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Hi all

I want to build a little frame factory; I am tired of building each fame template to see which frame I like for various addons; so I figure that I can use a factory to build and then screenshot the frames.

I have a static number 1 frame and I want the following frames using the static frame as the origin.

I want each frame to display its frame template name.

Here is an image of my desired out come.

Here is my code:

Lua Code:

local frameList = {
    UIDropDownCustomMenuEntryTemplate,
    UIDropDownListTemplate,
    UIDropDownMenuButtonTemplate,
    UIDropDownMenuTemplate,
    UIExpandingButtonTemplate,
    UIGoldBorderButtonTemplate,
    UIMenuButtonStretchTemplate,
    UIMenuButtonTemplate,
    UIMenuTemplate,
    UIPanelBorderedButtonTemplate,
    UIPanelButtonGrayTemplate,
    UIPanelButtonNoTooltipResizeToFitTemplate,
    UIPanelButtonNoTooltipTemplate,
    UIPanelButtonTemplate,
    UIPanelCloseButton,
    UIPanelCloseButtonNoScripts,
    UIPanelDialogTemplate,
    UIPanelDynamicResizeButtonTemplate
}
 
local right, down = 50, -50
local width, height = 300, 150
local frameNameTop, frameLast, frameCount = "staticTopFrame", "staticTopFrame", 2
 
local function layoutFrames()
    for k, v in pairs(frameList) do
        f = CreateFrame("Frame", "frame" .. k, UIParent, v)
        f:SetSize(width, height)
        f:SetPoint("TOPLEFT", frameLast, right, down)
 
        ftb = CreateFrame("Frame", "ftb", f)
        ftb:SetSize(width, height / 2)
        ftb:SetPoint("CENTER", frameLast)
 
        ftbt = ftb:CreateFontString("ftbt")
        ftbt:SetAllPoints(ftb)
        ftbt:SetFontObject(FocusFontSmall)
        ftbt:SetText(v)
 
        frameLast = frameLast .. k
        down = down - 310
 
        if k == 4 then
            right = right + 310
            down = -50
            count = 1
            frameNameTop = frameLast
        elseif k == 1 then
            frameNameTop = frameLast .. k
            down = down - 160
        else
            frameLast = frameLast .. k
            down = down - 160
        end
    end
end
 
local staticTopFrame = CreateFrame("Frame", "staticTopFrame", UIParent, "UIPanelDialogTemplate")
staticTopFrame:SetSize(width, height)
staticTopFrame:SetPoint("TOPLEFT", right, down)
staticTopFrame:EnableMouse(true)
staticTopFrame:SetMovable(true)
staticTopFrame:SetClampedToScreen(true)
staticTopFrame:RegisterForDrag("RightButton", "LeftButton")
staticTopFrame:SetScript("OnDragStart", staticTopFrame.StartMoving)
staticTopFrame:SetScript("OnDragStop", staticTopFrame.StopMovingOrSizing)
 
staticTopFrameTextBox = CreateFrame("Frame", "staticTopFrameTextBox", staticTopFrame)
staticTopFrameTextBox:SetSize(width, height / 2)
staticTopFrameTextBox:SetPoint("CENTER", staticTopFrame)
 
staticTopFrameTextBoxText = staticTopFrameTextBox:CreateFontString(staticTopFrameTextBoxText)
staticTopFrameTextBoxText:SetAllPoints(staticTopFrameTextBox)
staticTopFrameTextBoxText:SetFontObject(FocusFontSmall)
staticTopFrameTextBoxText:SetText("UIPanelDialogTemplate")
 
layoutFrames()

When I run it the static frame displays correctly yet nothing else displays and there are no errors.
I am using ReHack to run the code in game.

I have looked at button factories and have followed them without success.

There is obviously an error in my code yet I can't see it, maybe I am too close to the code that I can not see the error that I am making.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

To start with, templates a passed as strings. Your frameList is empty because you're really defined it as

Lua Code:

local frameList = {
    [1] = nil,
    [2] = nil,
    [3] = nil,
    [4] = nil,
    [5] = nil,
    [6] = nil,
    -- etc.
}

therefore

Code:

for k, v in pairs(frameList) do

does nothing.

I'm pretty sure you will get plenty of errors once the list contains something ;)

Ah, I said it would be an obvious error.

I guarantee that I will have errors, many errors, but this is how I learn. :)

Ok, got it going, yes there were so many bugs I pulled it apart and started again.
This time I got rid of the first static frame.

Lua Code:

local frameList = {
    "BaseBasicFrameTemplate",
    "BasicFrameTemplate",
    "BasicFrameTemplateWithInset",
    "ButtonFrameTemplate",
    "ButtonFrameTemplateMinimizable",
    "ChatConfigBorderBoxTemplate",
    "ChatConfigBoxTemplate",
    "ChatConfigBoxWithHeaderTemplate",
    "ChatConfigCheckBoxTemplate",
    "CovenantListWideFrameTemplate",
    "CovenantMissionBaseFrameTemplate",
    "DefaultPanelTemplate",
    "DefaultPanelTemplate",
    "EtherealFrameTemplate",
    "FloatingBorderedFrame",
    "GarrisonMissionBaseFrameTemplate",
    "GlowBorderTemplate",
    "GlowBoxTemplate",
    "HelpFrameContainerFrameTemplate",
    "InsetFrameTemplate",
    "InsetFrameTemplate2",
    "InsetFrameTemplate3",
    "InsetFrameTemplate4",
    "KeyBindingFrameBindingButtonTemplate",
    "KeyBindingFrameBindingButtonTemplateWithLabel",
    "PortraitFrameTemplate",
    "PortraitFrameTemplateMinimizable",
    "PortraitFrameTemplateNoCloseButton",
    "SimplePanelTemplate",
    "ThinBorderTemplate",
    "TooltipBorderedFrameTemplate",
    "TranslucentFrameTemplate",
    "UIPanelDialogTemplate",
 }
 
 local width, height = 300, 150
 local right, down, counter = 20, -20, 0
 
 for k, v in pairs(frameList) do
    f = CreateFrame("Frame", "frame" .. k, UIParent, v)
    f:SetSize(width, height)
    f:SetPoint("TOPLEFT", right, down, counter)
 
    ftb = CreateFrame("Frame", "ftb", f)
    ftb:SetSize(width, height / 2)
    ftb:SetPoint("CENTER", "frame" .. k)
 
    ftbt = ftb:CreateFontString("ftbt")
    ftbt:SetAllPoints(ftb)
    ftbt:SetFontObject(FocusFontSmall)
    ftbt:SetText(v)
 
    down = down - 160
    counter = counter + 1
 
    if counter == 5 then
       right = right + 310
       down = -20
       counter = 0
    end
 end

Here are the frames.

Oh that looks neat :)