EffectiveScale vs width and height

[Aanson]

Hi again.

I've got a sort..of..viewport border around my screen which I've made to change colour depending on whether I'm in combat, resting, away, dead, etc.

Is there a way to make a frame 'immune' to changes in scale?

I've tried using, for example:

myFrame:SetWidth(GetScreenWidth() * 0.005);

... instead of using a conventional fixed width, but surprisingly, even that doesn't remain the same size when scale is changed.

EDIT: I know there isn't any OnScaleChanged handler that I can use. If I change the scale and re-submit the above code, all seems okay. Is there any way around this necessity?

Is there a magic formula that I'm unaware of?

Thanks in advance as always,

Aanson

[Ekaterina]

Try setting the scale for the frame in code.

myFrame:SetScale(1)

Ekat.

[Aanson]

Originally Posted by Ekaterina Try setting the scale for the frame in code. myFrame:SetScale(1) Ekat.

I don't think that'll do anything. The frame is parented to UIParent. Setting it's scale to 1 will simply make it's scale 100% of it's parent's scale which is currently 83%. GetScale() will return 1 whereas GetEffectiveScale() will return 0.83.

Now that I've slept on it, I don't think it can be done. There's just no way to respond to changes in scale.

Hooking to the appropriate function would work perhaps but I prefer not to do that whenever possible.

Cheers for the suggestion.

[Seerah]

You could just not parent the frame to UI Parent... Do you want it to hide when you hide the interface with Alt-Z?

[Dawn]

I used SetPoint() to cover my viewport with a texture, like this:

	local toppanel = CreateFrame("Frame", nil, UIParent)

 	toppanel:SetPoint("TOPLEFT", -2, 0)
	toppanel:SetPoint("TOPRIGHT", 2, 0)
	toppanel:SetHeight(15)

or consequently

 	toppanel:SetPoint("TOPLEFT", -2, 0)
	toppanel:SetPoint("TOPRIGHT", 2, -15)

Using a small offset for x just to make sure there's no clipping (aka a little visual gap). Not necessarily needed, I suppose.

[Phanx]

frame:SetScale(1 / frame:GetParent():GetEffectiveScale())

[Aanson]

Originally Posted by Seerah You could just not parent the frame to UI Parent... Do you want it to hide when you hide the interface with Alt-Z?

That's an interesting thought. I had always thought that everything in any UI was either directly or indirectly parented to UIParent? What would it parent to if not UIParent?

Kind Regs

Aanson

[Aanson]

Originally Posted by Phanx frame:SetScale(1 / frame:GetParent():GetEffectiveScale())

That's perfect Phanx and exactly the kind of thing that I'm after.

Thank you very much as always and thank's everyone for your help.


Aanson

[SDPhantom]

Having a parent is completely optional. The only reason to parent to UIParent is practically to be able to show and hide when the UI is shown or hidden and also scale with the rest of the UI. If you don't want to set a parent to a frame, you can pass nil to the respective function argument.

[Phanx]

There's also the scaling issue -- if your frame doesn't descend from UIParent, then it annoyingly ignores the user's UI Scale preference.