Request XML child definitions

[Zeksie]

Would be so useful to be able to specificy a frame name thus:

<Frame name="SomeFrame">
   ...
   <Frame name="$parent.name">            -- Notice the .

So that the new frame is created with the parent's name + "name", *AND* more importantly, the sub-frame is automatically assigned to the parent frame's 'name' variable.

Then you can access the sub-frame with SomeFrame.name, without having to piss around with assigning them yourself.

[Flickerstreak]

That's a really good idea... if it didn't set the global name (instead just storing the frame object at parent.name). It would avoid polluting the global namespace.

You can do exactly what you're describing by inheriting from the following template (provided you don't override onLoad):

<Frame name="SubClassifierTemplate" virtual="true">
  <Scripts>
    <OnLoad>
      local name = this:GetName()
      local parent = this:GetParent()
      if name and parent then
        local parentName = parent:GetName()
        if parentName then
          local subName = string.match(name,parentName.."(.+)")
          if subName then
            parent[subName] = this
          end
        end
      end
    </OnLoad>
  </Scripts>
</Frame>

So, your example would work like this:

<Frame name="SomeFrame">
   ...
   <Frame name="$parentname" inherits="SubClassifierTemplate">