Is it possible to differentiate a login from a UI reload?

[haggen]

From the perspective of an add-on, what's the difference between a login (you just selected your character) from a /reloadui command?

[sirinsidiator]

GetGameTimeMilliseconds() will be reset to 0 and all client side caches outside of lua will be cleared (e.g. guild history, leaderboards, etc.) when you relog instead of reloadui.

[Ayantir]

You can PreHook the ReloadUI() function and set a flag to SV if you need to know if the EVENT_ADD_ON_LOADED follow a reload UI or something else.

but this one should be only used if you want to restore something tht the reloadui wiped.

[haggen]

Originally Posted by sirinsidiator GetGameTimeMilliseconds() will be reset to 0 and all client side caches outside of lua will be cleared (e.g. guild history, leaderboards, etc.) when you relog instead of reloadui.

Awesome! Thanks!

[sirinsidiator]

Originally Posted by Ayantir You can PreHook the ReloadUI() function and set a flag to SV if you need to know if the EVENT_ADD_ON_LOADED follow a reload UI or something else. but this one should be only used if you want to restore something tht the reloadui wiped.

This only works as long as the game does not crash. Otherwise the flag won't be cleared after the UI reload and the next login after the crash will be detected as a reload.

Depending on what you plan to do it will be easier to just check if GetGameTimeMilliseconds() < 300000 assuming that addon loaded does fire within 5 minutes after login and simply ignore that there can be UI reloads in that time. Nobody besides an addon author should reload the UI in the first few minutes after login anyways.

[haggen]

I want to record a "play session", it being from login until logout. So I must retain data even if the game reloads the UI for any reason. The session is only really finished if the player exits or logs out. Does it make sense?

[sirinsidiator]

In that case, why don't you just collect the data to your saved vars and take care of "closing" the old session when GetGameTimeMilliseconds returns a smaller value than the last value you saved?

[haggen]

Originally Posted by sirinsidiator In that case, why don't you just collect the data to your saved vars and take care of "closing" the old session when GetGameTimeMilliseconds returns a smaller value than the last value you saved?

You nailed it, thank you! I didn't know how GetGameTimeMilliseconds worked exactly. :P

Edit. Hey I just noticed that you're the author of AwesomeGuildStore, so thank you again, excellent add-on, I loved it!