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gromandClaude Opus 5 400457ff82 superwow: TrackUnit/UntrackUnit, and the four chat-bubble CVars
TrackUnit is the one with a live consumer and a real feature behind it:
1.12 draws party members on the minimap and raid members NOWHERE, and
pfUI puts the whole raid on it with these two — for every party and raid
token on PARTY_MEMBERS_CHANGED/RAID_ROSTER_UPDATE/PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD,
each inside a pcall, so on a client without the function the feature is
simply absent, which is what it has been here.

The set is guids, not tokens, so a tracked raid member keeps its dot
while the roster shuffles its token out from under it. The dot itself is
drawn by a fourth always-show clause beside the reference's own three
(`shows_tracking_dot`) — `tracked_creature` stays exactly `0x5ed210`, so
the predicate that file documents is still the client's, and a tracked
unit gets the ordinary cell, hover name and distance cull with nothing
new drawn. The set is read off the VM handle the blip system already
holds rather than behind a resource of its own: `BlipInputs` is at the
16-param ceiling and its last element is already a nested pair for that
very reason.

The bubble four come straight off the DLL's string pool. Three are
nampower's `NP_ChatBubbles*` under SuperWoW's unprefixed names, writing
the same fields — two mods, one knob, last writer wins, as the nameplate
reach already is — each keeping 0 because the reference bubbles none of
those kinds. `ChatBubblesCreatures` is SuperWoW's alone and the only
behaviour of the four: it NARROWS `ChatBubbles` rather than standing
beside it, because the mod hooks the reference's own gate and a switch
added at that site can only subtract; the other reading would bubble
creatures with the master switch off. It ships 1, so an untouched client
bubbles monster say and yell exactly as 1.12 does. All four are welded to
their struct literals in the defaults-mirror test.

CREATE_CHATBUBBLE is deliberately NOT fired, and the row says why: its
payload can only be the bubble, and this client's bubbles are not Lua
frames — the same wall `C_ChatBubbles.GetAllChatBubbles` already answers
an empty list for. Argless would be worse than silence, since an addon
written against upstream reaches for arg1's regions and raises once per
bubble.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SgstFWtn1RxEJ5kVrpgYwn
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