Mystery of the Disappearing X

[Malsomnus]

My add-on has this frame which has a little X in the corner to close it.
The frame shows automatically on login.
When I just login, everything's fine. When I /reload, however, the X does not show. It's there, it's clickable, it works, but it's invisible.
I can make it visible again by changing its text.
Does anybody have any idea what the hell?

f.btnX = CreateFrame ("EditBox", nil, f)
f.btnX:SetPoint ("TOPRIGHT", f, "TOPRIGHT")
f.btnX:SetSize (10,12)
f.btnX:SetTextColor (1.0,0.77,0.27,1.0)
f.btnX:SetTextInsets (0, 0, 2, 2)
f.btnX:SetFont ("Fonts\\FRIZQT__.TTF", 11)
f.btnX:SetAutoFocus (false)
f.btnX:Disable ()
f.btnX:SetText ('x')
f.btnX:SetScript ("OnMouseDown", function (self, button)
    f:Hide ()
end)

[sirann]

f:Show() before the onclick? also what's f.btnX: Disable()?

[Malsomnus]

It's pretty old recycled code, but IIRC I'm using an EditBox instead of, err, anything that makes sense, because I used to have problems with the click events, and Disable just means it's not used as an actual text box that you can focus and edit.
And :Show doesn't help, since technically it is already shown.

[Edit]
I've replaced it with a proper button for now just so I can push a new version, but I'm still curious about what caused this problem.

[semlar]

Sounds like its frame level is below some other texture on your frame?

Could just be covered up.

Alternatively, since it's an edit box your text may just be getting cleared.

[Duugu]

I came to this thread expecting a thrilling Twilight_Zone story about the "Mystery of the Disappearing X". And now this. How disappointing.

[Seerah]

Wait, wait, wait... Why are you using an editbox to close your frame?

/edit: okay, so I read the rest of the thread. But my mind was totally blown by ^^^ that I couldn't focus on anything afterward.

[Phanx]

Yeah that is pretty WTF usage of an editbox...

local close = CreateFrame("Button", nil, self, "UIPanelCloseButton")
close:SetPoint("TOPRIGHT")

You don't even need any scripts since the template already comes with one; just make sure "self" is the frame to be closed when clicking.

[Malsomnus]

Originally Posted by Phanx Yeah that is pretty WTF usage of an editbox... local close = CreateFrame("Button", nil, self, "UIPanelCloseButton") close:SetPoint("TOPRIGHT") You don't even need any scripts since the template already comes with one; just make sure "self" is the frame to be closed when clicking.

This is a fine solution for a different problem
(That's what I ended up using, of course, but I really hate the way this button looks)

[Phanx]

Originally Posted by Malsomnus (That's what I ended up using, of course, but I really hate the way this button looks)

Why? It's what every other close button in the WoW UI looks like. Best to be consistent.

[Malsomnus]

Originally Posted by Phanx Why? It's what every other close button in the WoW UI looks like. Best to be consistent.

I'm all for the default UI and all, but for most of what I do it's just too bulky.
And the Mystery of the Disappearing X is still being mysterious

[Phanx]

Well, you already know what I'm going to say -- show me all of your code. Can't draw any conclusions from an isolated snippet.

[Lombra]

I've encountered issues with editboxes being empty before. Think it worked when I first hid the parent frame or something.

[Malsomnus]

Originally Posted by Lombra I've encountered issues with editboxes being empty before. Think it worked when I first hid the parent frame or something.

That's right, I used to hide this frame on creation and show it later, and removing that bit is one of the changes around the time the bug appeared... interesting

[SDPhantom]

So you're using an EditBox just to display text and respond to clicks. Isn't this what a standard Button object is for? I usually would go for using the UIPanelCloseButton template like every other close button in the game, but this would be the equivalent to your original code using proper UI objects.

f.btnX=CreateFrame("Button",nil,f);
f.btnX:SetPoint("TOPRIGHT");
f.btnX:SetSize(10,12);
f.btnX:SetNormalFontObject("GameFontNormal");
f.btnX:SetText('x');
f.btnX:SetScript("OnClick",function() f:Hide(); end);