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make blizz frames appear when damaged

so i want to make the blizz player,target,and pet frames disapear when im out of combat but also have my player frame appear when im damaged.
so the code i have here can hide them out of combat but i dont know what to put to make it appear when im damaged also.

im also trying to make a toggle switch that if i need to make them visible i can press a macro to unhide and hide manually.

RegisterStateDriver(PlayerFrame,"visibility","[combat][exists] show; hide")
RegisterStateDriver(TargetFrame,"visibility","[combat][exists] show; hide")
RegisterStateDriver(PetFrame,"visibility","[combat,@pet,exists] show;hide")

thats what i got so far after searching the internet for a solution for hours.
help me o lua gods your my only hope.

:Show() and :Hide() are protected in combat iirc (which means they can't be called), so I believe you can't have the frame jump to shown when damaged, as taking damage throws you in combat

Removing [exists] will hide while not in combat.

You could

Code:

RegisterStateDriver(PlayerFrame,"visibility","[combat][noexists:target] show; hide")

Which will hide the player frame out of combat unless a target exists which makes F1/esc. your toggle for that unit only while the others are hidden until combat.

Someone else might have better.

Quote:

Originally Posted by briskman3000 (Post 329221)

:Show() and :Hide() are protected in combat iirc (which means they can't be called), so I believe you can't have the frame jump to shown when damaged, as taking damage throws you in combat

I meant if I’m out of combat the playerframe will stay visible until I’m at full health again.

So what this does so far will hide it if I’m out of combat and show if I’m in combat or have a target.
I want to make it so that it also makes it stay visible if I’m not at full health.

I’m still new at writing code so if any knows how to add that to what I got I appreciate your efforts.

Quote:

Originally Posted by joeyo (Post 329225)

Take a look at the way ImprovedBlizzardUI handles this:

https://github.com/kaytotes/Improved...yer.lua#L25-39

This block of code decides whether or not to hide the Blizzard PlayerFrame;

The variable "hide" comes from their event handler here:

https://github.com/kaytotes/Improved...er.lua#L84-114

And the event(s) that will fire that function are here:

https://github.com/kaytotes/Improved...r.lua#L122-130

Basically, they fire an event any appropriate time (PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD for initial login, and any time the player sees a loading screen, any time you enter/exit a vehicle, etc..) to check the status of the PlayerFrame healthbar.
Then, inside that function they check a couple of small things:
Do you have a target?
Are you regenerating heatlh?
If either of these things are true, then it DOES NOT hide the frame.
If BOTH of these things are FALSE, then it DOES hide the frame.

The actual hiding function checks a couple of other things once more:

Is your health actually full? (It's actually possible for you to NOT be at max health, be OUT of combat and NOT have Regen for a brief period, this works around that.)
Is your target actually empty? (It's possible to have targetted something between when the event handler fired and when the hide function runs, this fixes that)

As a small caveat, you could add a function to toggle a variable between true and false. Then your macro to force show the unit frame could use /run FunctionName(); to toggle that variable, and you could add a conditional to the hide code that makes sure that variable is false before hiding.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Theroxis (Post 329226)

So this looks to be the exact function I’m looking for I just have no idea how I would go about having a simple addon Lua for just that function and not have the rest of the stuff in that add on

Is it as simple as copy/paste the lines that mention player frame and such and hope it works?

If you only care about its visibility and not whether you can interact with it, you can show and hide the player frame whenever you want by just setting its alpha via PlayerFrame:SetAlpha(0) and PlayerFrame:SetAlpha(1).

You will not be able to click through it (unless you want to remove mouse interaction altogether), but you can easily toggle its visibility.

Quote:

Originally Posted by joeyo (Post 329236)

Is it as simple as copy/paste the lines that mention player frame and such and hope it works?

Here's just that part of the ImprovedBlizzardUI, made into a standalone addon, plus an override function:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=12Z...rigsW8rhsGlzL0

Put:

Code:

/run TogglePlayerFrameHide()

Into a macro to toggle the automatic hiding/showing based on combat/health/target.

I should note, this only does the PlayerFrame. Just add the other frames you desire with Show() and Hide() in the appropriate places.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Theroxis (Post 329244)

Here's just that part of the ImprovedBlizzardUI, made into a standalone addon, plus an override function:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=12Z...rigsW8rhsGlzL0

Put:

Code:

/run TogglePlayerFrameHide()

im so blind and didnt realize that you posted this a while back thankyou so much theroxis your the best

This should get you started at least:

Code:

local frame, forceShow, inCombat, queue = CreateFrame("Frame")



local function UnitFrame_OnShow(self)

    if not (inCombat or forceShow) then

        self:Hide()

    end

end

PetFrame:HookScript("OnShow", UnitFrame_OnShow)

TargetFrame:HookScript("OnShow", UnitFrame_OnShow)



local function DisableShowMode()

    frame:RegisterUnitEvent("UNIT_HEALTH", "player", "vehicle")

    frame:RegisterUnitEvent("UNIT_MAXHEALTH", "player", "vehicle")

    if not inCombat then

        PetFrame:Hide()

        TargetFrame:Hide()

    else

        queue = DisableShowMode

    end

end



local function EnableShowMode(override)

    frame:UnregisterEvent("UNIT_HEALTH")

    frame:UnregisterEvent("UNIT_MAXHEALTH")

    if not inCombat or override then

        PlayerFrame:Show()

        PetFrame:SetShown(UnitExists("pet"))

        TargetFrame:SetShown(UnitExists("target"))

    else

        queue = EnableShowMode

    end

end



local function OnEvent(self, event, unit)

    if event == "PLAYER_REGEN_DISABLED" then

        inCombat = true

        EnableShowMode(true)

    elseif event == "PLAYER_REGEN_ENABLED" then

        inCombat = false

        (queue or DisableShowMode)()

    end

    if not (inCombat or forceShow) then

        unit = PlayerFrame.unit

        PlayerFrame:SetShown(UnitHealth(unit) < UnitHealthMax(unit))

    end

end



frame:SetScript("OnEvent", OnEvent)

frame:RegisterEvent("PLAYER_ENTERING_WORLD")

frame:RegisterEvent("PLAYER_REGEN_DISABLED")

frame:RegisterEvent("PLAYER_REGEN_ENABLED")

frame:RegisterUnitEvent("UNIT_ENTERED_VEHICLE", "player")

frame:RegisterUnitEvent("UNIT_EXITED_VEHICLE", "player")

DisableShowMode()



function ToggleUnitFrameForceShow()

    forceShow = not forceShow

    if forceShow then

        EnableShowMode()

    else

        DisableShowMode()

        OnEvent(frame)

    end

end

To toggle forcing to show the frames in your macro use:

Code:

/run ToggleUnitFrameForceShow()