Hiding an unwanted border

[Wimpface]

I've been struggling with this for a few weeks now, and people are pressuring me to update my UI so I figured I'll have to deal with it once and for all.

There's an unwanted border in my editbox that takes it's color from the channel I'm sending to and I can't figure out how to get rid of it. I've searched for a texture name, I've tried using /framestack to see what it's called, but I come up empty every time. I'm not sure this is default, as I've stripped bits from multiple chat addons to get the functionality I want.



As you can see, it looks quite displaced with the round, blizzard-esque border in there.

Here's my code, hosted on github.
https://gist.github.com/anonymous/8493437

I thought...

for i = 1, NUM_CHAT_WINDOWS do
	local editBoxleft = _G[format("%s%d%s", "ChatFrame", i, "EditBoxLeft")]
	local editBoxright = _G[format("%s%d%s", "ChatFrame", i, "EditBoxRight")]
	local editBoxmid = _G[format("%s%d%s", "ChatFrame", i, "EditBoxMid")]
	editBoxleft:SetAlpha(0)
	editBoxright:SetAlpha(0)
	editBoxmid:SetAlpha(0)
end

... would deal with it but it "only" took care of everything else, not this one border.

Is this even default functionality? I noticed rChat has it aswell. I can't find anything in the code that would add it though, but I've made sillier mistakes before.

Does anyone know how to hide this?

[Clamsoda]

Change the global accordingly.

ChatFrame1EditBox.focusLeft:SetTexture(nil)
ChatFrame1EditBox.focusMid:SetTexture(nil)
ChatFrame1EditBox.focusRight:SetTexture(nil)

When you are searching for odd bits like this, it helps to see what GetRegions() returns.

[Wimpface]

Originally Posted by Clamsoda Change the global accordingly. ChatFrame1EditBox.focusLeft:SetTexture(nil) ChatFrame1EditBox.focusMid:SetTexture(nil) ChatFrame1EditBox.focusRight:SetTexture(nil) When you are searching for odd bits like this, it helps to see what GetRegions() returns.

Thanks a lot, that worked!

I tried seeing what GetRegions() returned, but I just got this and I've no idea how to decipher those.

[Clamsoda]

-- Let's assume there are 15 regions.  There may be more, there may be less.
for i = 1, 15 do 
    print(select(i, ChatFrame1EditBox:GetRegions()):GetName()) 
end

What does that do? A lot of Blizzard's objects have a name, that may make things easier to decipher.

The tough part, I have found, is that some regions without names are the ones you want to modify, so it takes some trial and error.

[Wimpface]

Originally Posted by Clamsoda -- Let's assume there are 15 regions.  There may be more, there may be less. for i = 1, 15 do     print(select(i, ChatFrame1EditBox:GetRegions()):GetName()) end What does that do? A lot of Blizzard's objects have a name, that may make things easier to decipher. The tough part, I have found, is that some regions without names are the ones you want to modify, so it takes some trial and error.

EDIT: Posted too soon, this method would've worked. What you can't see in the picture is a bunch of nils before the top one, probably things I've hidden already. I ran the code from ingame, instead of via an addon.

[Clamsoda]

The nils are regions without names, perhaps. I believe GetName() returns the global name of the object. If it hasn't got one, there's nothing to return.

[Phanx]

Most backgrounds and borders in the default UI have neither global names nor keys on their parents, since the default UI never does anything with them after creating them.

I use the following debugging function for region-exploring in my "sandbox" addon; it will print a full list of the given object's regions:

function DumpRegions(frame)
	if type(frame) == "string" then
		frame = _G[frame]
	end
	if type(frame) ~= "table" or not frame.GetRegions then
		return print("Usage: DumpRegions(frame) - frame must be a valid frame reference or name!")
	end
	local regions = { frame:GetRegions() }
	print(format("%s has %d regions:", frame:GetName() or "<frame>", #regions))
	for i = 1, #regions do
		local region, parentKey = regions[i]
		for k, v in pairs(frame) do
			if v == region then
				parentKey = k
				break
			end
		end
		print(format("%d. %s (%s) %s", i, region:GetName() or "<unnamed>", region:GetObjectType(), parentKey or ""))
	end
end

Usage: /run DumpRegions(ChatFrame1EditBox)

(Yes, that's a global function name, and yes, that's a single-use table creation inside a function, and no, that's not permission to use global function names and create tables in functions in your production code. )

[Clamsoda]

Ooh, that's pretty slick Phanx. I am sure I'll be putting that to good use ^o^.

[Resike]

/run ChatFrame1EditBox:DisableDrawLayer("BORDER")

Should do the trick, you can also do this with MoveAnything, to disable all frames on a given layer. I'm not sure if it's hides local or unnamed frames too, but i think it should.