Remove a Frame element with LUA

[richardCANE]

hi guys

i want to create a frame that shows your main bag's content with icons too...

so when i open up my addon frame the LUA dynamically draws a frame and draws the CURRENT content of my bag into...

is it possible to remove/delete/clear frames, textures and fontstrings ( xml elements ) with LUA somethings like Frame:Delete ?

thanks for any replies

[Torhal]

No, this is not possible. Nor is it possible to give them to the Lua garbage collection facility. What you need to do is create these things once and re-use them as they're needed.

[richardCANE]

thanks for reply

and how to do that? can you give me some little example in LUA? how can i reuse the elements?

[Slakah]

local framepool = {}
 
local function removeframe(f)
    f:Hide()
    tinsert(framepool, f)
end
 
local function getframe()
    local f = tremove(framepool)
    if not f then
        --Create your frame here and assign it to f
    else
        --revert any unique changes you may have made to the frame before sticking it in the framepool
    end
    return f
end

Something like that as a very basic example

[richardCANE]

thank you so much

[maximdewit]

cant you for example simply write frame=nil?

dont shoot me ^^

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