WoWInterface - Hooking TimeManagerClockButton

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sacrife

08-20-10 11:15 PM

Hooking TimeManagerClockButton

Is there a way for me to hook the TimeManagerClockButton and add some text to it? I'm trying to add the date aswell as the time with seconds.

Code:

date("%d/%m - %H:%M:%S")

p3lim

08-21-10 05:53 AM

Code:

local addon = CreateFrame('Frame')

addon:RegisterEvent('ADDON_LOADED')

addon:SetScript('OnEvent', function(self, event, name)

    if(name ~= 'Blizzard_TimeManager') then return end



    TimeManager_UpdateTimeTicker = function()

        TimeManagerFrameTicker:SetText(date('%d/%m - %H:%M:%S'))

    end

end)

sacrife

08-21-10 11:57 AM

Nothing happens so far. What am I misunderstanding?

Code:

----------------------------------

-- Time

----------------------------------

if(not IsAddOnLoaded('Blizzard_TimeManager')) then

  LoadAddOn('Blizzard_TimeManager')

end



local clockFrame, clockTime = TimeManagerClockButton:GetRegions()

clockFrame:Hide()

clockTime:SetFontObject(SystemFont_Tiny)

    if(CalendarGetNumPendingInvites() > 0) then

                clockTime:SetTextColor(0, 1, 0)

        else

                clockTime:SetTextColor(1, 1, 1)

    end

TimeManagerClockButton:SetPoint("BOTTOM", Minimap, 0, 16)

TimeManagerClockButton:SetHeight(8)

TimeManagerClockButton:SetWidth(30)



local addon = CreateFrame('Frame')

addon:RegisterEvent('ADDON_LOADED')

addon:SetScript('OnEvent', function(self, event, name)

    if(name ~= 'Blizzard_TimeManager') then return end

        TimeManager_UpdateTimeTicker = function()

        TimeManagerFrameTicker:SetText(date('%d/%m - %H:%M:%S'))

    end

end)

xConStruct

08-21-10 12:20 PM

Well, you load the 'Blizzard_TimeManager at the beginning of your file, so there is no chance an ADDON_LOADED could fire for it after that code.

Either:
1. place your "addon"-part with the event-function before you call LoadAddOn()
2. remove the event-part and just hook the TimeManager_UpdateTimeTicker func
3. move all your code for the timeManager in the event-function and remove LoadAddOn(), so it gets called when the timeManager is loaded by Blizz.

sacrife

08-21-10 12:33 PM

I tried all your suggestion, still nothing happens.

Suggestion 3:

Code:

----------------------------------

-- Time

----------------------------------



local addon = CreateFrame('Frame')

addon:RegisterEvent('ADDON_LOADED')

addon:SetScript('OnEvent', function(self, event, name)

    if(name ~= 'Blizzard_TimeManager') then return end

        local clockFrame, clockTime = TimeManagerClockButton:GetRegions()

        clockFrame:Hide()

        clockTime:SetFontObject(SystemFont_Tiny)

            if(CalendarGetNumPendingInvites() > 0) then

                clockTime:SetTextColor(0, 1, 0)

            else

                clockTime:SetTextColor(1, 1, 1)

            end

        TimeManagerClockButton:SetPoint("BOTTOM", Minimap, 0, 16)

        TimeManagerClockButton:SetHeight(8)

        TimeManagerClockButton:SetWidth(30)

        TimeManager_UpdateTimeTicker = function()

        TimeManagerFrameTicker:SetText(date('%d/%m - %H:%M:%S'))

    end

end)

xConStruct

08-21-10 12:56 PM

I don't know anything about the timeManager-frame, so I can't say if the code is working correctly, apart from syntax errors. (but I trust p3lim on that one :) )

Does the code in the event-function is called at all? Please check with a print() inside of it - or report whether your clock-modifications are working.
If not, maybe the timeManager-frame is already loaded, but then solution 2) should work.

sacrife

08-21-10 01:03 PM

The clock modifications work fine with that code.

sacrife

08-23-10 07:11 AM

However the text is does not update :(

p3lim

08-23-10 08:16 AM

You need a different event to handle the text, as you are updating it based on the calendar invite events (which you clearly aint using).

The event is CALENDAR_UPDATE_PENDING_INVITES

You can also see how I handled it in pMinimap:
http://github.com/p3lim/pMinimap/blo...p.lua#L269-274

sacrife

08-23-10 11:18 AM

I've tried several different things, all returning errors.

