Hide frame on escape but not on control lost

[Lombra]

I use UISpecialFrames to make my frames hide on escape. (and some other actions) I like this feature. What I don't like is how these frames also gets hidden on PLAYER_CONTROL_LOST. Normally this is annoying. When it closes my whisper frame while I'm in the middle of typing a message, which then gets lost, it's completely retarded. Is there some neat way to fix this?

Looking at the code, I could probably do without it closing on any of the non hardware driven events, such as player dead, entering world.

Actually I might just unregister the event on the UIParent. That won't cause taint, will it? All it does apart from closing all windows is setting UIParent.isOutOfControl = 1, which doesn't seem to be used anywhere.

Would still like to work around the other events if possible. Entering world I could probably do something with leaving world. Not sure about player dead. There's no such thing as getCurrentEvent() is there? How about get current hardware event? I know about GetMouseButtonClicked, but that won't cover escape, obviously.

[semlar]

Unregistering the event won't cause taint. As far as I know registering an event won't either, so if you only want to temporarily disable it while the edit box is shown you should be able to do that.

[Duugu]

<Frame name="UIParent" setAllPoints="true" protected="true" frameStrata="MEDIUM">

I'm not very familar with this, but doesn't protected="true" basically mean that calling UIParent:UnregisterEvent() out of tainted code will cause taint?

[Phanx]

Originally Posted by Duugu I'm not very familar with this, but doesn't protected="true" basically mean that calling UIParent:UnregisterEvent() out of tainted code will cause taint?

No; unregistering an event on a secure frame does not taint the frame. Every unitframe addon in existence unregistered UNIT_NAME_UPDATE on their secure group headers before Blizzard broke automated title-swapping, and they still unregister events and do other stuff to the Blizzard uniframes to hide them, all of which can be un-done by re-registering the events and the Blizzard frames will return to working normally without any taint complaints.