oUF - Layout discussion
 

The old oUF thread over at WoWace has become, quite a monster to say it softly. It's a mess of bug reports, layout issues and general issues/feature people have/want.

Please use this thread for layout discussion only.

Related forum thread: oUF - General discussion
Bug reports and feature requests should be posted over at the author portal. Issues with specific layouts should be posted in their respective place (not here, unless you are the author of the layout in question (and don't you dare to bend this exception! :p)).

Haste, is there actually a way to overwrite/override the pvp functions, because I prefer a textual tag, but would like to do that by not editting the oUF core?

There isn't any internal functions for that on PvP, mostly because it's a shared event, and the shared event system is still to be written.

You can however do: self.UNIT_FACTION = myOwnUpdatePvPFunction;. Setting functions directly on the layout doesn't touch the core at all.

Thanks :) I'll do that. I still get freaked out when I see the pvp icon, so I figured it'd be better for my heart to use text. :P

Is it possible to change the level of a text (fontstring) the same way it works for frames (SetFrameLevel).
I'm toying with portraits and would like to display something over it, but right now the portrait comes above of the text.

Maybe I can help you out here. You could just use a helperframe that lays between portrait and text.

Ahhh, clever, gonna give it a try right now :)

Actually it's not really helping much in my case, here's what i'm trying to do.



Unfortunately i already had to lower the portrait's alpha to 0.25 to be able to read the value and see the healthbar progression.

Please post the code of your fontstring, helper and the portrait.

In the example above i didn't use any helper, here it is though

In this case, it looks ok but isn't really useable, if i increase the alpha, the value and also the health bar progression are impossible to see.

At what layer is your font-strings created? OVERLAY should position your text above the model just fine.

Yes But you made me think i had to do this to have my mouseover highlight to work corectly

Then it's probably your portrait that has a rather high frame level. You can do the following however:
a) Change the frame level of the portrait.
or
b) Create the font-strings with the portrait as parent.

Weird, i'm sure i tried to change the portrait level before and it didn't work for some reason, now it does. Anyway thanks, though i don't know yet if i like the result or not :)

Anyway, i'd like to understand something, since i've added portraits, i've created a "fake" frame above them so they don't look so flat, i've anchored a few things to that "fake" frame, like health value, power value and so on and it works just fine. But, when i try to do the same with Druidmana, it works but return an error. I'm not sure to understand it because it works for everything else using the exact same method, why not for Druidmana.

Line 464 being my SetFontString
In the following example it's working just fine
Another question, i want to hide my target's name if it's casting and display the castbar text instead.
This didn't work, apparently self.Castbar.Text:GetText()) is not correct, is there any other way ? (only the hide part doesn't work here, the rest is fine, i just paste the whole thing)
Note: WTB [tt] tag plz ? :)

Creating Frame
 

Hi!

I wanted to create a black frame under player and target-frame.

It worked for the player-frame, as you can see on the screenshot:


But I'm not able to get it working for the target-frame.
Any ideas how the code should look like?

Here's my noobish code for the player-frame:
thx,
Vadda

im pretty sure its the :SetPoint('TOP', self, 'BOTTOM', 0, -9) part. You should use the name of the frames instead(names are defined where you spawn the frame) or use "oUF.units.player" and "oUF.units.target".

something like
blackframe:SetPoint('TOP', oUF.units.player, 'BOTTOM', 0, -9)
blackframe2:SetPoint('TOP', oUF.units.target, 'BOTTOM', 0, -9)

@Caellian:

try using "SetFont" instead of "SetFontString".

ie.: self.DruidManaText = SetFont(font, 10)





which lead me to the question... why use setfontstring? what does it have more than setfont? whats the point of setting a parent there?

Its a function to create the whole fontstring

I created a second blackbar like this:


Now I see the second black-bar constantly on the bottom of the screen.
Even if I have no target selected. Quite weird.

I use SetFontString instead of CreateFontString because i have a SetFontString function at the top of my layout including all the default i want for all my fonts, so i don't have to repeat them each time. I don't know if it's a good reason but that's why i do that :)

Didn't work

But anyway, i really have no clue why it works for everything but DruidMana.

some help please
 

how in the earth do you move stuff, do you need to edit something in the .lua files or something


would love you help

Zynix

i have a trouble with target names, they run on target hp http://img139.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lolnv5.jpg
how it to correct?
P.S. sorry for my english (:

Caellian, you really need to stop using that edit button :p. Especially when you add ten pages of text (and that 3 hours after it's been posted).

