same job, because if val evaluates to false according to lua then the default value would still be assigned. Here we specifically only want the default value if val == nil.

Messages and Debug

function LibSFUtils.initSystemMsgPrefix(addon_name, hexcolor)
Create a prefix to use in front of your messages (so that users can tell your messages from some other addon's). (If you are not using addonChatter.)

function LibSFUtils.systemMsg(prefix, text, hexcolor)
Send a message to the chat window prefixed by the prefix that you pass in.

function LibSFUtils.addonChatter:New(addon_name)
Create an addonChatter table and set up the prefix to use in front of your messages (so that users can tell your messages from some other addon's).

function LibSFUtils.addonChatter:systemMessage(...)
Print normal messages to chat function

LibSFUtils.addonChatter:debugMsg(...)
Print debug messages to chat if debug messages are enabled.

function LibSFUtils.addonChatter:enableDebug()
Turn on the printing of debug messages.

function LibSFUtils.addonChatter:disableDebug()
Turn off the printing of debug messages.

function LibSFUtils.addonChatter:toggleDebug()
Toggle on/off the printing of debug messages

function LibSFUtils.addonChatter:getDebugState()
Tell me if debug is currently on or off.

Slash Commands

function LibSFUtils.addonChatter:slashHelp(title, cmdstable)
Display in chat a table of slash commands with descriptions (using the addonChatter you have previously created)

Localization

function LibSFUtils.LoadLanguage(localization_strings, defaultLang)
Add strings to the string table for the client language (or the default language if the client language did not have strings defined for it). The localization_strings parameter is a table of tables of localization strings, and defaultLang defaults to "en" if not provided.

For example: You could have the following string table defined:

local localization_strings = {
    de = {
        AC_IAKONI_TAG= "Iakoni's Gear Changer",
        AC_IAKONI_CATEGORY_SET_1= "Set#1",
        AC_IAKONI_CATEGORY_SET_1_DESC= "#1 Set aus dem AddOn Iakoni's Gear Changer",
        AC_IAKONI_CATEGORY_SET_2= "Set#2",
        AC_IAKONI_CATEGORY_SET_2_DESC= "#2 Set aus dem AddOn Iakoni's Gear Changer",
        AC_IAKONI_CATEGORY_SET_3= "Set#3",
        AC_IAKONI_CATEGORY_SET_3_DESC= "#3 Set aus dem AddOn Iakoni's Gear Changer",
        },
    
    en = {
        AC_IAKONI_TAG= "Iakoni's Gear Changer",
        AC_IAKONI_CATEGORY_SET_1= "Set#1",
        AC_IAKONI_CATEGORY_SET_1_DESC= "#1 Set from Iakoni's Gear Changer",
        AC_IAKONI_CATEGORY_SET_2= "Set#2",
        AC_IAKONI_CATEGORY_SET_2_DESC= "#2 Set from Iakoni's Gear Changer",
        AC_IAKONI_CATEGORY_SET_3= "Set#3",
        AC_IAKONI_CATEGORY_SET_3_DESC= "#3 Set from Iakoni's Gear Changer",
    },
       
    zh = {
        AC_IAKONI_TAG= "Iakoni's Gear Changer",
        AC_IAKONI_CATEGORY_SET_1= "装备配置#1",
        AC_IAKONI_CATEGORY_SET_1_DESC= "#1 号装备配置 Iakoni's Gear Changer",
        AC_IAKONI_CATEGORY_SET_2= "装备配置#2",
        AC_IAKONI_CATEGORY_SET_2_DESC= "#2 号装备配置 Iakoni's Gear Changer",
        AC_IAKONI_CATEGORY_SET_3= "装备配置#3",
        AC_IAKONI_CATEGORY_SET_3_DESC= "#3 号装备配置 Iakoni's Gear Changer",
    },
}

and then in your initialization function call:

    LibSFUtils.LoadLanguage(localization_strings,"en")

or you can split the definitions of
AC_localization_strings["en"], AC_localization_strings["de"], and AC_localization_strings["zh"] into separate files (strings.lua for the default, de.lua, zh.lua, etc) and then include your default language lua file (strings.lua), and $(language).lua in your addon manifest. This way you can only load the strings for two languages (at most) instead of all of them you have available.