Help with SetBackdrop?

[Coote]

I've never quite used SetBackdrop before, and typically just use CreateTexture if I'm making a background frame from scratch. I've looked through several different sources (WPanels, WoWPedia, WoWProgramming), to see how it's done, and this looks about right, but the frame doesn't even load.

If I replace the whole SetBackdrop() part with CreateTexture, it shows perfectly where I've placed it.

local cht = CreateFrame("Frame", "ChatBGFrame", UIParent)
cht:SetFrameLevel(1)
cht:SetHeight(64)
cht:SetWidth(128)
cht:SetFrameStrata("BACKGROUND")
cht:SetPoint("CENTER")
cht:SetBackdrop({
    bgFile = bg, 
    edgeFile = border, 
    tile = false, tileSize = 0, edgeSize = edgesize, 
    insets = { left = 2, right = 2, top = 4, bottom = 4 }
})
cht:SetBackdropColor(setcolor(backdrop))
cht:SetBackdropBorderColor(setcolor(bordercolor))
cht:SetAlpha(1)
end

[Haleth]

Care to post the full thing? As in, what 'bg', 'border' and 'setcolor' etc is.

[Coote]

-- Config
edgesize = 12
inset = -1
border = [[Interface\AddOns\desdinPanels\media\border\Roth.tga]]
bg = [[Interface\AddOns\desdinPanels\media\backdrop\Cabaret.tga]]
backdrop = {1, 1, 1}
bordercolor = {1, 1, 1}

[Haleth]

Have you defined 'setcolor'? Because that's not a default function.

That's where the problem lies, too, the code is fine otherwise.

You can leave out the SetAlpha btw, it's not needed.

[lilsparky]

tileSize of 0 doesn't seem right to me.

[Seerah]

But he's got tile set to false... (BTW - if you don't want to use everything in the SetBackdrop table, you can leave those fields out and they'll use default values.)

I think Haleth may be right, though. Where is your setcolor function defined?