Activate/Deactivate addon function in game

[Nieub Barmy]

Hi

I have put together a simple addon to remove the buffs from my target frame and it works fine. I now wish to create an option in game to toggle the buffs on and off and would love some advice on the simplest way to do this.

LUA File attached


Thanks all in advance.

[SDPhantom]

This creates a SavedVariable and a simple options panel.

Be sure to add this to your ToC to flag your SavedVariable for saving.

## SavedVariables: BuffOff_Options

local AddOn_Name=...;-- Grab our AddOn's name passed in from the loading process (This is basically our folder's name)
local AddOn_Title=select(2,GetAddOnInfo(AddOn_Name)) or AddOn_Name;-- Attempt to retrieve our "Title" tag from our ToC if it's set
 
BuffOff_Options={-- Declare our SavedVariable
    TargetFrameBuffs=false;
    FocusFrameBuffs=false;
};
 
--  Options Panel Layout
local OptionsPanel=CreateFrame("Frame");
 
local TitleText=OptionsPanel:CreateFontString(nil,"OVERLAY","GameFontNormal");
TitleText:SetPoint("TOP",0,-32);
TitleText:SetText(AddOn_Title);
 
local TargetFrame_HideBuffs=CreateFrame("CheckButton",nil,OptionsPanel,"UICheckButtonTemplate");
TargetFrame_HideBuffs:SetPoint("TOPLEFT",24,-48);
TargetFrame_HideBuffs.text:SetText("Hide TargetFrame Buffs");
TargetFrame_HideBuffs:SetScript("OnClick",function(self)--  Fire on user click (Toggles check status)
    BuffOff_Options.TargetFrameBuffs=self:GetChecked();--   Update SavedVariable
    TargetFrame_UpdateAuras(TargetFrame);-- Trigger aura update
end);
 
local FocusFrame_HideBuffs=CreateFrame("CheckButton",nil,OptionsPanel,"UICheckButtonTemplate");
FocusFrame_HideBuffs:SetPoint("TOPLEFT",24,-72);
FocusFrame_HideBuffs.text:SetText("Hide FocusFrame Buffs");
FocusFrame_HideBuffs:SetScript("OnClick",function(self)--   Fire on user click (Toggles check status)
    BuffOff_Options.FocusFrameBuffs=self:GetChecked();--    Update SavedVariable
    TargetFrame_UpdateAuras(FocusFrame);--  Trigger aura update
end);
 
--  Options Panel Registration & Callbacks
OptionsPanel.name=AddOn_Title;--    Category name
OptionsPanel.refresh=function()--   Runs when our Options Panel is shown
    TargetFrame_HideBuffs:SetChecked(BuffOff_Options.TargetFrameBuffs or false);
    FocusFrame_HideBuffs:SetChecked(BuffOff_Options.FocusFrameBuffs or false);
end;
 
InterfaceOptions_AddCategory(OptionsPanel);--   Register our Options Panel
 
--  Hook
hooksecurefunc("TargetFrame_UpdateAuras",function(self)
    if self~=TargetFrame and self~=FocusFrame then return; end--    Filter for these two frames
 
    local framename=self:GetName();
    if not BuffOff_Options[framename.."Buffs"] then return; end--   Read from our SavedVariable
 
    for index=1,MAX_TARGET_BUFFS do
        local buff=_G[framename.."Buff"..index];
        if buff then
            buff:Hide();
        else break; end
    end
 
    for index=1,MAX_TARGET_DEBUFFS do
        local debuff=_G[framename.."Debuff"..index];
        if debuff then
            debuff:Hide();
        else break; end
    end
end)

[Nieub Barmy]

Thank you for your help its really appreciated. FYI, I am currently attempting to learn LUA as a hobby and kind of reverse engineering the code to figure out how it works. To complete this addon and understand how it works will be a wonderful milestone for me.

That being said I have pasted the LUA you gave me and it doesnt work completely. I have an options menu called BuffsOff and 2 checkboxes within however there is no text with the checkboxes (Hide TargetFrame Buffs & Hide FocusFrame Buffs) and whether checked or not party frame buffs are still visible.

[SDPhantom]

Apparently, the template used doesn't register its FontString with the button, so button:SetText() isn't referencing it. I fixed this in the original post changing the relevant calls to button.text:SetText().

[Nieub Barmy]

Whoop, its working great now, I just had to change the hook from:

hooksecurefunc("TargetFrame_UpdateAuras", function(self)
if self ~= TargetFrame and self ~= FocusFrame then return end

to:

hooksecurefunc("TargetFrame_UpdateAuras", function(frame)
if frame ~= TargetFrame and frame ~= FocusFrame then return end

Thank you again for your help

xx