unitsuffix help.

[alimjocox]

So I'm trying to learn oUF. and dont know much about programming. I see hwo others use
self:GetAttribute("unitsuffix") == "pet" to make things work. just wondering how it works for party pets.

local party = oUF:Spawn("header", "oUF_Party")
party:SetPoint("LEFT", UIParent, "LEFT", cfg.partyX, cfg.partyY)
party:SetAttribute("showParty", true)
party:SetAttribute("yOffset", -27.5)

local pets = {} 
pets[1] = oUF:Spawn('partypet1', 'oUF_PartyPet1') 
pets[1]:SetPoint('TOPLEFT', party, 'TOPLEFT', 0, -180) 
for i =2, 4 do 
  pets[i] = oUF:Spawn('partypet'..i, 'oUF_PartyPet'..i) 
  pets[i]:SetPoint('TOP', pets[i-1], 'BOTTOM', 0, -8)

here is what I THINK is the necessary code that will help to an answer. if i am wrong pls do tell

[wurmfood]

For what you're trying to do, I'd suggest looking at oUF_Noob and the xml template in there. I borrowed my template from there and it made life easy and straightforward.

[yj589794]

I use raid frames in party as well, and use the SecureGroupPetHeaderTemplate for pets. This means I don't need to define my own XML template.

you can see how I do this here: http://github.com/Evilpaul/oUF_EPRaid

[wurmfood]

The major difference between the two is the SecureGroupPetHeaderTemplate will group all of the pets together, while using a custom one will allow you to place pets in a specific location in relation to their owner.

[neverg]

Sorry for the topic digging... but I was searching for topics related to SecureGroupPetHeaderTemplate.

I used to spawn my layout Party Pets using a XML, that is commonly used.

But I wanted to try to spawn them in the lua instead of XML, the reason is to make it easier to disable them if wanted.

Anyway, I'm spawning them with this:

if cfg.show_Party_Pets then
			self:SetActiveStyle('lumen - Group')
			---local pets = oUF:SpawnHeader('oUF_PartyPets', 'SecureGroupPetHeaderTemplate', "custom  [group:party,nogroup:raid][@raid6,noexists,group:raid] show;hide",
			local pets = oUF:SpawnHeader('oUF_PartyPets', 'SecureGroupPetHeaderTemplate', "solo", "showSolo", true,  -- debug
			"showParty", cfg.show_Party,
			"xoffset", 7,
			"columnSpacing", 7,
			"point", "LEFT",
			"oUF-initialConfigFunction", ([[
			self:SetWidth(%d)
			self:SetHeight(%d)
			self:SetScale(%d)
			]]):format(cfg.party_pets_width, cfg.party_pets_height, cfg.scale))
			pets:SetPoint("TOPLEFT", "oUF_Party", "BOTTOMLEFT", 0, -6)
   		end

Working great. The only problem is they are inheriting all the styling from the Party style.

How can I target the Pet Frames to style them? Since I'm not using the xml and not setting an suffix atribute I can't target them that way.

Any way to do this?

[Rostok]

have you tried with :

self:GetParent():GetName():match'pet' or sthg like this ?

[haste]

oUF currently doesn't handle the group pet header that well.. like.. it doesn't handle it at all. It's one of the things that will get fixed soon.

[neverg]

Ok, thanks for the answers. :]