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  Dungrath Dec 04, 2011 at 13:57 UTC - 0 likes

  So, I have actually tested out AllYouCanEat, and it does indeed work. Well, for some reason, it doesn't load its own variables, even though it does save them, so you have to scan again every time you log in... But it can retrieve information about not only which food and drinks you've used, but also bandages, potions, and tabards.

  It would be nice if Overachiever could make use of this functionality, to resync its own saved variables if they get out of date for whatever reason. For performance reasons though, it would be best to track and store the information like you currently do.

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  Tuhljin May 31, 2011 at 21:44 UTC - 0 likes

  Actually, no, I was examining the achievement itself, not a statistic, though it's probably a good idea to try the statistics you mentioned to see if that helps. I'll try to test it out soon but I'll be out of town for some of this and next week. Thanks for the info, though; it may just turn out to get this thing working again, though I may still have to leave in the saved variable tracking thing I use if only to reduce load time for people with PCs slower than mine (since apparently GetAchievementCriteriaInfo is quite a slow call for some people and I'd have to call it many, many times to get all that data).

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  Dungrath May 31, 2011 at 08:39 UTC - 0 likes

  If I were to make a guess at your problem, just comparing code... You're probably trying to examine statistics #346 (beverages) and #347 (food), which seems sensible, but doesn't work... whereas AllYouCanEat examines statistic #1774 (beverages) and #1775 (foods).

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  Dungrath May 30, 2011 at 04:24 UTC - 0 likes

  What sort of mechanism was used to return that information? What would make sense? Why would the API developers consider it useful to expose to the player?

  I find it a little odd that they bother tracking that information serverside (what items a character has used, how many times they've used them). They sure do track an awful lot of statistics, as evidenced by the statistics panel.

  Ok, I decided to find the answers to those questions. It's interesting that they do track them as achievement criteria, and that they can be retrieved with GetAchievementCriteriaInfo(). I found your (Tuhljin's) report about it no longer working after 3.1... and I also found AllYouCanEat, which was updated recently and claims to still be able to scan for these criteria. I haven't tested it yet, but it's probably worth looking at.

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  Tuhljin May 30, 2011 at 03:45 UTC - 0 likes

  Overachiever used to examine the achievement criteria information for those achievements to see what has already been consumed, but for some unknown reason, Blizzard's WoW API doesn't provide that information any more for those two achievements. (The two new Cataclysm ones do give that information, so Overachiever does check those to see what's been consumed, but Tastes Like Chicken and It's Happy Hour Somewhere haven't given that data since WoW patch 3.1.)

  If you know of a way to get the data for characters the addon hasn't been "watching" all along, I'm interested in hearing it, by all means, but unfortunately, as it stands, it doesn't seem to be possible. And I really don't know why, as it used to be. Either Blizzard doesn't want the addon to have that information or it's a long-standing bug that they are ignorant of (though I believe I reported it when it first happened; got no reply) or don't want to bother with.