Child of a Child?

[Miiru]

Hi there.

I'm working on getting my texture pack ready for MOP, and i'm doing alright so far, until i came across this:



In Cata, this Frame was named ReforgingFrameButtonFrame and its first child was that black background which could be changed by .SetTexture.

Now in MOP, they seemingly removed that Frame, so i had to dig deeper.

By Using

_,_,_,_,_,_,c7,_ = ReforgingFrame:GetChildren();
c7:Hide()

i am able to hide the whole button frame. So my question is if it's possible that the black background is the child of a child of a frame, or if i'm completely mistaken

On a side note: The TransmogrifyFrame uses the same button setup and they haven't changed the coding there :S

[Haleth]

I'm working on the reforging frame as well for Aurora, I'll let you know if I find out.

However, you can use functions sequentially. For example, you could use:

ReforgingFrame:GetChildren():GetChildren()

To find out if it is indeed the 'child of a child'.

I'd also advise digging through the frame's XML to see which texture this is exactly. That's usually easier than going in manually.

[Miiru]

<Layers>
<Layer level="BORDER" textureSubLevel="1">
<Texture>
<Size x="334" y="21"/>
<Anchors>
<Anchor point="BOTTOMLEFT" x="1" y="5"/>
</Anchors>
<Color r="0" g="0" b="0"/>
</Texture>
</Layer>

Pretty sure its this one Line 410 @ AddOns/Blizzard_ReforgingUI/Blizzard_ReforgingUI.xml

[Haleth]

ReforgingFrame.ButtonFrame:GetRegions():Hide()
ReforgingFrame.ButtonFrame.ButtonBorder:Hide()
ReforgingFrame.ButtonFrame.ButtonBottomBorder:Hide()
ReforgingFrame.ButtonFrame.MoneyLeft:Hide()
ReforgingFrame.ButtonFrame.MoneyRight:Hide()
ReforgingFrame.ButtonFrame.MoneyMiddle:Hide()

This cleans up the entire mess at the bottom.

Btw, how do you handle your portraits (top left of frame)? Is there a way to get the circular ones to be square instead, or do you just take a different square texture?

[Miiru]

Thanks, that does the trick

For most windows, i use a new square texture, because as far as i know there no way to turn the round icons to square ones.

Some round ones could possibly be exchanged by editing the blizzard files i guess but that won't work for every portrait which is dynamicly loaded like most np's and players.

[Seerah]

The only way to turn the round icons to square ones is to call SetTextCoords on the texture and chop off the edges of the circle.

[SDPhantom]

It depends if the texture itself is round to begin with. A lot of these are set using SetPortraitToTexture(), which applies the image with a circular mask. If this is the case, you can easily get around it by using texture:SetTexture() instead.

[Miiru]

Originally Posted by SDPhantom It depends if the texture itself is round to begin with. A lot of these are set using SetPortraitToTexture(), which applies the image with a circular mask. If this is the case, you can easily get around it by using texture:SetTexture() instead.

The interesting part for me here would be if this works on dynamic textures like player portraits and npc portraits.

Most posts i've found said something its not possible.

[SDPhantom]

Originally Posted by Neza The interesting part for me here would be if this works on dynamic textures like player portraits and npc portraits. Most posts i've found said something its not possible.

No, those are actually rendered on the spot then applied to a texture with the circle mask. Sadly there is no way to get in between the rendering and masking processes. The closest you could get would be to use a PlayerModel object and use the SetUnit() method, but that would create an animated model instead of the still portrait you see.



Edit: CharacterMicroButton seems to achieve a rectangular unit portrait by setting texcoords. The following has been found in MainMenuBarMacroButtons.xml.

<Texture name="MicroButtonPortrait">
	<Size>
		<AbsDimension x="18" y="25"/>
	</Size>
	<Anchors>
		<Anchor point="TOP">
			<Offset>
				<AbsDimension x="0" y="-28"/>
			</Offset>
		</Anchor>
	</Anchors>
	<TexCoords left="0.2" right="0.8" top="0.0666" bottom="0.9"/>
</Texture>