UIDropDownMenu_AddButton font

[killerpet1986]

Hi I was wondering if anyone knew how to set the font with UIDropDownMenu_AddButton similar to this:



Here is what I have so far:

table.foreach(Notepad.Lib.SharedMedia.MediaList.font, function(ID, text) 
	local info = UIDropDownMenu_CreateInfo();
	info.hasArrow = false;	-- no arrow (for sub menus)
	info.notCheckable = true;	-- not checkable (dot)
	info.keepShownOnClick = false;	-- keep showing the menu when this is clicked
	info.text = text;		-- set the text (name of the file)	
	info.func       = function(self)	--function called on click			
		local FontName = self:GetText()	-- get the text
		local FontPath = Notepad.Lib.SharedMedia:Fetch("font", FontName);				
		local font, size = Notepad.Name_TitleFrame:GetFont();
		
		Notepad.Name_TitleFrame:SetFont(FontPath, size)
	end; 
	UIDropDownMenu_AddButton(info, level);	-- add that button to the menu
end)

[Phanx]

Your screenshot is showing a dropdown created by AceGUI-3.0 by way of AceConfig-3.0 by way of an AceOptions table; it isn't using any part of the regular UIDropDownMenu.

If you'd rather use the UIDropDownMenu, you can look at my addon ShieldsUp for an example of how to build a scrolling dropdown menu that's based on the UIDropDownMenu API, along with a few custom elements. Most of this code is factored out into a pair of portable libraries (PhanxConfig-Dropdown and PhanxConfig-ScrollingDropdown), and then you can see in ShieldsUp how I use the libraries to create a dropdown and change the font of the buttons on the font selection dropdown (and also add a background texture for the statusbar selector). Feel free to use the libraries in your own addon, and reuse any code.

It's probably best to not try to change the fonts of buttons in the default UIDropDownMenu, unless you are extremely careful about resetting them, as the buttons are reused whenever any addon or the default UI shows a UIDropDownMenu, and your changes will affect everyone else.

[killerpet1986]

Thanks for that

I was thinking it was an Ace thing. I had a look at http://wowprogramming.com/utils/xmlb...opDownMenu.lua and couldn't find anything unless I use a fontObject.

I think I will just leave it as the default font.

[Seerah]

Note: in addition to using AceConfig/AceGUI, that menu is also using AceGUI-3.0-SharedMediaWidgets to get the previews.

[killerpet1986]

Looking at phanx's code it does seem a lot better than UIDropDownMenu. I might *cough* borrow *cough* some code

[Phanx]

I tried to add some helpful API functions, as well as reduce the amount of global namespace clutter, compared to the Blizzard templates/functions, while still keeping the look and feel of the Blizzard widgets, and being able to use normal frame-related functions like SetPoint, SetWidth, etc.

If you do use the libraries though, keep in mind that I don't make any effort to keep new versions backwards compatible, so you may want to rename them unless you want to have to always update your addon immediately every time I update one of mine that includes a newer version of the library.

The SVN repo is here if you want to browse:
svn://svn.wowinterface.com/PhanxConfigWidgets-486

[Animor]

I'm a beginner programmer, but I just did something like that in my addon "hebChat". I wasn't aware of Ace3 or other libs, so I did it as a standalone code. In my addon I divided the code into XML and LUA.
This is how it looks like:


XML:

<Frame name="$parent_dropDownList" parentKey="dropDownList" inherits="UIDropDownMenuTemplate">
	<Anchors>
		<Anchor point="LEFT" relativePoint="RIGHT" relativeTo="$parent_dropDownFont">
			<Offset x="-3" y="-3"/>
		</Anchor>
	</Anchors>
	<Size x="250"/>				
	<Scripts>
		<OnLoad>
			hebChatDropDownList_OnLoad(self)
			UIDropDownMenu_SetWidth(self, 150)
			UIDropDownMenu_SetButtonWidth(self, 174)						
			UIDropDownMenu_JustifyText(self, "CENTER")
		</OnLoad>				
	</Scripts>
</Frame>

LUA:

-- Fonts table
hebChat.fonts = {
	["Default Font"] 		= {"No Hebrew", "Fonts\\ARIALN.TTF"},
	["Arial"] 				= {"תירבע", "Interface\\AddOns\\hebChat\\Fonts\\arial.ttf"},
	["Tahoma"] 				= {"תירבע", "Interface\\AddOns\\hebChat\\Fonts\\tahoma.ttf"},
	["Times New Roman"] 	= {"תירבע", "Interface\\AddOns\\hebChat\\Fonts\\times.ttf"},
	["Sans Serif"] 			= {"תירבע", "Interface\\AddOns\\hebChat\\Fonts\\micross.ttf"},
	["Miriam"] 				= {"תירבע", "Interface\\AddOns\\hebChat\\Fonts\\mriam.ttf"},
	["Courier"]				= {"תירבע", "Interface\\AddOns\\hebChat\\Fonts\\courbd.ttf"},
	["David"]				= {"תירבע", "Interface\\AddOns\\hebChat\\Fonts\\david.ttf"},
	["David Bold"]			= {"תירבע", "Interface\\AddOns\\hebChat\\Fonts\\davidbd.ttf"},
	["FrankRuehl"]			= {"תירבע", "Interface\\AddOns\\hebChat\\Fonts\\frank.ttf"},
	["Levenim"]				= {"תירבע", "Interface\\AddOns\\hebChat\\Fonts\\lvnm.ttf"},
	["Narkisim"]			= {"תירבע", "Interface\\AddOns\\hebChat\\Fonts\\nrkis.ttf"},
	["Gisha"]				= {"תירבע", "Interface\\AddOns\\hebChat\\Fonts\\gisha.ttf"},	
}

-- Font Objects table
hebChat.fObjects = {}

-- Create font objects
function hebChat:createFontObjects()
	local fObject = nil
	for k, v in pairs(self.fonts) do
		fObject  = CreateFont(k)
		fObject:SetFont(v[2], 13)
		self.fObjects[k] = fObject
	end
end

-- Selecting a font from dropdown list
local function hebChatDropDownList_OnClick(self, arg1)

	if (hebChatDB.globalEn) then
		hebChatDB.hebFont		= arg1
		hebChatDB.currentFont	= arg1
	else
		hebChatDB.defaultFont	= arg1
		hebChatDB.currentFont	= arg1	
	end
		
	hebChat:setChatFont()	
	UIDropDownMenu_SetText(hebChatConfigPanel.dropDownList, hebChatDB.currentFont)
end

-- Initialize fonts dropdown list
local function hebChatInitializeDropDown(self, level)	
	local info = UIDropDownMenu_CreateInfo()	
	for k, v in pairs(hebChat.fonts) do
		wipe (info)
		info.text = k.."   "..v[1]
		--info.keepShownOnClick = true
		--info.isNotRadio = true
		info.arg1 = k
		info.func = hebChatDropDownList_OnClick
		info.checked = hebChatIsCurrentFont(k)
		info.fontObject = hebChat.fObjects[k]		
		UIDropDownMenu_AddButton(info)
	end
end

function hebChatDropDownList_OnLoad(self)
	UIDropDownMenu_Initialize(self, hebChatInitializeDropDown)
end

[killerpet1986]

Thats a good way of doing it, i wasnt sure about making them into fontObjects myself. However I will have to stick with phanx's code. The thing I noticed about it is that I can register an onenter and onleave script to give a preview of the changing in font and text size