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!Beautycase

Version: 1.1.0

by: Neal [More]

This is a small addon for add fast and efficiently smooth borders to your frames!
You dont need to create a texture for all of your frames annymore. Just this little addon and some code below.
The benefit? The border remains the same, even if the window's size changes. It always looks like it should be.

It's a LUA bases addon. So there are no ingame configurations.

So ok, and how can you use it?

It's quite simple!
!Beautycase has some simple functions.

Create a border

Code:

CreateBorder(myFrame, borderSize, R, G, B, uL1, uL2, uR1, uR2, bL1, bL2, bR1, bR2)

myFrame
-> The name of your frame, It must be a frame not a texture
borderSize
-> The size of the simple square Border. 10-12 looks amazing with the default beautycase texture
R, G, B -> The colors of the Border. r = Red, g = Green, b = Blue
uL1, uL2 -> top left x, top left y
uR1, uR2 -> top right x, top right y
bL1, bL2 -> bottom left x, bottom left y
bR1, bR2 -> bottom right x, bottom right y

Shorter method to add a border with no spacing

Code:

CreateBorder(myFrame, borderSize, r, g, b)

Or simple just one number (x) for the same distance on all corners

Code:

CreateBorder(myFrame, borderSize, r, g, b, x)

Change the border/shadow color

"a" is the alpha, its is an alternative possibility and is not needed

Code:

ColorBorder(self, r, g, b, a)

Code:

ColorBorderShadow(self, r, g, b, a)

Change the border/shadow texture

Why? So when you want to use different textures like a "normal" texture
and a white texture for debuff highlight or as indicator for something

Code:

SetBorderTexture(myFrame, texture.tga)
SetBorderShadowTexture(myFrame, texture.tga)

Get infos about the beautycase border on a frame

Code:

local size, texture, r, g, b, alpha = GetBorderInfo(myFrame)

Try it out und you will see how easy you can add a cool border to your frames!

NEW FEATURES!

Code:

  
    myFrame:CreateBorder(borderSize)
    myFrame:SetBorderSize(borderSize)
    
    myFrame:SetBorderPadding(number or [uL1, uL2, uR1, uR2, bL1, bL2, bR1, bR2])
    
    myFrame:SetBorderTexture(texture)
    myFrame:SetBorderShadowTexture(texture)
    
    myFrame:SetBorderColor(r, g, b)
    myFrame:SetBorderShadowColor(r, g, b)
    
    myFrame:HideBorder()
    myFrame:ShowBorder()
    
    myFrame:GetBorder() - true if has a beautycase border, otherwise false
    
    local borderSize, texture, r, g, b, alpha = myFrame:GetBorderInfo()

Change the texture

You dont like the texture included in !Beautycase? Want your own?
So go into the !Beautycase/media folder and change the textureNormal.tga
file with a file of your choice.

Problems
How or where can i put these code snippets into a file or get to work?

First: DONT'T put the code snippets into the beautycase file.
Create a little addons and put the code in its .lua file.

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You want to skin the frames of an addon.
For example Pitbull or Omen but you get an error message?
So watch out.

WoW initalize all addon alphabetically.
So when you created a addon like "myAddon" and want
to "CreateBorder(aPitbullFrame, ...)" you can only get an error message because
you want to create a border on a frame which at that time does not exist.

Loading ... !Beautycase
Loading ... aAddon
Loading ... bAddon
Loading ... cAddon
Loading ... myAddon > CreateBorder(aPitbullFrame, ...) > Error. This frame does not exist
Loading ... Omen
Loading ... Pitbull > CreatePitbullUnitFrames

So thats one of the most mistake.
You cannot create a border on a frame that does not exist.

