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Tested:	Hour of Twilight 4.3
Updated:	03-27-12 10:04 PM
Created:	09-26-10 03:59 PM
Downloads:	2,580
Favorites:	90
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Categories:	Group, Guild & Friends, PvP, Arena, BattleGrounds

KeepingTabs

Version: 1.3.1

by: Seerah [More]

KeepingTabs gives you an easy way to keep tabs on all that is important to you. By adding tabs to the sides of certain frames, it is easier to keep tabs on your friends and guild as well as on your dungeons, raids and pvp. This allows you to use just one keybind for friends/guild and one keybind for dungeons/raid/pvp. It also makes it easier to switch between these (no longer separated) windows.

By default, the new tab for the guild frame opens to the first tab - news and events. If you prefer it to open to the second tab for the roster instead, you may open up KT_Social.lua in any text editor, find this at the very top

Code:

--Open directly to the Guild Roster tab 
--when switching to the guild frame
local roster = false
------------------------

and change it to true.

The guild tab should act like the guild perks tab in your spellbook and the top-left circle of the Guild UI, where the icon changes to your guild tabard.

If your character is not well-geared enough yet for the new 4.3 raids and/or you wish to open to the Other Raids list when switching to the Raid Finder, there is a setting for that as well at the top of KT_LFGroups.lua.

Code:

--Open directly to the Other Raids list tab 
--when switching to the raid finder
local otherList = false
------------------------

Change it to true if you want to view that tab instead of the default when opening the frame.

v.1.3.1
- sorry folks, removed the debug print statements I had left in ><

v.1.3
- updated all icons to be square ones (a couple have changed appearance)
- added the PVP frame to the LFG and LFR tab set

v.1.2
- added support for Dungeon and Raid Finders!
- renamed KeepingTabs.lua to KT_Social.lua

v.1.1
- update TOC for 4.3
- fix tab placement on friends frame (Blizz changed the frame so now the tabs require same x,y coordinates that the guld frame had - imagine that!)

v.1.0
- updated TOC number

v. 0.4
- fixed tabs overlapping the Raid Info panel

v. 0.3
- only create tabs once!

v. 0.2
- code updates/organization
- fix for guild tabard icon

Archived Files (8)

File Name	Version	Size	Author	Date
KeepingTabs	1.3	3kB	Seerah	03-24-12 11:11 PM
KeepingTabs	1.2	2kB	Seerah	01-12-12 11:49 PM
KeepingTabs	1.1	1kB	Seerah	12-01-11 10:09 PM
KeepingTabs	1.0	1kB	Seerah	07-08-11 01:23 PM
KeepingTabs	0.4	1kB	Seerah	11-05-10 10:29 PM
KeepingTabs	0.3	1kB	Seerah	10-18-10 09:42 PM
KeepingTabs	0.2	1kB	Seerah	10-04-10 12:09 PM
KeepingTabs	0.1	1kB	Seerah	09-26-10 03:59 PM

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03-29-12, 03:07 PM
wagg1 A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 3 Uploads: 0	Cheers for the update with the pvp tab. This is one of them add-ons that i believe i would not be able to play wow with out as i don't use the mini options bar Now i can also remove the other addon i was using for the pvp tab as now this addon is 100% perfect (atm. as i have not seen a bug with it ) one thing. i did not like the new icons for the lfg lfr and pvp tab. but i liked it that u still had the icons in the files with the "--" But for any others that wants a pvp icon that i think fits with the older icons i use this one. nptX:SetNormalTexture("Interface\\BattlefieldFrame\\UI-Battlefield-Icon") Just change the X with the parts of the code. so it would be 2 3 and for number 1 just remove the X Last edited by wagg1 : 03-29-12 at 03:25 PM.

03-28-12, 05:16 AM
Petrah Psychotic Female Forum posts: 2821 File comments: 298 Uploads: 10	Thank you Seerah! __________________ ♪～ (￣。￣ ) I ♥ My Sonos!

03-27-12, 10:02 PM

Seerah

Fishing Trainer

Forum posts: 8673

File comments: 532

Uploads: 21

Originally Posted by Petrah

Thanks for this awesome addon!!

Took me awhile but I finally figured out which addon is doing this hehe. Ive turned off all addons accept this one.

Every time I log in I see:
ndt finished
ndt2 finished
ndt3 finished

How can I stop this from printing in the chatbox every time I log in or reload?

Ooops! Sorry, I left in some debug print statements.

Lemme fix that. hehe

__________________
"You'd be surprised how many people violate this simple principle every day of their lives and try to fit square pegs into round holes, ignoring the clear reality that Things Are As They Are." -Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh

03-27-12, 09:39 PM
Petrah Psychotic Female Forum posts: 2821 File comments: 298 Uploads: 10	Thanks for this awesome addon!! Took me awhile but I finally figured out which addon is doing this hehe. Ive turned off all addons accept this one. Every time I log in I see: ndt finished ndt2 finished ndt3 finished How can I stop this from printing in the chatbox every time I log in or reload? __________________ ♪～ (￣。￣ ) I ♥ My Sonos!

03-11-12, 03:57 AM
wagg1 A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 3 Uploads: 0	Pvp tab with the pve tabs? Hello there. nice update you have with the loot finder and grp finder tabs. but this update did not like my other tab addon Tabbed Dungeon Browser. so for now i will be removing the pve tabs. But if you could add a battleground tab to the raid finder and the dungeon finder then this then would be the perfect addon as and i would remove TDB cos then i have 1 addon that does both tasks link to tdb just incase of something http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/rbtabbed-browser Last edited by wagg1 : 03-11-12 at 06:00 AM.

