FluidFrames
Move, hide, scale, and resize frames with independent x&y axes.
Usage Instructions:
Unsaved Movement
Drag almost any normal UI Panel (e.g. CharacterFrame, SpellbookFrame, TalentFrame, QuestLogFrame, FriendsFrame, etc.) from any open space on the frame. This movement is intended to be for temporary changes and does not store location in the FluidFrames database.
However, this movement registers the frame as user placed. The position will be remembered by the WoW client and restored on subsequent login/reloadui if not overridden by placement code (e.g. CharacterFrame, Minimap). Most of these draggable frames reset if you hide and re-show them.
Some frames will not reset automatically (e.g. GameMenuFrame, BattlefieldFrame). To reset these, highlight the frame, right click to reset and then reloadui/relog.
The MinimapCluster is an added exception case and can be dragged by the top bar.
Temporary dragging can be disabled using the checkbox in the Khoas options.
Saved Movement
Assign a key-binding [Main Menu > Key Bindings > FluidFrames > Highlight Mouse Frame] to select, highlight and cycle through frames under the cursor. (The "Highlight All Mouse Frames" binding cycles through all frames under the cursor, including unnamed ones.)
Put your cursor over the frame you want to move and use the key-binding. It will select the frame the furthest underneath. Consecutively using the key-binding will highlight frames closer to the front. Hold shift while using the key-binding to cycle backwards through the frames.
Drag the highlighted frame to relocate it permanently. It will disable movement from other code sources and save across sessions.
Hold shift and drag from the sides or corners to resize.
Hold shift and drag the bottom right re-scale icon to re-scale.
Right-click to reset a moved/resized/rescaled frame once highlighted.
Notes:
To drag some bars you have to drag the 1st button.
To move the primary action button bar drag ActionButton1.
To find the ShapeshiftBarFrame put your mouse over the left edge of the 1st button when using the key-binding.
To drag all the player buffs & debuffs make sure you drag the TemporaryEnchantFrame.
To move Chat Frames just unlock and use the default tabs.
To drag the TargetFrame make sure you don't drag the TargetFrameTextureFrame on accident.
To move the whole minimap drag the MinimapCluster.
Experiment with which frame to change. if it doesn't work the way you wanted just right-click to reset.
Some frames have complex sub frames that update their locations independent of parent size. If resizing doesn't work well try scaling.
If secure frames are moved by default blizzard code while in combat they cannot be moved back until after combat. Also, you will not be able to drag secure frames in combat.
back here. Oh a answer ok thanks. I was back just to say being kinda new i tried and installed many addons and from all i like this more. Good joob. Now i can move resize etc anything for best view
auctioner - great job like all addons but it made me to buy accidentally a expensive item by clicking trying to resize etc and i left it anyway, is to complicated and im lazy lol
I still think is a way for experts to make the AH window larger (all screen is good) and to see more rows with items and other important thing - usually we have the mouse over the arrows to scroll down and next to arrows if we make click no a row it didnt show the item description (need to move the mouse to the item)- so ill be good to see the description when we click next to scrolling arrow - making browsing AH faster. Sry my english
also the quests window or exactly the inside window with quests rows is verry little (well done blizzard we see 2 guests from 25 lol and need to scroll like crazzy) - this should be improved too by a addon...
Last edited by xromania : 07-19-2008 at 07:45 AM.
Originally posted by xromania thanks. About AH window, i saw he have 2 frames, main and the one with rows (items), i just want to resize the main to see more rows but cant (i can but the rows window is resized too and i dont want that). Ill try more but probably isnt posible
The number of rows is hard coded.
And currently even for real scroll frames, like the quest frame, if you resize it it will adjust the font of the child and attached frames. And there's no current way with FF to resize a frame while leaving it relatively attached to it's parent.
Basically it would require an addon to do what you want. Auctioneer, for example, makes the rows less tall by making the icon only show on hover, and adds more rows.
thanks. About AH window, i saw he have 2 frames, main and the one with rows (items), i just want to resize the main to see more rows but cant (i can but the rows window is resized too and i dont want that). Ill try more but probably isnt posible
Last edited by xromania : 07-06-2008 at 12:13 AM.