1) "Interface\AddOns\oUF_Caellian\oUF_Caellian.lua:56: attempt to index local 'parent' (a nil value)" tells you that you should take a look at line 56 in your layout code.

2) :GetText() returns a string containing the text of the fontstring, it won't do some magic updating for you. What you could do is to remove .Name, and use the castbar .Text to display name. You can do this with a post hook in the stop functions. Remember that you will have to do all the name updating yourself, and that is has to be aware of casts/channels.

vaddn, use locals and not globals when you create those frames. The initial code should work fine with that.

zhz, it's because your fontstrings have no width limitations. You can set these with :SetWidth and/or :SetPoint.

zynix, read up on :SetPoint, and look for it in the layout. Usually placed at the bottom.

Works like a charm...thx...made my day

Did you get this to work? I'd be really interested to see the code you used if you did as it is something that I'd like to add as well. I too would prefer to see a text tag rather than the icon... for some reason the icon doesn't always register in my brain whereas text does. :o

On another note, is it possible to add the AFK and DND flags with oUF? I've tried looking, but haven't managed to find an answer yet. The only reason I ask is that I have a bad habit of setting flags and forgetting about them if there is nothing to remind me on my character frame.

You can easily do this with custom tags, but it doesnt really have anything to do with unitframes, so thats the reason haste havent implemented it.

You could add some custom tags:

(note: I'm not certain if the event is correct as I don't have access to WoW currently.)

and then use those tags as you would normally.

PLAYER_FLAGS_CHANGED is the event

(dont be fooled by the name of the event, it works for any unit)

One question, i would like to have my experience bar to show but only when i mouseover it.

I've tried something like the code below but obviously it doesn't work, i know it's wrong but that's all i could come up with using wowwiki and unfortunately i couldn't find any better information on how to do this.

I don't know the code for your .Experience, so I'm just assuming it's a frame. The following will make it appear/disappear when you hover it:
You will have to use the OnEnter/OnLeave handler on the frame if you want it to show/hide when you enter the unit frame as a whole however. The above will only work for when you hover the position for the actual frame. You should also use :Hide/:Show in that case, and not :SetAlpha.

Thanks a lot i will give it a try, it's a statusbar btw. (here's the main part of it)

Thats a frame

Yes sry, but that didn't do anything, i've added this to the experience block, tried with both alpha-show/hide.

You'll need to set the alpha to 0 when it's loaded as well, or else it will be shown until moused over.

soo:

...I am not editing, i am not editing, i am not editing...

Nvm the above, actually i didn't even need to use that, i just edited my current OnEnter/OnLeave, thanks for the hints.

I've added self.Experience:Hide() to the exp block but it still is shown on login though.

Line 72 of oUF_Experience bar:Show().

So you'll need to force it to hide when shown i.e.

Hmm this doesn't work at all

I forgot the "function" bit, amoung other things :P.

Post edited so it'll work now.

Yes yes now it works, it's hidden on login, but it won't show up anymore :D

This is what i've got, hidden on login, but doesn't show up on mouseover.

Beginning of the style (where the OnEnter/OnLeave were)

And at the end of the self.Experience block

P3lim, if i use yours with i get a . Line 282 is yours just above.

Hiding Cooldown
 

Starting with latest oUF and oUF_Ammo layout. I'm using OmniCC for cooldown numbers, but I'd prefer not to show the numbers or clock animation.

I found the block of code in aura.lua that shows or hides the cooldown on the icon, but I haven't been able to figure out what code to call in oUF_Ammo to turn it off permanently. I can, of course, comment out the block of code, but then I'd have to do that every time I get a new version.

I also tried creating my own PostUpdateAuraIcon like looked like this:

But that code didn't work. Can someone point me in the right direction, please?

drycoded

That's what I have to disable omnicc cd counts.

Well, phooey. I originally tried adding button.cd:Hide() to auraIcon in oUF_Ammo. That's the name of the function that overloaded PostCreateAuraIcon.

Here is what I tried for that:

All I did was add that last line. Thanks for the help!

If you want to disable OmniCC for a cooldown frame.

Add a "noCooldownCount" entry for it.

i.e.

