Issue with textures

[TheSecretSquirrel]

Hello!

I'm trying to make a bar at the base of my screen, however when I try to change the texture or colour of the bar, it is displayed green, even if the path to the texture is correct.

I've looked around, but none of the solutions seem to work.

code:

local MainBackgroundFrame = CreateFrame("Frame",nil,UIParent)
MainBackgroundFrame:SetFrameStrata("BACKGROUND")
MainBackgroundFrame:SetWidth(1920)
MainBackgroundFrame:SetHeight(32)

local MainBackgroundTexture = MainBackgroundFrame:CreateTexture(nil,"BACKGROUND")
MainBackgroundTexture:SetTexture("Interface\\AddOns\\UIADDONTEST\\Textures\\backdrop.tga")
MainBackgroundTexture:SetAllPoints(MainBackgroundFrame)
MainBackgroundFrame.texture = MainBackgroundTexture

MainBackgroundFrame:SetPoint("bottom",0,0)
MainBackgroundFrame:Show()

Thanks

Squirrel

[Fizzlemizz]

Most comon problems are people adding new textures and not completly exiting the game before using.

The length of the sides of the texture must be a power of 2 (not just divisible by 2) eg. 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, or 512.

[TheSecretSquirrel]

Awesome, fixed it with a restart

Another quick question: How would I change the alpha of this texture, or can I not (do I have to change the base image, outside of wow).

[Fizzlemizz]

Texture:SetAlpha(n) where n is a number between zero and one.

Here's a list of texture methods.

[TheSecretSquirrel]

Awesome, thank you so much

[Yukyuk]

Use MainBackgroundTexture:SetAlpha(Number)

Number - a floating-point number between 0 and 1: 1 is fully opaque, 0 is transparent (in fact, invisible).

[Yukyuk]

Originally Posted by Yukyuk Use MainBackgroundTexture:SetAlpha(Number) Number - a floating-point number between 0 and 1: 1 is fully opaque, 0 is transparent (in fact, invisible).

Aww, beaten by Fizzlemizz

[MunkDev]

http://wowprogramming.com/docs/widgets

You can use wowprogramming to look up any type of widget, their defined methods and inherited methods.