ButtonFacade integration

kneeki · 03-04-09, 02:33 PM

I'm looking to add ButtonFacade support to my addon: Class Buttons. However, after browsing WoWAce for an hour, and coming no closer to when I started, I'm asking for help here.

Does anyone know of any tutorial or demo mod to help me accomplish my goals here?

**Seerah** · 03-04-09, 03:17 PM

Did you see this page yet from the download page? http://www.wowace.com/projects/butto...button-facade/

kneeki · 03-04-09, 03:54 PM

I have, yes. But no full addon examples were given. I think I may have figured it out though. It appears to have been pretty easy. I just wish such an addon was created for the default WoW action bars. =)

**Seerah** · 03-04-09, 05:34 PM

It was, but never updated.

edit: a ButtonFacade plugin, that is.

kneeki · 03-05-09, 09:00 AM

It looks like I may have gotten it figured out. For the most part anyway.

A well written addon example would make this whole process a ton easier.

kneeki · 03-05-09, 10:07 AM

Hmm, my ButtonFacade integration addon breaks my cooldown & global cooldown graphics. =\

kneeki · 03-05-09, 10:57 AM

Here is my code to add support to my ClassButtons addon. The graphics changing works, but I no longer have GlobalCooldown effects on my addon. If I disable this integration addon, the Cooldown effects work just fine.

the .toc: http://www.wowi.pastey.net/109532
the core: http://www.wowi.pastey.net/109534
screenshot: http://img25.imageshack.us/my.php?im...0509085701.jpg

Any ideas about what I'm doing wrong here?

**Seerah** · 03-05-09, 11:02 AM

Have a look through the ButtonFacade support of other addons for examples. Here - these are separate plugins that add BF support, that should be easy enough to follow.

http://www.wowinterface.com/download..._ItemRack.html
http://www.wowinterface.com/download...tonFacade.html
http://www.wowinterface.com/download...tonFacade.html

kneeki · 03-05-09, 11:20 AM

http://www.wowinterface.com/download...tonFacade.html is what I used to get as far as I have. I'm comparing the code in the other two links you gave me now, to see where I went wrong.

Thanks for all your help so far

kneeki · 03-05-09, 12:33 PM

Ok, there is defenatly something wrong with the way I am creating my buttons. As you can see, in this screenshot the buttons textures are still extending past the textures of ButtonFacade. And here is a screenshot of the global cooldown flash not working.

Integration addon:
.toc and core.lua

ClassButtons addon:
Here is my XML code to create the button templates: http://www.wowi.pastey.net/109536
and the Lua code to create the buttons and assign all values: http://www.wowi.pastey.net/109537

Maul · 03-05-09, 02:32 PM

This is most likely because the UI now auto-orders the frame levels of elements of a frame in an annoying way (useful to some, not all

)

I make my own custom buttons, not using the Blizzard action button template, and each time my buttons are created or updated via configuration, I have to reorder the elements like this -

button:SetFrameLevel(4)
button.iconframe:SetFrameLevel(2)
button.iconframecooldown:SetFrameLevel(3)

"iconframe" is a special frame I made to put the icon texture in and the cooldown model is a part of it.

Basically, you just need to ensure your cooldown model is above your icon texture in frame level. I do remember that right after Blizz made the change, my cooldowns disappeared as well.

kneeki · 03-05-09, 02:52 PM

Mhmm

I've just switched from using my own XML with a copy/paste of blizzard code, to just using Blizzard code. example:

Code:

ClassButton[frame] = CreateFrame("Button", "ClassButton"..frame, UIParent, "SecureActionButtonTemplate, ActionButtonTemplate")

and I have the same results. I also think that the frame levels are the issue for the global cooldown, but for the texture issues, I think my error is here:

Code:

            local t = button:CreateTexture(nil,"BACKGROUND")
                t:SetTexture(GetSpellTexture(CurrentClassButtonsSpells[frameToBuild][i]))
                t:SetAllPoints(button)
                button.texture = t

I've sense tried changing all that to just:

Code:

button:SetNormalTexture(GetSpellTexture(CurrentClassButtonsSpells[frameToBuild][i]))

But then nothing at all is placed in the button, and I'm not given any error message to boot.

<-- frustrated.

[edit] here is a screenshot

Antichrist · 03-06-09, 05:15 PM

Actually not tested, because I got some problems with my own addon...but just copied and pasted from my code...

-- Declare and Initialise
local LBF = LibStub("LibButtonFacade", true)

-- Create a "Group" for your Addon (listed in BF's-Interace)
grp = LBF:Group("WarlocksChoice")

-- Register an Event to be executed if Skin has changed
LBF:RegisterSkinCallback("WarlocksChoice", OnSkin, self)

--Now you can start to create your LUA-Buttons as usual
-- Code missing here for the standard-buttons

-- but every button must be added additionally as ButtonFacade-Button
-- See lines below
txt = frame:CreateTexture(nil)
txt:SetTexture("Path to your texture here")
local btnData = {Normal = txt}
-- where Normal would be similar to SetNormalTexture
-- I was not able to solve this without this line of code
-- otherwise My button would not have any texture. Maybe you find this out

-- Finally now add this Button to BF
grp:AddButton(Button, btnData)

-- After you created all Butttons and added them to BF as well,
-- you have to skin your Button-Group

grp:Skin(WLCConfig.BFSkin, WLCConfig.BFGloss, WLCConfig.BFBackdrop)
-- where WLCConfig.BFSkin, BFGloss and BFBackdrop are saved variables from the last settings done in ButtonFacade

-- These Variables will be save within the OnSkin-Event you
-- already have registered in the first lines of code here

function OnSkin(args, skin, gloss, backdrop, group, _, colors)
WLCConfig.BFSkin = skin
WLCConfig.BFBackdrop = backdrop
WLCConfig.BFGloss = gloss
end

Hope this will help you. Would be great to get a short reply.
Rgds,
Val

kneeki · 03-07-09, 11:36 AM

Thanks! I'll try this out and see how it goes =)

kneeki · 03-07-09, 07:43 PM

Originally Posted by Maul

This is most likely because the UI now auto-orders the frame levels of elements of a frame in an annoying way (useful to some, not all

)

I make my own custom buttons, not using the Blizzard action button template, and each time my buttons are created or updated via configuration, I have to reorder the elements like this -

button:SetFrameLevel(4)
button.iconframe:SetFrameLevel(2)
button.iconframecooldown:SetFrameLevel(3)

"iconframe" is a special frame I made to put the icon texture in and the cooldown model is a part of it.

Basically, you just need to ensure your cooldown model is above your icon texture in frame level. I do remember that right after Blizz made the change, my cooldowns disappeared as well.

I tried doing what you suggested, creating a new IconFrame & Cooldown area, and it worked great!

Although, my frame graphics are still sticking out further than the borders of the ButtonFacade Skins... Weird