Clearing up misconceptions

[vor_lord]

Hmmm... there must be something around.  I'm pretty sure Cosmos uses some kind of log parcer to figure out a person's dps on the fly.
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I just took a look at the code for DPSPLUS. It does very quick and dirty parsing for just the things it needs, such as:

Code:

    -- Player Processing
    if (DPSPLUS_Player_OnOff == 1) then
 if ( (type == "COMBAT_SELF_HITS") or (type == "SPELL_SELF_DAMAGE") or (type == "COMBAT_PET_HITS") or (type == "SPELL_PET_DAMAGE") ) then
     _, _, d = string.find(arg1, ".* for (%d+).*");
 elseif ( (type == "SPELL_PERIODIC_HOSTILEPLAYER_DAMAGE") or (type == "SPELL_PERIODIC_CREATURE_DAMAGE") ) then
     _, _, d = string.find(arg1, ".* (%d+) .* from your .*");
 end
 
 -- Matched, Record this Entry
 if ( d ~= nil ) then
     dpsplus_addentry("Your", d);
     return DPSPLUS_Player_Eat;
 end
    end

I'm just barely starting to learn about how this fits together, so I am not sure where the caller is, but it looks like chat watching (log watching) has some stuff that is common among several Cosmos add-ons:

Code:

    Cosmos_RegisterChatWatch(
     "DPSPLUS_WATCHES",
     {"COMBAT_SELF_HITS", "SPELL_SELF_DAMAGE",
   "COMBAT_PET_HITS", "SPELL_PET_DAMAGE",
   "SPELL_PERIODIC_HOSTILEPLAYER_DAMAGE", "SPELL_PERIODIC_CREATURE_DAMAGE",
   "COMBAT_PARTY_HITS", "SPELL_PARTY_DAMAGE"},
     DPSPLUS_Watch
     );  

Have to look up that code later...