Registering frame events

[Krag72]

I've never really gotten comfortable with tags (and yes, I really should just look at a few layouts and learn it) so I still use update functions for pretty much everything.

One thing I always run into is registering the name update event. Right now I do something like this (which I'm sure isn't quite the way to do go) to get it to work

	self.UNIT_NAME_UPDATE = UpdateName
	table.insert(self.__elements, UpdateName)

So I was wondering if there's a better/easier/more correct way to do stuff like this (apart from just using the tags already of course)?

[Dawn]

Just use tags, really. It's clean and easy.

[haste]

Registering events:

self:RegisterEvent('EVENT', function)

Do note that oUF doesn't unregister events when you register the same event twice (to different functions). oUF will call myFunction and myOtherFunction when UNIT_AURA triggers.

self:RegisterEvent('UNIT_AURA', myFunction)
self:RegisterEvent('UNIT_AURA', myOtherFunction)

You might also want to know that:

table.insert(self.__elements, UpdateName)

Isn't directly related to events. It's how we can piggyback on the elements system to force updates of our function when oUF does a full update cycle.

[Krag72]

Thanks for the explanation. It ended up with my mistakes stemming from the notion that UNIT_NAME_UPDATE was getting fired when I changed targets, when in fact it pretty much never gets fired at all (I need to find some regular mob that changes names so I can test that part of my frames) and thus "needing" to run on full updates for anything to happen.

I registered PLAYER_TARGET_CHANGED in addition now and after a little fiddling everything is just peachy