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5.0.4 Glyph UI Taint

This has been fixed.

Patch 5.0.4 introduced an annoying bug to deal with.

Blizzard accidentally declared "_" to be global, so if your addon uses "_" as a global it will cause the GlyphUI frame to not work.

It's an easy fix, instead of:

local class
_, class = UnitClass("player")

Just declare _ as a local variable:

local _, class
_, class = UnitClass("player")

or you can achieve it another way using the select method:

local class = select(2, UnitClass("player"))

Using local variable over global variables is good addon practice for a variety of reasons, some of which include speed of access, interactions with other addons/Blizzard UI, and just not polluting the global namespace.

Good news however is that this is already fixed on the beta and should be slated for patch 5.0.5.

Mikk wrote a nice little utility which helps find global leakage in your addons. You can get it from WowAce here.

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  • 7 comments
  • Avatar of Nilvalue Nilvalue Nov 12, 2012 at 10:47 UTC - 0 likes

    It seems the problem has been fixed by blz in 5.05. But I still have the problem when I change talent: Ace3 or Bartender4 has been blocked by blz...

  • Avatar of 420psilo 420psilo Oct 28, 2012 at 18:25 UTC - 0 likes

    this prob is getting rediculously frustrating. I honestly think that the addon being blamed is not even the one causing the issue, but rather a random finger pointing. I have to disable sooo many addons before it works....http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/7004690454... this post by ELV from ELV ui seems to break it down very clearly. Ive made a post on the Bug forums. maybe if enuff noise is made it will be cleaned up.

  • Avatar of laric laric Sep 14, 2012 at 08:07 UTC - 0 likes

    Doesn't look like 5.0.5 solved this issue. I hope they include it in the 5.1 patch.

  • Avatar of 420psilo 420psilo Sep 09, 2012 at 03:12 UTC - 0 likes

    thank you guys . :) your hard work is always appreciated :) :) :)

  • Avatar of yossa yossa Sep 04, 2012 at 16:46 UTC - 0 likes

    if you don't want to change lots of code you can also declare: local _

    at the beginning of every lua file, which cause problems. I fixed like this all broken addons I use.

  • Avatar of Silmano Silmano Sep 04, 2012 at 08:29 UTC - 0 likes

    Just got an error reported for this, I was all worried on why would the addon call CastGlyph() function and then fail if it doesn't have anything to do with glyphs at all...

  • Avatar of Seerah Seerah Sep 04, 2012 at 04:23 UTC - 2 likes

    For future reference, _ is a VALID VARIABLE NAME. So treat it like one, and localize it. It's just a convention that authors have made it a throw away variable.

    Last edited Sep 04, 2012 by Seerah
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Date created
Sep 04, 2012
Last updated
Oct 23, 2012

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