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Action bar code help.

Hi, maybe someone can help me, i've been looking for info on this but still having difficulties.

The stock Main action bar background/textures are completely different from the stock bottom left and bottom right action bars as in the main bar has a dark grey background and the other ones only a low alpha grey with a border. Is it possible to make the main action bar look exactly like the other two without using addons like bartender? Is there a minimalist code i can use to accomplish that?

Thanks in advance,

Alex

The textures are on the MainMenuBar itself and not the ActionBar. Depending on how much of the MainMenuBar you want to hide, here's a list of functions that'll do the trick.

Lua Code:

MainMenuBarTexture0:Hide(); -- Hides the left side of the main ActionBar
MainMenuBarTexture1:Hide(); -- Hides the right side of the main ActionBar
MainMenuBarTexture2:Hide(); -- Hides the left side of the MicroButtons
MainMenuBarTexture3:Hide(); -- Hides the right side of the MicroButtons and the BagButtons

Quote:

Originally Posted by SDPhantom (Post 293413)

The textures are on the MainMenuBar itself and not the ActionBar. Depending on how much of the MainMenuBar you want to hide, here's a list of functions that'll do the trick.

Lua Code:

MainMenuBarTexture0:Hide(); -- Hides the left side of the main ActionBar
MainMenuBarTexture1:Hide(); -- Hides the right side of the main ActionBar
MainMenuBarTexture2:Hide(); -- Hides the left side of the MicroButtons
MainMenuBarTexture3:Hide(); -- Hides the right side of the MicroButtons and the BagButtons

Thanks alot for your answer, unfortunately, this will make it so nothing at all appears there, i still want the border just like the other two bars (it is a nice border).

Thanks though,
Alex

It might help if you took a screenshot and marked it (in GIMP, Photoshop, or even Paint) to show us exactly what you want (eg. remove this thing circled in red, make this blue thing look like that green thing, etc.) so we're not guessing based on a written description.

The extra action bars don't have any border or background textures whatsoever, so based on your description I'd have given you the same answer as SDPhantom (remove all textures from the main menu bar) but since you said that result isn't what you want, it may help to clarify exactly what you do want.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Phanx (Post 293416)

Sure thing, sorry about the lack of info on my request, i do apreciate you guys trying to help though, here is the screen shot. What i want is the bars on RED to look exactly like the bars on GREEN.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/9dcb7w2a8p...ction_bars.jpg

Thanks again,
Alex

I discovered the MultiActionBar backgrounds are generated using the following XML code.

XML Code:

<CheckButton name="MultiBarButtonTemplate" virtual="true" inherits="ActionBarButtonTemplate">
    <Layers>
        <Layer level="BACKGROUND" textureSubLevel="-1">
            <Texture name="$parentFloatingBG" file="Interface\Buttons\UI-Quickslot" alpha="0.4">
                <Anchors>
                    <Anchor point="TOPLEFT" x="-15" y="15"/>
                    <Anchor point="BOTTOMRIGHT" x="15" y="-15"/>
                </Anchors>
            </Texture>
        </Layer>
    </Layers>
</CheckButton>

I used this to generate the following Lua code.

Lua Code:

--  Hide the MainMenuBar textures
MainMenuBarTexture0:Hide();
MainMenuBarTexture1:Hide();
 
--  Generate the backgrounds as needed
for i=1,NUM_ACTIONBAR_BUTTONS do
    local bg=_G["ActionButton"..i]:CreateTexture("$parentFloatingBG","BACKGROUND");
    bg:SetDrawLayer("BACKGROUND",-1);-- For some strange reason, we can't set sublevel in button:CreateTexture()
    bg:SetPoint("TOPLEFT",-15,15);
    bg:SetPoint("BOTTOMRIGHT",15,-15);
    bg:SetTexture("Interface\\Buttons\\UI-Quickslot");
    bg:SetAlpha(0.4);
end
 
--  Helper function to show/hide the main ActionBar
local function UpdateButtons(show)
--  Can't show/hide buttons while in combat from insecure code, so don't try to
    if InCombatLockdown() then return; end
 
    for i=1,NUM_ACTIONBAR_BUTTONS do
--      We need to set the attribute ourselves since the show/hide grid functions won't do it from insecure code
        local btn=_G["ActionButton"..i];
        btn:SetAttribute("showgrid",math.max(btn:GetAttribute("showgrid")+(show and 1 or -1),0));
        _G[show and "ActionButton_ShowGrid" or "ActionButton_HideGrid"](btn);
    end
end
 
--  Hooks to our helper function
hooksecurefunc("MultiActionBar_ShowAllGrids",function() UpdateButtons(true); end);
hooksecurefunc("MultiActionBar_HideAllGrids",function() UpdateButtons(false); end);

I had some trouble with getting the ActionButtons to behave like the MultiActionBars. This is mostly because the Blizzard functions needed don't like to be called from insecure code.

Thank you very much, i'll see what i can do with it.

Again, thanks,

Alex

Quote:

Originally Posted by SDPhantom (Post 293420)

I discovered the MultiActionBar backgrounds are generated using the following XML code.

XML Code:

<CheckButton name="MultiBarButtonTemplate" virtual="true" inherits="ActionBarButtonTemplate">
    <Layers>
        <Layer level="BACKGROUND" textureSubLevel="-1">
            <Texture name="$parentFloatingBG" file="Interface\Buttons\UI-Quickslot" alpha="0.4">
                <Anchors>
                    <Anchor point="TOPLEFT" x="-15" y="15"/>
                    <Anchor point="BOTTOMRIGHT" x="15" y="-15"/>
                </Anchors>
            </Texture>
        </Layer>
    </Layers>
</CheckButton>

I used this to generate the following Lua code.

Lua Code:

--  Hide the MainMenuBar textures
MainMenuBarTexture0:Hide();
MainMenuBarTexture1:Hide();
 
--  Generate the backgrounds as needed
for i=1,NUM_ACTIONBAR_BUTTONS do
    local bg=_G["ActionButton"..i]:CreateTexture("$parentFloatingBG","BACKGROUND");
    bg:SetDrawLayer("BACKGROUND",-1);-- For some strange reason, we can't set sublevel in button:CreateTexture()
    bg:SetPoint("TOPLEFT",-15,15);
    bg:SetPoint("BOTTOMRIGHT",15,-15);
    bg:SetTexture("Interface\\Buttons\\UI-Quickslot");
    bg:SetAlpha(0.4);
end
 
--  Helper function to show/hide the main ActionBar
local function UpdateButtons(show)
--  Can't show/hide buttons while in combat from insecure code, so don't try to
    if InCombatLockdown() then return; end
 
    for i=1,NUM_ACTIONBAR_BUTTONS do
--      We need to set the attribute ourselves since the show/hide grid functions won't do it from insecure code
        local btn=_G["ActionButton"..i];
        btn:SetAttribute("showgrid",math.max(btn:GetAttribute("showgrid")+(show and 1 or -1),0));
        _G[show and "ActionButton_ShowGrid" or "ActionButton_HideGrid"](btn);
    end
end
 
--  Hooks to our helper function
hooksecurefunc("MultiActionBar_ShowAllGrids",function() UpdateButtons(true); end);
hooksecurefunc("MultiActionBar_HideAllGrids",function() UpdateButtons(false); end);

I had some trouble with getting the ActionButtons to behave like the MultiActionBars. This is mostly because the Blizzard functions needed don't like to be called from insecure code.

Thanks for all the help, it works perfectly :)