I ask a lua question here because I need my addon to find out which client it is loaded in. Is that possible using the API?
Currently I define X-Client in the various toc files and set to either Mainline, BCC, or Classic and then read the field using GetAddOnMetadata(“addon”, “X-Client”) but I think there must be a better way. But is there a better way?
You can probably do it with GetBuildInfo() and then get the client version from version/tocversion’s first digit(1 for classic, 2 for bc, etc.)
Oh, I didn’t know the first digit signified the client version. Is that official or just a qualified guess?
I noticed it from this post https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/please-support-multiple-clients-in-toc-interface/927491/4 that toc version is different for each client.
As the last post of this linked thread says, you best use the WOW_PROJECT_ID constant to identify your client: https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/WOW_PROJECT_ID
It’s official and corresponds to the game version. Blizzard increments the first digit (also called ‘major version’) with each new expansion.
So 1 is vanilla, 2 is TBC, 3 is Wrath, 4 is Cataclysm, etc, all the way up to 9 for Shadowlands.
The classic versions of the game reuse this versioning scheme. WoW Classic is 1.13.4, TBC classic is 2.5.2 atm. The original classic and TBC have lower version numbers.
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