In the example below you must create a addon whose first character must be greater than "p"
The some for Omen and other addons. (z is a good character)

Thats the point why this addon is called !Beautycase and not Beautycase.
Its loaded as one of the first addons so that you can use the !Beautycase functions very early in a addon

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How can i find out the name of an frame?
Create a macro

/print GetMouseFocus():GetName()

Go over the frame you want to give a border and use this macro

Your frame has no name? Than the only solution is to insert the beautycase
code directly into the source data/function of these addon.

If you have no idea how to do this. Ask other people on the wowi/other ui forums.
There are to many wow addons, so I can't give some help with this problems.
If they have no ideas, you can even try it on the comment function of these addon.

v. 1.1.0

- huge update
- border is now names "self.beautyBorder[i]" to prevent issues with other addons
- do NOT update if you dont need the "new" features!

v. 1.0.3

- new functions
- alpha can now be change
- some non-essential changes

v. 1.0.2

- fix how variables should be handled

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05-07-11, 09:28 AM

Neal

A Defias Bandit

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Re: famBags

Originally posted by Gyalwa
Hi,
I am trying to get some borders to famBags, but with no results...
the frame name is: famBagsFrame, but !Beautycase is not able to find such?!

Any help is appreciated...

Try famBagsLayout.lua:Line 212~

Code:

.....
self.famBagsFrame:Hide()
CreateBorder(self.famBagsFrame, 11, 1, 1, 1)
self.MAINFRAMES['bags'] = self.famBagsFrame
...

05-07-11, 05:57 AM
Gyalwa A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 1 File comments: 5 Uploads: 0	famBags Hi, I am trying to get some borders to famBags, but with no results... the frame name is: famBagsFrame, but !Beautycase is not able to find such?! Any help is appreciated...

05-02-11, 10:27 AM
JayK83 A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 2 Uploads: 0	I meant, so that i can put that texture into sharedmedia to use it in every shared media compatible addon. In sharedmedia the border textures are split in 4 parts in a 128x16px texture. e.g.: http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/1116/fer1.jpg

05-02-11, 10:11 AM
Neal A Defias Bandit Forum posts: 2 File comments: 300 Uploads: 10	what you you mean with "SharedMedia compatible version" ?

05-02-11, 09:41 AM
JayK83 A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 2 Uploads: 0	Really nice Addon. I do have an request. Would it be possible that you can provide a SharedMedia compatible version of your default Border Texture?

04-18-11, 05:21 PM
flexe A Defias Bandit Forum posts: 3 File comments: 7 Uploads: 1	Thankyou for those Neal, have them working now.. Right after I posted that comment yesterday I actually figured out a way of bordering kgpanel frames by inserting the CreateBorder() into the kgPanels.lua around line 403 in the getFrame() function right after the frame:Show().. it seems to add the border to each new frame when you make it.. the only problem with this way is that it will create it for every frame regardless, though this isint a huge problem for myself. As for a screenshot: http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/...911_001952.jpg .. still a work in progress, but slowly getting there.

04-18-11, 05:03 PM
kamilo A Kobold Labourer Forum posts: 0 File comments: 1 Uploads: 0	There is no need to actually modify Shadowed Unit Frames source to load borders (nor manually list frames), you can simply override the function that does all the loading. After playing around with the SUF internal functions, here's what I came up with, and seems to work with every frame SUF creates: Code: -- borders for all SUF Frames local SUFUnits = ShadowUF.Units local CreateUnit = SUFUnits.CreateUnit function SUFUnits.CreateUnit(...) local frame = CreateUnit(...) CreateBorder(frame, 12, 1, 1, 1) return frame end Just put this in a new addon and you should be fine.

04-18-11, 02:28 AM
Neal A Defias Bandit Forum posts: 2 File comments: 300 Uploads: 10	Sorry for doublepost :O For recount (a AddOn with z as first letter for example) Code: CreateBorder(Recount_MainWindow, 11, 1, 1, 1) For ShadowedUnitFrames ShadowedUnitFrames.lua ~ line:199: Code: function ShadowUF:LoadUnits() ... some code here CreateBorder(SUFUnitplayer, 11, 1, 1, 1) CreateBorder(SUFUnittarget, 11, 1, 1, 1) CreateBorder(SUFUnit....) end Last edited by Neal : 04-18-11 at 02:47 AM.

