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Felankor

02-05-09 03:17 PM

Portrait dropdown help

Hi,

Something changed in 3.0.8 which is causing an error in my addon. I can't fix it because I can't find what has changed.

I'm getting the following error:

Code:

attempt to index local 'dropdownFrame' (a nil value)

Heres the code:

Code:

local dropdownFrame = getglobal(UIDROPDOWNMENU_INIT_MENU);

local name = dropdownFrame.name; --<<<<<< This is the line with the error

local button = this.value;

Can anyone tell me how to fix it, or atleast what's changed to cause this error so I can try to work out how to fix it myself.

Thanks in advance

Felankor

Tuhljin

02-05-09 04:34 PM

UIDROPDOWNMENU_INIT_MENU points to the actual frame instead of the frame's name, now. Try this:

Code:

local dropdownFrame = UIDROPDOWNMENU_INIT_MENU;

Mera	02-05-09 05:20 PM

this wont work Tuhl this is

Code:

local dropdownFrame = getglobal(UIDROPDOWNMENU_INIT_MENU);

local name = dropdownFrame:GetName()

Code:

local name = _G["UIDROPDOWNMENU_INIT_MENU"]:GetName()

Felankor

02-06-09 02:52 PM

Thanks for the replies.

Code:

local name = dropdownFrame:GetName()

returns the name of the frame.

Code:

local name = dropdownFrame.name;

returns the name of the target.

However your post still solved my problem so thank you. I got it to work with the following code:

Code:

local dropdownFrame = _G["UIDROPDOWNMENU_INIT_MENU"];

local name = dropdownFrame.name;

Not sure why getglobal didnt work anymore, I'm sure I'm still using it else where in my addon for other things...

Thanks again,

Felankor

Tuhljin

02-06-09 07:43 PM

Code:

local dropdownFrame = _G["UIDROPDOWNMENU_INIT_MENU"];

Code:

local dropdownFrame = UIDROPDOWNMENU_INIT_MENU;

They're the same thing. getglobal doesn't work because, as I said, UIDROPDOWNMENU_INIT_MENU points to the actual frame, not the frame's global name.

Cyn325

02-09-09 11:23 PM

getglobal doesn't work anymore because of changes Blizzard made with their coding. caused an error with a lot of addons.

Tuhljin

02-10-09 04:43 PM

Okay, believe whatever you want. Obviously I'm not going to be able to convince you of this, even though it's extremely simple for an addon author to check these things for themselves.

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