Editing WoW:WoW constants (section)

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WoW constants are global WoW [[Lua]] variables, which are automatically replaced with their locale specific values when used within any [[XML UI]] .xml or .lua file. They are provided by the World of Warcraft base UI, and can be used in addons.

Most of these values originally came from the old [[Cosmos (AddOn)|Cosmos AddOn]] [http://www.cosmosui.org/texts/BlizzardCommands.xml Blizzard Commands] and the WoW.exe itself. The list here will be out of date but most of these values should still be in use. Feel free to update the list.

[[#Messages|Messages]], [[#Chat Log Messages|Chat Log Messages]] and [[#Other Messages|Other Messages]] can be considered strings. %s,%f,%g,%d are used to substitute values in, be it a player name or a numerical value; see the [[API format|format]] function. Some of these are meant as the complete message to be displayed in chat or on screen, while others are common words used in substitutions and construction of a message.

It is unknown how these messages are affected by localization (someone with a non -en should expand on this!) This section also needs much work to separate messages into their proper categories, Chat and on-screen Messages need to be separated (Careful of alphabetization).

There are now separate pages for ERR_.. [[WoW Constants/Errors]] and SPELL_.. [[WoW Constants/Spells]] (including SPELL_FAILED).