AltPowerBar not showing

Coldkil · 06-29-11, 10:47 AM

Simple put, i haven't defined the AltPowerBar on my oUF layout.

It should be working and displaying the standard one. But it doesn't show. I'm sure that the problem is on my layout, since if i just disable that and it comes out correctly.

Any input?

I have the problem only with the new layout. The old one works wonderfully (also i moved it from standard position, so i don't know why)

EDIT: solved, i was defining the altpowerbar for boss frames, and it seems that you can set it up only for certain ones, but still it overrides every altpowerbar ingame.

If anyone know how to avoit this, i will be grateful.

zork · 06-30-11, 02:03 AM

Boss frames are no header units and can be handled like player, pet or target unit.

If you create each frame via your style function you can create the bar and parent it to the self object via "self.AltPowerBar = bar" (where bar is your altPowerBar frame).

If you do that for pet, player, target and each bossframe (5 frames max) you will have 8 powerbars, all hidden. They will be activated accordingly once the power event returns some data for the given unit.

If you want to move stuff ingame or identify it via /fstack you should give the bar a global name like "myStyleAltPowerPlayer", "myStyleAltPowerPet" etc.

Coldkil · 07-04-11, 03:42 AM

OK i'm going to try it.

my old code was

Code:

--alt powerbar for boss units
		if (unit and unit:find("boss%d")) then
			local AltPowerBar = CreateFrame("StatusBar", nil, self.Health)
			AltPowerBar:SetFrameLevel(self.Health:GetFrameLevel() + 1)
			AltPowerBar:SetHeight(4)
			AltPowerBar:SetStatusBarTexture(_TEXTURE)
			AltPowerBar:GetStatusBarTexture():SetHorizTile(false)
			AltPowerBar:SetStatusBarColor(.1, .1, .9, .7)

			AltPowerBar:SetPoint("LEFT")
			AltPowerBar:SetPoint("RIGHT")
			AltPowerBar:SetPoint("TOP", self.Health, "TOP")
			
			AltPowerBar:SetBackdrop(backdrop)
			AltPowerBar:SetBackdropColor(.6, .6, .6, .25)
			AltPowerBar:SetBackdropBorderColor(0,0,0)

			self.AltPowerBar = AltPowerBar
		end

So, if i defined it for bosses, i should define it for every frame i intend to have it otehrwise it won't be displayed right?

zork · 07-05-11, 09:19 AM

Activating the oUF altPowerBar element will disable the default Blizzard altPowerBars. It is not intended to use the altPowerBar element and still maintain the default bar. (That may make sense if you only want the element for boss frames but that can't be done).

If you check the oUF/elements/altpowerbar.lua you will see that once you enable the altPowerBar element it will unregister the Blizzard AltPowerBars.

Just make an altPowerBar element for player, pet and you will be fine.

haste · 07-06-11, 02:29 AM

I added an issue for this when I initially saw it. I'll try to allocate some time to get it fixed.

Sent from my phone

wizy · 07-07-11, 04:29 AM

I was wondering if someone can help me with PowerBarAlt for Allez's UI (http://www.wowinterface.com/download...2-AllezUI.html). In his code PowerBarAlt appears as a red line on the top of the player's portrait. I would like to disable that function and make the default Blizzard bar appear.

I have commented out the following line in oUF.xml

Code:

<Script file='elements\altpowerbar.lua' />

but that made the red line visible at all times. I haven't checked if the default bar appears now since I haven't been to a raid since I made the change. I would like to make that red disappear.

I don't feel that confident to change this code since I have little knowledge of LUA, but maybe the following line being commented would do the trick?

Code:

_G["PlayerPowerBarAlt"]:HookScript("OnShow", function(self) self:ClearAllPoints() self:SetPoint("TOP", 0, -12) end)

Thanks in advance for any help.