WoWInterface - StatusBars in LUA only???

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StatusBars in LUA only???

Hey guys, I've spent the past week searching to see if there was a way to create statusbars in just LUA without having todo XML coding.
I know its possible to create frames using JUST LUA, I do it all the time. So far after about 300 attempts I'm still perplexed as to if its even possible to do a status bar without coding the XML to do it.

Please don't just post links to the Wowiki site, I've been through all of that and haven't found anything that worked for me.

Thanks in advance.

Oh, I guess I should mention the reason behind what I"m trying to do is that I'm attempting to make unitframes in LitePanels mod. Specifically Player and Target Only.
I'm pretty good with lua and UTF-8. Just not very good at XML.

Code:

CreateFrame("StatusBar")

http://www.wowwiki.com/Widget_API#StatusBar

You'd still have to set width, height, color, min/max values and whatnot. Register events for health or mana and whatever you'd need to update your statusbar.

e.g

Code:

NameOfStatusBar:SetScript("OnEvent", function(self, event, unit)

  if event=="UNIT_HEALTH" and unit=="player" then

    NameOfStatusBar:SetValue(UnitHealth("player"))

  end

end)

NameOfStatusBar:RegisterEvent("UNIT_HEALTH")