Code:

----------------------------------

-- Time

----------------------------------



local addon = CreateFrame('Frame')

addon:RegisterEvent('ADDON_LOADED')

addon:SetScript('OnEvent', function(self, event, name)

    if(name ~= 'Blizzard_TimeManager') then return end

        local clockFrame, clockTime = TimeManagerClockButton:GetRegions()

        clockFrame:Hide()

        clockTime:SetFontObject(SystemFont_Tiny)

            if(CalendarGetNumPendingInvites() > 0) then

                clockTime:SetTextColor(0, 1, 0)

            else

                clockTime:SetTextColor(1, 1, 1)

            end

        TimeManagerClockButton:SetPoint("BOTTOM", Minimap, 0, 16)

        TimeManagerClockButton:SetHeight(8)

        TimeManagerClockButton:SetWidth(30)

    end

end)



--[[addon:RegisterEvent('CALENDAR_UPDATE_PENDING_INVITES')

addon:SetScript('OnEvent', function(self, event, name)

    if(CalendarGetNumPendingInvites() == 0) then

        TimeManagerClockTicker:SetTextColor(0, 1, 0)

        TimeManagerClockTicker:SetText(date('%d/%m - %H:%M:%S'))

    else

        TimeManagerClockTicker:SetTextColor(1, 1, 1)

        TimeManagerClockTicker:SetText(date('%d/%m - %H:%M:%S'))

    end

end)]]



--[[if(not IsAddOnLoaded('Blizzard_TimeManager')) then

  LoadAddOn('Blizzard_TimeManager')

end



local clockFrame, clockTime = TimeManagerClockButton:GetRegions()

clockFrame:Hide()

clockTime:SetFontObject(SystemFont_Tiny)

    if(CalendarGetNumPendingInvites() > 0) then

                clockTime:SetTextColor(0, 1, 0)

        else

                clockTime:SetTextColor(1, 1, 1)

    end

TimeManagerClockButton:SetPoint("BOTTOM", Minimap, 0, 16)

TimeManagerClockButton:SetHeight(8)

TimeManagerClockButton:SetWidth(30)



local addon = CreateFrame('Frame')

addon:RegisterEvent('ADDON_LOADED')

addon:SetScript('OnEvent', function(self, event, name)

    if(name ~= 'Blizzard_TimeManager') then return end

        TimeManager_UpdateTimeTicker = function()

        TimeManagerFrameTicker:SetText(date('%d/%m - %H:%M:%S'))

    end

end)]]

Phanx

08-23-10 07:58 PM

Well, you have a glaringly obvious syntax error that is almost certainly causing your error (an extra "end" at the end of your event handler) and your code formatting suffers from inconsistent indentation that makes it hard to read. Try this:

Code:

local addon = CreateFrame("Frame")

addon:RegisterEvent("ADDON_LOADED")

addon:SetScript("OnEvent", function(self, event, name)

        if name ~= "Blizzard_TimeManager" then return end



        TimeManagerClockButton:SetPoint("BOTTOM", Minimap, 0, 16)

        TimeManagerClockButton:SetHeight(8)

        TimeManagerClockButton:SetWidth(30)



        local clockFrame, clockTime = TimeManagerClockButton:GetRegions()

        clockFrame:Hide()

        clockTime:SetFontObject(SystemFont_Tiny)



        if CalendarGetNumPendingInvites() > 0 then

                clockTime:SetTextColor(0, 1, 0)

        else

                clockTime:SetTextColor(1, 1, 1)

        end

end)

However, as someone else pointed out, this will only set the clock text color once when you log in. It won't update when you receive an invite later.

Add this to your TOC:

Code:

## LoadOnDemand: 1

## LoadWith: Blizzard_TimeManager

Then your Lua can just look like this:

Code:

TimeManagerClockButton:SetPoint("BOTTOM", Minimap, 0, 16)

TimeManagerClockButton:SetHeight(8)

TimeManagerClockButton:SetWidth(30)



local clockFrame, clockTime = TimeManagerClockButton:GetRegions()

clockFrame:Hide()

clockTime:SetFontObject(SystemFont_Tiny)



local addon = CreateFrame("Frame")

addon:RegisterEvent("PLAYER_LOGIN")

addon:RegisterEvent("CALENDAR_UPDATE_PENDING_INVITES")

addon:SetScript("OnEvent", function(self, event)

        if CalendarGetNumPendingInvites() > 0 then

                clockTime:SetTextColor(0, 1, 0)

        else

                clockTime:SetTextColor(1, 1, 1)

        end

end)

sacrife

08-23-10 10:38 PM

Actually the code works, it was just a copy from a small part of bMinimap which I use.
What returns an error however is the part that's commented out where I have attempted to do what I want.

It seems what I want somehow got lost in this thread so I'll explain again.
I use bMinimap as stated above and I want to add to the Time part of the code so that the clock displays SetText(date('%d/%m - %H:%M:%S')) instead of simply the normal clock and to achieve that I need to constantly update the clock with that text somehow.

SDPhantom

08-24-10 01:51 AM

There appears to be two fontstrings that are being updated, TimeManagerFrameTicker and TimeManagerClockTicker.

TimeManagerFrameTicker is the time that appears over the globe in the clock settings frame, opened by clicking the clock display.
TimeManagerClockTicker is the time in the clock display on the minimap.

TimeManager_UpdateTimeTicker() and TimeManagerClockButton_Update() update these respectively.

lua Code:

if not IsAddOnLoaded("Blizzard_TimeManager") then LoadAddOn("Blizzard_TimeManager"); end
if TimeManagerClockButton_Update and TimeManager_UpdateTimeTicker then
    local tfmt="%d/%m - %H:%M:%S";
    hooksecurefunc("TimeManagerClockButton_Update",function() TimeManagerClockTicker:SetText(date(tfmt)); end);
    hooksecurefunc("TimeManager_UpdateTimeTicker",function() TimeManagerFrameTicker:SetText(date(tfmt)); end);
end

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