04-18-11, 01:30 AM

Neal

A Defias Bandit

Forum posts: 2

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Uploads: 10

Ok I've tested it with kgPanels now.

When you have active the config mode, your frame cannot have a name because there is a frame over your frame (these turquoise frame for resizeing, moving etc).

So to get the panel name lock your panel (enable mouseclicks) and try the FrameName macro.

As result you should get "kgPanel1", "kgPanel2" ... etc.

I've tried this

Code:

/run CreateBorder(kgPanel1, 11, 1, 1, 1)

And it work fine for me

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Haha lol, possibility 2, to easy ^^

/kgpanels config > active panels > yourpanel > scripts > Scripts Dependency > "!Beautycase"

AND THEN

/kgpanels config > active panels > yourpanel > scripts > onload > CreateBorder(self, 11, 1, 1, 1)

Have fun !

btw. screenshot of your result?

Last edited by Neal : 04-18-11 at 01:52 AM.

04-17-11, 09:08 PM
flexe A Defias Bandit Forum posts: 3 File comments: 7 Uploads: 1	Hello Neal, I was wondering if you could give possible examples of being able to apply Beautycase to frames created by kgpanels, I have tried without success to apply your borders to Recount, Shadowed Unit Frames and also kgpanel frames. Since the frames are created dymanically by these addons, it seems each time I have tried to link Beautycase up, it has returned an error saying the frame isint found, or in recount's case, it just didnt like it. The way I tried to do it was simply creating a new addon, following your instructions of making sure it had loaded after kgpanels, but it still wasnt abel to find the name, even after trying what I named the panel through the addon, and also the actual frame name that the mouse over macro provides. Im not fairly fluent with lua but I do have prior coding experience with other languages, so I could say im fairly confident that I tried all methods I thought would work, its probably something Im just completely overlooking and any examples would be appreciated Thanks in advance. Last edited by flexe : 04-17-11 at 09:08 PM.

04-17-11, 10:50 AM
Neal A Defias Bandit Forum posts: 2 File comments: 300 Uploads: 10	And I search and search but don't understand the problem because all worked fine.. -.- Last edited by Neal : 04-17-11 at 10:51 AM.

04-17-11, 08:51 AM

rakkarage

A Deviate Faerie Dragon

Forum posts: 19

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Args! Must check this tomorrow :-/

i i needed to do the created first i think

04-16-11, 12:38 PM

Neal

A Defias Bandit

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Originally posted by Sniffles
You should add a 4. function to create white borders. So you can see the colors better (e.g. colored Debuff Borders).

Code:

for i = 1, 8 do
        self.Border[i]:SetTexture()
end

Ah got a new idea...

BorderTexture(YourTexturehere.tga)

Originally posted by rakkarage
when i try (in _DevPad)

ColorBorderShadow(Minimap, 0, 1, 0);

like in the screenshot, it says

!Beautycase:Invalid frame!

it says that for all the frames i have tried so far...?
thanks

Args! Must check this tomorrow :-/

Last edited by Neal : 04-16-11 at 12:44 PM.

04-16-11, 12:20 PM
Sniffles A Black Drake Forum posts: 86 File comments: 75 Uploads: 17	You should add a 4. function to create white borders. So you can see the colors better (e.g. colored Debuff Borders). __________________ Hi!

04-16-11, 08:07 AM

Toran

A Nerdscale Dorkin

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Originally posted by Neal
should now work correct

Open the !Beautycase.lua file and go to line ~80

Code:

if (borderSize >= 10) then space = 3 else space = borderSize/3.5 end

change the space (like 4 or 5)

That didn't do it - instead created a padding space between the beautycase border and the shadow.

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