Aight, progress, by using
And then self.Experience:SetAlpha(0) in the Experience block, it's correctly hidden on login, and show/hide when i mouseover the player frame. Also, the experience tooltip shows up when i mouse over the experience bar position but the bar stays hidden, or even better have the tooltip shown when i mouse over the player frame, but i don't think it's doable.

Haste explained this
But i'm not sure to understand it correctly. What should i change to have the experience bar shown when i mouse over it instead of the player frame ?

I'm setting up player auras and wanted to have them displayed with a numeric duration next to them, like Elk's BuffBars (just time, I don't care about bars).

Looking at the Blizzard API's, it seems like you're only supposed to be able to get durations for things you cast. Elk's code gets around this (I think) with the follow type of code:

It also looks like there's a lookup table in there for recording/comparing the maximum time. Furthermore, I'm aware that the way you get aura information and calculate duration is changing, but until it does, I'd like to do things for the Live server.

I think I can duplicate this, but I'd love two pointers:

1. Is PostUpdateAuraIcon() the hook I want to be using for this? It seems to have the information I want and is per-aura.
2. If so, why is the 'index' parameter a table?

Still noobish with this stuff.

It isn't.

You're missing an argument in your function, hence to offset. Also do note that EBB only operates on your buffs, and that the index of GetPlayerBuff doesn't equal that of UnitBuff.

Fixing my faulty parameterization makes complete sense.

As to EBB, I suppose it's a good thing that I'm only interested in Buffs then. That code snippet was from EBB code, but likely from a incorrect context. Since I could can query the auras now *cough*, it should be easier to play with and figure out.

If you want the experience to be shown when the cursor is over the exp bar as well, then I would add:

You always have the time for auras on yourself and your pet(?). It's when the auras are on other units that you only get the time for ones you cast. That's how the API works. And EBB does work for target, but if it's something you didn't cast, it won't have a time for it.

My confusion stemmed from the that I'd only be able to query the duration on the auras on myself that I cast.

I was looking through the aura.lua code, saw only references to UnitBuff() and the like. Those functions only return durations on stuff cast by the player, so I thought that was the limitation. Getting information in a general way seems like the best method of doing things, so I didn't even think to search for a player specific version of those functions. GetPlayerBuffTimeLeft() is the ticket. Lesson learned. Thanks for the help!

I wasn't aware of that, but fair enough. I have been trying to wrap my head around custom tags, but keep hitting a brick wall. :confused:

Is there a good example of how to implement this that you know of and I could take a look at? The theory seemed simple enough, but I have failed miserably to understand it. :(

Is there a way to show temp enhancements (Weapon Buffs) in the aura?

Take a look at my raid layout (oUF Perfect), its based on pure tags for text

Not without you doing all the work. The current weapon enchant API is _horrible_, and requires polling to even work. They are completely disconnected from the unit auras, and oUF will _never_ support them as long as that's the case/

I came across a bizzare situation while setting up oUF. I don't think it's strictly related to oUF, but hopefully the bright minds reading this thread will have an idea as to why it happens.

Basically I spawned the party header, and no matter what I did the party members didn't show up. Calling :Show() on the party header manually would show the party for a split second then it would be hidden again. After long time of scratching my head, I decided to disable the other addons I use, and the party showed just fine. Then I enabled my addons one by one and narrowed down the problem to ClearFont2: if I have ClearFont2 enabled, oUF party header won't show up, if I disable it, the party shows up.

This strikes me as quite a strange issue, I can't see what the link is between a secure party header and ClearFont2. Could it be that enabling CF2 loads a library that messes the header up? I'd appreciate if anybody has an idea on the cause of this, and even more how I could go about debugging this issue. What can affect the visibility of the header, generally speaking?

Thanks in advance!

A easy way to debug it is by doing the following on your header:
Then you just have to analyze the debug stack :).

Exp mouseover take 2
 

Aight, still on about the experience mouseover thingy, but with some progress this time.

It's now working correctly, 'almost', with the following code in the exp block of the layout, the exp bar + tooltip shows and hides on mouseover as expected.
There is one very small issue left, on login or /rl, i have to mouseover the player frame before it starts working. If i don't do that, when i mouseover the exp bar only the tooltip is shown, not the bar itself.

Not to be completely evil (but quite a bit). Think about exactly what you logically want to do (all the steps of hooking and calling), and what you are doing now.

Or put in another way: Explain to yourself exactly what your code does every time you execute those two functions.