Full-screen dialogs

[Wintry]

I'm making a mod which makes use of a full-screen dialog - but there's a slight problem. It seems that any button presses still flow down in to the rest of the game, for example the return key will still open the chat message box, despite a full screen frame on top of it (although it's overlapped, but keyboard focus still goes there).

Is there a way to temporarily disable all key bindings? Also, is there a way to make the escape key close the dialog? (The overall behaviour I'm after is as if you'd opened the world map, for example).

Thanks in advance,
Wintry.

[tenmiles]

Originally Posted by Wintry Also, is there a way to make the escape key close the dialog?

I'm a complete idiot when it comes to writing mods and what I say now may be complete jibberish, but I seem to recall something about inheriting something from the parent frame and adopting traits or something. Since the mother of all frames does what you want already you might be able to make your frame a child of that, or something, maybe nothing. If you're confused ignore this post.

[JoshBorke]

No easy way to disable all keybindings, could try something like: (psuedocode)

function saveBindings()
for k,button in pairs(table of all usable buttons including modifiers) do
    action = GetBindingAction(button)
    if (action) then myTableHoldingAllActions[button] = action end
end
function restoreBindings()
for button,action in pairs(myTableHoldingAllActions) do
    SetBinding(button,action)
end

http://www.wowwiki.com/World_of_Warc...ding_Functions might be useful

Make frame closable with escape key: http://www.wowwiki.com/HOWTO:_Make_F...the_ESCape_Key

[Cogwheel]

No need to change keybindings or anything... just make your frame grab the keyboard input... when it gets hidden, it'll automatically release it. I think in XML you set its enableKeyboard attribute to true. In lua, you'd do myFrame:EnableKeyboard(true).

[Wintry]

Originally Posted by Cogwheel No need to change keybindings or anything... just make your frame grab the keyboard input... when it gets hidden, it'll automatically release it. I think in XML you set its enableKeyboard attribute to true. In lua, you'd do myFrame:EnableKeyboard(true).

I've tried setting that in XML, but it seemed to have no effect at all. I'll try it in LUA and see how it turns out.

[Wintry]

Nope, still no luck.

[JoshBorke]

maybe setfocus to the frame?

[Cogwheel]

You may also need to define an OnChar and/or an OnKeyDown handler...

[Wintry]

Originally Posted by Cogwheel You may also need to define an OnChar and/or an OnKeyDown handler...

Hmm... that's a good point, I'll try that also. Thanks for the help

[Wintry]

Yup, adding a blank OnKeyDown handler worked, thanks loads!