Originally posted by xromania ok im kinda new and i think this is a good addon but HOW I ACCES HIS commands. I installed it, i typed like for all addons some like /fluidframes = nothing happen, and on screen i have not a button for this addon.
edit-i saw finally after 3 days (no answer here in 3 days?..) some fluidframes options in main game option, there is? and finally i was able to edit a non-main frame (the quest window for example) but i cant resize it, only move. Ill try with the AH window, if i can resize it. We cant resize non-main windows like these?
From the Fluid Frames page:
* Assign a key-binding [Main Menu > Key Bindings > FluidFrames > Highlight Mouse Frame] to select, highlight and cycle through frames under the cursor. (The "Highlight All Mouse Frames" binding cycles through all frames under the cursor, including unnamed ones.)
* Put your cursor over the frame you want to move and use the key-binding. It will select the frame the furthest underneath. Consecutively using the key-binding will highlight frames closer to the front. Hold shift while using the key-binding to cycle backwards through the frames.
* Drag the highlighted frame to relocate it permanently. It will disable movement from other code sources and save across sessions. * Hold shift and drag from the sides or corners to resize.
* Hold shift and drag the bottom right re-scale icon to re-scale.
* Right-click to reset a moved/resized/rescaled frame once highlighted.
I highlighted the section regarding how to resize a frame.
ok im kinda new and i think this is a good addon but HOW I ACCES HIS commands. I installed it, i typed like for all addons some like /fluidframes = nothing happen, and on screen i have not a button for this addon.
edit-i saw finally after 3 days (no answer here in 3 days?..) some fluidframes options in main game option, there is? and finally i was able to edit a non-main frame (the quest window for example) but i cant resize it, only move. Ill try with the AH window, if i can resize it. We cant resize non-main windows like these?
Last edited by xromania : 07-05-2008 at 08:16 AM.
Originally posted by Oakayam I don't use Khoas but i like my frames to be always draggable. It seems that by default now temporary dragging is disabled. How do i get it back?
This would be lovely when answered. I really want to have default functionality of being able to drag frames. Khaos is not so good.
Been trying desperately to hide the target-frame, got any tips for me?
If i hide it, de-select, select someone and it's back again.
I've got no other addons messing with my targetframe that i know of or any other frame-modifying mods.
Would really appreciate some assistance in this matter, other than this i think this mod is top-notch.
Keep fighting the good fight.
Edit: Don't know if ArcHud2 is what caused the problem but i found the option to hide both the target and the player-frame there, so at this time, it's all good :>
Thanks.
Originally posted by Luciant i hid the player and target frames because i was using another mod, but now i cant get them back!
how do you get something you hid back? it doesnt find it when i try selecting the area where it was!?!?! and there is seemingly no way to do a slash command to reset everything fluidframes has set.... this is ridiculous
i hid the player and target frames because i was using another mod, but now i cant get them back!
how do you get something you hid back? it doesnt find it when i try selecting the area where it was!?!?! and there is seemingly no way to do a slash command to reset everything fluidframes has set.... this is ridiculous
Does anyone know of any addons that specifically conflict with FluidFrames? For reference, I tend to use mostly Ace/Rock addons, nothing really out of the ordinary, as well as a few stand alones (like Bongos3 comes to mind).
I just finished up with a complete re-make of my UI (really, really started from scratch...no WTF or Interface folders existed as I started the rebuild) and it simply doesn't seem to work. I can't grab/move any frames, though the keybinds are listed and defined in the Keybinding menu.
I primarily use this addon to handle temporary frames movement, for those times when something just happens to need to move due to overlapping or being easier to see at a given moment. So, I haven't tried actually perma-moving any of the frames around to see if that even works for me.
Any suggestions could save me a lot of time. I didn't have a chance yet to go through the tedious process of disable/enable toggling for all my addons to identify any possible conflicts. Sadly, I don't seem to get any errors that could point me in the right direction either.
(Sorry, I write a lot... :> )
Last edited by NeuronRider : 04-22-2008 at 09:53 AM.
Two requests:
1.) Any chance you can allow the user to change the opacity of a selected frame?
2.) Is there a way to turn off the "Unsaved Movements"? (Don't really care about this one)
Other than that, nice addon! I used MoveIt to change the location of my spell casting bar but the addon conflicted with Cartographer, giving me lua errors every time I opened my map. FluidFrames (this addon), on the other hand, works perfectly!
