Race condition when processing multiple combat event at the same time
Kyrios0 opened this issue · 2 comments
WoW Version
Retail
TellMeWhen Version
11.1.4
Describe the bug
I'm a TellMeWhen user and I really appreciate this powerful addon — it's been incredibly useful for tracking various buffs.
I’ve run into an issue that I hope you can help me understand. I'm using Event Icons for Pack Leader BM Hunter to detect when specific buffs are removed via combat log events. Let’s call the buffs X and Y, and their corresponding icons A and B. I also have a Meta Icon that displays whichever of A or B was triggered most recently (based on the largest timer).
This generally works well, but I’ve noticed a problem when both buffs (X and Y) are removed simultaneously — for example, within the same GCD. In those cases, both A and B are triggered in the same moment, yet A consistently shows in the Meta Icon, even though I added a condition to A to ensure it only triggers if B was not triggered within the last 1 second (so I added a timer to B which will reset to 0 for combat event triggered each time, and add condition Timer(B) > 1.0 to A).
From this behavior, it seems like B is processed before A, so by the time A evaluates its condition, B's timer is already running — even though they technically fired at the same time.
Is this expected behavior due to how TMW processes icon updates within a frame? And is there a recommended way to handle simultaneous events like this, where I need one icon to suppress itself if another event occurred in the same moment? Since these icons are cyclic depends on each other, for example: A -> B -> C -> A so I can not easily give them some priority by adjust the timer.
Thanks again for maintaining such a great addon — I’d really appreciate any insight you can offer!
Export Strings
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I see. Thank you for explaination!
This sounds like an out-of-scope issue. I will close the issue then.
