Addon Help (very techie)

[Asrial]

Can someone help me decipher this error and what I need to do to fix it in the code?

Basically... it occurs half the time when I right click on someone's name and set them as a focus target. When it works.. I get the focus target icon/bar/thing. When it doesn't work, I get the error and no icon/bar/thing. When I try to focus target again, half the time it works fine and half the time it doesn't (no error.. just doesn't show up). At that point, I have to reload the UI to try again.

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Error occured in: AddOn: PowerAuras
Count: 1
Message: Error: AddOn PowerAuras attempted to call a forbidden function (FocusUnit()) from a tainted execution path.
Debug:
[C]: FocusUnit()
..\FrameXML\UnitPopup.lua:1267: func()
..\FrameXML\UIDropDownMenu.lua:575: UIDropDownMenuButton_OnClick()
[string "*:OnClick"]:1:
[string "*:OnClick"]:1

..and sometimes I get..

Error occured in: AddOn: Recount
Count: 1
Message: Error: AddOn Recount attempted to call a forbidden function (FocusUnit()) from a tainted execution path.
Debug:
[C]: FocusUnit()
..\FrameXML\UnitPopup.lua:1267: func()
..\FrameXML\UIDropDownMenu.lua:575: UIDropDownMenuButton_OnClick()
[string "*:OnClick"]:1:
[string "*:OnClick"]:1

[g++]

I get that bug when i set a focus with certain raid frame add ons running during arena as well. I think its because the WoW UI and your add on are attempting to use the same pointer at the same time but thats just a hunch realistically unless you have access to the source code for WoW it will be extremely hard to determine why focusunit() is sending that error.

[AnticorRifling]

I saw the word taint, giggled, and then shut off attempting to be helpful. Sorry.

[Asrial]

So the 'fault' isn't in the listed code.. the listed code is just telling you where to start looking..

Bleh.

Thanks :)

[Asrial]

I saw the word taint, giggled, and then shut off attempting to be helpful. Sorry.You giggled huh? ;)

[AnticorRifling]

Like a school girl.

[RichardCranium]

At least you weren't giggling at gaint. That means grandma taint. Don't ask.

[g++]

So the 'fault' isn't in the listed code.. the listed code is just telling you where to start looking..

Bleh.

Thanks :)

Yup.

This part :

"AddOn PowerAuras attempted to call a forbidden function (FocusUnit()) from a tainted execution path."
Is probably a try/catch block in

FocusUnit() : this method.

Called from : UIDropDownMenuButton_OnClick()

Which would all be useful information if you were actually the developer but not so much if you just want to do arena.

[AnticorRifling]

At least you weren't giggling at gaint. That means grandma taint. Don't ask.

Kind of like wearing an old baseball mitt on your melon. Sure it's soft and leathery but eventually you catch a wiff of old sweat from years gone by.