Anchoring in LUA

[Tomine]

I am trying to anchor an addon (stExperience) to my Player Frame. The default anchor was to the Minimap, but when I changed it to be attached to Player, it would not anchor. If I move my player frame, the experience bar I anchored to it does not move with it.

Am I doing something wrong...? The bar itself is fine and dandy, working as intended, but it does not seem to want to anchor to my Player frame: grrr. if anyone knows what I can do to fix this, please let me know!

[Seerah]

Are you anchoring it to a frame named Player or a frame named PlayerFrame?

[Tomine]

Originally Posted by Seerah Are you anchoring it to a frame named Player or a frame named PlayerFrame?

If I anchor it to PlayerFrame, the experience bar disappears altogether. If I change it to Player, it reappears.

I originally thought it had to be PlayerFrame, but the addon went POOF when I typed PlayerFrame. Thus why I am so very confused. : ( I have the Y and X both at 0.

[Seerah]

Well, what is the frame's actual name? Type /framestack and hover over to see. If you are using the default Blizz UFs, then I'm fairly certain that it's named PlayerFrame. If your x and y are set to 0, then the experience bar would be centered at the player frame. Note, if you have its strata or level lower than the unit frame, then it will be behind it.

[Tomine]

Ah! It worked when I attached it to Stuf.units.player... now I feel silly.. Thank you very much for taking the time to help me. I was so lost with myself. : )

[Tomine]

Originally Posted by Tomine Ah! It worked when I attached it to Stuf.units.player... now I feel silly.. Thank you very much for taking the time to help me. I was so lost with myself. : )

Actually, scratch that.. it is not anchored to it. x___x The experience bar will not move with the player frame when I change its position. Back to the drawing board...

[Haleth]

Can you show us the code you're using?

It's also possible that you need to 'delay' your code until Stuf has actually created the player frame, using an OnEvent function. Preferably, wait until VARIABLES_LOADED has fired. Something like this:

local f = CreateFrame("Frame")
f:RegisterEvent("VARIABLES_LOADED")
f:SetScript("OnEvent", function()
--your code goes here
end)

[Tomine]

This is the line I am trying to edit:

--------AnchorPoint, AnchorTo, RelativePoint, xOffset, yOffset
local Anchor = { "TOP", Stuf.units.player, "BOTTOM", 1, 191 }

[Seerah]

Yes, but that doesn't tell us *when* you're trying to do this.