oUF

[Uitat]

anyone know how to force raid frames 1-40 to show in oUF so i can set the placement corectly?

[zork]

local namelist = UnitName("player")
for i = 2,40 do -- or whatever your desired group size is
  namelist = namelist..","..UnitName("player")
end
 
local raid = oUF:SpawnHeader(
  -- The rest of your attributes
  "nameList", namelist
)

[Rainrider]

zork that wasn't working the last time I tried. The first child in the header is set, the rest is not.

[p3lim]

local namelist = UnitName('player')
for index = 2,40 do -- or whatever your desired group size is
  namelist = namelist .. ',' .. UnitName('player') .. index
end
 
local raid = oUF:SpawnHeader(
  -- The rest of your attributes
  'nameList', namelist
)

What about this one?

[zork]

Yeah does not work aswell. Even namelist "A,B" does only return the player.
Just enter Alterac Valley. Is my best bet.

[Phanx]

If all you care about is the placement, just manually create 39 textures with the same size and anchors as your raid frames, and attach them to the first raid frame (the one showing yourself). Even if you're working on other details, this should be sufficient... as long as you can see one frame, I don't see why you'd actually need to see 40 identical frames.

[Uitat]

Originally Posted by Phanx If all you care about is the placement, just manually create 39 textures with the same size and anchors as your raid frames, and attach them to the first raid frame (the one showing yourself). Even if you're working on other details, this should be sufficient... as long as you can see one frame, I don't see why you'd actually need to see 40 identical frames.

great idea, this worked for me, just made my own temporary grid to see location then got in a party to make sure frame 2 lined up right, voila!! i have the location set right. you so smart!, i would give you a cookie if i had one... one thing i gotta say is, well, your advice has been priceless, thanks again Phanx.

[sticklord]

Bit of a necro, but i finally found out how to force show header units!
Bear in mind this is only for party, probably need some extra work for raid frames.

-- self.header is the header that's spawned using oUF:SpawnHeader
 
-- script forcing the frames to show
frame:SetScript("OnShow", function(self)
    SecureStateDriverManager:SetAttribute("setframe", self.header) -- This is just a "hack" to get the old visibility attribute
    self.oldstate_driver = SecureStateDriverManager:GetAttribute("setstate"):gsub("state%-visibility%s", "") -- ^
    self.header:SetAttribute("startingIndex", -2) -- Setting the starting index to -2, so we have three frames: -2, -1, 0
    self.header:SetAttribute("showSolo", true)    -- This is the forth frame
    RegisterAttributeDriver(self.header, 'state-visibility', 'show') -- Setting it to show
    for i = 1, self.header:GetNumChildren() do -- We can now get all the 4 children
        local obj = select(i, self.header:GetChildren())
        ToggleUnitFrame(obj, true) -- This function just sets the obj.unit = "player" etc. And showing it
    end
end)
 
-- Script to reset the header
frame:SetScript("OnHide", function(self) 
    RegisterAttributeDriver(self.header, "state-visibility", self.oldstate_driver) -- Reset the visibility
    self.oldstate_driver = nil
    self.header:SetAttribute("startingIndex", nil) -- Setting it to default (1)
    self.header:SetAttribute("showSolo", nil)
    for i = 1, self.header:GetNumChildren() do
        local obj = select(i, self.header:GetChildren())
        ToggleUnitFrame(obj) -- Same as above, 
        obj:UpdateAllElements("OnShow")
    end
end)

Edit: Looks like you don't need showsolo, not sure why i added that. Just reduce the startingindex by 1 instead. And also, you need to check how many of your frames that are actually shown and increment the startingIndex by one for each frame shown, so you don't create 4 extra frames if you're in a party of 4 (giving a total of 8 partyframes!)