class colored power not updating

Dawn · 09-06-09, 02:59 PM

I have an issue with my oUF_viv layout. I can't get it to class color the mana bar in the right way.

I'm using only this code

Code:

	self.Power:SetStatusBarColor(maincolor[1],maincolor[2],maincolor[3])
	self.Power.colorClass = true	
	self.Power.frequentUpdates = true

and

Code:

	self.colors = colors
	self.PostUpdatePower = updatePower

It results in class colored power bars, that are simply STUCK for the player frame (and the target if I target myself or a mob with mana). The bar is full and keeps being shown as full. I have no idea what's wrong, never had this issue before. Reason could be that I'm using a fixed color for all bars, that is defined at the top. It shouldn't be an issue, though. since colorClass is higher in priority and should (in fact it does) overwrite the custom color. But also breaks updating the bar.

Any ideas?

Waverian · 09-06-09, 04:11 PM

Do you have a power background with the same texture as your power bar? Setting the colorClass or colorPower flag to true also colors the background of the frame. If it's the same texture it will never look like it's depleting.

Quite annoying, actually. I haven't found a code solution for this, but I also never really looked for one. You can just use a different texture, or what I did was use the same texture but just set the hue darker in an image editing program, and save it as with a new file name for the background.

zork · 09-06-09, 04:32 PM

Hmm...I don't know put I always did this by adding UnitClass(unit) to the PostUpdate func. With that unit you get the color and if the color is not nil or whatever you set the color.

Dawn · 09-06-09, 06:22 PM

It was indeed because of what waverian said. Quite funny actually. It was working like a charm after changing:

Code:

	self.Power.bg:SetAlpha(1.0)

to

Code:

	self.Power.bg:SetAlpha(0.3)

Must have worked all the time, but couldn't see it due to the issue described.
It was no issue with 1.0 and a fixed different color for the BG before.

Seems like I have to live with the fact that I can't use a custom color for the background with classcolored = true. *sad panda*

haste · 09-07-09, 01:30 AM

You can, just don't call it .bg.

Dawn · 09-07-09, 07:31 PM

Err, sometimes obvious things are ... to much obvious.