Switching between profiles

Pyrates · 06-20-11, 01:16 PM

I'm looking into using an ouf layout for my addon compilation, but one thing I'd really need would be the ability to switch between different layouts without a reload. Can this be done?

I can think of 2 ways right now: First, just make a "switch" function, that calls a lot of SetPoint and SetSize stuff, to change into the different layouts. Would probably be a lot work, since some elements don't really switch easy (aurawatch comes to my mind).

Is there a function to put a layout to "standby"? I could imagine loading 2 layouts, and then disabling one (like Hide() and UnregisterAllEvents()), and then somehow change along these lines. Is this a possibility?

Thanks for any hints how to do this. The layouts I'm thinking of arent' THAT fundamentally different, so the first way seems like I could do it if I could just see how to deal with aurawatch.

haste · 06-20-11, 02:32 PM

Single frames you can call :Disable() on. Then :Enable() later no.

Group frames are slightly more tricky however. What you could do is just disable the headers show{Solo,Player,Party,Raid} attributes, it should be enough. Might want to cache their current values so you can re-enable them at a later event. It should work fine for most (if not all) layouts.

Pyrates · 06-20-11, 04:35 PM

Oh that sounds nice. So if the frames (talking raid here) are not shown, they don't receive events and process stuff? I'm kinda wondering about performance when loading more than 1 layout.

haste · 06-21-11, 03:41 PM

Their event handler is called, but they don't do any updating. The first thing it checks is if the frame is visible.

Pyrates · 06-21-11, 04:23 PM

Ok, that sounds reasonable. I'll give it a go as soon as I can

Thanks for your help.

Pyrates · 06-23-11, 02:00 PM

I've got another problem before I could try that. I don't understand the visibility conditions when using SpawnHeader. I mean, those predefined seem simple enough (raid, party, solo), but how do those custom things work? Looks a bit like makro syntax, but what does @raid16 mean (and what 'exists' in this context)? What's available there (could I check for a global variable there?)?

(e) As a follow-up, what's the relation with the showX attributes of the header? What happens if I choose "party" in the visibility condition, but set "showParty" to false?

zork · 06-24-11, 05:27 PM

showParty false will not hide the default Blizzard party frame. If I remember that correctly from my battleground testing with oUF_Simple2. Not sure if the party frames get even spawned if you have that value on false.
Get a simple layout and try the attributes in battlegrounds. I tested some conditions maybe it for different raid settings. Maybe it helps: http://code.google.com/p/rothui/sour...2/core.lua#223

Pyrates · 06-25-11, 05:09 AM

Thanks Erik

I found your attribute list at http://www.wowinterface.com/forums/s...t=35152&page=2 now, that helps quite a bit. I still don't see what [@raid16,exists] does at the visibility argument, and it's not easy to test because getting a raid of the right sizes is hard to do (say, if I need 16 people...). But I should just ask tukz about it, I see it in his raid layout.