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Modifying Alertframes

It seems like Alertframes (for example achievement) no longer have names but are children of UiParent?

AchievementAlertSystem:AddAlert(...) calls the alert frame (/run AchievementAlertSystem:AddAlert(112) to test). How can i now easily access them without having to scan for children of UiParent?

(It's the same for all alerts, all names are gone :()

If you look at the source you'll see that the achievement alerts are created using a queued subsystem with

Code:

AchievementAlertSystem = AlertFrame:AddQueuedAlertFrameSubSystem("AchievementAlertFrameTemplate", AchievementAlertFrame_SetUp, 2, 6);

If you look at the source of the queued subsystem definition you'll see the important part is in OnLoad

Code:

function AlertFrameQueueMixin:OnLoad(alertFrameTemplate, setUpFunction, maxAlerts, maxQueue)

        self.alertFramePool = CreateFramePool("BUTTON", UIParent, alertFrameTemplate, OnPooledAlertFrameQueueReset);

-- .. more code ...

end

Primarily the CreateFramePool call returns an instance of a frame pool that now handles the creation and recycling of the alert frames.

The frame pool has some functions that may be relevant to you. Primarily EnumerateActive() that you can use in an a loop to go through all the alerts that are being displayed currently.

For example:

Code:

local achievementAlertPool = AchievementAlertSystem.alertFramePool

for alertFrame in achievementAlertPool:EnumerateActive() do

    --modify the alertFrame however

end

Thank you for your response, I will try to work through this tomorrow, I cant make much sense of it as of right now :D

The frames won't be created until they're needed, so it may be sufficient to just hook the setup function AchievementAlertFrame_SetUp and adjust it there.

Quote:

Originally Posted by lucro (Post 314833)

The frames won't be created until they're needed, so it may be sufficient to just hook the setup function AchievementAlertFrame_SetUp and adjust it there.

I got it working like this:

Lua Code:

hooksecurefunc(AchievementAlertSystem,"ShowAlert",function()
            local achievementAlertPool = AchievementAlertSystem.alertFramePool
                for alertFrame in achievementAlertPool:EnumerateActive() do
                    alertFrame.Icon:Hide()
                    alertFrame.Background:ClearAllPoints()
                    alertFrame.Background:SetSize(512,64)
                    alertFrame.Background:SetTexCoord(0,1,1,0)
                    alertFrame.Background:SetParent(alertFrame) 
                    alertFrame.Background:SetPoint("Center",29,1)
                    alertFrame.Background:SetTexture("Interface\\Achievementframe\\miirgui_ach.tga")
 
                    alertFrame.Unlocked:SetTextColor(unpack(miirgui.Color))
                    alertFrame.Unlocked:SetFont(unpack(miirgui.small))
                    alertFrame.Unlocked:SetShadowColor(0,0,0,0)
 
                    alertFrame.Name:SetTextColor(1,1,1,1)
                    alertFrame.Name:SetFont(unpack(miirgui.medium))
                    alertFrame.Name:SetShadowColor(0,0,0,0)
                end 
        end)

I do not know if it's the best method, but it works just fine :). I tried hooking the setup function, but the hook did not seem to fire.

I am done with the alertframe now. It was pretty stright forward after your help :)

Here are some /run commands to test most alertframes incase somebody needs them.

Lua Code:

/run LootAlertSystem:AddAlert("|cff9d9d9d|Hitem:7073:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:80:0:0:0:0|h[Broken Fang]|h|r", 1, specID, 3, 1, 3, Awesome);
 
/run MoneyWonAlertSystem:AddAlert(815)
 
/run AchievementAlertSystem:AddAlert(5192)
 
/run CriteriaAlertSystem:ShowAlert(80,1)
 
/run GuildChallengeAlertSystem:AddAlert(3, 2, 5)
 
/run InvasionAlertSystem:AddAlert(1,20)
 
/run DigsiteCompleteAlertSystem:AddAlert(1)
 
 /run LootUpgradeAlertSystem:AddAlert("|cff9d9d9d|Hitem:7073:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:80:0:0:0:0|h[Broken Fang]|h|r", 1, specID, 3, "Cesaor", 3, Awesome);
 
 /run GarrisonFollowerAlertSystem:AddAlert(112, "Cool Guy", "100", 3, 1)
 
 /run GarrisonShipFollowerAlertSystem:AddAlert(592, "Test", "Transport", "GarrBuilding_Barracks_1_H", 3, 2, 1)
 
 /run GarrisonBuildingAlertSystem:AddAlert("miau")
 
 /run WorldQuestCompleteAlertSystem:AddAlert(112)