[snippet] RefreshUI

13 years

edited 8 years

Sometimes the unit interface needs to be refreshed in order to be displayed correctly.

For example, try to change the xp of an unit like every 0.05 s without refreshing the ui, and with it.

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1 library RefreshUI
2 
3     globals
4         // just make sure you define an ability which will be never used
5         private constant integer DUMMY_ABILITY = 'AImo'
6     endglobals
7 
8     function RefreshUI takes unit u returns nothing
9         call UnitAddAbility(u,DUMMY_ABILITY)
10         call UnitRemoveAbility(u,DUMMY_ABILITY)
11     endfunction
12 
13 endlibrary

13 years

Nice snippet.

I remember I used to have those problems and someone told me to kill a unit to refresh the UI. iirc it worked, but it was a long time before I found out I could simply do this.

13 years

So you mean that if i kill a random unit every units' UI are refreshed ?!

13 years

After some time, I digged around and found it:
http://www.thehelper.net/threads/update-ability-tooltip.57197/

But apparently it is also unit specific, so no it is not better in any way.

13 years

Approved, this is an awesome snippet because it's short and sweet

1	library RefreshUI
2
3	globals
4	// just make sure you define an ability which will be never used
5	private constant integer DUMMY_ABILITY = 'AImo'
6	endglobals
7
8	function RefreshUI takes unit u returns nothing
9	call UnitAddAbility(u,DUMMY_ABILITY)
10	call UnitRemoveAbility(u,DUMMY_ABILITY)
11	endfunction
12
13	endlibrary

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