01-13-12, 01:41 PM
Terranell Premium Member Forum posts: 49 File comments: 12 Uploads: 0	Thanks for the addition of LFG/LFR support Seerah, perfect expansion of Keeping Tabs.

01-13-12, 11:16 AM
VagrantEsha Token Werewolf Fan Forum posts: 27 File comments: 236 Uploads: 41	Categorised under "This is what Blizzard should have done." and snagged.

12-02-11, 10:19 AM

Seerah

Fishing Trainer

Forum posts: 8673

File comments: 532

Uploads: 21

Originally Posted by Gethe

The reason is the panel templates Blizz added in Cata, found in FrameXML/UIPanelTemplates.xml near the end of the file. The guild frame uses these templates, while the social frame used a static texture until 4.3.

The offset is different due to the static texture being wider than the visible graphic, requiring the tabs to be inset. The templates on the other hand use h+v tiling to create a frame whose functional size is the same as its visible size.

A few frames that use these templates are the LFG/LFR, TradeSkill, Talents, PvP Frame, Character Frame, Spell Book and more that I'm to tired to look up/remember.

Thanks for the explanation!

12-01-11, 10:46 PM
Gethe A Deviate Faerie Dragon Forum posts: 12 File comments: 30 Uploads: 0	The reason is the panel templates Blizz added in Cata, found in FrameXML/UIPanelTemplates.xml near the end of the file. The guild frame uses these templates, while the social frame used a static texture until 4.3. The offset is different due to the static texture being wider than the visible graphic, requiring the tabs to be inset. The templates on the other hand use h+v tiling to create a frame whose functional size is the same as its visible size. A few frames that use these templates are the LFG/LFR, TradeSkill, Talents, PvP Frame, Character Frame, Spell Book and more that I'm to tired to look up/remember.

12-01-11, 10:10 PM
Seerah Fishing Trainer Forum posts: 8673 File comments: 532 Uploads: 21	Thanks, wagg1 for finding exactly what to change before I could look at it. Blizz must have changed the friends frame or something so that it's now the same as the guild frame. I have no clue why they required different x,y offsets before, but now they're the same. __________________ "You'd be surprised how many people violate this simple principle every day of their lives and try to fit square pegs into round holes, ignoring the clear reality that Things Are As They Are." -Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh

12-01-11, 11:12 AM
Terranell Premium Member Forum posts: 49 File comments: 12 Uploads: 0	Thanks for that Wagg1, I was just coming to see if there was an update as Keeping Tabs is such a handy little addition to the ui. Seerah, thanks for the mod, it's one I see and use every day so sometimes forget it's not default

11-30-11, 05:57 PM
wagg1 A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 3 Uploads: 0	Change for P4.3 Hello there. i think ur addon is simple easy and better then the normal tab addons that just add more tabs to the bottom of the frames. yet with P4.3 on the friends list as it has been modified by blizzard ur addon on the social frames is hidden under the frame. so i tried changing the code and in putting "f.nst:SetPoint("TOPLEFT", FriendsFrame, "TOPRIGHT", 2, -45)" at the place of "f.nst:SetPoint("TOPLEFT", FriendsFrame, "TOPRIGHT", -33, -57)" has unhidden the social tabs and makes the addon work again in P4.3 and is great as i did not wish to find another addon that does the same thing as your addon does as i do not see the point to it. If you already know about this fix then nps. just telling you know they are peeps out there that use this and would like it to be updated to work with p4.3 officially Cheers for this problem solving addon

11-06-10, 01:38 AM
Slaxi81 A Murloc Raider Forum posts: 4 File comments: 181 Uploads: 1	Perfect! Thank you very much! Greetings Slaxi __________________ Gnampf!

11-01-10, 08:05 PM

Maziel

A Deviate Faerie Dragon

Forum posts: 18

File comments: 139

Uploads: 9

Originally posted by Dridzt
Resizing the Guild Professions buttons will not solve the underlying issue....

Understood.

Currently I have found another addon that adds a lot more tabs to the bottom from both Social and Friends windows called PutGuildBack.

Between PutGuildBack and the other Guild Professions tabs, I no longer really need KeepingTabs.

It is of course an awesome addon, but after switching I found myself no longer really using the two tabs from KeepingTabs.

The only others I added to complete my Guild/Social/Friends window was the Guild AFK/DND status icon and the Guild Roster Tooltip.

All these complete the mods I have running for the Guild/Social Window.

Last edited by Maziel : 11-01-10 at 08:11 PM.

10-24-10, 09:36 AM
Dridzt A Molten Giant Forum posts: 668 File comments: 667 Uploads: 66	Resizing the Guild Professions buttons will not solve the underlying issue. I've posted on that addon what is the problem and why KeepingTabs can't draw its own buttons. (or other addons that would like to attach frames to the GuildFrame). I'm sure Maldivia will fix it soon, that way or an equivalent/better one. I would also like to keep both addons functioning and I think Guild Professions buttons can't be shrunk more or be relocated. (there's just too many of them to move them to top or bottom) I toyed around with various ideas for an hour and came up with this "proof of concept" 1. Adding savedvariables to KeepingTabs.toc Code: ## SavedVariablesPerCharacter: KeepingTabsPC 2. Adding a slash command /keepingtabs anchor and patch the main file thus: http://www.pastey.net/142023 3. Result: User can do /keepingtabs anchor to toggle between bottom-anchored tabs / side-anchored buttons. Currently it will do a reload to apply because I didn't create separate buttons for each anchoring, but it's possible to create more and swap between the 2 sets 'on the fly' (hiding one set and showing the other)

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