WoWInterface - Frame highlight mouseover

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Frame highlight mouseover

What's the correct/best way to create a highlight effect when mousing over a frame?

If you don't mind making the frame intercept mouse clicks then you can do it like

Lua Code:

frame:EnableMouse()
frame:SetScript('OnEnter', function() highlightStuff end)
frame:SetScript('OnLeave', function() unHighightStuff end)

Otherwise you can check frame:IsMouseOver() OnUpdate.

I think buttons have highlight scripts set up by default.

Works perfect thank you!

If you just want to show textures and/or font strings on mouseover (like the highlight texture on buttons in default UI) you don't need to use scripts; you can just put them on the "HIGHLIGHT" layer:

Code:

-- A transparent yellow texture will appear on mouseover:

local highlightTexture = frame:CreateTexture(nil, "HIGHLIGHT")

highlightTexture:SetAllPoints(true)

highlightTexture:SetTexture(1, 1, 0, 0.5)



-- The word "Mouse!" will appear on mouseover:

local highlightFontString = frame:CreateFontString(nil, "HIGHLIGHT", "GameFontNormalLarge")

highlightFontString:SetPoint("CENTER")

highlightFontString:SetText("Mouse!")