Dynamic indicator positioning (Like PitBull)

[sippeangelo]

This is how my playerframe looks right now when the player is both in combat and PvP flagged:



The combat and PvP icons are neatly placed beside each other.

But when the player goes out of combat but are still PvP flagged the combat icon will leave a gap where it was before:



I noticed how you can place PitBull's "indicators" in a stacked order and they shift and fill the empty space when one indicator disappears.
Is there any straight forward way of doing this with oUF or do I have to get dirty with coordinates and event hooks? :S

[Dawn]

You would need a function that updates the position on certain events.

[sippeangelo]

Originally Posted by Dawn You would need a function that updates the position on certain events.

Yes, of course.
But the thing is there's a lot of other things I want to fit in there, like the leader icon, the master looter icon, phase icon, role icon, resting icon and the ready check icon. And since oUF is already handling all the conditionals for when to show these I would pretty much have to redo all these things from scratch to make them work like I want them to...

[Dawn]

You could use a tag or separate tags instead that handle/s all that. Showing things like "C" for combat, "L" for lead, etc... A text string would handle the position automatically.

Afaik, textures work within tags, too. There was a topic around here about this.

[hankthetank]

oUF_Hank does that

Config option:

-- Visibility and order of player status icons (combination of the following placeholders)
-- C: Combat
-- R: Rested
-- P: PvP
-- M: Loot master
-- A: Assistant
-- L: Leader
StatusIcons = "CRAL",

Update function:

-- Manual status icons update
oUF_Hank.UpdateStatus = function(self)
    -- Attach the first icon to the right border of self.power
    local lastElement = {"BOTTOMRIGHT", self.power, "TOPRIGHT"}
 
    -- Status icon texture names and conditions
    local icons = {
        ["C"] = {"Combat", UnitAffectingCombat("player")},
        ["R"] = {"Resting", IsResting()},
        ["L"] = {"Leader", IsPartyLeader()},
        ["M"] = {"MasterLooter", ({GetLootMethod()})[1] == "master" and (
                (({GetLootMethod()})[2]) == 0 or
                ((({GetLootMethod()})[2]) and UnitIsUnit("player", "party" .. ({GetLootMethod()})[2])) or
                ((({GetLootMethod()})[3]) and UnitIsUnit("player", "raid" .. ({GetLootMethod()})[3]))
            )},
        ["P"] = {"PvP", UnitIsPVPFreeForAll("player") or UnitIsPVP("player")},
        ["A"] = {"Assistant", UnitInRaid("player") and UnitIsRaidOfficer("player") and not UnitIsPartyLeader("player")},
    }
    
    for i = -1, -string.len(cfg.StatusIcons), -1 do
        if icons[string.sub(cfg.StatusIcons, i, i)][2] then
            self[icons[string.sub(cfg.StatusIcons, i, i)][1]]:ClearAllPoints()
            self[icons[string.sub(cfg.StatusIcons, i, i)][1]]:SetPoint(unpack(lastElement))
            self[icons[string.sub(cfg.StatusIcons, i, i)][1]]:Show()
            -- Arrange any successive icon to the last one
            lastElement = {"RIGHT", self[icons[string.sub(cfg.StatusIcons, i, i)][1]], "LEFT"}
        else
            -- Condition for displaying the icon not met
            self[icons[string.sub(cfg.StatusIcons, i, i)][1]]:Hide()
        end
    end
end

sharedStyle:

-- Remove invalid or duplicate placeholders
local fixedString = ""
 
for placeholder in string.gmatch(cfg.StatusIcons, "[CRPMAL]") do
    fixedString = fixedString .. (string.match(fixedString, placeholder) and "" or placeholder)
end
 
cfg.StatusIcons = fixedString
 
-- Create the status icons
for i, icon in ipairs({
    {"C", "Combat"},
    {"R", "Resting"},
    {"L", "Leader"},
    {"M", "MasterLooter"},
    {"P", "PvP"},
    {"A", "Assistant"},
}) do
    if string.match(cfg.StatusIcons, icon[1]) then
        self[icon[2]] = self:CreateTexture(nil, "OVERLAY")
        self[icon[2]]:SetSize(24, 24)
        self[icon[2]]:SetTexture("Interface\\AddOns\\oUF_Hank_v3\\textures\\statusicons.blp")
        self[icon[2]]:SetTexCoord((i - 1) * 24 / 256, i * 24 / 256, 0, 24 / 32)
        self[icon[2]].Override = oUF_Hank.UpdateStatus
    end
    
end
 
-- Anchoring handled in UpdateStatus()

[Monolit]

I believe it's even possible to get the actual icons working via tags:

something like this:

local combaticon = '|TInterface\\path\\to the\\actual\\icon:0:0:0:1|t

[hankthetank]

It surely is

http://www.wowpedia.org/UI_escape_sequences

I prefered my way so I have more control over the textures. Things like possible future or user edited vertex-coloring, anchoring etc.

The tag solution is easier to maintain as you can rely on the logics offered by oUF. You'd create empty elements like:

self.Leader = self:CreateTexture()
self.Resting = self:CreateTexture()
-- and so on

Then you'd need a tag that updates with already existing standard tags:

oUF.TagEvents["myIcons"] = oUF.TagEvents["resting"] .. " " .. oUF.TagEvents["leader"] -- etc.
 
oUF.Tags["xpRep"] = function(unit)
    local ret = ""
    local frame = _G["SomehowBuildTheUFNameFromThe" .. unit]
 
    ret = ret .. (frame.Leader:IsShown() and "|T.......|t" or "")
    ret = ret .. (frame.Resting:IsShown() and "|T.......|t" or "")
    return ret
end

If you don't want to reference a frame inside a tag it goes down to my attempt just with building a string instead of anchoring elements which is where I would prefer the usage of actual oUF elements / textures.

Anyway, I think he got it now.

[sippeangelo]

Awesome, thanks!