WoWInterface - PTR 5.1 nameplate changes

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PTR 5.1 nameplate changes

Has anyone tried the PTR yet? The nameplates got changed again.

Plus tiny mobs get "tiny" nameplates now which looks awful imo.

Code:

NamePlate

 2 Chilren, 0 Regions

 -- Child A (FRAME)

    2 Children

    7 Regions

    -- Child AA (Statusbar)

        0 Children

        1 Region

    -- Child AB (Statusbar)

        0 Childen

        4 Regions

 -- Child B (Frame)

    0 Children

    1 Region

Lua Code:

--full nameplate objects
    local f = NamePlate1 --nameplateframe
    f.barFrame, f.nameFrame = f:GetChildren()
    f.barFrame.threat, f.barFrame.border, f.barFrame.highlight, f.barFrame.level, f.barFrame.boss, f.barFrame.raid, f.barFrame.dragon = f.barFrame:GetRegions()
    f.nameFrame.name = f.nameFrame:GetRegions()
    f.barFrame.healthbar, f.barFrame.castbar = f.barFrame:GetChildren()
    f.barFrame.healthbar.texture =  f.barFrame.healthbar:GetRegions()
    f.barFrame.castbar.texture, f.barFrame.castbar.border, f.barFrame.castbar.shield, f.barFrame.castbar.icon =  f.barFrame.castbar:GetRegions()

Hey Zork, thank you so much for this post. I'm a very very amateur coder but thanks to this I was able to figure out and fix my nameplate addon :)

Thanks to all you unsung heroes who post & document API changes!!

The 'small' frames can be fixed by called SetScale(1) on the two child frames of the NamePlate on show.

Btw...the default nameplates have a bug.

For some reason it is possible that the healthbar object will be set to alpha = 0.5 even while the parent element itself is at alpha = 1. I tried alot of stuff to fix the alpha value. Nothing worked. In the end I decided to create a new healthbar and just hide the default one (but keep it for value reference). That worked out great.

On that note. I had no problems with the frame scaling. That is because I use my own width and create new nameplate art.

Turns out scaling doesn't work at all because of taint. Lovely. Now I'll have to rewrite the whole thing so that my custom borders scale themselves.

I couldn't find anything, but that doesn't mean a whole lot. Could you not simply use UNIT_SPELLCAST_SUCCESS instead, and skip CLEU?